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A podcast where Black feminist analysis meets cultural commentary. This is your command center for understanding the systems that shape Black life, Black love, and Black survival.
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THE DISPOSABILITY DOCTRINE — EPISODE 3 OF 3: Another Building: The Architecture of Survival and What We Do When the State Fails Us (opens the original)
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This is the finale. And today we answer the question the first two episodes created. If the State has always operated on the assumption that Black and Indigenous life is disposable, what do we do about it? What have we always done about it? I survived rape in undergrad. I survived domestic violence. I survived being scammed by someone I thought loved me so thoroughly that federal agents came to my door. I survived raising two autistic boys alone. I survived losing a career I thought I would reti
THE DISPOSABILITY DOCTRINE — EPISODE 2 OF 3: 99 and a Half Won't Do (opens the original)
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My great-grandmother had a saying she repeated her entire life. 99 and a half won't do. She said it about effort. About commitment. About refusing to give less than everything. She was a nurse. A nursing school teacher. A charter member of Calvary Hill Baptist Church in Cleveland. She cut her own grass at 88 years old. She received a child's share of Choctaw land in Mississippi when she was a little girl. And she passed that saying, and that land, and that history, down to every generation that
THE DISPOSABILITY DOCTRINE SERIES: EP 1- There's a Leak in This Old Building. (opens the original)
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My great-grandmother hated when I called myself Black. Not because she was ashamed of my Blackness. Not because she was running from anything. But because she knew something she had carried her whole life, something her mother had carried, and her mother's mother before that. She knew who we were. Every time I said "I'm Black," she corrected me. Not harshly. With the quiet, firm certainty of a woman who had survived things I couldn't imagine. She would say: "You are Choctaw. You are more than on
Dear John: How the Community Holds Black Women Accountable for Black Men's Lies (opens the original)
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In this episode of The General's Briefing, The Griot introduces three new theoretical concepts that she has never taught before, and grounds every single one of them in what is happening right now in Black culture. On August 24, 2026, Serayah McNeill ended her engagement to rapper Joey Bada$$ after alleging repeated infidelity, including during some of the most vulnerable moments of her life. She had just had his baby. She was engaged. And he was cheating. And the community's response? "She shou
The National Sacrificial Bargain: 60 Years in Two Months, History Repeating, and Why We Have to Build Our Own (opens the original)
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In this episode of The General's Briefing, The Griot gets personal. Hilerie Lind, PhD candidate, program manager, mother of two boys with disabilities, and founder of The Griot Collective, shares what it actually looks like when national policy becomes personal devastation. Her exemption from the federal return to office mandate was denied. She was told to relocate to Washington DC or resign. With two disabled sons at home and a life built in Atlanta, that was not a choice. That was a forced exi
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