Represent

Aisha Harris talks to Master of None co-creator Alan Yang about everything from making season 2 in the midst of Trump’s election to his memorable Emmy speech last year. For links on what we discuss check out our show page. Tell a friend to subscribe! Share this link: megaphone.link/represent Email: represent@slate.com Facebook: Slate Represent Twitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyle Production by Veralyn Williams Social media: Marissa Martinelli Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aisha Harris talks to Comedian Moshe Kasher about his new Comedy Central show Problematic, the legacy of The Champs podcast, and being a white guy who talks openly about race. And on our Recognize segment, Panoply Producer and By The Book host, Kristen Meinzer shares her love for the Great American Baking Show. For links on what we discuss check out our show page. Tell a friend to subscribe! Share this link: megaphone.link/represent Email: represent@slate.com Facebook: Slate Represent Twitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyle Production by Veralyn Williams Social media: Marissa Martinelli Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode Represent is live from the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival! And Aisha Harris talks to MTV Decoded star Franchesca Ramsey about her mission to heal America through brutal comedy. For links on what we discuss check out our show page. Tell a friend to subscribe! Share this link: megaphone.link/represent Email: represent@slate.com Facebook: Slate Represent Twitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyle Production by Veralyn Williams Social media: Marissa Martinelli Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aisha Harris talks to Brown Girls writer Fatimah Asghar and director Sam Bailey about their critically-acclaimed web series. And Every Single Word creator Dylan Marron shares his “Pre-Woke Watching” story. For links on what we discuss check out our show page. Tell a friend to subscribe! Share this link: megaphone.link/represent Email: represent@slate.com Facebook: Slate Represent Twitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyle Production by Veralyn Williams Social media: Marissa Martinelli Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aisha Harris talks to writer and showrunner Prentice Penny about his work on the hit HBO series Insecure and his new TruTV lifestyle series Upscale. For links on what we discuss check out our show page. Tell a friend to subscribe! Share this link: megaphone.link/represent Email: represent@slate.com Facebook: Slate Represent Twitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyle Production by Veralyn Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aisha Harris talks to actress and deaf advocate Marlee Matlin about her 30+ years in Hollywood, including her recent guest spot on Season 2 of The Magicians. And Slate Web designer Derreck Johnson shares his “Pre-Woke Watching” story. For links on what we discuss check out our show page. Tell a friend to subscribe! Share this link: megaphone.link/represent Email: represent@slate.com Facebook: Slate Represent Twitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyle Production by Veralyn Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aisha Harris talks to Inkoo Kang of MTV News and Alex Jung of Vulture about recent whitewashing controversies over casting in Ghost In The Shell. And in our second installment of Recognize, producer Veralyn Williams discusses, Big Little Lies. For links on what we discuss check out our show page. Tell a friend to subscribe! Share this link: megaphone.link/represent Represent Live at The Tribeca Film Festival For the first time ever, Slate Represent will be live! Join us on April 24th at 6:45pm at The Tribeca Film Festival! For more information and tickets click here. Email: represent@slate.com Facebook: Slate Represent Twitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyle Production by Veralyn Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aisha Harris talks to Dylan Marron, the creator of the viral video series cataloging dialogue in popular movies spoken by people of color, Every Single Word. And co-host John Raphael Oliveira of A Brit And A Yank, comes on to discuss Disney’s