Pride of Mass Destruction: Do You Want The Aesthetic of Freedom or to Actually Be Free?

Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast

iHartEricka

Society & Culture

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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This episode is dedicated to the life and memory of Adriana Smith Donate to the Celebration of Black Transwomen Cookout in NYC: https://www.gofundme.com/f/gia-love-x-angelito-black-trans-love-cookout-fundraiser The episode (note, there is a 6 second breather in the beginning, don't worry, just breathe, we still here lol) "Happy" Pride** with a major asterisks No pride with genocide Everything you are being told about Iran in the mainstream media is a lie derived from the same binaries that harm trans/tgnc and queer communities particularly us Blacks and whatever imminent fear you have of "WWIII" done already happened and/or is already happening in someone else's world and if you Black, already happened to people who look like you just 40 years ago. Queer as in hella glitter and chocolate babies and watermelon woman and i am your venus documentary and diana ross and patrik ian polk and brandy full moon and june jordan nem and stud step baby daddies and allofthat and especially queer as in an unequivocal ten toes stance with the people of Iran and all oppressed peoples across the globe opposed to western hegemony and white supremacist colonial violence. -Jojo Siwa, white queerness/white queer community only caring about the aesthetic -love island bombshells and actual bombshells -Skrmetti Ruling IRAN (Israel is actually the only country in the Middle East that has nuclear weapons but I aint seeing too many tiktoks or NYT articles bout them) -Van Jones saying we should support trump?? --Whoopi Goldberg and cross-cultural solidarity (she ain't lying) -90% of Israelis support bombing of Iran? -MAJORITY civilians killed in Iran but media is not reporting, many more have fled Tehran (capital of Iran) -Iran, gender binary, transphobia and anti-blackness link Ericka's Sexuality Education Training Program, get hip, jug pricing available and free spots courtesy of Sex Ed as Resistance's official partner, Dame Products: https://ihartericka.com/sex-ed-as-resistance/ for more info and to apply Recommended Reading: Closing excerpt from The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky This is a listener supported, currently pay-wall free podcast. To support the continuation of this independent listener sponsored podcast and keep this g-thang ad free, consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/c/ihartericka or via Venmo: @Ericka-Hart, Paypal: [email protected]. Thank you!

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0:00.0	while we're all speculated as to Iran's nuclear capability, where would they hit us?
0:04.6	When are they going to hit us? We need to stop them. We need to cut off their military.
0:09.7	United States is the only country that has dropped a bomb on another country during World War II.
0:16.4	What y'all are all worried about, United States already did it.
0:19.2	Yeah. And they named the bomb that they drop, little boy.
0:23.7	I almost tear it up.
0:31.4	Happy pride.
0:32.5	Happy pride.
0:34.2	Welcome to another episode of Hoodrat.
0:38.4	To Head Wrap. Thank you, for supporting this listener supported podcast.
0:41.9	We cannot do this without you.
0:43.6	And for those who are interested in supporting in non-monetary ways, you can like, share,
0:48.5	subscribe, tell people about it, write about it, share in whatever way that you can.
0:55.4	If you want to support in monetary ways, you can become a patron, and I'll have a description
1:00.1	of that in the podcast.
1:01.8	You can also do so through Venmo and PayPal, and I'll have all of that information in the
1:06.8	description of this episode.
1:08.5	I also want to say that in August, they're going to be the celebration of black trans women
1:14.1	cookout.
1:14.9	Yeah.
1:15.1	Have a GoFundMe.
1:16.6	Please, please support that as well.
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