All Episodes
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Episode 18 - We won’t forget Lynika Strozier
Lynika Strozier was a promising biologist at Chicago’s Field Museum who died of COVID-19 at age 35. Her friend and colleague Dr. Corrie Moreau remembers her friend, and talks about efforts to keep Lynika’s legacy of mentorship and research alive.
Episode 17 - Native people are #NotYourMascot
Why is Washington DC's professional football team changing their offensive name? In part because of people like Jacqueline Keeler, who helped create the #NotYourMascot movement.
Episode 16 - The Black women fighting climate injustice
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist turned climate activist. Here's why she has hope for the future.
Did you know Bridget loves film? She gives a quick rundown of her take on the controversy behind Netflix's new film Cuties.
This episode is a little different than the usual ones. Bridget is feeling out of sorts and is joined by Anne Helen Peterson, author of Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation to talk about why so many of us are feeling burnt out and what can be done about it.
Jade Magnus Ogunnaike from the Color of Change explains their work to get major wedding websites like Zola and Pinterest to change how they deal with plantations as wedding venues.
Nandini Jammi co founded Sleeping Giants, one of the most influential activist campaigns of the Trump era. But she was almost completely left out of the movement she helped build.
Episode 12 - Missy Elliott: Digital Innovator
Let's take a little break from the depressing news cycle to talk about the iconic Missy Elliott, and how she's been changing the digital game since the very beginning.
Episode 11 - Big Tech and their responses to Black Lives Matter
Everything feels awful right now, but it's not all doom and gloom. Employees at big tech companies like Facebook are pushing platforms to be better and they might just be one of our best resources. Catherine Bracy, founder of the TechEquity Collaborative, explains how tech staffers are pushing companies to move beyond a Black Lives Matter statement, and make real change.
When an abusive ex threatened to ruin Carrie Goldberg’s life, she needed a lawyer who specialized in revenge porn. Only one didn’t exist. So Carrie became the lawyer she needed. Now, she’s fighting to make the internet a safer place.
Bonus Episode - Aaron Coleman and minimizing revenge porn
In this supplementary ep, Bridget gives a little more information about his case, how it played out, and what it tells us about how society minimizes revenge porn.
Historian, activist, and author Blair Imani caused a stir with her Islamicized Star Trek cosplay. She explains how Star Trek helped her live long and prosper.
Check out her cosplay here: https://twitter.com/blairimani/status/1153092754202718208?lang=en
After 1 month of TANGOTI, we're doing a bonus interview with host Bridget about why she created this podcast, how her background influences the show, and why she thinks people connect with podcasts differently than other genres.
After Vanessa Guillén's tragic death, her story was used to fuel disinformation and hate online.
Episode 7 - How The Matrix explains a trans experience
Vox’s Emily VanDerWerff talks about the 1999 film The Matrix as an allegory for the trans experience.
Episode 6 - Talia Jane vs. Yelp
After Talia Jane called out Yelp for failing to pay a living wage, she became the "entitled millenial" poster child. But she was actually right.
Episode 5 - #DisabledAndCute
Writer Keah Brown created the #DisabledAndCute movement to celebrate how people with disabilities love their bodies. She talks about the ways disability shows up online and off.
After Shafiqah Hudson uncovered bad actors pretending to be Black women on Twitter, spreading disinformation and dischord, she sounded the alarm to Twitter officials. Unfortunately, they ignored her.
So she created the hashtag #YourSlipIsShowing to help stamp them out herself.
July 7th is Blackout Day 2020, an initiative meant to protest police brutality and racial injustice. Here’s the complicated story behind the original Black Out Day created by Mars Sebastian.
In an interview that’s both hilarious and heartbreaking, Mars talks about her fight to be more than a footnote in the digital movement she created.
You might know that connections to convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein led to the resignation of the director of the MIT Media Lab, Joi Ito, after a Ronan Farrow exposé. But fewer people know that Arwa Mboyaa, a Kenyan virtual reality programmer and MIT student, bravely called for Ito to step down before Farrow’s piece.
Mboyaa talks about how the bravery and community of women and girls gave her the courage to take a stand.
Claire Evans is one half of the band Yacht. She’s also a tech historian who archives women’s contributions in tech and computing in her book Broadband.
Claire lays out how women were always at the forefront of technology and computing and how our contributions were erased over time.