Episode 005: Ororo Munroe (feat. Rashida Renée Ward)
CEREBRO
Connor Goldsmith
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2020
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 5 of CEREBRO, Connor and iconic fashion archivist Rashida Renée Ward celebrate Ororo Munroe, Beautiful Windrider, the Weather Witch, Goddess of the STORM! One of the most popular and celebrated X-Men, Storm changed the landscape of comic books forever when she debuted in 1975.
The CEREBRO character file on Storm begins at 33:27.
(Content Advisory: Ororo's story includes wartime atrocities and suicidal ideation. This episode also discusses racism, colorism, slavery, and the recent death of actor Chadwick Boseman.)
The episode cover features art of Storm by Dave Cockrum, Paul Smith, Jim Lee, Salvador Larocca, Alan Davis, Ron Garney, and Lucas Werneck.
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| 0:00.0 | As a child, especially as a smaller child, it didn't have a black girl. |
| 0:03.6 | I really didn't fucking care. |
| 0:05.3 | So, like, I honestly was just like, there was a lot of stuff I just ignore. |
| 0:08.1 | I did not care about because there was a black girl in it. |
| 0:10.3 | It was like, where's a black girl? |
| 0:11.4 | I want to be, like, that's what I wanted to be. |
| 0:13.3 | So, like, you know, when I saw X-Men and they had a black girl, and she was with that. Like, that's something I can get behind. X-Men, X-Men. |
| 0:28.2 | In the 21st century, people mutants led by Magneto aimed to destroy the world. |
| 0:36.3 | Only hope is X-Men. Welcome to Cerebro, the X-Men podcast, where a homo and his friends dig deep into the history of Homo Superior. |
| 0:44.3 | I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith, and with me today is Rashida Renee Ward, a fashion archivist, writer and artist, best known for her influential Tumblr and Instagram archive, How to Be a Fucking Lady. Her preservation and promotion of black women's art has helped shape the cultural |
| 0:59.0 | zeitgeist of the internet, and she is here today to chat with me about Aurora Monroe, |
| 1:04.2 | mistress of the elements, beautiful windrider, the weather witch goddess of the storm. |
| 1:10.3 | Rashida, thank you for being my guest today. |
| 1:12.1 | How are you doing? |
| 1:12.9 | I'm doing fine. |
| 1:15.2 | Trying to keep it cute. |
| 1:17.1 | You always keep it cute. |
| 1:18.6 | So before we really dig in, I want to address a couple listener comments and questions. |
| 1:22.4 | First, a shout out to listener Max Tang, my sister's fiancee. |
| 1:26.4 | Hey. |
| 1:27.4 | Who is from Hong Kong and pointed out regarding |
| 1:29.7 | episode one that if the hand really wanted Betsy Braddock to blend in with the Hong Kong |
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