live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast. For links on what we discuss check out our show page. Tell a friend to subscribe! Share this link: megaphone.link/represent Email: represent@slate.com Facebook: Slate Represent Twitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyle Production by Veralyn Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Producer Veralyn Williams steps into the interviewer’s chair and talks to the stars of WGN’s Underground, Jurnee Smollett-Bell and Amirah Vann. And host Aisha Harris talks American Housewives with Slate Managing Producer June Thomas. For links on what we discuss check out our show page. Tell a friend to subscribe! Share this link: megaphone.link/represent Email: represent@slate.com Facebook: Slate Represent Twitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyle Production by Veralyn Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aisha Harris talks to director and cinematographer Ferne Pearlstein about her new documentary The Last Laugh. And Slate culture intern David Canfield comes on to talk ABC’s four-part miniseries When We Rise. The Last Laugh is currently in theaters. Check for a theater near you. For links on what we discuss check out our show page. Tell a friend to subscribe! Share this link: megaphone.link/represent Email: represent@slate.com Facebook: Slate Represent Twitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyle Production by Veralyn Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aisha Harris and Slate’s chief political correspondent Jamelle Bouie have a spoiler-filled discussion of Get Out, the directorial debut of Jordan Peele. And Valerie Woodward Srinivasan, Panoply Software Engineer shares her “Pre-Woke Watching” story. For links on what we discuss check out our show page. Tell a friend to subscribe! Share this link: megaphone.link/represent Email: represent@slate.com Facebook: Slate Represent Twitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyle Production by Veralyn Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aisha Harris and producer Veralyn Williams recap everything that went down at the Oscars last night. Email: represent@slate.com Facebook: Slate Represent Twitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyle Production by Veralyn Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aisha Harris is joined by comedians and writers W. Kamau Bell and Kevin Avery, hosts of the Denzel Washington is the Greatest Actor of All Time Period podcast, to look back on the historic Oscars night when Halle Berry, Denzel Washington, and Sidney Poitier all won. Join our “Guess Who’s Coming to Oscar” conversation by using #OscarsRepresent. Check out: -Reports of Russell Crowe after his 2002 Bafta speech was cut short -Comedian W. Kamau Bell reflecting on the 2002 Oscars in the midst of #OscarsSoWhite -Sidney Poitier receiving his Honorary Award from the Academy -Halle Berry accepting her Oscar for Best Actress -Denzel Washington Oscars acceptance speech in 1990 for Supporting Actor and 2002 for Best Actor Tell a friend to subscribe! Share this link: megaphone.link/represent Email: represent@slate.com Facebook: Slate Represent Twitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyle Production by Veralyn Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aisha Harris talks to Moonlight co-editor Joi McMillon about her path to becoming the first black woman to be nominated for an Oscar in her field—and only the second black person ever nominated in the Best Film Editing category. But first, on this week’s segment of “Guess Who’s Coming to Oscar,” we talk West Side Story with Turner Classic Movies host Tiffany Vazquez. Join our “Guess Who’s Coming to Oscar” conversation by using #OscarsRepresent. Check out: -Turner Classic Movies’ 31 Days Of Oscar 2017 -West Side Story as Cinema: The Making and Impact of an American Masterpiece by Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz -Rita Moreno winning Best Supporting Actress in 1962 -Variety’s look at minority workers and the fight against below-the-line bias -Moonlight director Barry Jenkins on a previous episode of Represent -The cast and director of Lemon discuss the film with the Hollywood Reporter -“Moonlight Has One of the Best Food Scenes of the Year” in Bon Appétit -The Cosby Show spinoffA Different World Tell a friend to subscr

