The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday, August 2nd.

I'm Christina Kauderucci, a staff writer at Slate. And joining me from New York

for the very first time on the podcast is Slate Editorial Assistant Rachel Hampton.

Rachel, welcome to the podcast.

Hi, happy to be here.

And returning for her second time on the show is Brianna Joy Gray,

who is a senior politics editor at The Intercept,

contributing editor at Current Affairs, and co-host of the

podcast Swo-Tee, or someone's wrong on the internet.

She's a very busy woman and we're happy to have her this morning.

Welcome back, Brianna.

Thank you so much.

So in today's episode, we're going to start by talking about

sorry to bother you, a Boots Riley film featuring telemarketing,

capitalist exploitation and some really cool earrings.

Then we're going to discuss motherhood in the age of fear

when bystanders call the cops on moms who leave their kids in the car

while they run into the store. And finally we'll discuss how people, particularly

black women, are grappling with the murder of Nea Wilson, an 18-year-old black girl who was recently

killed in an Oakland Public Transit station.

Then in our Slate Plus segment, where we take a topic and rate it from 1 to 10 on how sexist it is,

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