In 2013, culture critic Zeba Blay was the first person to use the hashtag #carefreeblackgirls. It would go on to become a viral term celebrating Black women online. Now, eight years later, she has published a book of pop culture essays with the same name, Carefree Black Girls, which she describes as “a meditation on […]
Telling the Story of the Pandemic on Stage
In the fifth century B.C.E., the City of Athens was laid low with a terrible plague that killed many of the Ancient Greek city’s citizens. In 1998, researchers extracted dental pulp from bodies found in an ancient cemetery unearthed during excavations for the 2004 Olympics. The researchers were able to identify the disease that laid […]
Latin American History, Politics, and Culture Through Film
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UW–Milwaukee hosted its 42nd Annual Latin American Film Series earlier this week. For today’s show, Esty spends the hour talking with with professor Nancy Bird-Soto about the films and the range of important issues they raise about Latin American history, culture, and politics. Nancy Bird-Soto is […]
Hmong Culture and Language Access
Today on the show, Wednesday host Ali Muldrow is joined by Brenda Yang, a local educator and advocate for Asian American culture and language access in Madison. They talk about Brenda’s experience as a Hmong American, language access as a civil right, the recent surge in anti-Asian racism and violence, and why Asian Americans provide […]
Our Changing Relationship to Food During Covid
Curbside grocery pickup. Contactless pizza delivery. Comfort baking. As with so many other things, our relationship to food is changing during COVID. Today on the show, WORT assistant news director Jonah Chester has a wide-ranging discussion about these changes with Lucy Long, director of the Center for Food and Culture, who clarifies how food is […]
Serendib Kitchen: Sri Lankan American Cooking
With Thanksgiving on the horizon and feasting on our minds, today we spend the hour with professor and food blogger Mary Anne Mohanraj, who recently published A Feast of Serendib, one of the first Sri Lankan American cookbooks. Mary Anne Mohanraj is a clinical assistant professor of literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago, […]
