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🗓️ 10 August 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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In this week's episode, I am joined by Ziwe Fumudoh, an American comedian and comic writer based in Brooklyn who is notable for her saucy and sarcastic commentary on politics, race, and young adulthood. (NY Times) She attended Phillips Academy in Andover and Northwestern University, where she studied poetry, film, and African-American studies.
Her comedy career began as an intern for Comedy Central, and a year later she wrote for The Onion and The Rundown with Robin Thede. Currently, She is a writer on the show Desus and Mero. She has a show on YouTube entitled Baited With Ziwe in which she has her white friends as guests on the show and she baits them into making unwitting racial faux pas.
Every month she appears in a show that she created at Brooklyn's Union Hall entitled Pop Show in which she performs original pop songs. A reviewer in Forbes magazine wrote that she has the "confidence of an old comedy pro”. (via ZiweFumudoh.com)
In this episode, we dive into topics like:
- Cancel culture
- Shame vs. guilt and how you. deal with them
- Beauty standards
- Allyship
- Politics
Mentioned in this week's episode
- Ziwe's IG Live show feat. Alexis
- Vulture's recap of Ziwe interviewing Alexis
- Ziwe's website, Instagram (@ziwef), and Twitter (@ziwe)
- Listen to Ziwe's music on every platform
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0:00.0 | The following podcast is a deer media production. |
0:07.5 | Hey, this is Alexis Haines and welcome to Recovering from Reality, |
0:11.6 | where I illuminate the messy and magical path of coming home to yourself. |
0:16.1 | Whether you're on the road to recovery, seeking self-care techniques for surviving the |
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0:26.2 | we're serving up the ultimate truth. Your challenges don't define you, how you deal with them does. |
0:33.0 | So are you ready to recover from reality? |
0:39.8 | Remember growing up as children and we're all taught like, you know, racism is over and Martin |
0:44.3 | with the king had a dream and you know, yes we can, a bra, a ko-bama. And so we kind of grew up in |
0:49.3 | this age where it's like it's not shocking that we're experiencing like this civil rights movement |
0:54.4 | because if you've been paying attention, you'd realize that it's been bubbling this whole time. |
0:58.3 | But it's definitely disappointing that that we haven't come very far from the 1960s as we watch like |
1:05.4 | like racial disparity is at an all-time high like segregation in schooling districts is like terrible. |
1:12.3 | And these things that we thought we'd overcome are clearly a fallacy we watched. |
1:16.1 | We put this in prison system as obviously a way in which we shabbygate a lot of, you know, |
1:21.2 | people of color in the world in the country. So I would like to see all of that go away. |
1:26.4 | I would like to, I would like a utopia where racism does not exist. And if any every single person |
1:32.3 | on the earth could do their part to combat this evil system, that would be great. |
1:39.3 | That was a quick clip from this week's episode with Zeeway Fumado. I had such a lovely conversation |
1:47.2 | with her and I can't wait for you guys to take a deep dive. However, I will say this. If you guys |
1:51.7 | haven't been following along with me on Instagram, then you're going to need a little bit of context |
1:56.4 | for this episode. Zeeway has this amazing Instagram live series going right now where she moved |
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