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Bitches On Comics
Bitches on Comics is a podcast that aims to make comics more welcoming and friendly, particularly for LGBTQ folks and women readers. As they say, “Bitches wanted.” Co-hosted by Sara Century and S.E. Fleenor with sound editing by Kate Warner, the Bitches on Comics podcast serves up advice that answers listener questions, as well as…
Feminist Frequency
Anita Sarkeesian and the Feminist Frequency team produce media criticism and penetrating feminist analysis with “a hint of humor, a dose of drollery, and a soupçon of snark.” They create video series like Tropes vs. Women in Video Games, Ordinary Women: Daring to Defy History, The FREQ Show, Queer Tropes and a large slate of podcasts. With their…
Black Girl Nerds
Black Girl Nerds is a pop culture online publication from the lens of nerdy Black women. Its founder, Jamie Broadnax, describes BGN as being “for ALL women who are just as nerdy as we are and the men who love and appreciate us. I named this site Black Girl Nerds because the concept of Black…
Farai Chideya
Farai Chideya is an award-winning journalist who is currently the creator and host of “Our Body Politic,” a syndicated public radio show/podcast about Black women/all women of color using their power for the good of all. Our Body Politic is unapologetically centered on reporting on not just how women of color experience the major political…
The Pudding
The Pudding explains ideas debated in culture with visual essays. By wielding original datasets, primary research, and interactivity, The Pudding tries to thoroughly explore complex topics. Each story represents a few weeks of the authors life, spent researching, analyzing, and coding a culturally rich topic. The output: an interactive experience that seeks to advance public…
Dirty Rotten Church Kids
Dirty Rotten Church Kids is a podcast by Josh Link and Adrian Gibbs. They are best friends, former pastors/worship leaders, millennials, dads, idiots. This podcast, along with their Instagram community of the same name, was created as a way to process religious trauma and laugh/grieve/rage alongside others with a story. In the past year they’ve…
Snap Judgement
The Snap Judgment radio show and podcast mixes real stories with killer beats to produce cinematic, dramatic radio. Snap’s musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see the world through the eyes of another. This is storytelling… with a beat. Snap first aired on public radio stations nationwide in July 2010. Today, Snap Judgment airs…
Rambalac
Rambalac creates walking videos and live streams around Japan. They started filming their walks just for fun and as an additional reason to go outside. In their videos, they don’t talk, except to communicate with people in front of them. They don’t show their face, intentionally, preferring to make videos with minimal editing and no sound…
DETROITography
DETROITography is all about maps and geography of Detroit. They write about maps that other people make about the City as well as create their own maps of Detroit. Their blog was inspired by Mapping the Strait, Bostonography, and Mapping Manhattan. The maps they explore include representations of population density, segregation, street damage, electric vehicle…
Flash Forward
Flash Forward is a critically acclaimed podcast about the future. In each episode, host Rose Eveleth takes on a possible (or not so possible) future scenario — everything from the existence of artificial wombs, to what would happen if space pirates dragged a second moon to Earth. What would the warranty on a sex robot…