Episodes of Scene on Radio
American history—law, economics, culture—has built different notions of masculinity (and femininity) for people of varying races and ethnicities. A trip through a century of pop culture and the stereotyped images that white supremacy has manufactured…
Several years after Janey was sexually assaulted by her former boyfriend, Mathew, she told some of her closest friends, and her mother, what Mathew had done. Janey was so troubled by her loved ones’ responses,…
Do nations fight wars because men are naturally violent? Or do societies condition men to embrace violence so they’ll fight the nation’s wars? Along with co-hosts John Biewen and Celeste Headlee, this episode features reporting…
The #MeToo Movement has shed a harsh light on sexual harassment in the workplace. Just how bad, and how pervasive, is sexism on the job in the U.S., from day-to-day expressions of disrespect all the…
The struggles against sexism and racism come together in the bodies, and the lives, of black women. Co-hosts Celeste Headlee and John Biewen look at the intersections between male dominance and white supremacy in the…
A few hundred years ago, the great thinkers of the Enlightenment began to declare that “all men are created equal.” Some of them said that notion should include women, too. Why did those feminists—most of them…
For millennia, Western culture (and most other cultures) declared that men and women were different sorts of humans—and, by the way, men were better. Is that claim not only wrong but straight-up backwards? Co-hosts Celeste…
Launching Scene on Radio Season 3 series—MEN—co-hosts John Biewen and Celeste Headlee look at the problems of male supremacy. And we visit Deep Time to explore the latest scholarship on how, when, and why men invented…
Scene on Radio opens its Season 3 series, MEN, with this preview. Host John Biewen introduces the series with series co-host Celeste Headlee. Music Evgueni and Sacha Galperine. Theme music by Alex Weston. Music and…
A father turns on a recorder while tucking in his 7-year-old, having no idea he’s about to capture a poignant growing-up moment in his son’s life. (Advisory: This episode is not suitable for some young…
I just got a vaccine appointment with the Chickasaw Nation, who is now vaccinating any educator in OK. I am so overwhelmed with the historical weight of a removed Native nation providing this settler with a life-saving vaccine.
James T Green's whole piece is worth reading but the anecdote at the end is devastating.
What is storytelling without empathy? What is storytelling if you don't investigate the power dynamics?
http://jamestgreen.com/thoughts/115
The other day we were watching old powwow footage from just a few years ago and it was alarming to see all the people who were there who have since passed on.
Covid 19 left deep scars on our community.
Please. Stop. Putting. People. Who. Are. Still. Lying. About. The. Election. On. TV.
We are so tired y'all. https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1365285550224244736
EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen current and former Amazon corporate employees told @delrey that they saw a pattern of systemic racial bias at the company, which affected Black employees’ career growth and personal lives. https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/2/26/22297554/bias-disrespect-and-demotions-black-employees-say-amazon-has-a-race-problem?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
