Jan 2024
We Are Lobbying For A Ceasefire
In episode 331, the girls are talking about the death tolls for civilians, healthcare workers, and missing persons numbers in Gaza. Plus they get into the mainstream media's lack of journalistic integrity, how AIPAC and other Israeli lobbying groups work, South Africa's suit agai ... Show More
56m 4s
Dec 2023
We Are Against House Resolution 894
In episode 329, the girls are back talking about Palestine, some documentaries they're watching on the topic, house resolution 894, AI being used by Israel to accelerate targets, protests annoying Netanyahu, the death of journalists, & more.
FOOTNOTES:
Israel-Hamas war updates: ... Show More
1h 7m
Sep 2020
Mulan and China’s growing cultural reach
Activists are calling for a boycott of the newly released Mulan remake, after revelations that it was partly filmed in Xinjiang, a province of China known, through extensive reporting, for the detention and persecution of Uighur Muslims.
Today, freelance writer Frankie Huang on t ... Show More
22m 3s
Jun 2023
Drum Tower: The cage—part two
In this second episode of a special two-part series, The Economist’s senior China correspondent, Alice Su, investigates China’s repressions of Uyghurs at home and abroad.From 2017 to 2019 China locked up more than a million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in "re-education ca ... Show More
39m 40s
Nov 2019
Understanding TikTok: From viral teen videos to Chinese political censorship
This week, TikTok was in the news for pulling a video critical of China's mass detention of Uighurs. Most of the popular Chinese-owned social media app's users are children and teens who share lip-syncing videos, dance crazes and comedy skits. But in today's episode, Alex Hern, t ... Show More
23m 58s
Sep 2023
Tingting Hu, "Victims, Perpetrators and Professionals: The Representation of Women in Chinese Crime Films" (Liverpool UP, 2021)
How are women represented in Chinese crime films? In what ways do the representation reflect traditional Chinese values and contemporary Chinese social-cultural norms? How did boys’ love culture emerge in China? What is the role of the Chinese state in queer media production and ... Show More
33m 7s