Enough
Truth Be Told: Time to Thrive
American Public Media
4.3 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever been made to feel like you aren’t enough? Not black enough, not queer enough, not Asian enough, not enough?
In this episode of Truth Be Told, we explore how we can move beyond the question of “enough” and ask ourselves if we are doing enough, for our communities with Locatora Radio hosts Mala Muñoz and Diosa Femme.
Tonya also talks with author Jeff Chang, co-founder of CultureStr/ke and ColorLines, about the complicated history behind the term “people of color” and how we need to reclaim intersectionality to strengthen our solidarities.
Why the Wheel of Fortune Tarot Card?
When you pull the Wheel of Fortune card, it’s the universe telling you to get ready because big changes are coming. Just like life, our identities and how we identify are very much in flux, more of a journey than a destination. For this episode about what it means to be Latina, or a person of color, there’s no tarot card more apt than the Wheel of Fortune.
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| 0:00.0 | From K-QED. |
| 0:02.0 | Hey, this is Tanya, host of Truth Be Told. |
| 0:08.0 | Before we start this episode, I want to talk about the term People of Color. We use it a lot to describe who this show is for. |
| 0:15.2 | I'm a black woman, my producer is Korean Spanish, and my editor is South Asian American. |
| 0:20.8 | We're women of color. But let's be real, the of color part is hell |
| 0:25.9 | a problematic. Sometimes it feels like a way to erase blackness. But for this show we use the term with intention. It's a small but significant |
| 0:36.0 | attempt to reclaim people of color to bring it back to what black women activists in |
| 0:40.8 | the 1970s envisioned. So with that in mind let's get into this |
| 0:45.6 | week's episode which is all about how we identify and feeling enough. |
| 0:52.4 | There's this enough. |
| 0:57.0 | There's this scene in the iconic movie, Selina, that really speaks to the question we're taking on in this episode of truth be told. |
| 1:01.0 | We got to know about Oprah and Christina. Anglo food is too |
| 1:06.0 | bland and yet when we go to Mexico we get the runs now that to me is |
| 1:09.1 | embarrassing. And we got to prove to the Mexicans how Mexican we are and we got to prove the Americans how American we have |
| 1:15.3 | We got to be more Mexican than the Mexicans and more American than Americans both at the same time |
| 1:19.7 | It's exhausting |
| 1:22.1 | Man, Edward James almost breaks it down It's exhausting. |
| 1:22.6 | Man, Edward James almost breaks it down in this clip. |
| 1:25.9 | What he's saying speaks to what it's like to be a person of color in the United States, |
| 1:30.5 | even if you were born here. |
| 1:32.2 | The back and forth of dual identities where you're not quite |
| 1:35.0 | seen as one thing, but you aren't that other thing either. It can have many of us asking, |
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