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Stuff Mom Never Told You

Feminist Movie Friday: The Watermelon Woman

Stuff Mom Never Told You

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.24.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

When it came out in 1996, Cheryl Dunye's film The Watermelon Woman was a first in many ways, and stirred up controversy and conversation. We talk intersecting identities, complex relationships, preserving history, and coming into yourself.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.0

Are there any pictures of you online?

0:06.2

Then you could already be in a massive police database without even knowing it.

0:10.2

Clearview scrapes together images from Facebook, from LinkedIn, from Venmo accounts.

0:15.8

I'm Dexter Thomas, host a Kill Switch, a podcast about how living in the future is affecting us right now.

0:21.5

Police, they are trusting the software with this magical ability to lead them to the right suspect.

0:27.2

In this episode, we dive into how cops are using AI and facial recognition,

0:31.5

and sometimes getting it wrong and putting innocent people behind bars.

0:35.1

So if your accuser is this algorithm, but you're not even being told

0:39.8

that it was used, let alone given any of the details about how it works. Listen to KillSwitch

0:44.9

on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. OpenAI is a financial

0:51.9

abomination, a thing that should not be, an aberration, a symbol of rot at the heart of Silicon Valley.

0:57.6

And I'm going to tell you why on my show, Better Offline, the rudest show in the tech industry, where we're breaking down why Open AI, along with other AI companies, are dead set on lying to your boss that they can take your job.

1:08.2

I'm also going to be talking with the greatest minds in the industry about all the other ways the rich and powerful are ruining the computer. Listen to better offline

1:14.6

on the iHot Radio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you happen to get your podcasts.

1:20.6

Hi-key. Looking for your next obsession. Listen to High Key, a new weekly podcast hosted by

1:26.8

Ben O'Kee, Ryan Mitchell, and Evie Oddly.

1:29.5

We got a lot of things to get into.

1:31.1

We're going to gush about the random stuff we can't stop thinking about.

1:33.8

I am High Key going to lose my mind over all things Cowboy Carter.

1:37.5

I know.

1:38.1

Girl, the way she's about to yank my bank account.

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