Culture
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…
Language Transfer
Language Transfer is a project which offers free downloadable language courses using a methodology that explores the pluralism in our languages and teaches practical speaking in record time. Apart from the free downloadable courses, they also give fascinating language workshops all around the world. There may even be one happening near you. There are several…
The Geekiary
The Geekiary is a blog started by fans, for fans. Proud members of many fandoms—Tumblr users and Twitter addicts, con goers, photographers, cosplayers, artists, and writers they’re consumers and analyzers of geeky media. They approach their work from a fan’s perspective, meaning they’re enthusiastic, passionate. As they say, themselves, they have FEELINGS. the Geekiary has…
Wagatwe Wanjuki
Wagatwe Wanjuki is an award-winning antirape activist & theorist on Title IX, abuse and trauma. Since launching a campaign for a better sexual assault policy at Tufts University in 2009, she’s continued to work for a world free of gender-based violence. Wanjuki strives to bring sexual assault prevention to the 21st century through online public…