Represent

Slate culture writer, Aisha Harris is joined by guest co-hosts Alex Jung (Vulture writer), Antonia Cereijido (Latino USA producer), and Tiffany Vazquez (Turner Classic Movies host) to look back on the Pluses and Deltas on 2016 with a quiz, laughs, and tears. 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

More from our conversation on Moana, Disney’s new musical film inspired by Polynesian mythology, with New York Times and Jazz Times music writer, Nate Chinen. Check out: -Represent’s Moana episode: Disney and Representation -Slate: A Whole New World by Dan Kois. -Disney casting Auli'i Cravalho as Moana. -Hawaiian renaissance artist Dennis Kamakahi and David Kamakahi -Lin-Manuel Miranda, Opetaia Foa'i: We Know The Way 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

Slate culture writer, Aisha Harris dives into the new TBS series Search Party, with show creators Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers. And talks Issa Rae’s long-awaited HBO series, Insecure with Jezebel staff writer, Kara Brown. Check out: -Aisha talks “Insecure” on the DoubleX Gabfest -Damon Young on Insecure’s revolutionary (and real) depictions of young black people having sex -Golden Globes 2017: The Complete List of Nominations -Very Smart Brothas: Charlamagne is Basically Every Ciara-Hating Twitter Nigga -Jamilah Lemieux & Amber Phillips talk discuss race, gender and media representation on The Breakfast Club 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 Le

Slate culture writer, Aisha Harris talks to Pamela Adlon about her career and semi-autobiographical FX series, Better Things. And we share our second edition of our “Pre-Woke Watching” segment. Check out: -Slate: Pamela Adlon’s new show is like a brasher, more confident, female-driven Louie. -Slate Represent episode with our inaugural “Pre-Woke Watching” segment. 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

Slate culture writer, Aisha Harris digs into Moana, Disney’s new musical film inspired by Polynesian mythology, with New York Times and Jazz Times music writer, Nate Chinen. Then we talk to Disney’s first black animator, Floyd Norman about working for the studio in the 40’s and 50’s and the documentary that tells his story⁠. Check out: -Disney's Moana Soundtrack -Nate Chinen’s Moana article: Consider the Coconut -The last time Nate write about Hawaiian representation on screen -Aisha’s Moana Makes It Official: Disney Has Entered a Progressive, Inclusive Third Golden Age -LA Times: Our national parks can also be reminders of America’s history of race and civil rights Dakota Access Pipeline: -Native America Calling conversation from 5/10/16 (starts at 6:00) -Another Round’s Heben talks with Dr. Adrienne Keene about Standing Rock -Newsweek: Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Standing Rock Sioux -Slate: Police Clashed With Dakota Access Pipeline Protesters Sunday Night -Donate: Sacred Stone Legal

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

Slate culture writer, Aisha Harris talks to Comedian and Actress Kathy Griffin about her start, how she handles rejection and criticism in an industry that’s especially harsh to women, and her new book, Kathy Griffin’s Celebrity Run-Ins: My A-Z index⁠. Check out: -Kathy Griffin’s New Bravo Special Sets Guinness World Record -From Johnny to Jimmy: The History of Politics in Late Night TV -Aisha’s conversation with writer-director Paul Haggis about Crash. -Soul food on the boondocks 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

Slate culture writer, Aisha Harris talks to industry vet Nisha Ganatra about her directing career, and her work on a slew of TV shows, including Transparent, Mr. Robot, and the new FX series, Better Things. And guest co-host John Raphael Oliveira, comes on to discuss the new film, Loving. Check out: -Labor of Loving: A Conversation with Jeff Nichols and Joel Edgerton -'Loving' Director Jeff Nichols Has Great Affection for the Deep South -Mila Kunis On Sexism In Film And The Workplace -Wesley Morris’ Last Taboo: Why Pop Culture Just Can’t Deal With Black Male Sexuality Slate Plus members: Get your ad-free podcast feed. 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 L

Slate culture writer, Aisha Harris talks to actress Joy Bryant about her role as the groundbreaking attorney Eleanor Holmes Norton, in the new Amazon series, Good Girls Revolt. Check out: Slate’s The Good Girls Revolt Trailer Shows the Dangers of Sexism and Sort-of-True Stories Joy Bryant in Refinery29: Girl, You Beautiful Joy Bryant’s Lenny Letter: Stop Telling Me I Should Have Kids Aisha’s conversation with Moonlight Filmmaker Barry Jenkins 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

Slate culture writer, Aisha Harris talks to filmmaker Barry Jenkins about his much buzzed about new film, Moonlight. And Latino USA producer Antonia Cereijido returns to talk season 3 of Jane the Virgin. Check out: AV Club’s Jane The Virgin gets used to the new normal with another powerful chapter Aisha’s How Barry Jenkins’ Medicine for Melancholy Laid the Groundwork for His Gorgeous, Haunting Moonlight A.O. Scott’s Review: ‘Moonlight’: Is This the Year’s Best Movie? Master P on his contribution to Solange's new album, "A Seat at the Table" Indiewire’s Naomie Harris On ‘Moonlight,’ The One Role She Never Thought She Could Handle The Black Film Canon: The 50 greatest movies by black directors 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

