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🗓️ 31 August 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Award-winning journalist Dashka Slater joins to talk about her new book, Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed. It’s a story of a teen sharing extremely racist memes and photos of classmates on a private instagram and what happened when the account was discovered. It led to even more hurt, protests, botched mediation, and a community-wide conversation about justice and what it means to be complicit.
Besides the interview, hosts Jamilah Lemieux, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen share their parenting ups and downs of the week—including a late night before the first day of kindergarten and big-kid summer camp. Then, on Slate Plus: we share lots of listener letters ranging from two player games to suggestions for handling the great bathroom conundrum of 2023.
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Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson and Maura Currie.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains explicit language. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to Mom in Data Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | For Thursday, August 31st, the Accountable Edition. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Jamil O'Mew, a writer, contributor to Slate's Campeading Parenting column, |
| 0:20.0 | and mom's name, who's 10, and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Elizabeth Mukamp, I write the Home School and Family Travel Blog Dutch Dutch Goose. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm the mom of three littles, Henry his 11, Oliver his 9, and Teddy his 6, |
| 0:32.0 | and we live in Tokyo, Japan. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Zach Rosen, I make another podcast that's called The Best Advice Show, |
| 0:38.0 | and I am dad Tanowa, who just turned 6, and Ami, who is nearly 3, were in Detroit. |
| 0:44.0 | Today on the show, we're going to start, as always, by sharing our parenting ups and downs from the week. |
| 0:50.0 | Then we're going to be joined by Dash Kuslater. |
| 0:53.0 | Dash gets an award-winning journalist and author. |
| 0:55.0 | Her most recent book is called Accountable. |
| 0:57.0 | The true story of a racist social media account and the teenagers whose lives had changed. |
| 1:02.0 | It's a story of harm done by and to young people, and if you don't have kids at that age yet, |
| 1:08.0 | it'll still be a fascinating conversation. |
| 1:11.0 | Then, if you're a member of the Slate Plus Club, we've gotten some wonderful listener suggestions |
| 1:16.0 | from you all about games, and even how to handle the great bathroom conundrum of 2023. |
| 1:23.0 | Here's what you'll hear if you have Slate Plus. |
| 1:25.0 | All right, so I do have a little bit of an update. |
| 1:29.0 | It's not incredibly satisfying, but when I went to pick the kids up, |
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