For the inaugural episode of YOU DON'T KNOW THE HALF PODCAST, by Shay Stewart-Bouley, Shay sits down with author/educator Debby Irving, to have a real conversation about white women's tears, and more from the perspective of a black and white woman.

Books in Episode #1
How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy + the Racial Divide  
by Crystal M Fleming

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir  
by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, asha bandele

White Fragility: Why It's so hard for White People to Talk about Race
by Robin DiAngelo

Waking Up White 
by Debby Irving

Episode #1 BGIM PODCAST
Created/Executive Produced by: Shay Stewart-Bouley
Music by: r.a.p. ferreira
Produced by: Caroline Losneck
Thanks to: Steve Drown and Bob Crewe Program in Art and Music at MECA
Recording Assistant: Simi Kunin
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Episode #1 BGIM Podcast - LET'S UNPACK WHITENESS and HOW IT OPERATES

For EPISODE #2 Navigating Whiteness and Finding Black Joy of BGIM's YOU DON'T KNOW THE HALF PODCAST, by Shay Stewart-Bouley, Shay sits down with writer/blues musician/filmmaker and
storyteller Samuel James. 

Shay and Sam talk about racism, being black in Maine, navigating white supremacy culture, and finding black joy. 

Songs By Samuel James in Episode #2 
OLD DAN TUCKER
COLD, BLACK MATTIE 

Episode #2 BGIM PODCAST
Created/Executive Produced by: Shay Stewart-Bouley
Music by: Samuel James + r.a.p. ferreira 
Produced by: Caroline Losneck
Thanks to: Steve Drown and Bob Crewe Program in Art and Music at MECA
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Episode #2 BGIM Podcast-NAVIGATING WHITENESS + FINDING BLACK JOY

Shay sits down for an honest conversation with Catherine Anderson, a Maine educator and mother.  Anderson talks with Shay about what it is being a white mother parenting two black boys in the whitest state in America. Shay talks about what it's like being a black parent in the whitest state in America. And more!

Episode #3 BGIM Podcast - CONFRONTING WHITENESS THROUGH LOVE

Shay Stewart Bouley, of Black Girl in Maine Media, has brought back her podcast, You Don't Know the Half, which started in late 2018, with 3 pilot episodes. Now, the podcast is back in a big way, for Season 2...with a special guest: international musician, speaker, writer, thinker Samuel James. Shay and Sam have an authentic conversation about life in a pandemic as a performer, elections, dealing with incessant white mediocrity, and a white supremacist President. Shay and Sam talk about the systems that reward mediocre white people and white men over black people. And how that plays out for black people. And where they find hope.  BGIM listeners out there take note: this is being recorded on an island off the coast of southern Maine, hang with us, we're working through the technical aspects, will keep improving it! Special thanks to Knack Factory, sponsor of Episode #1.  Thanks to: Alice Anderson, audio engineer, and Steve Drown, Coordinator of The Bob Crewe Program in Art and Music at  Assistant Professor of Music, Maine College of Art.

Episode #1 Season 2 – BGIM Podcast: Shay and Musician Samuel James, White Mediocrity

Shay and Saira Rao have a deep conversation about the election and how it relates to the real work needed to deprogram and dismantle white supremacy. (HINT: It's deep, intentional, hard and long-lasting soul work for white women and white people.)We learn about Saira's organization (with Regina Jackson) called RACE2DINNER, and the kinds of whitelash she encounter every step of the way, including from well-intentioned liberal white women. Shay and Saira also talk about internalized racism, and what gives them hope, and pause, in their own anti-racism work and lives. Saira Rao & her colleague Regina Jackson founded RACE2DINNER,  informal dinners at the request of white women, to get rid of racism. Race2Dinner centers dismantling white supremacy by having face to face conversations with white women about racism. The mission is simple - "reveal the naked truth about RACISM in America and UNLEASH YOUR POWER as white women to dismantle it."
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SPECIAL THANKS TO: BGIM Media Patreon Members 
MUSIC BY: Rory Ferreira (aka R.A.P. Ferreira, formerly Milo)
HOST: Shay Stewart-Bouley
EXECUTIVE PROIDUCER: Shay Stewart-Bouley (BGIM MEDIA) 
PRODUCER: Caroline Losneck
SPECIAL PRODUCTION-ENGINEERING ASSISTANCE: Alice Anderson 
FMI on RACE2DINNER:  https://race2dinner.com

Episode #2 Season 2 – BGIM Podcast: Shay +Saira Rao, Whitelash + Antiracism Work

In this episode, Shay has a conversation with Tina Strawn, an antiracism facilitator, racial and social justice advocate, and pleasure activist. Tina is also the founder of Legacy Trips, yoga trips focused on anti-racism, and the owner of the Speaking of Racism podcast. 

Tina is currently living abroad, while working on her project, “Are We Free Yet?” which is an exploration and examination of what it looks like and feels like to be free and to find home. Tina and Shay talk about the role of yoga/mediation, and how cultivating joy + focusing on healing of black people and particularly black women within their own anti-racism work, is key.  Tina and Shay also touch on how Tina found herself on a journey that led her to join a growing number of black Americans who have left the U.S.  to escape on-going racial violence, trauma, white supremacy, and racism. This is called Blaxit. Tina tells Shay her own Blaxit "feels like the Underground Railroad." 
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SPECIAL THANKS TO: BGIM Media Patreon Members
MUSIC BY: Rory Ferreira (aka R.A.P. Ferreira, formerly Milo)
HOST: Shay Stewart-Bouley
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Shay Stewart-Bouley (BGIM MEDIA)
PRODUCER: Caroline Losneck
FMI on Tina Strawn and her work, visit instagram  @tina_strawn_life or visit Tina's website at:  www.legacytrips.net.

Episode 3 Season 2 BGIM Shay + Tina Strawn, Yoga, Black Joy + Blaxit

Join Shay Stewart-Bouley and Samuel James, co-hosts of Black Folks Taking Sh*T in Maine. Both Shay and Sam live in Maine, and watched the insurrection on U.S. Capitol unfold. They unpack what happened and why. In this episode, they talk about white supremacy culture and systems gone off the rails, racism, the need for rest and care, their fathers and more. Sam tells a great story about how he got his drivers license.
Shay Stewart-Bouley is Executive Director of Community Change Inc., a 49-year-old civil rights organization in Boston, MA, that has been educating and organizing for racial equality since 1968 with a specific focus on the white problem. She also founded and runs BLACK GIRL IN MAINE MEDIA. 
Samuel James is an award-winning songwriter and bluesman, one of the world's most innovative guitar players, a Moth-featured storyteller, writer, speaker, and a regular contributor to BLACK GIRL IN MAINE MEDIA. 
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EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Shay Stewart-Bouley
Hosts: Shay Stewart Bouley + Sam James
Producer: Caroline Losneck
Music in this episode: Samuel James (Cold, Black Mattie)

Black Folks TalkingSH*T in Maine Ep1 - Post-Trump, Rest, and stories

Join Shay Stewart-Bouley and Samuel James, co-hosts of Black Folks Taking Sh*T in Maine. In this episode, Shay and Samuel talk about music and how it intersects with racism, and the benefits of living and creating art and music in black spaces in Maine. In February, Samuel was artist in residence at Indigo Arts Alliance in Portland, Maine, where he spent time creating new music. They also discuss Canada's racism problem against First Nations people,  real representation on non-profit boards and local politics. Shay makes a special announcement about her own political campaign! TUNE IN! 
Shay Stewart-Bouley is Executive Director of Community Change Inc., a 49-year-old civil rights organization in Boston, MA, that has been educating and organizing for racial equality since 1968 with a specific focus on the white problem. She also founded and runs BLACK GIRL IN MAINE MEDIA.
Samuel James is an award-winning songwriter and bluesman, one of the world's most innovative guitar players, a Moth-featured storyteller, writer, speaker, and a regular contributor to BLACK GIRL IN MAINE MEDIA.
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EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Shay Stewart-Bouley
Hosts: Shay Stewart Bouley + Sam James
Producer: Caroline Losneck
Music in this Episode:
Samuel James (music created at the Indigo Arts, Maine)
Sam James (Worcester, MA live performance)
Intro/Outro Music: Ryan Rumery "New Lines"
BLM protest audio: Kate Manahan (creative commons)

BlackFolksTalkingSH*TinMaine Ep2 - Black Spaces in Maine, Representation, Politics of Being Black

Join Shay Stewart-Bouley, the creator of the blog Black Girl in Maine, and her co-host, internationally known bluesman, and storyteller, Samuel James. Shay & Sam in the tradition of Black Americans, will sit around and talk sh*t about a host of topics, with a focus on being Black in America in the post Trump years.

Black Girl in Maine

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