Latest Uncomfortable Podcast Episodes
Did 90s Cartoons create Furries?
All The Things That Make Us Uncomfortable - June 06, 2018 14:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe gang discusses why 90s cartoons are so sexy, leading them to ask the question, "did they create furries?"
Is AI Misogynist?
All The Things That Make Us Uncomfortable - May 30, 2018 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe gang discusses the gendered nature of AI in modern science fiction after they are disturbed by the reveal of Google Duplex.
Is Thanos Bae?
All The Things That Make Us Uncomfortable - May 24, 2018 21:57 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe gang discusses whether genocide is A-OK if you are a sexy purple man while doing it.
Conversation 3: Part 4
New Depth - April 26, 2018 23:04 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsH Y P E R masculinity Aftershow Panelist 1: Landon Bost UNC Student, Class of 2021 Building Bonds Breaking B.A.R.S Secretary New Depth Co-founder and Co-host Panelist 2: Maurice Grier UNC Student, Class of 2018 Theta Omicron Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity President of Many th...
Conversation 3: Part 3
New Depth - April 26, 2018 23:04 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsH Y P E R masculinity Aftershow Panelist 1: Landon Bost UNC Student, Class of 2021 Building Bonds Breaking B.A.R.S Secretary New Depth Co-founder and Co-host Panelist 2: Maurice Grier UNC Student, Class of 2018 Theta Omicron Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity President of Many th...
Conversation 3: Part 2
New Depth - April 17, 2018 23:13 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsH Y P E R masculinity Panelist 3: Dr. Mark Anthony Neal Professor of African and African American Studies at Duke University Founding Director of the Center for Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship at Duke University 2012 Hip-Hop Scholar of the Year. Words, Beats and Life Foundation...
Conversation 3: Part 1
New Depth - April 17, 2018 23:07 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsH Y P E R masculinity Panelist 1: Anyssa Reddix UNC Student, Class of 2018 Co-Founder of SPARK EROT Poetry Panelist 2: Deshawn Dazevedo UNC Student, Class of 2019 Panelist 3: Dr. Mark Anthony Neal Professor of African and African American Studies at Duke University Founding Director...
Conversation 2: Part 2
New Depth - March 23, 2018 16:51 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsBeing Black (At V. In) UNC Panelist 3: Dexter Robinson UNC Alum, Class of 2006 Friend and Mentor to many in the UNC Black Community Music All Falls Down – Kanye West The Last – Childish Gambino
Conversation 2: Part 1
New Depth - March 23, 2018 16:49 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsBeing Black (At V. In) UNC Panelist 1: Jazmine B. Freshman at UNC, Class of 2021 Panelist 2: Jasmine B. Senior at UNC, Class of 2018 Music All of the Lights – Kanye West I Wonder – Kanye West That Far – 6LACK
Conversation 1: Part 2
New Depth - February 24, 2018 22:21 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsLove On Panelist 1: Psalms White UNC Student, Class of 2019 UNC Cheerleader Beta Nu Theta Founder & President Panelist 2: Rwenshaun Miller UNC Alum Founder & Executive Director of Eutstress, Inc. Mental Health Advocate Social Entreprenuer Music New Freezer – Rich The Kid feat. K...
Conversation 1: Part 1
New Depth - February 24, 2018 22:07 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsLove On Panelist 1: Psalms White UNC Student, Class of 2019 UNC Cheerleader Beta Nu Theta Founder & President Panelist 2: Rwenshaun Miller UNC Alum Founder & Executive Director of Eutstress, Inc. Mental Health Advocate Social Entreprenuer Music New Freezer – Rich The Kid feat. K...
The Reality of Your Mortality
Uncomfortable - November 25, 2017 23:50 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsThe Reality of Your MortalityWhy are we so scared to talk about death? This is one of the questions I asked my guests Michelle Pante and Reena Lazar. Michelle and Reena co-founded WillowEoL about 1.5 years ago and are changing the conversation around death. Michelle as a licensed funeral director...
A-sexuality
Uncomfortable - September 24, 2017 00:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsI'm incredibly excited for this episode, mostly because I had the pleasure of interviewing two very open and opinionated people about a very personal topic.A huge thanks to Christof and Sarah for being open to chatting with me on the subject of a-sexuality. As someone who didn't know much about t...
Arranging Love & Marriage
Uncomfortable - August 20, 2017 18:16 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIn this episode, I wanted to continue our LOVE theme and explore dating even more. This time with a focus on dating in the more traditional sense (i.e. off-line), and marriage.I spoke with Priya Bangar, Founder of www.vintagematchmaking.com. Priya LOVES love and helps her clients find long term r...
Love, Sex, Relationships and Rabbit Killers
Uncomfortable - June 04, 2017 19:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratings*Revision* This episode was originally the first DebTalks podcast episode (prior to our rebrand). We love it so much that we want it to continue to be part of Uncomfortable. A big thanks to Jill Prescott & Andrea Hill for stepping up and being the first podcast guests. It's been a long time comi...
