Gia Peppers — NAACP Image Award-nominated journalist, host and founder of Creatives of Faith, joins Joy for a wide-ranging two personal.
They open with “bonnet-gate” and what it says about respectability politics, dig into how broken into media looks nothing like it used to, get real about the year since the 2024 election, and close out talking through Gia’s new community, Creatives of Faith.
0:00 Intro: Gia Peppers joins Joy
1:40 Bonnet-Gate: the debate everyone’s having9:01Should streaming be a college degree?
10:03 Breaking into media in 2026 — advice for mentees
17:23 “Everybody’s a journalist now” — and why that’s a problem
21:28 No gatekeepers, no process: what we lost
26:28 Divest your attention — the Jimmy Kimmel boycott blueprint
29:52 The 2024 election hangover, one year later
36:03 Kamala’s “shattered ceiling” line that reframed Gia’s year
41:26 Mamdani, class, and what good politics could look like
47:51Rapid fire: Avengers jokes & picking your battles
50:16 Black Panther casting discourse (and why it’s a distraction)
56:54 DVD players, streaming fatigue & the distraction economy
59:11 Rebuilding community in an isolated world
1:00:53 Climate change needs better marketing
1:03:19 Creatives of Faith: three months in
1:06:11 “The platforms already exist” — owning your work
1:09:05 Outro
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