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How to Reckon with Refinery29

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Feminism, Gender, Media Analysis, Body Politics, Patriarchy, Intersectionality, Society & Culture, Cultural Commentary, Beauty Standards, Internet Culture, Womens Rights

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

A number of feminist-branded companies, including The Wing, Man Repeller and Ban.do, are reckoning with racism and employee mistreatment. This episode, we're focusing in on the digital-media powerhouse Refinery29 and its problematic white leadership. Plus, we'll examine what the #blackatR29 movement reveals about working while Black and why seemingly woke, women-led outlets aren't immune to toxicity, inequity and top-down racism.

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0:00.0

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0:15.7

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0:33.0

With all the past events that have happened in the past few weeks from starting with Amy

0:39.4

Cooper and George Floyd and I'm odd Aubrey and just there's so many things and I think

0:46.2

especially the Amy Cooper thing kind of resonated with me and everything else obviously is

0:52.8

horrible and has resonated but you know refinery, the office is an office full of Amy Cooper's

0:58.6

and to a lot of people who don't know the inside workings of refinery, it seems like a feminist

1:04.4

inclusive utopia and I someone who worked there for a year and a half, I just know that's

1:08.9

not the case and I think just with all the grief and trauma everyone is collectively feeling

1:14.7

right now if there was ever a moment for you to speak out it's now.

1:21.7

Hey everybody, I'm Caroline, I'm Kristen and y'all we are living through an anti-racist

1:42.5

civil rights movement unlike anything our generation has ever witnessed firsthand.

1:48.5

The Black Lives Matter protests that have broken out across the country are calling into

1:52.6

account not only the police violence that led to the murder of George Floyd but also the

1:58.5

ways that white women like Amy Cooper perpetuate white supremacy and systemic racism every day.

2:05.7

Amy Cooper, aka Central Park Karen, the white woman who called the cops on a black bird watcher

2:12.1

named Christian Cooper no relation and falsely claimed he was threatening her.

2:17.6

In the midst of it we at Unleedy like have also noticed something of a white feminist reckoning

2:23.1

happening partly catalyzed by that video of Amy Cooper weaponizing her white privilege.

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