Race: The Finale
Greater Than - October 12, 2016 17:07 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJoin us for the final episode of the Race series. Jenn and Dhanya discuss how much new knowledge they have, how their perceptions have changed, and even some of the prejudice they've faced.
Race: The Power and Construct of Supremacy
Greater Than - September 20, 2016 23:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this installment of the Race series, we delve into how normalized White Supremacy is in our culture. We speak with filmmaker Darnley Hodge about his new documentary series called American LOWS ( Legacy of White Supremacy) about power, race, and who exactly invented the constructs that we've ...
From Reactions to Solutions
Greater Than - August 31, 2016 18:23 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsToday, we're talking to Monica Kang, CEO of InnovatorsBox, about using creative thinking as a way to process the heaviness that some of the topics might bring about. How do we deal with burnout? How do we initiate difficult conversations in our communities? How do we talk to someone that disagr...
India's Anti-Blackness: Parallels Between Caste and Black Lives Matter
Greater Than - August 24, 2016 01:15 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode, we speak to Ena Ganguly. She's a poet, an activist, and a thought leader creating spaces specifically for black and brown consumption. We chat with her about the harmful effects of the caste system in India and how it compares to the Black Lives Matter movement in America. ...
Race: Unity Despite our Implicit Biases
Greater Than - August 15, 2016 21:53 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsDenise Hernández is an activist, a founder, a speaker, and an organizer passionate about education. She recently spoke at TEDx San Antonio about implicit bias. Denise comes to Greater Than to talk about what it means to have an implicit bias in our society and what we can do to transform our bia...
Race: Designing a Less Racist World
Greater Than - August 10, 2016 01:38 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWe honor Michael Brown today with this episode of Greater Than. We're talking to Antionette Carroll, creator and founder of Creative Reaction Lab in St. Louis. Listen as we tackle black on black crime, what it means to be a black woman in America, and creating sustainable ways to fight racism. ...
A Difficult Conversation About Race
Greater Than - August 01, 2016 19:59 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsGreater than is a storytelling platform. We tell stories about people and organizations that overcome, that keep on despite the desolation they've seen or been through. And we ask ourselves, how can we use these stories to tackle systems of injustice, inequality, racism, poverty, and shift narrat...
Trafficking: Who is the target?
Greater Than - July 18, 2016 20:49 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsAmber Bissell is an advocate by day and an advocate by night. She's got this passion for survivors of sex trafficking that is contagious. Our conversation touches on how traffickers target their victims, transgendered youth and trafficking, and if we truly care enough about the systems that are ...
Trafficking.
Greater Than - July 06, 2016 13:32 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis week kicks off our mini series on sex trafficking. Trafficking in all forms is known as modern slavery. What are we doing about it? One woman named Natasha created a safe space called sojourn landing specifically for victims of trafficking and people in the commercial sex trade. Listen as s...
Hunger Has No Religion
Greater Than - June 20, 2016 19:06 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsOur last episode of the Homelessness series. We're talking to Donny Edwards- father, Army-man, and founder of an Atlanta based organization called Hunger Has No Religion. Listen as he tells us about his own struggles of losing a home, being in the army, and finding ways to use his story for t...
Finding Robert ( Bob) Clyde Case
Greater Than - June 13, 2016 17:20 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis is a Miracle Message. With it, we hope to reunite homeless individuals with long lost loved ones. This week, we have Vietnam War veteran Howard W. Taylor looking for his best friend Robert Clyde (Bob) Case. If you have any leads to the whereabouts of Bob Case, please email us at info@gre...
Greater Than Homelessness
Greater Than - June 06, 2016 22:43 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIt's here. New mini-series. New episodes. New things to learn. Today is Kevin F. Adler's turn to teach us about assigning someone only one identity- homeless. As he points us, it's as ridiculous as assigning all single people who like women the term "girlfriendless." Girlfriendless or not, we...
Greater Than Diseases and Disorders
Greater Than - May 31, 2016 22:44 - 30 minutes - application/octet-stream ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsGreater than Diseases and Disorders: Our final episode in our disability mini-series is a two story special. Tiffany [ last name] also known as Uniqueli and Derek Canas share their compelling stories of not allowing disorders to stop their life. Derek, who contracted AIDS through a blood t...
Greater Than Wheelchairs
Greater Than - May 23, 2016 15:08 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsEpisode three of our disability mini-series features the fantastic man known as David Friedman. Listen as David shows us how to stand up for things you believe regardless of your ability to walk. He checks the privilege of able bodied folk while reminding us to practice kindness and see from oth...
Greater Than Size
Greater Than - May 16, 2016 19:17 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsEpisode two of our disability mini-series is a chat with Becky Curran. Becky gives us the low down about being a little person in America, but also reminds us that her sole identity does not rest in her height. Learn more about her, how to treat little people, and about what not to say to a litt...
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