What Is Black? Podcast

Page Thomas – Designer / Building Futures

January 19, 2022 05:51 - 37 minutes - 51.7 MB

Join us for the last episode of the winter season as I talk with Page Thomas. Page and I go into how a neighborhood becomes a "Black neighborhood", how to develop real estate equity, and the anti-masturbatory effects of Corn Flakes. Basically, you don't want to skip this! - For full episodes and extras visit whatisblackpodcast.com. Feel free to share and rate us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts, it helps us feed the algorithm gods. The What Is Black? ...

Brian Broome – Writer / "Other" Brian

January 05, 2022 05:00 - 44 minutes - 60.8 MB

Join me and award winning writer Brian Broome (IG=@bbromb, FB=brian.broome.5) as we wax and wane about getting older, avoiding people for our mental health (and the inevitable post-social exhaustion when we can’t), and overcoming trauma. Brian’s book “Punch Me Up to The Gods” is available digitally, in print, and audio on multiple platforms. If you can’t get your hands on a copy, you’re lying. In this debut memoir Brian navigates growing up Black and gay in a world that is hostile to both. ...

Terry Gibson – Artist / Organized Thinker

December 15, 2021 05:00 - 35 minutes - 48.2 MB

What a better way to close out 2021 than with verbal violence. Join Terry and I as he slanders catfish, and we talk about how The South is "different..." We also talk about how the common motivating factor in xenophobia, racism, anti-Blackness, anti-LGBTQ, anti-women, and anti-critical thinking is fear, and how you can organize against that fear to activate your communities. "What are you afraid of, fam?" Start listening to these holiday gifts we'e giving you. Also note that we will contin...

Aaron Philip Clark – Novelist / "Under Color" Brother

December 01, 2021 05:00 - 28 minutes - 39.5 MB

Join me and Aaron as we talk about pivoting from law enforcement to crime stories. Also how Marvel's Blade movie proved it pays to always bet on the Black(ness of Wesley Snipes). Aaron's book Under Color of Law is now available as paperback and Kindle on Amazon, and audiobook on Audible. For more info, visit AaronPhilipClark.com. This mixcast is brought to you in part by the Pittsburgh Office of Public Art. For more info visit opapgh.org. Be sure to grab a copy of the What Is Black Mixcast...

Jessica Gaynelle Moss – The Collector/Guardian of Black Space

November 17, 2021 05:00 - 39 minutes - 54.4 MB

Welcome back for another season of the What Is Black? Podcast. Join me and Jessica as we talk protecting Black autonomous spaces and Archie comics. Jessica also has a dope exhibit at the August Wilson Cultural Center in Downtown Pittsburgh called The Black Box Test that everyone should be checking out starting November 17 (the same day this ep drops). This mixcast is brought to you in part by the Pittsburgh Office of Public Art. For more info visit opapgh.org. Be sure to grab a copy of the...

Ray Smiling – Creator / Destroyer

May 12, 2021 04:00 - 56 minutes - 78.1 MB

Welcome to the AKAC: All Kinks Allowed Crowd! for the season finale. For more info, episodes, and ways to support visit whatisblackpodcast.com. Don’t forget to rate us 5 stars and review us on Apple Podcasts, and share with your friends and enemies. Ray Smiling and I open things up talking about Tilda Swinton (if you don’t know, educate yourself) and how she is literally everything. So much so that she brings unlikely pairs together in the short “Tilda”, part of the series Khaki Is Not Lea...

Alecia Dawn – Artisan / Mother of Invention

April 28, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 84.4 MB

*CW: Sh*t talking* For more info, episodes, and ways to support visit whatisblackpodcast.com. Don’t forget to rate us 5 stars and review us on Apple Podcasts, and share with your friends and enemies. For this episode, inventor, entrepreneur, yoga instructor, sculptor, mother, and friend Alecia Dawn and I start out talking sh*t (literally), continue talking sh*t about slave yoga for kids, and end up talking about how Marvel’s Inhumans comics are the sh*t (the TV show was trash though!). In ...

Cary Fagan – Renaissance Artist / The People's Chairman

April 14, 2021 04:00 - 58 minutes - 80.5 MB

*NOTE: This episode was recorded during the winter storm that rocked The South in February 2021* For more info, episodes, and ways to support visit whatisblackpodcast.com. There is so much that can be said about photographer, chair sculptor, burgeoning musician... You know what, you'll have to listen to the episode to hear the myriad things Cary can do, or is learning how to do. In this episode, we talk about how a fascination with chairs lead to the Dadaist adjacent, stacking sculpture p...

Kristen McIntosh – Cosplayer / Draft Slayer

March 31, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 93.8 MB

For more info, episodes, and ways to support visit whatisblackpodcast.com. *CW: brief talk about suicide* Building things from your brain: that's what guest Kristen McIntosh does. We talk about how her visual arts journey lead to architecture, a field with approximately 2% Black representation. Then we transition into the really heady territory of cosplay subculture and the many varied genres. And of course I got her to drop her favorite anime, because how could we not talk about anime. F...

Linsay Philippe-Auguste – Poet / Alpha Female

March 17, 2021 05:41 - 1 hour - 100 MB

For more info, episodes, and ways to support visit whatisblackpodcast.com. Wrasslin’, ‘Rona, and Relationships: the three pillars of modern society. Poet and author Linsay Phillipe-Auguste and I continue the convo we started on her podcast waxing poetic about what makes an alpha female an Alpha Female, showing all the ugly bits, and sidepiece life. Also covered: Canada's 'rona response, because everything up there isn't just poutine and Trudeau's dreamy eyes. For more info, visit https://...

