Podcasts
Okay, a shameless plug lol I host this podcast with Dee Seabrook and Carrie Tupper and we watch Don Bluth’s signature animated films and review them!
Recommended episodes: Thumbelina, All Dogs Go to Heaven
Stephen West is a philosophy professor with a knack for storytelling and thought-provoking questions. If you have even a marginal interest in philosophy, give this podcast a listen! He will make you a fan.
Recommended episodes: Nietzsche, Sartre, On Insecurity
If you're not familiar with the TBS show, Adam Conover (of CollegeHumor fame) challenges widely-held beliefs, attitudes, and misconceptions. In each episode, there is often a quote or clip from an expert and his podcasts house the full conversation with those experts.
Recommended episodes: The Backfire Effect, The Rippling Effect of Redlining and Segregation,
Podcast description: Stories about the people who transform technology from the command line up. An original podcast from Red Hat.
Recommended episodes: Creating Javascript
Podcast description: Hosted by the original "Sugars," Cheryl Strayed and Steve Almond, the podcast fields all your questions — no matter how deep or dark — and offers radical empathy in return.
Recommended episodes: Just Say It, Emotional Labor
Podcast description: Four hundred years ago, in August 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia. […] “1619,” a New York Times audio series hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones, examines the long shadow of that fateful moment.
Recommended episodes: The Fight for a True Democracy, Birth of American Music
Podcast description: Scam Goddess is a podcast dedicated to fraud and all those who practice it! Each week host Laci Mosley (aka Scam Goddess) keeps listeners up to date on current rackets, digs deep into the latest scams, and breaks down historic hoodwinks alongside some of your favorite comedians!
Recommended episodes: The Career Conman, The Wine Whisperer
Podcast description: This is a podcast about hackers, breaches, APTs, hacktivism, cybercrime, and all the things that dwell on the hidden parts of the network.
Recommended episodes: Alberto, StuxNet
Podcast description: Rachel Chapman, Clare Loughran and Oscar Montoya [venture] inside the Disney Vault each week to watch, discuss, criticize, and celebrate every Disney animated movie in chronological order.
Recommended episodes: Peter Pan, A Goofy Movie, Pocahontas
There Are No Girls On The Internet
Podcast description: Marginalized voices have always been at the forefront of the internet, yet our stories often go overlooked. Bridget Todd chronicles our experiences online, and the ways marginalized voices have shaped the internet from the very beginning. We need monuments to all of the identities that make being online what it is. So let’s build them.
Recommended episodes: How Black Women Tried To Save Twitter
This is one of my favorites! Nicole Byer, also the host of Nailed It!, is truly my level of energy and I love it. I typically listen to this as a fun, lighthearted podcast but honestly, I learn so much about different perspectives and challenges in dating when it comes to different identities and backgrounds!
Recommended episodes: Dating with Disability, Why EveryBody Needs Therapy, How to Share Secrets on Drag Race with Shangela
Want to enjoy an audiobook without committing to a long ass book? Listen to “Reading Rainbow” host LeVar Burton read short stories by writers such as Kurt Vonnugut, Toni Morrison, N.K. Jemisin, and more.
Recommended episodes: The Foster Portfolio, Tiger Baby