That’s What People of Color Do Every Day
In this clip, a Black grad student recounts how he interrupted a moment of privilege at a conference.
Interruption/action
One Starfish at a Time
In this clip, a visitor to the Northwest African American Museum on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2024 shares the parable about the starfishes on the beach.
Leaving Systemically Racist Organizations
In this clip, a college student shares how the racial reckonings of 2020 impacted her to leave her sorority.
Resistance and Research Within and for Our Communities
In this clip, grad students talk about how the summer of 2020 shaped their research.
Black Lives Matter Narratives
Listen to the vice provost and a student in dialogue about Black Lives Matter narratives during the summer of 2020.
Reactions in the Wake of the Murder of George Floyd
Listen to the vice provost and a student talk about what it was like in Seattle in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.
There Was a Risk but We Marched
Listen as a mother discusses her decision behind participating in the 2020 BLM protests with her children.
Putting Kindness Back In
Listen as a son shares with his mother his philosophy behind being involved in BLM – it is a way for him to be involved in putting kindness in where others might put hatred.
Companies That Make Supporting Us Part of Their Brand
In this clip, listen as mother and son discuss what it means to be an intentional consumer.
Supporting Black Businesses
In this clip, listen as mother and son reflect on why they buy from Black businesses.
Managing the Toll of Resistance on Our Bodies
Dr. Joseph asks her interviewee how they resist and continue to fight without creating additional bodily stress on themselves.
Episode 1: To Stir the Pot or Keep the Peace
Two graduate students discuss the process of evaluating the spaces that they find themselves in before deciding to stir the pot or keep the peace.
A Way to Reunite and Combat All of This
Two Black students discuss their desire for a united approach to combating racism.
I Went and Got Someone Who Could Interrupt the Problem
Black student describes experiences in which she strategically interrupted racism by getting someone who would be more effective at interrupting.
I Try to Interrupt Racism, but It Can Be Hard
Two Black students share what interrupting racism looks like for them and when they interrupt racism.
White People Can Be Everything, but Black People Can Only Be So Much?
Black student shares her experiences with a substitute teacher who demonstrated racist behaviors and projected stereotypes.
When Should You Interrupt Privilege
Two Black students unpack a two part question: who is responsible for interrupting privilege and when do you feel comfortable interrupting privilege?
Why White People Remain Unpersuaded
Black man shares his theories regarding why white people remain unpersuaded about privilege and how it exists/manifests for them.
When Do White People Realize They Have Privilege
Two Black men discuss when white people realize they have privilege and and the conversations they have with their white friends and coworkers in order to catalyze that realization.
The Confidence of a Mediocre White Man
Two Black women discuss the intersections and diversions of class and race.
Changes in Friendships
Black woman shares how she has begun to talk more about race, setting more boundaries, and advocating for her experiences with her white friends.
It Stops Here
Older Black woman shares with her younger dialogue partner what it looks like to experience years of racism and work to heal.
The Talk
Two Black men discuss what it looks like to talk in majority white spaces and how to interrupt privilege in those spaces.
“It Must Be So Hard Being a Colored Officer”
Black woman police officer sharing with Black man police officer story of white police officer calling her “colored.”
The Black Tax
Two Black Gen X era sisters, one West Coast, one East, talking the summer of 2020 about microaggressions during the dual pandemics
The Support Structure Has Failed
Black woman describe her experiences with intersectional racism in the workforce.
Being Black in the Greek System
Black students describe their journeys in the Greek system as the only Black students in their houses and the work they’ve done with their houses to have conversations to make allies out of their brothers.
Black Culture
Two students discuss what Black culture is and how it has been defined and controlled.
They Would Give Them All the Help They Need, With Us It Would Be Two Words
Black high school students describe their experiences with white teachers who favor white students.
I Do Take Pleasure in Pushing Boundaries
Two Black graduate students discuss how they navigate through their programs and find the balance between pushing boundaries and keeping the peace.
Race and Gender in the Greek System
Black students in the Greek system describe their experiences and how they handle interrupting privilege and racism when they encounter it.
Whose Responsibility Is It to Speak on Intersectionality
UW Communications · Whose Responsibility Is It To Interrupt Intersectional Racism
Cultural Appropriation vs. Cultural Appreciation
Two students discuss the difference between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation, where to draw the line between both, and the importance of white people doing research on the cultures they draw from.
Dating in Seattle
Dialogue partners discuss their experiences with white women fetishizing interracial relationships and having mixed children.
Language and Power
Dialogue partners discuss the impact language has on perpetuating racism and what it looks like to interrupt language with language.
N Word, Power, and Racialized Violence
Dialogue partners talk about what it means to grapple with racialized violence in the U.S.
We’re Not Experts, We’re Just Doing Our Best
White student describes how faculty in her department place the responsibility of education and representation on her
Of Her Own Volition
Two friends discuss the significance of the white friend taking the time to read and educate herself without placing the burden of education on Black friend
A Soda Deferred
Listen as these two conversation partners compare stories about their first experiences with racism. Both encounters occurred at very young, formative ages – 10 and 6 years old respectively – and had lasting impacts.
Becoming an Officer
Listen to this Seattle police officer recount her journey to becoming an officer.
The Limits of Citizenship and Belonging
Immigrant activists discuss the privileges and limits of citizenship and how to build allyship across differences
Building Generational Knowledge
How Black families discuss and overcome racial, gender and class discrimination