The Election Episode: Is NOT voting a strategy towards liberation?

If you’re a Black feminist, a womanist, a Black radical, a liberationist, a radical liberationist or a womanist race nerd, somebody you know, (somebody you may trust) been talking about not voting. We get to the bottom of what it means to vote or not vote during a genocide, how the desire to be liked manifests itself in liberation movements, and why some of your faves been moving like closeted voters this election cycle.

As a Black femme centric podcast we almost never discuss Tr*mp. Our lives are bigger than what yt mehn be trying to do to us. He is discussed in this episode as a presidential candidate (and a d*mon bc bffr), but this episode is not about how Twump so scawy. It’s about liberatory strategy and the role of electoral politics.

Also, Mayor Eric Adams, an NYC rat (make that comma do whatever you need it to), VP Kamala Harris’ biracial identity and how we should feel about it, President Obama and his cousin Pookie, and mad other election related ish.

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Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds dismantling white supremacist patriarchal capitalism one episode at a time. Drink up!

Episode Timestamps:

00:00 Recording while wearing pants

03:00 Electoral politics… why?

05:13 Mayor Eric Adams and NYC’s trash/rat problem

20:30 Mayor David Dinkins would never

21:42 Presidential Election

23:25 Voter apathy

26:21 Voting or nah during a genocide

30:10 Post-election 2016

35:43 What is the strategy for liberatory minded non-voters

47:33 Are you exercising a vibes-only politic

49:42 The cool kids, cliques and being liked in liberation movements

52:00 President Obama, Black men voters & “cousin Pookie”

1:09:43 VP Kamala Harris and Black media’s obsession with the silk press

1:15:19 VP Harris bi-racial identity, misogyny/noir & xenophobia

1:19:53 Black voters and the “voting for them just bc they’re Black” allegations

1:24:15 Final thoughts on VP Harris

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This episode was created, hosted, and produced by Naima Lewis Muhammad & Janicia Francis, with editorial support from Jonathan Luna,

Opening song by Ohene Cornelius