Hey y'all! After reading The Right To Sex by Amia Srinivasan I wanted to share my thoughts about certain desires and kinks (maybe I shouldn't be using this word) that I think should be policed and shamed. Enjoy!
Hey y'all! In this episode I talk about policing twitter as a means to reduce the harm caused by other on the platform. Enjoy!
Hey y'all! In this episode I try to explain that children who are raised by same-sex parents are not at risk of not having their full emotional needs met by looking at the history of South African black communities who had to raise children in the absence of fathers. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themedialens/message
Hey y'all! In this episode I make the case for why men must still be the main financial providers. Let me know what you think, my twitter is @Lindo_King. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themedialens/message
Hey y'all! In this episode I blame every one EXCEPT teenagers who fall pregnant for the high numbers of teenage pregnancies that we see in black communities. It is about time every one else takes their portion of the blame in creating an environment that has produced these high numbers of teenage pregnancies. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themedialens/message
Hey y'all! In this episode I unpack why I don't think the ANC will self-implode given the recent events with the step-aside rule being enforced and Ace Magashule subsequently being suspended. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themedialens/message
Hey y'all! In this episode I flesh out my thoughts about why the dangers of South African film and tv telling the same stories about queer people. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themedialens/message
TW: Murder Hey y'all! In this episode I reflect on the killing of queer folks and the general violence on people who are read as queer. I start off with the passing of Eudy Simelane and speak about the anxiety of people who are read as femme. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themedialens/message
Hey y'all! In this episode I share my thoughts on what the saying "It takes a village to raise a child" means within the modern context and what responsibility we owe to the children in our communities. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themedialens/message
Hey y'all! We're talking about everyone's favorite topic, cancel culture. I add my two cents to the conversation by explaining why I think we will never be able to get everyone on one side about cancelling a particular person therefore everyone should make cancel culture a personal politic. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themedialens/message
Hey y'all!. In this episode I give my first(ish) impressions of Diep City which is a new telenovela on Mzansi Magic playing weekdays at 20:30. I go into the good, the bad and the things I would change about the show. It's not the regular discourse episode but get into it anyway. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themedialens/message
Hey y'all! In this episode I discuss why BET's Isono is queer baiting with the Gabriel and AB storyline while trying to think through what queer-baiting actually is. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themedialens/message
Hey y'all! Back to regular programming and in this episode I talk about the idea of unconditional love. What does it actually mean to love someone unconditionally? Do people deserve unconditional love and what are the ways in which it can be harmful? Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themedialens/message
Hey y'all! We're talking about performative ally-ship again, yey!! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themedialens/message
Hey y'all. In this episode I talk about the incentive that the accuser and the accused have to lie within the context of intimate partner violence and why we should be thinking differently about women who have allowed us into their confidence when telling their stories. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themedialens/message
So Love Island has come to South Africa and I have some thoughts. In this episode I speak about how versions of the show perpetuate white standards of beauty. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themedialens/message
Euphonic has a history of bullying women who have accused him of violence. In this episode I break down why I think he deploys terrorist tactics to achieve the objectives of rendering his victims un-believable. Enjoy (or not)! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themedialens/message
Hey y'all! In this episode I delve into the ways in which cis-het men have historically made money from co-opting femme aesthetics and why we should not let that infilitrate the drag scene with the rising popularity of Ru Paul's Drag Race --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themedialens/message
Hey y'all! In this here first episode of 2021 I unpack the term 'slayqueen' and explain why it's laced with misogynoir and why we should not use it. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themedialens/message
Hey y'all! In this episode I attempt to plow through the textures of body dysmorphia within experienced by people of trans experience and talking through why trans people don't have to undergo physical transition. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themedialens/message