Hello and

I'm welcome to the Inner Ho uprising, a podcast about sex-love and dating from the perspective of four queer black feminist 20-somethings who live in New York City.

I'm your principal host Sam. My pronouns are she and her.

And as you can see on YouTube and as you can hear on

podcast land, I am here by myself this week, and that's because we're doing things

a bit differently for this episode. So given the countrywide

uprising aimed to end police violence in black communities and further the

progression of black lives in this country, I want to give you an episode that

encapsulates this time period from our sex positive queer black feminist perspective.

It just so turns out that the original co-host Shanika and myself recorded that episode four years ago in 2016.

That was during a time of protest that was launched into action after the extra judicial

killings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling.

In some ways a lot has changed and in some ways absolutely nothing has changed.

So on that episode we spoke about police violence and mass incarceration and its impact on black people

Black men

Black trans women black cis women black families We spoke about black women and queer folks on the

front lines of the movement being silenced by massage noir and homophobia. We've

ruminated on how toxic masculinity and movement work can be detrimental and why an intersectional

approach to the revolution is paramount. We deconstructed the myth of black on black

violence and thought a little bit deeper about looking at that phrase from a queer black feminist perspective.

We reflected on the fact that resistance looks differently for folks who are unable to protest,

whether disabled or otherwise.

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