Monthly Archives: December 2018

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December 23, 2018Episodeschampagnesharks

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Today we discuss the new upcoming play “Slave Play” and try to place it into the larger context of white liberals and the black creators they enlist to provide them with trauma porn.DIscussed in this episode:

“Decolonizing My Desire How I came to grips with my attraction to white men.“ https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8qgm9g/decolonizing-my-desire
“Meet Jeremy O. Harris: The Queer Black Savior the Theater World Needs” https://www.out.com/out-exclusives/2018/11/08/meet-jeremy-oharris-queer-black-savior-theater-world-needs
“Introducing Jeremy O. Harris: The Theater World’s Vital New Voice” https://www.gq.com/story
Soraya McDonald’s positive review: https://theundefeated.com/features/slave-play-theater-off-broadway-racism-peels-back-veneer-of-racial-innocence-in-northern-whites/
Soraya McDonald writing about Black men, comparing them to potential Elliot Rodger and painting them as the next major mass terror threat to look out for: “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Hoteps?” https://theundefeated.com/whhw/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-hoteps/ My thread characterizing her article and the harm it attempted to do to a specific Black man and Black men in general: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/991428444545306624
Soraya McDonald tweeting about therapy: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=from%3Asorayamcdonald%20theraoy&src=typd ; Soraya McDonald’s article about how she had to learn to love being a Black woman and discovered her blackness in college: “How I learned to love myself as a black woman” https://theundefeated.com/features/learned-to-love-myself-as-a-black-woman/
“I Have Feared White Men and I Have Loved Him” by Roxane Gay https://www.newstatesman.com/2014/10/roxane-gay-i-have-feared-white-men-and-i-have-loved-them; Roxane Gay history of tweeting about therapy: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=from%3Argay%20therapy&src=typd
Description of “Slave Play” on New York Theater Workshop’s webpage: https://www.nytw.org/show/slave-play/
THR Review: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/slave-play-theater-1167768?utm_source=twitter&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral
“What Makes Jeremy O. Harris’ ‘Slave Play’ Such a Powerful Play About Racism https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-makes-jeremy-o-harris-slave-play-such-a-powerful-play-about-racism
Asian Blue Check Writer’s tweet about Slave Play https://twitter.com/diepthought/status/1068556290975240193

Intro song: “Deep End” by BenjiFlow. You can find playlist of songs used in episodes on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/user/tbilzie/playlist/5emXF3iqhZLU6IuszSRvun?si=xpTnnAbSSVKv3jTXg86XCg.Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (piercedearsmusic@gmail.com)

CS 138: Slave Play Discussion, Part 1 (12/18/2018)

December 22, 2018Uncategorizedchampagnesharks

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Today we discuss the new upcoming play “Slave Play” and try to place it into the larger context of white liberals and the black creators they enlist to provide them with trauma porn.

DIscussed in this episode:

Our previous premium episode that we refer to often in this episode and gives more context, “CS 137: Race Play, Racialized BDSM (Prologue to Slave Play discussion) (12/13/2018)” https://www.patreon.com/posts/cs-137-race-play-23451541
Interview with Jeremy O. Harris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJoWH736PnE&t=1077s
NYTW describes the art that inspired “Slave Play.” Note how often Kara Walker pops up. Part 1: Art that inspired Slave Play: http://briefnytw.tumblr.com/post/179554655972/beyond-the-page-art-that-inspired-slave-play; Part 2: http://briefnytw.tumblr.com/post/179554718812/beyond-the-page-art-that-inspired-slave-play
The black woman who attended “Slave Play” and struck back against people trying to lecture her about why she should enjoy it: https://twitter.com/smashley_iona/status/1074540015730991110?s=21
Blavity Blacks and their obsession with slavery porn, from Insecure to Scandal to Dear White People https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/1074714024519053312
UN’s report on the terrible state of Black people in the US South including hookworm, “UN shocked by level of poverty in Alabama: ‘We haven’t seen this in the first world'” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/alabama-black-belt-un-poverty-expert-extreme-developed-country-sewage-crisis-roy-moore-philip-alston-a8105886.html
A Twitter thread showing my research into Kara Walker https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/1075163687621668866
Articles about Kara Walker, (1) http://karawalkerexposed.blogspot.com/2007/10/i-recently-posted-some-quotes-by-other.html; (2) https://abagond.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/kara-walker/; (3) “Hype and Hypersexuality: Kara Walker, Her Work and Controversy” https://fac.umass.edu/ArticleMedia/Files/HypeandHypersexuality.pdf
Reviews of “Slave Play” and profiles of Jeremy O. Harris (1) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/09/theater/slave-play-review-jeremy-o-harris.html; (2) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/theater/jeremy-o-harris-slave-play.html; (3) https://www.out.com/out-exclusives/2018/11/08/meet-jeremy-oharris-queer-black-savior-theater-world-needs
The Black woman (retweeted byt Jeremy O. Harris) who made a thread demanding white ticket holders give their place to black theatergoers since this play is “for them” https://twitter.com/peacheslechat/status/1073365539014279168

Intro song: “Stop Shammin'” by Big Daddy Kane. You can find playlist of songs used in episodes on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/user/tbilzie/playlist/5emXF3iqhZLU6IuszSRvun?si=xpTnnAbSSVKv3jTXg86XCg.

Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (piercedearsmusic@gmail.com)

CS 135: From the River to the CNN (12/04/2018)

December 6, 2018Episodeschampagnesharks

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This free episode debuted first to Patreon subscribers for 24-48 hours before being unlocked and made free to everyone on the main podcast feed. This will be the norm for all free episodes going forward. To become a Patreon subscriber for $5/month and get early access to this episode and over 50 archived past subscriber-only episodes, go to http://patreon.com/champagnesharks.

Today we discuss various topics from beefing with Talib Kweli on Twitter to Marc Lamont Hill getting fired from CNN. Unfortunately we have to end the episode on a somber note as well.

Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (piercedearsmusic@gmail.com)

CS 134: Homeless Epidemic in LA (11/26/2018)

December 3, 2018Episodeschampagnesharks

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Today is a D. Mills solo episode discussing homeless epidemic in LA.

Patient Dumping: The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights chose to focus on Enforcement of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act for its annual 2014 Statutory Enforcement Report. This report examined compliance with the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), a federal law that requires Medicare-participating hospitals to treat emergency medical conditions of any person regardless of capacity to pay, and makes unlawful the discharge of patients prior to stabilizing any medical condition. The purpose of EMTALA is to prevent hospitals, states and/or localities from prematurely discharging indigent people in need of emergency care and transporting them to other entities, a practice colloquially called “patient dumping.” Specifically, the Commission’s report focused on disabled individuals with a psychiatric medical condition. The examination resulted in five observations:

• Hospitals are not keeping adequate data on such patients

• There is insufficient regulatory oversight

• There should be non-punitive methods of obtaining accurate treatment reports on patients

• Hospitals do not have sufficient funds to comply with EMTALA in treatment of patients

• Hospitals and their staffs need more training and education in this area

Mentioned this episode:

“Are LA area Hospitals really dumping homeless on the streets?” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/04/los-angeles-hospitals-homeless-patients-skid-row
Patient dumping settlement in LA Silver lake area https://www.latimes.com/business/la-me-patient-dumping-20180702-story.html
San Francisco and Nevada reach a settlement in homeless dumping dispute https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-Nevada-reach-tentative-settlement-in-6552026.php
Orange County is making the same hapless mistakes on homelessness that L.A. did a decade ago https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-oc-homeless-housing-20180410-story.html
San Jose “Hope city” homeless camp https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Sweep-of-Homeless-Encampment-Near-San-Jose-Airport-Delayed-493170281.html
Link to United States Commission on civil rights statement regarding “Patient Dumping” http://www.eusccr.com/2014PATDUMPOSD%209282014-2.pdf

UNLOCKED CS 131: Orchestrated Infighting, Pt. 1 (11/27/2018)

December 1, 2018Uncategorizedchampagnesharks

This is the first installment of a three premium episodes released over at Patreon. If you enjoy this first installment, head over to www.patreon.com/champagnesharks and subscribe for $5/month to hear parts 2 and 3, as well as to get access to the whole archive of back premium episodes, which is over 60 at this point.

Over the course of a three-part episode (this is part 1), D. and I discuss how the Black Men Are Trash narrative trend is recently escalated into two high-profile Washington Post articles, and try to figure out what is happening in the bigger picture that’s leading to this and where it’s intended to go from here. Lots of Neely Fuller, Jr. clips appear throughout.

Mentioned in this episode:

“Man imprisoned for 28 YEARS after woman dreamed that he raped her to be freed after another man confesses” https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3363227/New-trial-ordered-Denver-man-imprisoned-28-years.html
“Where are black men in the fight for black women?” https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/where-are-black-men-in-the-fight-for-black-women/2018/11/13/63030e0c-e771-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html?utm_term=.b5c27fe411e5
“What’s up with all those black men who voted for the Republican in the Georgia governor’s race?” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/11/23/whats-up-with-all-those-black-men-who-voted-republican-georgia-governors-race/?utm_term=.3bbd2fc1861a

Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA (piercedearsmusic@gmail.com)

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Monthly Archives: December 2018

CS 139: Slave Play Discussion, Part 2 (12/18/2018)

CS 138: Slave Play Discussion, Part 1 (12/18/2018)

CS 135: From the River to the CNN (12/04/2018)

CS 134: Homeless Epidemic in LA (11/26/2018)

UNLOCKED CS 131: Orchestrated Infighting, Pt. 1 (11/27/2018)