Slate culture writer Aisha Harris talks to filmmaker, educator, and former Black Panther Jamal Joseph about his new film, Chapter and Verse. And this week in, Guess Who’s Coming to Oscar, we talk the 1957 Oscar-winning film Sayonara with Phil Yu of the Angry Asian Man blog, and Yoko Kawaguchi, author of Butterfly's Sisters: The Geisha in Western Culture. Check out: -Truman Capote New Yorker profile of Brando while he made Sayonara -The Japan Times remembering Miyoshi Umeki -Jamal Joseph’s TEDx Talk: Panther Baby -- a revolution of knowledge and equality -Tupac Shakur's 'One Nation': Associates Share Story Behind Late Rapper's Unreleased Album Join Slate Plus to unlock full, ad-free access to Represent and the rest of your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe directly from the Represent show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/representplus to get access wherever you listen. Email: represent@slate.com Facebook: Slate Represent Twitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyle Producti

Slate culture writer Aisha Harris talks to filmmaker and activist Raoul Peck about his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary I Am Not Your Negro. We also kick off our monthlong series, Guess Who’s Coming to Oscar, and revisit Dances With Wolves with writer/professor Adrienne Keene. Join our Guess Who’s Coming to Oscar conversation by using #OscarsRepresent. Check out: -Adrienne’s post: “I’m a true Indian now: I finally saw Dances with Wolves” -Reel Injun, a documentary on the history of Native Americans in Hollywood films -The 1995 New York Times piece “To Some Sioux, Costner Now Dances With Devil” -Russell Means interview with Dan Skye of High Times -Smoke Signals Join Slate Plus to unlock full, ad-free access to Represent and the rest of your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe directly from the Represent show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/representplus to get access wherever you listen. Email: represent@slate.com Facebook: Slate Represent Twitter: @SlateRepres

Slate culture writer, Aisha Harris talks to April Reign about how she inadvertently started the #OscarsSoWhite movement and what work still needs to be done. Also, Slate Double X writer, Christina Cauterucci comes on to chat about Hidden Figures and the Women's March. Check out: -Slate: Hidden Figures Is a Powerful Statement Against Bathroom Discrimination -Represent producer Veralyn Williams discussing Hidden Figures on the Culture Gabfest -April’s Ebony OpEd: Here’s Why Lee Daniels Is Wrong About #OscarsSoWhite -Slate: Finally, the Academy Acknowledges Black Stories Don’t All Have to Be About Oppression or Slavery -Some of the Best Memes of Melania Trump and Michelle Obama’s Awkward Exchange -Jezebel: I Want to Trust the Women's Marchers Join Slate Plus to unlock full, ad-free access to Represent and the rest of your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe directly from the Represent show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/representplus to get access wherever you listen. Email:

Slate culture writer, Aisha Harris talks to David Jay and Angela Tucker, the star and director, respectively, of the 2011 documentary (A)sexual; as well as three members of the Asexual community. Check out: -Slate: Asexuality and Intersex Conditions Are Television’s New Frontier -USA’s Sirens: Brian and Voodoo on S2:E1 -Netflix’s BoJack Horseman: Todd Chavez comes out as asexual on S3:E12 -Fox’s House: House “successfully disproves” asexuality on S8:E9 -Resources from The Asexual Visibility and Education Network Join Slate Plus to unlock full, ad-free access to Represent and the rest of your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe directly from the Represent show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/representplus to get access wherever you listen. Email: represent@slate.com Facebook: Slate Represent Twitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyle Production by Veralyn Williams This week, Represent is brought to you by Blue Apron. Blue Apron’s meal kits are delivered right to your d

Slate culture writer, Aisha Harris talks to Rita Moreno about her new Netflix show, One Day at a Time, overcoming depression, and being a Latina woman in Hollywood. Check out: -Rita Moreno performances schedule: A series of lectures and cabaret -Popular Rita Moreno & The Electric Company videos -Slate’s Norman Lear Sitcoms All in the Family, The Jeffersons, and More May Be Due for a Reboot Join Slate Plus to unlock full, ad-free access to Represent and the rest of your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe directly from the Represent show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/representplus to get access wherever you listen. Email: represent@slate.com Facebook: Slate Represent Twitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyle Production by Veralyn Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aisha Harris talks to Ruth E. Carter about  designing costumes for Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, Joss Whedon’s Serenity, and more. And A.C. Valdez, Panoply Senior Producer shares his “Pre-Woke Watching” story. For links on what we discuss check out our show page. Join Slate Plus to unlock full, ad-free access to Represent and the rest of your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe directly from the Represent show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/representplus to get access wherever you listen. Email: represent@slate.com Facebook: Slate Represent Twitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyle Production by Veralyn Williams Social media: Marissa Martinelli Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices