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Welcome to the waves for Thursday, April 25th.

The Communes are Better Edition.

I'm Hannah Rosen, a host of NPR's Invisibilia.

And in the New York studios today, we have June Thomas, senior managing producer of the Slate Podcast Network. Hi, June. Hey, Hannah. And I'm excited to be podcasting for the first time with Nicole, Nicole, Nicole, Nicole, Nicole, Marcia and Christina are out this week. So June and I are subbing. Before we get started, we've got something super exciting to announce June.

Why don't you take it?

If you are in New York City on Saturday, June 8th, or if you can get to New York City on Saturday, June 8th, Slate Day is a whole absolutely packed schedule of really cool events, many featuring live tapings

of Slate Podcasts. But the one that I really want to focus on right now is the thing that's

happening at 10 a.m. It is a waves and outward joint brunch. It will be boozy. There will be

booze. We will have the amazing

Ms. Cracker, drag queen of this parish, and other great guests too. So make your plans.

And to find more information, go to slate.com slash slate day 2019.

Our three topics for today. First, the black feminists who spotted the alt-right threat before anyone else did. Second, is marriage obsolete? A package in New York Magazine asks that question we discuss. And finally, Netflix's new entry into the rom-com series, Someone Great. It's kind of a romantic comedy in reverse.

And then in our Slate Plus segment, we will discuss June. What are we talking about?

We will ask if it's sexist that the TSA scanners often kind of freak out with black hair

and require black women to be subjected to hair pat downs. And here's

a snippet from that discussion. You know, June, I think you put your finger on it with the word

unexpected. Like I couldn't figure this one out because I was like, well, they can't see through

the scanners and I have diabetes. So I have these things on my arms. And I've just like every single time I, I, 100% of the time I beep. And it never occurred to me. It's just like, why can't they work that into the system? Like medical device, black hair, like it's the unexpected problem. If you would like to join Slate Plus to hear our Is It Sexist segments and also to support Slate's journalism, you can start a two-week free trial by going to Slate.com slash the waves plus.

All right. Let's move on to our topic. The Black Feminist Troll Busters. Writer Rachel Hampton wrote a phenomenal story in Slate this week, uncovering an important bit of feminist history, a group of black feminists who, even before Gamergate, spotted and uncovered a group of trolls who make life miserable on the Internet for women. We have Rachel here with us today to discuss her fantastic story. Hi, Rachel. Hi. So, this was such a good story. It was so interesting.

Can you just, why don't we just start by telling us what was hashtag end Father's Day?

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