Brown Sugar: The Podcast

Episode 8 is Part 2 of our discussion around whether you can be pro-black and date outside your race. Joined by special guests Noni and Ore, we dig deeper into gender differences within this debate and whether it is fair to gatekeep other members of the black community. Finally, we share more of our own experiences with interracial dating.

This week's episode is centred around the question of if you can be pro-black and date outside your race. To dissect this question, we’ll be discussing what exactly being “pro-black means, the importance of the black family and whether or not who you date is a political statement. To conclude, we’ll go through some of our favourite/least favourite celebrity examples! In this two part episode, we're joined by two special guests of the pod Noni and Ore to give us their views.

In Episode 6, we play a card game called 'We're Not Really Strangers' which aims to dig deep and reveal intimate truths. We reveal our biggest fears, insecurities, embarrassing memories and life lessons and learn not only more about each other, but our own selves!

In episode 5, we dabble in a game of the Oppression Olympics i.e. the competition that arises when minority groups try to ascertain which group is the most oppressed, competing for a "prize": a seat at the table.
Are there finite seats at the table or should we be breaking down the table of the oppressors and be making our own?
Lastly, can an intersectional lens facilitate solidarity across different communities?

In Episode 4, we'll have a chance to dissect what exactly "Cancel Culture" is and the many nuances to this ever expanding debate through a fun game of to cancel or to keep. We’ll also be joined by two guests Diyora Shadijanova and Xi Bovell to see what they have to say about the debate. Diyora talks with us about the evolution of the term itself, and the complex relationship that exists between cancel culture, activism and social media. Xi highlights today's conflation of cancel culture and collective action, and then gives us some pointers for some actions we can do instead of "cancelling". Lastly, we finish with a self-inflicted exposé of some of our worst and most "cancellable" online statuses of the past.