People Like Me
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For People Who Are Jamaican-Canadian
For People Who Don't Know About The Tigray Genocide
For People with Long Distance Besties
For People Who Dance With Desirability in Mind
For People who love “The Bear”
di Leah E.
For people who are Jamaican-Canadian, please enjoy this fruitful conversation on all things Jamaican-Canadian. In this episode I sat down and spoke with my good-up friends (aka yaardies) Shana, Khadecia, and Nakyta and discussed our shared and differential experiences living in Canada as both Canadian-born-Jamaicans and Jamaican-born-Canadians. This is a culture-filled episode as we question and interrogate the ever-changing aspects of language, family, preservation, and community in the Jamaican-Canadian experience. This episode was recorded in early June, before the news struck regarding Hurricane Beryl. Please go to the @peoplelikemepod instagram bio to find out information on how you can help Caribbean countries recovering from the hurricane. Intro (0:00), How do you identify? (1:30), Game/Trivia (2:50), Growing up in Canada (8:40), Jamaican Community in Toronto/Toronto Slang (14:00), What makes someone Jamaican? (19:15), How do we keep our culture alive (22:00), Jamaican Women and losing accents (25:05), Is Patois a language? (33:00), Going back to Jamaica (37:04), The concept of community in Jamaica (39:30), Teaching Leah Patois!!! (42:36), Jamaica vs. The World (47:00).
For people who may not know, or who want to know more about the Tigray Genocide, this is an episode encapsulating the current politics from the perspective of Delina, Snit, and Heaven. With the utmost vulnerability, the girls share their experiences as Tigrayan women living in the diaspora, what is happening in Tigray today, and what we can do to help. This episode is full of information, knowledge, personal anecdotes, hope, and care. Please engage with an open heart as we touch on one of the worst atrocities of the century. This episode does have volume issues, please expect overlapping sounds to subside around 6 minutes. Intro (0:00), What is happening in Tigray? (6:10), Why is it controversial to say “Genocide”? (11:35), Pretoria Agreement- TPLF and Ethiopia (14:40), Immigrant parents and generational healing (17:50), Identifying as Tigrayan vs. Ethiopian (23:22), Mixed Identity (26:55), How do we feel about Ethiopian people now? (28:00), Why African countries get left out of these conversations (32:50), Social Media Activism (33:50), Palestine, Congo, Sudan, and interconnected struggles (41:30), How do we help Tigray? (44:50), Having hope (43:35), Canada is also complicit (47:00).
For people with long distance besties this is for you! My friend Michelle moved to Los Angeles a couple years ago and I went to visit her and recorded this episode on our last night, and together we reminisced on EXTREMELY drunken nights and funny stories from our adolescence. Listen to two friends catch up on childhood/teenage memories, and about the requirements of not only a long distance friendship but friendships in general. Intro (0:00), how we met (1:00), getting out of Toronto (3:00), what healthy long distance requires (10:00), Michelle having THEE basement (18:00), THEE PARTY….(20:20), Another drunken night that solidified us (27:44), Michelle’s perspective of Leah (30:00), Why accepting love is so hard (31:00), people pleasing (34:31), Keeping up with friends + going ghost (36:50), The power of Vulnerability in friendships and life (40:22). Closing (42:57).
For people who are Black Girl Dancers, who want to know more about Desirability Politics, colorism, or who simply enjoy any subject, please enjoy this interview-style episode about my cousin’s life as a Darkskinned-Black-Girl-Dancer. IG: @Moratalks discusses her experience as a Darkskin Black Woman in the professional dance space and how that intersects with Desirability (the way modes of oppression, like colorism, ableism, transphobia, classism etc. intersect and affect how one navigates social mobility). Listen to us chat about how media, institutions, and Kemora’s life are impacted by desirability. Intro (0:00), When did you know you could dance? (7:15), Being a Black Girl in the dance space (11:00), Racism & ownership in dance (14:30), Black in Post-Secondary Art Program (16:45), What is Desirability? (22:15), Colorism in Friendship (26:45), “Self-Love” as a solution? (30:00), Pretty Privilege (35:45), Executive Black People in the Dance world (42:35), Advice for Darkskin Black Girls who want to dance (47:00).
For people who love(d) The Bear, listen to this episode as my friend Anam and I discuss FX’s hit show, The Bear! In a lengthy conversation about this hit television series, we offer our takes on our favourite characters, analysis of scenes and episodes, and our takes on the beloved showmances of season one and two. Given Anam’s background she offers a neuro-psychological perspective on characters like Carmy and Richie, and delves into what makes someone a movie-television fanatic like herself. It was a pleasure getting to chat In this episode you can find: Intro (0:00), character breakdowns (7:55) Syd-Carmy, (14:30), The Christmas Episode (16:00), thoughts on “Claire Bear”(21:45) Richie analysis (25:15), The Psychoanalysis of Carmy (34:40), Syd and Marcus (38:00), what’s next for the bear?(41:15), What TV/Film mean to Anam (45:40).
This is the official People Like Me trailer! The host, Leah E. outlines the upcoming developments of the podcast. This project will entail subjects of mental health, relationships, culture, media and more. Listen for a sneak preview of the show! Stay tuned for People Like Me episodes coming soon!