A lot of times after a presentation or workshop, folks approach us with the question “What can I do next?” People will ask for additional resources, ideas or ways that they can keep learning about anti-racism or anti-oppression so for our next resource list we began to think-what are some of our favorite places to learn?
We recognize that people learn in different ways. For some, reading an article or book is more captivating than watching a video. For others, listening to a podcast may be most effective. In the current age of technology, there are plenty of diverse and accessible avenues for learning. We asked the RE·Center staff to share their own personal recommendations for online resources. The list below are YouTube channels and podcasts that focus on cultivating conversations surrounding issues of social justice and/or anti-oppression.
YouTube Channels
The Fifth Column provides you with insights that aren’t available on other news outlets. With a focus on long-form journalism and exclusive reports, The Column strives for excellence in adversarial journalism. Our exclusive reports find their way into one of our unique sections. The Fifth Column, the flagship section of the outlet contains articles that you won’t find anywhere else. The Fifth Column is filled with original investigative reporting, exclusive interviews, and unique submissions.
Natalie Wynn is an American YouTuber whose videos explore topics such as politics, gender, race, and philosophy on her channel ContraPoints. The channel is seen to counter right wing political argumentation and the channel has since been influential in the left-wing YouTube video essay sub-genre.
For Harriet is an online community for women of African ancestry. We encourage women, through storytelling and journalism, to engage in candid, revelatory dialogue about the beauty and complexity of Black womanhood. We aspire to educate, inspire, and entertain.
According to a Mashable article, “Kat Blaque is here to tell the truth. That’s the idea behind her YouTube channel as a whole, but especially her series, True Tea. In it, Blaque answers questions on a range of topics, including feminism, privilege, race, and transgender rights. Often, she’ll turn that honesty inwards, examining her own life, beliefs, and identity. She also hosts a podcast, JSYK, where she discusses the misconceptions people hold about different lifestyles and identities.”
There are lots of channels on YouTube that will just summarize famous works of philosophy for you; I want to get people in a position where they can take cutting edge academia and apply it to the real world. So, as well as the classics like Socrates and Kant I also teach economics, global justice, feminism, the philosophy of gender, politics, art, and more!
Podcasts
Ever find yourself in a conversation about race and identity where you just get…stuck? Code Switch can help. We’re all journalists of color, and this isn’t just the work we do. It’s the lives we lead. Sometimes, we’ll make you laugh. Other times, you’ll get uncomfortable. But we’ll always be unflinchingly honest and empathetic. Come mix it up with us.
Where can I find it? NPR One, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Spotify, RSS Link
The need runs deep – Our lives depend on our ability to make urgent, dramatic, liberatory change in our society. But many models of activist culture deplete us and replicate patterns of trauma, harm, oppression, and workaholism. We’ve lost too many of our visionary leaders to disillusionment, exhaustion, depression, and infighting. We are the strategy – “People power” means that we are our own most precious resource. We cannot afford to burn ourselves and each other out. If we want to welcome enough people to our movements to really transform our world, we have to make the experience of participating sustainable, healing, and irresistible. Let’s transform movement culture – We are a community supporting each other to integrate self and collective care with powerful action for social justice. We learn from many lineages, and connect and visibilize stories, methodologies, & people to strengthen the capacity for resilience in ourselves and our movements for change. Since 2017, our podcast has shared conversations and accompanying practices with over 800,000 downloads worldwide. Welcome to the movement resilience archives
Where can I find it? Public Radio, Apple Podcast, Spotify, and Stitcher
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast
A Decolonized Podcast for lovers on the margins, join your resident sexuality educator Ericka Hart and Deep East Oakland’s very own Ebony Donnley, as we game give, dismantle white supremacy and kiki in the cosmos somewhere between radical hood epistemological black queer love ethics, pop culture, house plants and a sea of books.
Where can I find it? Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Play
How to Survive the End of the World: A Podcast from the Brown Sisters
It feels like the world is ending. But the world has ended before.
How do we learn from apocalypse? How do we move through these endings with grace, rigor, and curiosity? Join Autumn Brown and Adrienne Maree Brown, two sisters who share many identities, as writers, activists, facilitators, and inheritors of multiracial diasporic lineages, as well as a particular interest in the question of survival, as we embark on a podcast that will delve into the practices we need as a community, to move through endings and coming out whole on the other side, whatever that might be.
Where can I find it? Google Play, Apple Podcasts, and Patreon
Native America Calling is a live call-in program linking public radio stations, the Internet and listeners together in a thought-provoking national conversation about issues specific to Native communities. Each program engages noted guests and experts with callers throughout the United States and is designed to improve the quality of life for Native Americans. Native America Calling is heard on nearly 70 public, community and tribal radio stations in the United States and in Canada. Our program is a production of Koahnic Broadcast Corporation, a Native-operated media center in Anchorage, Alaska.
Where can I find it? Public Radio, Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Podbay
Organizer and activist DeRay Mckesson explores news, culture, social justice, and politics through deep conversations with influencers and experts, and the weekly news with fellow activists Brittany Packnett and Sam Sinyangwe, and writer Clint Smith.
Where can I find it? Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play, Tune In, Art19, and RSS Link
Digging deep into stories of food, race, radical love and creative social justice hosted by Haven, CT chef, activist, artist Tagan Engel.
Where can I find it? Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, WNHH Community Radio 103.5 fm in New Haven, CT, Tunein Radio App
America is divided, and it always has been. We’re going back to the moment when that split turned into war. This is Uncivil: Gimlet Media’s new history podcast, hosted by journalists Jack Hitt and Chenjerai Kumanyika. We ransack the official version of the Civil War and take on the history you grew up with. We bring you untold stories about covert operations, corruption, resistance, mutiny, counterfeiting, antebellum drones, and so much more. And we connect these forgotten struggles to the political battlefield we’re living on right now.
Where can I find it? Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio Podcasts, Podbay
RE·Imagine:
What if we included more resources like these in our classroom curriculum? What would it look like to have a learning environment that talked about social justice and included more non-traditional modes of learning?
What other resources did we miss? What are some great social justice/anti-oppression resources that you’d recommend we add to our next multimedia resources list? Let us know by emailing us or tagging us on Instagram (@recenterct) or Facebook!
Thanks for reading!
