What Is Black? Podcast

Jan 18 2022 20 ep. 55 mins 1

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What Is Black? Podcast is a bi-weekly, Wednesday podcast where we attempt to define “Black art and artistry” with a bunch of dope Black creatives, whilst defying the myth of a Black monolith.

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Page Thomas – Designer / Building Futures

Jan 18 2022 37 mins

Join us for the last episode of the winter season as I talk with Page Thomas. Page and I go into how a neighborhood becomes a "Black neighborhood", how to develop real estate equity, and the anti-masturbatory effects of Corn Flakes. Basically, you don't want to skip this! - For full episodes and extras visit whatisblackpodcast.com. Feel free to share and rate us 5 stars on Apple Po

Brian Broome – Writer / "Other" Brian

Jan 04 2022 44 mins

Join me and award winning writer Brian Broome (IG=@bbromb, FB=brian.broome.5) as we wax and wane about getting older, avoiding people for our mental health (and the inevitable post-social exhaustion when we can’t), and overcoming trauma. Brian’s book “Punch Me Up to The Gods” is available digitally, in print, and audio on multiple platforms. If you can’t get your hands on

Terry Gibson – Artist / Organized Thinker

Dec 14 2021 35 mins

What a better way to close out 2021 than with verbal violence. Join Terry and I as he slanders catfish, and we talk about how The South is "different..." We also talk about how the common motivating factor in xenophobia, racism, anti-Blackness, anti-LGBTQ, anti-women, and anti-critical thinking is fear, and how you can organize against that fear to activate your communities. "What

Aaron Philip Clark – Novelist / "Under Color" Brother

Nov 30 2021 28 mins

Join me and Aaron as we talk about pivoting from law enforcement to crime stories. Also how Marvel's Blade movie proved it pays to always bet on the Black(ness of Wesley Snipes). Aaron's book Under Color of Law is now available as paperback and Kindle on Amazon, and audiobook on Audible. For more info, visit AaronPhilipClark.com. This mixcast is brought to you in part by the Pittsb

Jessica Gaynelle Moss – The Collector/Guardian of Black Space

Nov 16 2021 39 mins

Welcome back for another season of the What Is Black? Podcast. Join me and Jessica as we talk protecting Black autonomous spaces and Archie comics. Jessica also has a dope exhibit at the August Wilson Cultural Center in Downtown Pittsburgh called The Black Box Test that everyone should be checking out starting November 17 (the same day this ep drops). This mixcast is brought to you

Ray Smiling – Creator / Destroyer

May 11 2021 56 mins

Welcome to the AKAC: All Kinks Allowed Crowd! for the season finale. For more info, episodes, and ways to support visit whatisblackpodcast.com. Don’t forget to rate us 5 stars and review us on Apple Podcasts, and share with your friends and enemies. Ray Smiling and I open things up talking about Tilda Swinton (if you don’t know, educate yourself) and how she is literally everyt

Alecia Dawn – Artisan / Mother of Invention

Apr 27 2021 61 mins

*CW: Sh*t talking* For more info, episodes, and ways to support visit whatisblackpodcast.com. Don’t forget to rate us 5 stars and review us on Apple Podcasts, and share with your friends and enemies. For this episode, inventor, entrepreneur, yoga instructor, sculptor, mother, and friend Alecia Dawn and I start out talking sh*t (literally), continue talking sh*t about slave yoga f

Cary Fagan – Renaissance Artist / The People's Chairman

Apr 13 2021 58 mins

*NOTE: This episode was recorded during the winter storm that rocked The South in February 2021* For more info, episodes, and ways to support visit whatisblackpodcast.com. There is so much that can be said about photographer, chair sculptor, burgeoning musician... You know what, you'll have to listen to the episode to hear the myriad things Cary can do, or is learning how to do. In

Kristen McIntosh – Cosplayer / Draft Slayer

Mar 30 2021 68 mins

For more info, episodes, and ways to support visit whatisblackpodcast.com. *CW: brief talk about suicide* Building things from your brain: that's what guest Kristen McIntosh does. We talk about how her visual arts journey lead to architecture, a field with approximately 2% Black representation. Then we transition into the really heady territory of cosplay subculture and the many va

Linsay Philippe-Auguste – Poet / Alpha Female

Mar 16 2021 73 mins

For more info, episodes, and ways to support visit whatisblackpodcast.com. Wrasslin’, ‘Rona, and Relationships: the three pillars of modern society. Poet and author Linsay Phillipe-Auguste and I continue the convo we started on her podcast waxing poetic about what makes an alpha female an Alpha Female, showing all the ugly bits, and sidepiece life. Also covered: Canada's 'rona