Hot Girl Theory: Recent Episodes
Mustani
CW: eating disorders, fatphobia
This week we bring guest Reina Coulibaly to talk about the racist history of medicine, nutrition, and beauty in the west.
Readings:
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture by Amy Erdman Farrell
Eating Disorders episode on Maintenance Phase (http://maintenancephase.com/)
Just being sad about the state of the world, and reading some explanations (it's racial capitalism).
This week's readings:
Rich Nations Hoard Enough Extra Vaccines for All African Adults as Continent's Crisis Intensifies (https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/16/rich-nations-hoard-enough-extra-vaccines-all-african-adults-continents-crisis)
Incentivising wealthy nations to participate in the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility (COVAX): a game theory perspective (https://gh.bmj.com/content/5/11/e003627.full)
Pulling Down the World’s Walls: A Conversation With Harsha Walia (https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/pulling-down-the-worlds-walls-a-conversation-with-harsha-walia/)
Harsha Walia's Border & Rule on Racial Capitalism, Border Imperialism and Global Migration on Millennials are Killing Capitalism (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/harsha-walias-border-rule-on-racial-capitalism-border/id1292638162?i=1000513788267&l=da)
Op-ed: Our civil liberties matter during crises by Harsha Walia (https://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/harsha-walia-our-civil-liberties-matter-during-crises)
We talk about marriage
Obergefell v. Hodges
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf
Lawrence v. Texas
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/02-102.ZO.html
"Untying the Knot: Toward a Liberal Theory of Marriage and the State" by Tamara Metz
https://humanumreview.com/articles/untying-the-knot
Radio from a perspective of world building and race, with radio producer, artist, and writer David Exume. Check out his SoundCloud @Umamifunk here: https://soundcloud.com/umami_funk/tracks
This week's readings include:
"When the “Blank Slate” is a White One: White Institutional Isomorphism in the Birth of National Public Radio" by Laura Garbes
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/tj5cs/
"Broadcasting Empire: The BBC and the British World, 1922-1970" by Simon J. Potter
https://oxford-universitypressscholarship-com.ezproxy.princeton.edu/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199568963.001.0001/acprof-9780199568963-chapter-1
"The Political Economy of Communications in Colonial India: Mass Communication and the Empire" by Pradip Ninan Thomas
http://sk.sagepub.com.ezproxy.princeton.edu/books/download/political-economy-of-communications-in-india/n2.pdf
Theories of Broadcast Media by David Holmes
https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-assets/9468_book_item_9468.pdf
Follow Rasheeda's work at @RasheedaSaka on Twitter
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison:
https://engl104aucsb.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/playing_in_the_dark_morrison.pdf
Magic Actions: Looking back on the George Floyd rebellion by Tobi Haslett: https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/magic-actions/
Marxist Literary Criticism Today by Barbara Foley: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745338835/marxist-literary-criticism-today/
‘Workshops of Empire,’ by Eric Bennett: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/books/review/workshops-of-empire-by-eric-bennett.html
How the CIA Helped Shape the Creative Writing Scene in America: https://www.openculture.com/2018/12/cia-helped-shaped-american-creative-writing-famous-iowa-writers-workshop.html
Carolin Benack and Sanjena Sathian on the Fiction of the Economy and the Dangerous Appeal of Excess: https://lithub.com/carolin-benack-and-sanjena-sathian-on-the-fiction-of-the-economy-and-the-dangerous-appeal-of-excess/
This episode, we discuss the politics of beauty, the "Anglicization" of beauty standards, and the cosmetics corporations role in enforcing these ideals. We're also in WPRB's Spring Drive, where we're raising funds to keep the radio we call home going! It's been a long pandemic, and every bit helps. For the drive, we also included some snippets from Noam Chomsky's and Edward Herman's "Manufacturing Consent" to discuss the importance of independent media.
