WeTalkDifferent

Like LL Cool J said, "Don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years"! The WTD picks the mic back up after a 2 week hiatus and they start to wrestle with what it means to be masculine and/or feminine. Yeah, we said "and/or" but you'll have to listen to find out what that means. — — — — — — — — — — — Show Notes: Gender: The Space Between Us - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7mBLMnaa1c Cisgender - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender Gender Non-Binary - http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Non-binary GenderQueer - http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Genderqueer Agender - http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Agender Ashley's GoFund Me - https://www.gofundme.com/my-dts-graduation-wish — — — — — — — — — — — The WTD crew doesn't have it all figured out but we're trying to talk about and give voice to these conversations in public. So shout out to all of our listeners! We’re so fortunate that y’all take time out of your week to listen to us. Thank you for listening and please share us with your circles — birthday present, anniversary gift, or just a simple conversation starter…WTD is there for every occasion! If you wanna get at us you got options: Website: wetalkdifferent.com Email: holla@wetalkdifferent.com Facebook: facebook.com/wetalkdifferent Twitter: @wetalkdifferent You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, SoundCloud, or Stitcher. Please leave a review on iTunes as it helps surface our podcast to other listeners. iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wetalkdifferent/id1161601126 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-313380625 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/wetalkdifferent Also please join our Facebook group to discuss the episodes with the WTD team and other WTDers — https://www.facebook.com/groups/259510101160665/

This week the WTD team continues talking about white fragility. It's Part II, so it's at least twice as good as Part I. Ashley, Elijah, and Ryan continue to wrestle with white solidarity, white fragility, and white privilege. Shout out to all of our listeners! We’re so fortunate that y’all take time out of your week to listen to us. Thank you for listening and please share us with your circles — birthday present, anniversary gift, or just a simple conversation starter…WTD is there for every occasion! If you wanna get at us you got options: Website: wetalkdifferent.com Email: holla@wetalkdifferent.com Facebook: facebook.com/wetalkdifferent Twitter: @wetalkdifferent Ashley’s GoFund Me: https://www.gofundme.com/my-dts-graduation-wish You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, SoundCloud, or Stitcher. Please leave a review on iTunes as it helps surface our podcast to other listeners. iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wetalkdifferent/id1161601126 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-313380625 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/wetalkdifferent Also please join our Facebook group to discuss the episodes with the WTD team and other WTDers — https://www.facebook.com/groups/259510101160665/

B-Side Track — Sho Baraka — 3.31.2017 --- The WTD Team wasn’t done talking this week. On this B-Side the team talks through Ryan’s experience of rockin’ at the Sho concert in Dallas while simultaneously contemplating his own whiteness within a racial space explicitly discussing the oppression perpetrated by people of his race. Ashley and Elijah talk with Ryan about his experience and their thoughts on white people attending rap concerts where the artist is socially involved. --- If you wanna get at us you got options: Website: wetalkdifferent.com Email: holla@wetalkdifferent.com Facebook: facebook.com/wetalkdifferent Twitter: @wetalkdifferent You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, SoundCloud, or Stitcher. Please leave a review on iTunes as it helps surface our podcast to other listeners. iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wetalkdifferent/id1161601126 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-313380625 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/wetalkdifferent Also please join our Facebook group to discuss the episodes with the WTD team and other WTDers —  https://www.facebook.com/groups/259510101160665/

This week the WTD team doesn’t pull any punches and takes on White Fragility. Ashley, Elijah, and Ryan work to define the term white fragility and how that manifests itself in their various circles. Shout out to all of our listeners! We're so fortunate that y'all take time out of your week to listen to us. Thank you for listening and please share us with your circles - birthday present, anniversary gift, or just a simple conversation starter...WTD is there for every occasion! --- Show Notes: Ashley's GoFund Me: https://www.gofundme.com/my-dts-graduation-wish What Does It Mean To Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy — Dr. Robin DiAngelo: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1433131102/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_eIipybNRVC41C I’m a bit brown. But in America I’m white. Not for much longer. — Arwa Mahdawi: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/21/us-census-whiteness-race-colour-middle-east-north-africa-america Why It’s So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism—The Good Men Project: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/good-men-project/why-its-so-hard-to-talk-to-white-people-about-racism_b_7183710.html Refusing to Reconcile: Against Racial Reconciliation — Amaryah Shaye: https://womenintheology.org/2014/01/19/refusing-to-reconcile-against-racial-reconciliation/ Understanding #WhiteFragility — Dr. Robin DiAngelo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeGFk780bH0 White Fragility — Dr. Robin DiAngelo: http://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article/view/249/116 --- If you wanna get at us you got options: Website: wetalkdifferent.com Email: holla@wetalkdifferent.com Facebook: facebook.com/wetalkdifferent Twitter: @wetalkdifferent You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, SoundCloud, or Stitcher. Please leave a review on iTunes as it helps surface our podcast to other listeners. iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wetalkdifferent/id1161601126 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-313380625 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/wetalkdifferent Also please join our Facebook group to discuss the episodes with the WTD team and other WTDers — https://www.facebook.com/groups/259510101160665/

This week Ashley, Elijah, and Ryan put together a little bit of this and little bit of that, so ultimately the choice is yours! We put together several sections of our pre-recordings into 1 excellent, satisfying episode. So if there are a few thoughts outta order, just remember this material wasn't technically supposed to see the light of day. Yet, there were too many good topics and fun moments for us not to share them with y'all. --- Sho Baraka — The Narrative - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-narrative/id1160946247 Propaganda—20 Years—https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqAS2lPISa8 --- If you wanna get at us (and we know you do) you got options: If you wanna get at us you got options: Website: wetalkdifferent.com Email: holla@wetalkdifferent.com Facebook: facebook.com/wetalkdifferent Twitter: @wetalkdifferent You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, SoundCloud, or Stitcher. Please leave a review on iTunes as it helps surface our podcast to other listeners. Also please join our Facebook group to discuss the episodes with the WTD team and other WTDers —  https://www.facebook.com/groups/259510101160665/

