Here's The Thing, Tho with Soaliha

Get To Know Us! Q&A Special

This week, we’re doing a Q+A episode! Get to know us as we answer your questions on both the fun stuff like our music tastes and how we met each other, and the serious stuff like my career and feminism journey.

 

NOTE: We had a few audio issues this episode, so if you hear a crackling at some points don't worry. Sorry if it's annoying, it doesn't happen too often.

 

Soaliha: @soalihaofficial 

Mitch: @mitchs.miscellanea 

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Djab Wurrung Trees And Ongoing Genocide

Happy NAIDOC week! This week we discuss the tearing down of a 350 year old Djab Wurrung directions tree, the cultural genocide it represented and how the subjugation of First Nations people never ended. 

We talk about the white supremacy that allows the destruction of sacred Indigenous sites, and all the other ways the Australian state has continued to perpetuate genocide against First Nations people. 

Always was, always will be Aboriginal land. 

Article mentioned: https://www.smh.com.au/national/what-do-these-sacred-trees-tell-us-about-aboriginal-heritage-in-australia-20201030-p56a0g.html

 

Soaliha: @soalihaofficial 

Mitch: @mitchs.miscellanea 

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9. France, Islamophobia and Terrorism

This week we discuss the recent terror attacks in France - and also the hate crimes that went unreported. We discuss France's political climate, the way it fans the flames of Islamophobia, and how this ultimately results in the rise of terrorism. 

 

Soaliha: @soalihaofficial 

Mitch: @mitchs.miscellanea 

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8. Why Are White Women So Obsessed With True Crime?

Welcome to our Halloween Special episode! This week we discuss society's obsession with true crime - and particularly how this has become so popular with white women in particular. 

We talk about the addictive elements of true crime, the way true crime media exploits the suffering and brutalisation of women, and how true crime and horror compare as genres.

 

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7. Climate Anxiety

This week we discuss climate anxiety - the feeling of impending doom and panic we feel as a result of our environment collapsing around us. I argue that climate anxiety shouldn’t be pathologised because the truth is it’s just the normal response to watching your planet burn - it isn’t hysterical, irrational or overly emotional. It’s reality. And it’s scary AF.

 

 

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6. Interracial Dating

This week we discuss interracial dating - all things internalised racism, awkward race preferences and the unique challenges that come with dating someone outside your culture.

 

We answer some questions about interracial dating scenarios from listeners and use those to get into discussions around our own relationship

 

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5. Internalised Racism

This week we discuss internalised racism - what it means, how it manifests in our lives and the damaging effects it has on POC's self worth and identity. 

We talk about skin bleaching, fetishising mixed race babies, the exotification of WOC, the emasculation of brown men, the model minority myth and the pursuit of white validation.

 

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4. 'The Notorious RBG' Does Not Exist

An icon of women’s rights and gender equality: the esteemed and much loved RBG’s death has left the world reeling, but as critics highlight the inconsistencies of her politics, we must ask -- who was the Notorious RBG?

In this episode we discuss the issue of idolising political figures, the duality of RBG, white feminists and their penchant for putting powerful white women on iconised pedestals, and the limitations of our political system. 

 

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3. Can Makeup Ever Actually Be Empowering?

This week we discuss the power of makeup - does it really empower us? Can it ever be liberating? Or does it just reinforce unattainable beauty standards and strengthen our ties to the capitalist machine? 

We talk about the myth of cosmetic-related “empowerment”, the positive feedback loop that keeps us reapplying our makeup, girlboss culture and the commodification of our bodies. 

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References for the episode:

• Sara Ahmed, The Promise of Happiness, 2010
• New Books in Sociology, Ashley Mears, Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit, 2020
• Ana Sofia Elias, Rosalind Gill & Christina Scharff, Aesthetic Labour: Rethinking Beauty Politics in Neoliberalism, 2017

• Brook Chervenic, Is Beauty a Promise to Happiness?, 2015

 

2. Token Diversity

This week we debate the value of token diversity - does it really make a difference to society? Is it actually progressive? Is it worth fighting for? 

We discuss John Boyega’s recent GQ interview about how Disney did him dirty, and wonder if the suffering POC go through to bring us on-screen diversity is worth the hate they are subjected to for it. 

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