Reading List:
"Skin Bleaching and Global White Supremacy: By Way of Introduction" by Yaba Amgborale Blay
"Buying Racial Capital: Skin-Bleaching and Cosmetic Surgery in a Globalized World" by Margaret L. Hunter
"Manufacturing Consent" by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman - http://torontoforumoncuba.weebly.com/uploads/5/1/8/5/5185218/manufacturing_consent_-_the_political_economy_of_the_mass_media.pdf
"Global Skin Lightening Products Market is Expected to Reach $8011.17 Million by 2026" by Statistics Market Research Consulting Pvt Ltd - https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/global-skin-lightening-products-market-is-expected-to-reach-8011-17-million-by-2026--300906859.html
"Slavery, the “robot,” and Orientalism in science fiction" by Ibrahim Al Marashi: https://www.trtworld.com/opinion/slavery-the-robot-and-orientalism-in-science-fiction-37635
The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans by CJ Kim: http://www.lawrenceblum.net/uploads/2/7/5/8/27583233/clairekim.pdf
Orientalism by Edward Said: https://www.eaford.org/site/assets/files/1631/said_edward1977_orientalism.pdf
"Orientalism, Cyberpunk 2077, and Yellow Peril in Science Fiction" by George Yang: https://www.wired.com/story/orientalism-cyberpunk-2077-yellow-peril-science-fiction/?code=JK0PPXs1XV7p6ZKxC1p54qyLJR19FNbeCR1KurB337b&state=%7B%22redirectURL%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Forientalism-cyberpunk-2077-yellow-peril-science-fiction%2F%3Futm_source%3DWIR_REG_GATE%22%7D&utm_source=WIR_REG_GATE
"The cyberpunk genre has been Orientalist for decades — but it doesn’t have to be" by Kazuma Hashimoto: https://www.polygon.com/2021/1/30/22255318/cyberpunk-2077-genre-xenophobia-orientalism
"Why has there been a spike in anti-asian hate?": https://twitter.com/isgoodrum/status/1372203410297032716
Mahishan joins us for a reading on anarcho-communism.
Reading List:
- The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-conquest-of-bread
- What is Property? by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-what-is-property-an-inquiry-into-the-principle-of-right-and-of-governmen
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot: https://www.ginatxsboe1.com/uploads/1/2/5/5/12552697/the_immortal_life_of_henrietta_lacks___pdfdrive.com__.pdf
- WEBINAR: How do we use restorative justice to transform a culture of sexual harm?https://zehr-institute.org/webinars/rj-and-sexual-harm/
- Building ‘A World Where Many Worlds Fit’: Indigenous Autonomy, Mutual Aid, and an (Anti-Capitalist) Moral Economy of the (Rebel) Peasant by Levi Gahman: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3031522/1/Gahman%20-%20An%20Anti-Capitalist%20Moral%20Economy%20of%20the%20Rebel%20Peasant.pdf
Evo Morales, desde Argentina, discursa en el Día del Estado Plurinacional De Bolívia (22/01/2020)
MC & Sharon delve into education, career, the legal system, colorism and more in part 3/3 of our reading of selections from Assata Shakur's Assata: An Autobiography, published in 1987
Further readings:
Hella Black Podcast - EP 62: The Myth of Black Buying Power (feat Dr. Jared Ball)
https://soundcloud.com/hellablackpodcast/ep-62-the-myth-of-black-buying-power-feat-dr-jared-ball
MC & Sharon delve into education, career, the legal system, colorism and more in part 2/3 of our reading of selections from Assata Shakur's Assata: An Autobiography, published in 1987
MC & Sharon delve into education, career, the legal system, colorism and more in part 1/3 of our reading of selections from Assata Shakur's Assata: An Autobiography, published in 1987
Further readings:
Hella Black Podcast - EP 62: The Myth of Black Buying Power (feat Dr. Jared Ball)
https://soundcloud.com/hellablackpodcast/ep-62-the-myth-of-black-buying-power-feat-dr-jared-ball
We sit down to read and discuss the decolonial struggle, as described in Fanon's Wretched of the Earth. Links:
Economic Lessons for 2020 with Michael Hudson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nluLNA30e8k
Fanon on Violence and the Person: https://criticallegalthinking.com/2016/01/20/fanon-on-violence-and-the-person/
Free PDF for Wretched of the Earth: http://abahlali.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Frantz-Fanon-The-Wretched-of-the-Earth-1965.pdf