Ep 9: Digital Skin Color, Either/Or Thinking, and Pizza in Dakar

The Joyous Justice Podcast

English - November 05, 2020 13:00 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 24 ratings
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Next Episode: Ep 10: Feeling Rage, Finding Joy: Managing Emotions in Justice Work

April and Tracie riff on a seemingly small manifestation of white dominance in our everyday lives: the skin color of emojis. The discussion of digital skin tone leads into a conversation about racial implications of the Simpsons' yellow hue, and on to a focused training about the ways that seemingly benign binaries turn up in malignant ways.

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Learn more about April’s work at Joyous Justice: https://joyousjustice.com/
Learn about Tracie at TracieGuyDecker.com and read more of her thoughts at bmoreincremental.com

Resources mentioned:
"Why White People Don't Use White Emoji" by Andrew McGill in The Atlantic May 9, 2016
On the Simpsons Character Apu: a documentary The Problem with Apu (2017)
April's 10 Jewish Principles for Advancing Racial Justice
An article on the characteristics of White Supremacy Culture.
Sao Brazil in Dakar, Senegal