Slate culture writer, Aisha Harris talks to film/tv writer, Patricia Resnick, about working in Hollywood in the 70s and 80s, ageism and sexism in the industry, and the legacy of one of the most celebrated feminist comedies of all time, 9 to 5. Check out: -Patricia Resnick in the Hollywood Reporter, weighing in on the #OscarsSoWhite controversy -Aisha’s interview with Lily Tomlin on the art of maintaining a long, successful career -Lily Tomlin on what makes 9 to 5 a special movie -Patricia Resnick’s 1992 filmStraight Talk 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

Slate’s culture writer Aisha Harris and chief political correspondent Jamelle Bouie discuss the very controversial awards season contender, Nate Parker’s the Birth of a Nation. Check out what we mentioned: -Aisha’s piece in Slate, “In the Birth of a Nation, Women Don’t Participate in Nat Turner’s Rebellion. History Tells Us Otherwise.” -Former President George W. Bush at the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture -Good Morning America:Birth of a Nation Star Nate Parker Speaks Out -The 2003 filmNat Turner: A Troublesome Property For more Nate Parker rape allegation coverage we recommend: -About Race podcast: Cold Empathy for Nate Parker with Roxane Gay -Ebony: “Nate Parker on Campus Incident, Consent and Toxic Male Culture” -Slate: “Nate Parker Seems Like He’s Had It With Talking About Rape” Bonus: The 50 greatest movies by black directors. Join Slate Plus to unlock full, ad-free access to Represent and the rest of your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe directly

Slate culture writer Aisha Harris talks to former Gawker editor–turned–TV writer Cord Jefferson, writer for the dearly departed the Nightly Show and upcoming Season 2 of Master of None. Check out: -Cord Jefferson on NBC: “When will moderate whites condemn dangerous White Culture?” -“The Racism Beat: What it’s like to write about hate over and over and over” -Will Smith’s best performance in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air 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

Slate culture writer, Aisha Harris talks to actor Joe Seo about his new film, Spa Night, and Vulture writer Alex Jung comes on to chat race and class in Season 3 of Transparent. Check out: -Radio Raheem’s “love, hate” monologue in Do the Right Thing -Will & Grace scene about the 2016 election -Fences teaser trailer -Alex Jung’s interview with Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge 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 Represent is brought to you by Upstanders, a new podcast from Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and Rajiv Chandrasekaran. Hear stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things to create positive change in their communities. Listen and subscribe to Ups

Slate Culture Writer, Aisha Harris talks to writer/director Justin Tipping about his new movie, Kicks which tells the story of 15 year old Brandon, who goes on a dangerous mission through Oakland to retrieve his “fresh to death” pair of Air Jordans, after they were stolen. 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

Slate Culture Writer, Aisha Harris talks to writer-director Paul Haggis, of 2005’s Crash, one the most derided Best Picture Oscar winners, ever. Check out what the critics had to say: -Worst Movie Of The Decade by Ta-Nehisi Coates -Crash and Fizzle by David Edelstein 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

Slate Culture Writer, Aisha Harris sits down with actress, filmmaker, and activist Kamala Lopez, about her new documentary, Equal Means Equal, which advocates hard for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment; and talks Donald Glover and his new off-kilter half-hour comedy on FX, Atlanta with Kara Brown, staff writer at Jezebel. Check out: -Donald Glover’s Community by Rembert Browne -Solange Knowles essay: “And do you belong I do?” I do. -Paperboy song from Atlanta -How Amos ’n’ Andy Paved the Way for Black Stars on TV -Black List Live! in LA Saturday, 9/17 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/adc

Slate Culture Writer, Aisha Harris talks to writer/actor and transgender activist, Jen Richards, about Magic Mike star Matt Bomer being cast in the role of a transgender sex worker in the upcoming film, Anything. Check out: -Emmy nominated, Her Story -Mark Ruffalo Addresses Concerns Over Trans Insensitivity on Twitter 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

Slate Culture Writer, Aisha Harris talks to MTV actor/comedian Nicole Byer, lead in her new semi-autobiographical new sitcom, Loosely Exactly Nicole. They chat about the show and some of the minor controversy it stirred, as well as frustrating casting calls, Leslie Jones and the perils of being a black female comedian on social media. 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

Slate Culture Writer, Aisha Harris explores coming-of-age stories from the perspective of people of color. She talks to comedy vet Craig Robinson, about his new indie dramedy, Morris From America; and delves into the new Netflix show The Get Down, with Tiffany Vazquez, Saturday afternoon host for Turner Classic Movies. Check out: -SLATE: How Michael Jackson, James Brown, and Bruce Lee Inspired a Dazzling Dance Sequence in The Get Down -EBONY: Nate Parker on Campus Incident, Consent and Toxic Male Culture And the coming-of-age movies on Aisha’s “must watch” list: -Girlhood: (Movie Clip) Diamonds -Raising Victor Vargas -Aaron Loves Angela: (Movie Clip) Too Much Like My Old Man 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: @SlateRe