About THE HOSTS
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Childhood friends since the early 1990s, we were drawn to each other in junior high through our mutual hatred of the patriarchy and love of swearing. As grown-ass women, we've dedicated ourselves to learning all we can about how our feminism intersects with our whiteness and other identities. We are committed to doing whatever we can to disrupt white supremacy and other forms of oppression that white women are so good at perpetuating. When we're not recording our rage and frustration for this podcast, our time is filled as moms of young children and jobs as a physician assistant (Mandy) and education scholar and consultant (Katy).
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OUR LISTENERS
Our target audience may be white women, but we love that we have listeners from all backgrounds all over the world.
OUR PROMISE
As we share what we are learning with our listeners, we commit to being:
- Unflinching: White women have and continue to be architects and protectors of white supremacy. Nothing good comes from pussyfooting around that fact. Yes, there are white women who have fought against oppression and, yes, other people have been awful. While we may make an exception every once in awhile, we want to stay focused on how white women from across the political spectrum and every corner of the globe have and continue to make a mess of things. If you want to learn about other stuff, listen to another podcast.
- Lively: We laugh. We swear. We go on tangents. We interject with embarrassing personal stories. While we deeply appreciate the incredible academic research that is helping us learn about these histories, and Katy regularly nerds out on that scholarship in her day job, this podcast is most assuredly not an academic space.
- Intersectional: While we highlight race and gender, we don't want to ignore how white women have weaponized their combination of whiteness and woman-ness within systems of colonization and capitalism, or how our white woman-ness is also influenced by social class, disability, sexual identity and orientation, gender identity and expression, language, citizenship status, religion, ethnicity, etc. We identify as cis, straight, wealthy, non-disabled, thin, non-Native, English-fluent U.S. citizens who were raised Christian (Katy, Catholic and Mandy, Mormon)... what we consider to be the most dangerous type of white lady out there. Oh, and we are both deep into exploring our ADHD, perimenopausal brains.
- Humble: No doubt about it: we will make mistakes and miss things. We pledge to keep learning to know and do better, and encourage our listeners to reach out whenever we veer off track. Our hope is that modeling how we are learning and sharing these histories can help other white women to do the same while amplifying the work of anti-racist, decolonizing scholars, organizations, and social movements—especially those led by Black women, Indigenous women, and Women of Color... keep reading below for our faves!
INFLUENCES & RECOMMENDATIONS
We are not the first to point out that white women need to get their lives right. Black, Brown, and Indigenous women like those listed below have long attested to the need for white women to stop making such a mess of things. There are so many scholars, activists, artists, authors, and educators, past and present, whose ideas and lives inform and inspire us. This podcast is our effort to listen, promote their work, and heed their call to do better. We strongly encourage listeners to check out their writing, speeches, art, and podcasts.