Jez. – Musician / Playful, Majestic Centaur

March 03, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 93.8 MB

Welcome back, and welcome Black for season two, the next revolution around that gas giant. This episode, we are joined by Jez. A multitalented, multifaceted, human that maybe the closest we come to interacting with a living myth as possible. THEY ARE THE REALEST! They do it all, and they do it with aplomb and grace. We get into it about music, the music industry, liberation of self through expression as a Black, queer, trans independent artist, and who’s people makes the best “Peppapot”, whi...

Kelsey Robinson – Performance Artist

January 06, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 108 MB

*Starting off the new year by ending season 1. We'll be back in March 2021, though.* WARNING: Off the ripcord, we open the new year with chitlin slander. I apologize in advanced to all the chitlin eaters out there. Kelsey is one of those rare people you meet and you're like, "Did I just meet a hologram?" because the amount of dopeness she outputs is unreal. Her sanguine energy are nothing short of infectious. When she's not on stage in immersive theater, she's out there cycling... LITERALL...

Kahlil Haywood - Writer, Journalist

December 23, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 100 MB

Might as well call us Black Santa, because we're gifting you with several jewels and gems this holiday season. Kahlil Haywood and I, with our wonderfully deep voices are leaving 2020 behind with a dope conversation on creative writing, breaking into the the blogging/journalism industry, and basically being steadfast and powering through the worst of it to get to the better of it. Check your ego at the door and prepare to have your brainbox blown back. Make 2021 show and prove season. Check ...

Gail D Taylor – Blogger, Mixed Media Poet

December 09, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 92.7 MB

Cyberpunk 2077 is nigh and goodbye to being social! Shoutout to Mike Pondsmith and CD Projekt Red for ruining so many relationships and making so many people broke at the end of 2020. Who knew Cyberpunk 2077 was a self-fulfilling prophecy? This episode I sit down with Gail D Taylor and talk about the fate of Black people, from Jim Crow, to Alisha Wormsley, to the zombie apocalypse according to Duane Jones. We chat about afrofuturism and how morphogenic fields continue to guide Black traditi...

Kandaka - Chef, Painter

November 25, 2020 05:00 - 48 minutes - 66.4 MB

F-ck Pilgrims... Get turkey! Pardon the technical difficulties and sound quality at certain points. Satan tried to stop us, but we shan't be stopped! Kandaka can do anything. Kandaka knows everything. Even the stuff she doesn't know, she knows; she just hasn't learned it yet. Join us for this so-much-knowledge-you-don't-need-to-go-to-college episode where we break down what an artist needs to know and do to merchandise and maximize their profits, because lets be real: art is a business if ...

Chris L Terry - Novelist

November 11, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 83.8 MB

Senator Kamala Harris and former Vice President Biden are presidents elect. I think... Now what? What Is Black? Podcast is a bi-weekly podcast where we talk with Black creatives from varied disciplines, whilst defying the myth of a Black monolith. I have a propensity to feel like I almost never know what I’m doing. Most of that is because I have difficulty accepting things outside of my control are outside of my control. I’m getting better though and didn’t allow myself to go down a spiral...

Quincy Ledbetter - Renaissance Filmmaker, Musician

October 28, 2020 04:00 - 56 minutes - 77.3 MB

What Is Black? Podcast is a bi-weekly podcast where we talk with Black creatives from varied disciplines, whilst defying the myth of a Black monolith. This episode, we’re a step over joyous to welcome Quincy Ledbetter to the microphone. Quincy is a renaissance filmmaker, composer, writer, and quite possibly one of the coolest dudes you will ever have the pleasure to make an acquaintance of. This man is seriously capable of doing everything to the point where it may be more appropriate to ca...

SHEBA - Yoga Practitioner, heARTivist

October 14, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 61.6 MB

*NOTE: This episode was recorded the week of Chadwick Boseman's (may he Rest In Peace and Power) passing* What Is Black? Podcast is a bi-weekly podcast where we talk with Black creatives from varied disciplines, whilst defying the myth of a Black monolith. SHEBA can't draw a straight line but in this episode we talk about how she IS the art. From being an abundant Black practitioner of yoga in these LuluLemon laden streets, to being a "heARTivist" (and why it's spelled that way), to how de...

Stéfon Charlot - Musician, Creative Director

September 30, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 82 MB

Welcome to the first, GIANT SIZED episode of What Is Black? Podcast. WIB?P, as it’s been promoted ad nauseum is a bi-weekly podcast where we talk with Black creatives from varied disciplines in whilst defying the myth of a Black monolith. To kick things off, we talk with Musician/Singer + Songwriter/Creative Director Stéfon Charlot who is a “bad bitch” and happens to be the catalyst for starting this podcast. Join us as we talk about being creative during a multifaceted pandemic, the crimes...

What Is Black? Podcast: The Blackest Podcast (about art) Ever - Season 1 Trailer

September 08, 2020 00:01 - 54 seconds - 857 KB

What Is Black? Podcast is a bi-weekly podcast where we attempt to define “Black art and artistry” with a bunch of dope Black creatives, whilst defying the myth of a Black monolith. We'll have conversations with everyone from painters to designers, performers to musicians that would be considered fringe, outsider, non-traditional folk, and/or intuitive within an industry that is already aligned with being a weirdo. Season 1 will start on September 30 and continue on every other Wednesday fro...