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83. I Promise I Am Alive - Left POCket Project Podcast

A discussion of the "sad beige" trend and other aesthetic choices in childrearing that carry thinly-veiled messages of classism, moralism, and misogyny. 
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Readings & Resources:
"The Sad Beige Trend Goes against All My Wild Instincts"
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/dec/04/the-sad-beige-trend-goes-against-all-my-wild-instincts

"The Miseducation of Maria Montessori"
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-miseducation-of-maria-montessori
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-Outro: "Prey for Peace" by Joyce Muniz
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84. Sad Beige - Comrade Mommy - Left POCket Project Podcast

In this episode, Richard & Wendi discuss a few news items around AI, art for public consumption, and policing as well as the strange trajectory of left populism in the US
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Readings & Resources:
“Artificial Intelligence: The Risks Could Outweigh the Rewards”
https://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/debate/artificial-intelligence-risks-could-outweigh-rewards/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAiJSeBhCCARIsAHnAzT9D1dggb9QOTo4kwLegy_vpFIaGCGGfwIDgE3bTP2AFB23Zkh-RNNYaAoj3EALw_wcB#/?utm_medium=ppc&utm_term=ai%20issues&utm_campaign=Economics+%26+Finance&utm_source=adwords&hsa_kw=ai%20issues&hsa_cam=15231245947&hsa_ver=3&hsa_acc=4857278459&hsa_ad=602983206464&hsa_grp=140558910707&hsa_src=g&hsa_mt=b&hsa_tgt=kwd-607311173958&hsa_net=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&utm_term=&utm_campaign=Economics+%26+Finance&utm_source=adwords&hsa_kw=&hsa_cam=14323626438&hsa_ver=3&hsa_acc=4857278459&hsa_ad=571210950443&hsa_grp=132253490540&hsa_src=g&hsa_mt=&hsa_tgt=dsa-1556830528721&hsa_net=adwords

“AI Creating 'Art' Is An Ethical And Copyright Nightmare”
https://kotaku.com/ai-art-dall-e-midjourney-stable-diffusion-copyright-1849388060

“Twitter Surveillance Startup Targets Communities of Color for Police” 
https://theintercept.com/2020/10/21/dataminr-twitter-surveillance-racial-profiling/

“Martin Luther King Jr. statue in Boston draws online mockery, disdain”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/01/15/mlk-statue-boston-backlash/

Paulina Alberto - Terms of Inclusion
https://uncpress.org/book/9780807871713/terms-of-inclusion/#:~:text=Terms%20of%20Inclusion%20tells%20a,citizenship%20in%20twentieth%2Dcentury%20Brazil.

Ana Lucia Araújo - Slavery in the Age of Memory
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/slavery-in-the-age-of-memory-9781350048492/

“New 9 ft. sculpture pays tribute to Biggie Smalls in Brooklyn”
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/new-9-ft-sculpture-pays-tribute-to-biggie-smalls-in-brooklyn/

“Boston unveils "Embrace" sculpture of MLK and Coretta Scott King”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/boston-unveils-embrace-sculpture-mlk-coretta-scott-king-rcna64990

“Understanding the AI Alignment Problem”
https://bdtechtalks.com/2021/01/18/ai-alignment-problem-brian-christian/

E. M. Forster - The Machine Stops
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops#:~:text=%22The%20Machine%20Stops%22%20is%20a,and%20Other%20Stories%20in%201928.
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85. Dispatches from the Apocalypse - Left POCket Project Podcast

In this preview episode, Wendi reads a brief excerpt from Aimé Césaire's Discourse on Colonialism, our upcoming #ReadingRevolution series selection.
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Readings & Resources:
Aimé Césaire - Discourse on Colonialism
https://nyupress.org/9781583670255/discourse-on-colonialism/

https://files.libcom.org/files/zz_aime_cesaire_robin_d.g._kelley_discourse_on_colbook4me.org_.pdf
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86. (Preview) Discourse on Colonialism - #ReadingRevolution - Left POCket Project Podcast

In this episode, Dr. Cassie Osei discusses her research on the history of Black women’s labor and related social change in Brazil, conducting research in Brazil as a Black woman herself, and the racial politics of the reality show Love Is Blind: Brazil. 
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Readings & Resources

(from Dr, Osei):
Paulina Alberto - Terms of Inclusion
https://uncpress.org/book/9780807871713/terms-of-inclusion/#:~:text=Terms%20of%20Inclusion%20tells%20a,citizenship%20in%20twentieth%2Dcentury%20Brazil.

