The Spectacle and Commodification of Sexual Liberation with Kimberly Foster (For Harriet)

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

Hannah Witton

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.8 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Hannah is joined by Kimberly Foster, who is the founder of For Harriet, a multi-platform digital community for Black women, and they discuss sexuality, race, sexual liberation, and pop culture. Kimberly and Hannah talk about the difference between the spectacle of sexual liberation as we see it in the media and real, personal sexual liberation. and how to critique the media messages we receive about Black peoples and especially Black women. Finally, Hannah and Kimberly discuss blackfishing, the “mixed race aesthetic”, radical imagination, and, of course, the Kardashians.

✨MORE ABOUT KIMBERLY FOSTER✨
Kimberly Foster is a writer, cultural critic and founder and editor-in-chief of For Harriet, a multi-platform digital community for Black women, and Black Girls Gather, a national live event series.
- For Harriet: http://forharriet.com/
- For Harriet YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ForHarrietdotcom
- For Harriet Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/for.harriet/
- For Harriet Twitter: https://twitter.com/forharriet
- Kimberly’s website: http://www.kimberlynfoster.com/
- Kimberly’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kimberlynfoster/
- Kimberly’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/KimberlyNFoster

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0:00.0	Where's our hotel again?
0:01.3	Right on the beach.
0:02.2	How are we getting there?
0:03.5	Our transfer will pick us up.
0:04.9	When's the boat trip?
0:06.1	Just starting to have dropped all of you off at the kids club.
0:08.4	How on earth do you remember all of this?
0:10.8	From booking your holiday to having all your details in one place.
0:14.6	Our award-winning app has got you covered.
0:16.9	That's the power of love holidays.
0:18.9	Atoll protected.
0:20.0	Kim Kardashian, because she was able to become so famous and so visible and so rich,
0:27.4	co-opting these aesthetics, people recognize, oh, there's a currency here.
0:32.4	I can get a larger platform if I emulate this, right?
0:36.0	So she has created a blueprint that people, because we live in capitalist societies,
0:41.4	people want to follow that pattern.
0:43.9	They want to get what she has and do what she does.
0:50.3	Welcome to Doing It with me, Hannah Witten, where we talk all things, sex, relationships, dating and our bodies.
1:02.0	Hello, welcome back to doing it. Before we get into all the incredbleness that is my guest this week, I wanted to let you know that next week's episode
1:11.1	will be the last of the season.
1:13.5	Sad, I know, but oh my goodness, three seasons already.
1:18.8	Each one, a completely different length than any of the others.
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