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Forever35

Ep 124: Learning and Unlearning

Forever35

Doree Shafrir & Elise Hu

Fashion & Beauty, Leisure, Health & Fitness, Arts

4.75K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Kate and Doree discuss their efforts toward better anti-racism actions and allyship. They also talk through the tangible ways they and Forever35 listeners can support Black-owned beauty companies. Then, they replay their interview from November of 2019 with Ijeoma Oluo, author of So You Want To Talk About Race.


“Self-care that cannot be bothered with justice is just privilege.” — Sonya Renee Taylor


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0:00.0

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0:05.6

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0:10.6

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0:17.2

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0:21.2

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And all you've got to do is search Skystream to find out more.

0:48.6

Welcome to Forever 35, a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves.

0:53.9

I'm Kate Spencer and I'm Dory Sheffrier and today we are doing something a little different

1:00.9

because we want to both offer our support to our black listeners and we also want to use

1:05.8

our platform to discuss tangible ways we're committing in the long term to anti-racism

1:11.4

and supporting black organizations and businesses. I wanted to share a quote that I read last

1:19.0

week that really resonated with me. It's by a senior Renee Taylor and it says or she says self-care

1:25.6

that cannot be bothered with justice is just privilege. And that really hit a chord for me.

1:36.1

And you know, we have been thinking like hopefully all of you about how we can work harder

1:42.0

at our own anti-racism both in our own lives and on our podcasting platform and how we can really

1:47.5

hold space for black people without centering ourselves. And over the, this has been an ongoing

1:56.9

conversation for us since starting this podcast but most definitely especially in the last week,

2:02.4

we have really been reflecting on the work we haven't done and the work we need to do and how we're

2:08.6

going to rectify that. So today we want to share some actions we're taking, some places we have

2:15.7

donated to companies and people we are following and supporting and then we are going to be

2:24.4

replaying our interview from November 2019 with Ijoma Aluho who's the author of So You Want to Talk

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