In today’s image-obsessed world, the pressure from celebrities, beauty brands and pop culture toward changing and manipulating one’s body can be overwhelming. How can we cultivate joy and wellness within ourselves and the world of fitness and movement? In this week’s...
Our Body Politic was founded on a mission to give a platform to and uplift the voices of Black women and women of color. This week, we hand the mic over to three of our guest hosts to showcase the amazing interviews they’ve done. First, Natasha Alford speaks with...
Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial or ethnic group in the United States. And people of Indian descent make up the largest part of America’s South Asian diaspora, which includes Bangladeshi, Nepalis, Pakistanis, Sri Lankans, and people from Bhutan and...
This week, we present an Our Body Politic encore: My interview with Steven Thrasher, LGBTQ scholar, journalist, and author of “The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Diseases Collide.” Thrasher offered insights from his book on how systematic...
In this episode, guest host Mara S. Campo, Anchor and Managing Editor at Revolt Black News, looked at the ongoing national mental health crisis and spoke to people who are working outside the box to make a difference.Featured guests are Dr. Nadine Burke-Harris,...
In this week’s episode – more than fifty years after Title IX, we take a broader look at the treatment and coverage of women, trans, and non-binary athletes. At the close of a dramatic NCAA women’s championship, Natasha Alford, Senior Correspondent at The...
