Ep 467. Cardi B & Respectability Politics
Around The Way Curls
Antoinette Lee & Shanti Mayers
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
For this episode, Shanti opens the show solo, responding to listener voicemails about culture gatekeeping and fashion. For our main topic, Antoinette returns, and we unpack how respectability politics shape our views of Cardi B—and what that says about us. Join us...
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| 0:00.0 | Do it a little faster. |
| 0:04.4 | It's your girl |
| 0:19.5 | Shanty. |
| 0:20.2 | And it's Antonet. |
| 0:21.5 | And we are Around the Way Curls. |
| 0:24.5 | Join us as we share our unique life experiences, |
| 0:28.0 | aka tell all our business. |
| 0:29.8 | And explore both the profound and the profane. |
| 0:33.1 | Because duality is a thing. |
| 0:36.6 | Peace, peace, kings and queens of the Around the Way curls community. |
| 0:42.9 | This is Shanti coming live from the 215. |
| 0:45.5 | I'm alone in this intro. |
| 0:47.8 | Antenet will be coming a little bit later, but right now it's just me. |
| 0:52.8 | And I hope that you're excited to spend a little bit of one-on-one with me. |
| 0:57.8 | I'm sitting here if you're on Patreon in a full-length cheetah pajamas. |
| 1:05.7 | I have a messy bonnet top my head. |
| 1:08.3 | It's very up close and personal, okay. And we had a little bit of a scheduling |
| 1:15.4 | snafu again. So I'm just here to keep this machine going. You know what I mean? I'm trying |
| 1:23.0 | to upset the community. My updates, what are my updates? You know, it is October 13th. We're in the mid, middle of the month. |
| 1:37.4 | I'm getting ready for the holiday, you know, for most retail folks, it's like now and November 1st is kickoff time. It's like, ready or not, |
| 1:48.1 | you better get it together. So I'm in those stages, which can feel a little bit stressful, |
| 1:52.7 | but I'm also grateful to be doing this another year. All in all, I feel healthy. I've been maintaining my workouts. You know what I mean? |
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