Barbara Weinstein - “How does the painting ‘The Redemption of Ham’ by Modesto Brocos illustrate ideas of whitening?”
https://www.choices.edu/video/how-does-the-painting-the-redemption-of-ham-by-modesto-brocos-illustrate-ideas-of-whitening/

Katia Costa Santos - “Black Girls of Ipanema”
https://nacla.org/black-girls-ipanema

Keisha-Khan Perry - Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/black-women-against-the-land-grab


Kia Lilly Caldwell - Negras in Brazil: Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/negras-in-brazil/9780813539577

Raquel Barreto - “Amefricanity: The black feminism of Lélia Gonzalez”
https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/amefricanity

PhDivas Podcast - “Afro-Brazilian Women’s History & Low Femme Theory with Dr. Cassie Osei”
https://phdivaspodcast.wordpress.com/2022/05/27/s6e8-afro-brazilian-womens-history-low-femme-theory-with-dr-cassie-osei/ 

Professor Osei on social media:
Twitter: @tropigalia
Instagram:@brasilianista
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(additional readings & resources):

Edward Telles - Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691127927/race-in-another-america 

Juliana Barreto Farias (editor) - Black Women in Brazil in Slavery and Post-Emancipation
https://dafricapress.com/Black-Women-in-Brazil-in-Slavery-and-Post-Emancipation-p81850749 



Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman - The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families
https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477307885/ 

Silvio Almeida on youtube (em português)
https://www.youtube.com/@silviolual 

“Maid Saved US$ 5,800 and Took Daughter to Disney World”
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/business/2020/02/maid-saved-us5800-and-took-daughter-to-disney-world.shtml

Love Is Blind Brazil
https://www.netflix.com/title/81284981 
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87. Dignified Work - Gender, Race, & Class in Labor in Brazil w. Dr. Cassie Osei - LeftPOC Podcast

In this episode, I speak with Sudip Bhattacharya, PhD candidate in political science at Rutgers about left political thought and organizing among BIPOC and the need for socialism as we collectively confront the ongoing harms of capitalism and neoliberalism. 
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Works/Issues Cited in the Podcast

Sudip Bhattavcharya - “Attacking Difference, Pursuing Unity: Building a Socialist Movement amidst a Dynamic Working Class” in From the Academy to the Streets: Notes from a Working Class Think Tank (various authors, Colin Jenkins, editor)
https://www.iskrabooks.org/hampton-reader

Steve Phillips
https://www.thenation.com/authors/steve-phillips/

Daron Acemoğlu
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/directory/daron-acemoglu

Assata Shakur
http://www.assatashakur.org/ (archive of writings and interviews)

Claudia Jones
-Carole Boyce Davies - Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
https://www.dukeupress.edu/left-of-karl-marx
-Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean - Organize, Fight, Win:
Black Communist Women's Political Writing
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2881-organize-fight-win?srsltid=AfmBOorReXXKeF6V9ZfPtFvNO9ZlITZunNe7Bx5m4q5-CyOsjstuHuTR
-The Political Writings of Claudia Jones
https://1804books.com/products/a-fighting-dream-the-political-writings-of-claudia-jones?srsltid=AfmBOoodwNEnDwRcZk7gQC1oV-AoYrj_WeLs6rcFcZl46WNc2mF1Izsb

Efrén O. Pérez - Diversity’s Child: People of Color and the Politics of Identity
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo103673599.html

Janelle Wong, Karthick Ramakrishnan, Taeku Lee, and Jane Junn - Asian American Political Participation: Emerging Constituents and their Political Identities
https://www.russellsage.org/publications/asian-american-political-participation

Sonia Song-Ha Lee - Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469629803/building-a-latino-civil-rights-movement/

Frantz Fanon - The Wretched of the Earth
https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-wretched-of-the-earth/The%20Wretched%20Of%20The%20Earth.pdf 

Schuyler Mitchell - “Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Shows the Progressive Promise of Ranked-Choice Voting”
https://truthout.org/articles/zohran-mamdanis-victory-shows-the-progressive-promise-of-ranked-choice-voting/

Glen Ford - The Black Agenda
https://orbooks.com/catalog/the-black-agenda/ 

Mitchell Plitnick - ‘“Biden staffers admit what we all knew: White House lied about ceasefire efforts”
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/05/biden-staffers-admit-what-we-all-knew-white-house-lied-about-ceasefire-efforts/

Mia Ives-Rublee and Kim Musheno - “The Truth About the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Cuts to Medicaid and Medicare”
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-truth-about-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-acts-cuts-to-medicaid-and-medicare/ 

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91. We Need Socialism - Interview w.Sudip Bhattacharya- Left POCket Project Podcast

See full show notes here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dXuc9D8b8vxZmr8bd2J33Z11Cwt2dQ3gzaAuCbs9MGw/edit?usp=sharing

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“We Need Socialism” - original discussion w/Sudip Bhattacharya:
https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/left-pocket-project-podcast-we 

Sudip Bhattacharya’s works cited in the discussion
“There is no socialism without the end of u.s. empire”
https://socialistforum.dsausa.org/issues/spring-2025/there-is-no-socialism-without-the-end-of-u-s-empire/
“The Illusion of a Renaissance” (on Jersey City)
https://strangematters.coop/jersey-city-gentrification-and-multiculturalism-steven-fulop/ 
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93. Afterhours with Sudip Bhattacharya - Left POCket Project Podcast

Bringing you the history of leftists of color one swipe at a time.

This podcast is hosted by Left POCket Project creator Wendi Muse & her co-host Richard.

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