The PICA team is now getting together every week to discuss important anti-racist readings, podcasts, documentaries, songs, etc… PICA aims to offer a unique space to students of color in an effort to avoid, mitigate, and eliminate racism, classism, tokenization, white privilege, oppression, marginalization, identity policing, and space policing in historically white garden spaces and take steps towards accountability, truth telling and positive change.
Thus, we are excited to be holding anti-racist discussion media nights while making these resources available to everyone/ and or providing links to specific readings and works. We hope this list will provide you with insights in discussing important anti-racist issues.
Dirty Computer (2018)- Janelle Monáe
American singer, songwriter, rapper, actress and record producer, Janelle Monáe presents Dirty Computer, which is her third studio album. Through the album Monáe provides a narrative film project which includes topics of intersectionality, gender, sexuality, as well as race. You can watch Dirty Computer on Youtube here. A quick note that this video is age restricted.
140 Soul and Soil: Farming While Black with Leah Penniman (2020)
Some of us find our path in life early, whether due to adversity, chance, or some fire in the soul. For me, food activism was my entry point into all the I now do as a midwife, herbalist, and MD, as well as a mom and a human. My guest today also got a fire in her soul that has also shaped her work early on in her life, and helped her to become the remarkable food activist she is today, Leah Penniman is a Black Kreyol farmer, author, mother, and food justice activist who has been tending the soil and organizing for an anti-racist food system for over 20 years. She currently serves as founding co-executive director of Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, New York, a people-of-color led project that works toward food and land justice. Join us for this important conversation about building a food system free of racism and other inequalities. Show notes at avivaromm.com/140. (Description provided from Spotify).
*Link to Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6us5162mq0e9kz9Cd2TV3d
Brené with Sonya Renee Taylor on "The Body is Not an Apology" (2021)
Brené describes this podcast as "In this episode Sonya Renee Taylor and I talk about body shame, radical self-love, and social justice. This conversation was a big unlocking for me - especially when it comes to understanding the connection between how we think about our bodies and oppression."