The Rachel Divide; & Dissecting The Met Gala
The High Low
The High Low
4.8 • 9.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
It’s a week of controversy: Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who says she’s black, is back in the public eye thanks to a Netflix documentary, The Rachel Divide. What trauma led to her fraudulent ‘transracial’ identity? And why does Rachel refuse to back down? We called up gal-dem deputy editor and Guardian writer Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff to discuss the documentary - and whether or not Netflix were right to air it.
Also on today’s agenda: the glitzy annual Met Gala and it’s ‘Catholic’ theme, courtesy of Andrew Bolton’s ‘Heavenly Bodies’ exhibition. From Rihanna’s papal mitre to Lena Waithe’s politically charged rainbow cape, via Jared Leto dressed as Jesus (God complex, much?) the dress code might have been crassly interpreted and as camp as Christmas, but does that make it offensive? We run the full gamut of opinions.
Last thing - the Chuckle Brothers have not fallen out. We repeat: rumours of a feud are false.
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Links
The Rachel Divide review by Doreen St Felix for The New Yorker
The Rachel Divide on Netflix
https://www.netflix.com/title/80149821
Does Anyone Have The Right To Sex? By Amia Srinivasan, for The London Review of Books
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n06/amia-srinivasan/does-anyone-have-the-right-to-sex
Sean Penn interview, by Emma Brockes for The Guardian
You Think It, I’ll Say It, short stories by Curtis Sittenfeld
https://www.amazon.co.uk/You-Think-Ill-Say-Stories/dp/052552777X/ref=nodl_
Patrick Melrose, starts on Sunday on Sky Atlantic
How The Met Gala Guests Tackled “The Heavenly Bodies” Theme, by Osman Ahmed for Vogue.co.uk
http://www.vogue.co.uk/article/how-met-gala-guests-tackled-heavenly-bodies-them
Radio 4 Soul Music on God Only Knows
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b01jsk
Abi Morgan’s Desert Island Discs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b01jsk
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 54 of The Highlo, the weekly news and pop culture podcast brought to |
| 0:21.1 | you by journalist Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes. |
| 0:25.2 | And we hit number one this week. |
| 0:26.7 | I kind of never thought we'd get there. |
| 0:29.1 | Finally number one. |
| 0:30.1 | It's sounding pretty negative. |
| 0:32.1 | No, it's in number one is a massive deal. |
| 0:34.1 | We got to number two, I think, in our first week that we launched. |
| 0:37.6 | But number one, we were ahead of Desert Island Disc. |
| 0:39.4 | We were ahead of the arches. |
| 0:40.6 | We were ahead of Dr. Buckles. |
| 0:42.4 | Your favourite. |
| 0:43.4 | It was quite tempted to change all social media bios just in brackets. |
| 0:47.0 | Was once number one. |
| 0:48.0 | Well, how do we, because I know how it works with the bestseller list, is that you just |
| 0:51.4 | have to get in there once. |
| 0:52.4 | And then you were sometimes bestseller. |
| 0:54.4 | Yeah, but what? |
| 0:55.4 | You are some data is bestseller. |
| 0:56.4 | Thanks, babe. |
| 0:57.4 | What's the nomenclature with Ichees? |
| 0:59.1 | Ichees topper. |
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