The WTD team takes a question from the audience discussing the Asian American experience with regard to race relations in America. If you wanna get at us you got options: Website: wetalkdifferent.com Email: holla@wetalkdifferent.com Facebook: facebook.com/wetalkdifferent Twitter: @wetalkdifferent

The WTD team wraps up their conversation with Jurrita Williams and Dr. Sandi Glahn on Christianity and Gender. The team discusses how technology has changed gender roles, how we approach interpretation, and in a remarkable display of performance art Ryan Holmes attempts to articulate "mansplaining" by mansplaining the term mansplaining. If you wanna get at us you got options: Website: wetalkdifferent.com Email: holla@wetalkdifferent.com Facebook: facebook.com/wetalkdifferent Twitter: @wetalkdifferent You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, SoundCloud, or Stitcher. Please leave a review on iTunes as it helps surface our podcast to other listeners. Also please join our Facebook group to discuss the episodes with the WTD team and other WTDers - https://www.facebook.com/groups/259510101160665/

This week the WTD Team brings in the real intellectual heavyweights to discuss gender, the church, mansplaining, and why Ashley is opposed to doing jingles! Ashley, Elijah, and Ryan are joined by Jurrita Williams and Dr. Sandi Glahn to work through these topics. If you wanna get at us you got options: Website: wetalkdifferent.com Email: holla@wetalkdifferent.com Facebook: facebook.com/wetalkdifferent Twitter: @wetalkdifferent You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, SoundCloud, or Stitcher. Please leave a review on iTunes as it helps surface our podcast to other listeners.

Fresh off the digital press, WTD has a b-side for you to enjoy this weekend (maybe even on your commute home tonight!). The team takes some listener feedback and discusses racial reconciliation, 90's DJ's, and Ryan quotes some throwback lyrics by Kenny Rogers. If you wanna get at us you got options: Email: wetalkdifferentteam@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/wetalkdifferent Twitter: @wetalkdifferent You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, SoundCloud, or Stitcher. Please leave a review on iTunes as it helps surface our podcast to other listeners.

In this week's episode Ashley, Elijah, and Ryan discuss Black History Month and the documentary I Am Not Your Negro. The discussion does what so many WTD episodes before it does - it twists and it turns and in the end we leave you with more questions than answers! But that's why you tune in each week! If you wanna get at us you got options: Website: wetalkdifferent.com Email: holla@wetalkdifferent.com Facebook: facebook.com/wetalkdifferent Twitter: @wetalkdifferent You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, SoundCloud, or Stitcher. Please leave a review on iTunes as it helps surface our podcast to other listeners.

Part II is here. The WTD team comes back and continues to tackle the topic of silence. Specifically, silence as it relates to the church. What do we mean by silence? Where and how has the church been silent? If you wanna get at us you got options: Website: wetalkdifferent.com Email: holla@wetalkdifferent.com Facebook: facebook.com/wetalkdifferent Twitter: @wetalkdifferent You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, SoundCloud, or Stitcher. Please leave a review on iTunes as it helps surface our podcast to other listeners.

The WTD team tackles a loud topic right now: silence. Specifically, silence as it relates to the church. What do we mean by silence? Where and how has the church been silent? If you wanna get at us you got options: Website: wetalkdifferent.com Email: holla@wetalkdifferent.com Facebook: facebook.com/wetalkdifferent Twitter: @wetalkdifferent You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, SoundCloud, or Stitcher. Please leave a review on iTunes as it helps surface our podcast to other listeners.

This week the WTD team comes at you with Part II of the "Alternative Facts" Edition. Ryan's mic is still on, Elijah kept the track recording, and Ashley continues to keep her life together like a boss. The team continues to wrestle through a discussion about politics, and worldviews as articulated by Kellyanne Conway on Sunday, January 22 on Meet the Press: alternative facts. What implications does that pose for us? How do we assess reality? What role(s) does the media have in all this? What does the church do? If you wanna get at us you got options: Website: wetalkdifferent.com Email: holla@wetalkdifferent.com Facebook: facebook.com/wetalkdifferent Twitter: @wetalkdifferent You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, SoundCloud, or Stitcher. Please leave a review on iTunes as it helps surface our podcast to other listeners.

This week the WTD team is back and better than ever! Ryan's mic is back on, Elijah hit the record button twice, and Ashley has her life together. The team wrestles through a discussion about politics, and worldviews as articulated by Kellyanne Conway on Sunday, January 22 on Meet the Press: alternate facts. What implications does that pose for us? How do we assess reality? What role(s) does the media have in all this? What does the church do? If you wanna get at us you got options: Website: wetalkdifferent.com Email: holla@wetalkdifferent.com Facebook: facebook.com/wetalkdifferent Twitter: @wetalkdifferent You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, SoundCloud, or Stitcher. Please leave a review on iTunes as it helps surface our podcast to other listeners.

In this edition the WTD Team comes back for Round 2 and finishes up a discussion on the church, homosexuality, and the recent Kim Burrell sermon. WTD team talks about grace, sin, the church, LGBTQ, and how we learn to actually love each other. Ashley and Elijah continue to converse while Ryan still can't get his microphone un-muted. Ryan swears this will never happen again! If you wanna get at us you got options: Website: wetalkdifferent.com Email: holla@wetalkdifferent.com Facebook: facebook.com/wetalkdifferent Twitter: @wetalkdifferent You can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, SoundCloud, or Stitcher. Please leave a review on iTunes as it helps surface our podcast to other listeners.