Artists, scholars, and activists Drs. Emily Socolov, Honoree Jeffers, Pippa Holloway, and Alison Kanosky talk real-life and history about voting, the soul of democracy.

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7.3 #vote: real threats to our elections--conversation

Alison Kanosky (CSU Fullerton) on how concerns about safety and security impact our democracy; Pippa Holloway (Middle Tennessee State University) on histories of voter enfranchisement and disfranchisement; and Dr. Honoree Jeffers (University of Oklahoma) on a poet’s view of voter mobilization in African-American communities and what it teaches us about democracy.

7.2 #vote: real threats to our elections--the experts

Does worrying about fraud, bots, and Facebook get to the heart of strengthening democracy? Beyond the numbers games, and the winners, and losers, what’s at stake in getting out the vote? Emily Socolov, election protection activist, explains.

7.1 #vote: facing real threats to elections & democracy

Dr. Alondra Nelson, Dr. Pat Zavella, and Dr. Liz Hoover take us into the deeper roots and dimensions of self-care, with important lessons from the Black Panther Party, Latinx health advocates, and the indigenous food sovereignty movement.

6.2 Political "self-care" and its deeper histories--the experts

Where does our idea of “self-care” come from? How does “self-care” support or distract us from the work of democracy and community engagement? A conversation with Gretchen Mallios, a therapist who has rebuilt her practice for our times.

6.1 Political "self-care": beyond yoga and a manicure

Nicole--Black, Ph.D. holder, fully employed, and broke--talks honestly with Dr. Lynn Itagaki about how the shame around debt impacts American politics and how millennial are rethinking the middle-class dream.

5.3 Debt and the American dream: conversation

How did we get here? Professors Karen Salt, Mehrsa Baradaran, and Lynn Itagaki explain histories of debt in America, the racial / gender wealth gap, and the new political reality of the “debtor-citizen.”

5.2 Debt and the American dream: the experts

What does the history of debt in the United States teach us about our democracy? What does debt, denial, and shame mean to our politics? Nicole, an African-American woman who is the first in her family to attend college and now holds a Ph.D., breaks it down.

5.1 Is student loan debt putting the American dream out of reach?

What does our national history with addictions tell us about our democracy? Professors Caroline Jean Acker and Susan Mizruchi and artist Jamea Richmond Edwards on addiction as an American story.

4.2 Addiction and democracy: the experts

How do we make sense of addiction and other health crises in our communities? What does our national history with addictions tell us about our democracy? Interview with Polly, pediatric public health nurse in a rural California community hit hard by opioids and daughter of an addict.

4.1 Addiction and democracy: how to make sense of the opioid epidemic?

Historians Danielle McGuire and Sharon Block and Pastor MarySue Brookshire talk about what we've learned from #metoo and where we need to go next--including talking to our sons and daughters and the men in our lives.

3.3 #metoo: where do we go from here?--conversation

After the Kavanaugh hearings, where do we go next with #metoo? What can we learn from history? Drs. Sharon Block and Danielle McGuire, as well as cultural historian Dr. Daphne Brooks, draw lessons from American history and activism by African-American women.

3.2 #metoo: where do we go from here?--the experts

In the wake of the Kavanaugh nomination and hearings, what now? How to address the issues #metoo and #believesurvivors have surfaced? What can we learn from our histories—individual and collective, and how do we move into a new relationship with the reality of pervasive sexual harassment, humiliation, abuse, and violence?

3.1 #metoo: where do we go from here?

Professors Shirley Moody-Turner, Kim Bassford, and Regis Fox on what Anna Julia Cooper, Patsy Mink, and other American women of color leaders can teach us about what it means to wake up and do the work of democracy--for the long haul.

2.2 What do I do now?: the experts

Shannon Bradley in conversation with Professors Regis Fox and Kim Blassford on what it means to do the long haul work of democracy.

2.3 What do I do now?: conversation

Anxious about democracy? Frustrated by the ugliness of politics? Find the beauty in the struggle by listening to women activists, citizens and scholars. Launching 9/17. americanbeautypodcast.org / @_joannabrooks

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