When someone shows you who they are, believe them THE FIRST TIME! 🤷‍♀️ Coffee & Cream Talk -- the intersection where all things RACE, GENDER, & POP CULTURE meet! Get your Daily Dose of Caffeinated Commentary! Subscribe, like, follow, comment, and share! @CoffeeCreamTalk on all social platforms! Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter, and YouTube Go to Coff…

Tia & Tamera are no longer TWINNING... but are you really surprised? 🤷‍♀️ Coffee & Cream Talk -- the intersection where all things RACE, GENDER, & POP CULTURE meet! Get your Daily Dose of Caffeinated Commentary! Subscribe, like, follow, comment, and share! @CoffeeCreamTalk on all social platforms! Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter, and YouTube Go to C…

DDG was never rooting for Halle Bailey... and we all knew it. Coffee & Cream Talk -- the intersection where all things RACE, GENDER, & POP CULTURE meet! Get your Daily Dose of Caffeinated Commentary! Subscribe, like, follow, comment, and share! @CoffeeCreamTalk on all social platforms! Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter, and YouTube Go to CoffeeAndCrea…

If a man is serious about YOU, serious about his feelings for YOU, serious about the true, deep, sincere love that he has FOR YOU, then YOU will always be his choice. Coffee & Cream Talk -- the intersection where all things RACE, GENDER, & POP CULTURE meet! Get your Daily Dose of Caffeinated Commentary! Subscribe, like, follow, comment, and share! …

Still don't believe in the Black Girl Effect? Then look no further than NFL star, Travis Kelce. Before vs. After tells the story, explaining why YOU shouldn't be surprised. Coffee & Cream Talk -- the intersection where all things RACE, GENDER, & POP CULTURE meet! Get your Daily Dose of Caffeinated Commentary! Subscribe, like, follow, comment, and s…

Make no mistake, Jordan Chiles was rightfully awarded the bronze medal because SHE EARNED IT... but white gals aren't happy that "their" image and place within the sport is being erased. Coffee & Cream Talk -- the intersection where all things RACE, GENDER, & POP CULTURE meet! Get your Daily Dose of Caffeinated Commentary! Subscribe, like, follow, …

Simone Biles has literally just been crowned the most decorated Olympic gymnast in history, so why are YOU (i.e., BLACK FOLKS!) overly obsessed with her hair? Coffee & Cream Talk -- the intersection where all things RACE, GENDER, & POP CULTURE meet! Get your Daily Dose of Caffeinated Commentary! Subscribe, like, follow, comment, and share! @CoffeeC…

Meagan Good disregarded all logic, didn't listen to any of her friends, and chose to take up with a Jonathan Majors... A CRIMINAL. Don't be like her! Coffee & Cream Talk -- the intersection where all things RACE, GENDER, & POP CULTURE meet! Get your Daily Dose of Caffeinated Commentary! Subscribe, like, follow, comment, and share! @CoffeeCreamTalk …

Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay was so DESPERATE to become a wife that she settled for a bum! Now she's paying the price, but YOU don't have to make the same mistakes! Coffee & Cream Talk -- the intersection where all things RACE, GENDER, & POP CULTURE meet! Get your Daily Dose of Caffeinated Commentary! Subscribe, like, follow, comment, and share! @Co…

“As a filmmaker, I've always made films about extraordinary women whose lives are faced with extenuating circumstances who've had adversity thrown at them and who've risen to the occasion. And when I began to look at Diane's story, for me, Diane is a fashion designer, but she's so much more. Her central ethos is woman before fashion, and we felt it…

How can we free ourselves from fear and social barriers to live more fulfilling and meaningful lives? What does it take to overcome trauma and turn it into triumph, and failure into reinvention? How can we shine a light on the marginalized and misunderstood to create social change that transforms the lives of women? Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is an Osca…

Black males are NOT interested in marrying Black women, so why do YOU still want them? Coffee & Cream Talk -- the intersection where all things RACE, GENDER, & POP CULTURE meet! Get your Daily Dose of Caffeinated Commentary! Subscribe, like, follow, comment, and share! @CoffeeCreamTalk on all social platforms! Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter, and Yo…

Black males will defend Caitlin Clark at all costs, and they're mad at YOU because you won't help them! Coffee & Cream Talk -- the intersection where all things RACE, GENDER, & POP CULTURE meet! Get your Daily Dose of Caffeinated Commentary! Subscribe, like, follow, comment, and share! @CoffeeCreamTalk on all social platforms! Facebook, Instagram, …

“So for me, it just kind of removing a lot of the shame and then a lot of the energy that I was wasting trying to fit myself into a neurotypical process or framework or way of thinking or being. So, you know, some people call that unmasking, just kind of removing. I was wasting a lot of energy, basically trying to be someone else and function in a …

How can we learn to flourish because of who we are, not in spite of it? What is the sensory experience of the world for people with autism and ADHD? How can music help heal trauma and foster identity? Mattia Maurée is an interdisciplinary composer whose work centers around themes of perception, body, sensation, trauma, and resilience. Their scores …

White Billionaires prefer to marry Black women, and your much desired, overly touted, self-proclaimed bLaCk kINgs are mad at YOU because you don't want to engage in STRUGGLE LOVE with them! Coffee & Cream Talk -- the intersection where all things RACE, GENDER, & POP CULTURE meet! Get your Daily Dose of Caffeinated Commentary! Subscribe, like, follo…

White men wholeheartedly believe that their lives, looks, and overall livelihood improved tenfold by being married to a Black woman, so why are black males mad at YOU? Coffee & Cream Talk -- the intersection where all things RACE, GENDER, & POP CULTURE meet! Get your Daily Dose of Caffeinated Commentary! Subscribe, like, follow, comment, and share!…

"That production was really close to my heart because I was a musical theater dancer in the eighties and so that whole storytelling was something that I personally had lived through and really understood. You know, I was that kid at the Pineapple Dance Studios. And gradually, as friends around me sort of began to become unwell, and actually, one of…

How can intimate scenes be brought to the screen in ways that respect the emotional well-being and privacy of the artists themselves? How do we make sure that we can create a story about abuse without anyone being abused in the process? Ita O’Brien is the UK’s leading Intimacy Coordinator, founder of Intimacy on Set (and author of the Intimacy On S…

"I had the first ever lesbian makeout scene on network television on a short-lived show called Relativity. That was another role where I felt really honored to be asked to do that, having been in and around the gay community my whole adult life. In the club scene, it was like all my friends were gay. So I was really happy to represent doing that. W…

How can the arts help us examine and engage with social issues? How do our families shape our views, memories, and experience of the world? From her role as Dr. Lisa Cuddy on the hit Fox series House, to her starring role as Abby McCarthy in Bravo's first scripted series Girlfriend's Guide to Divorce, Lisa Edelstein's range of roles are as diverse …

What are we willing to give up to find meaning, connection, and a sense of belonging? What happens if we don't self-promote, self-create, and self-brand on social media? Will we find the right partner? Will we get into the right college? Or find the best job? Tara Isabella Burton is the author of the novels Social Creature, The World Cannot Give, a…

“I was fortunate to be able to be out in Hollywood in the 90s and to be able to work early on seminal LGBT-presenting shows like Tales of the City series, and Six Feet Under with Alan Ball. When it comes to Tokyo Vice, I did push hard for there to be a queer storyline because in the late 90s, in Japan, there was a huge thriving gay subculture. But …

What does learning another language and living in another culture do for your humanity and creative process? Alan Poul is an Emmy, Golden Globe, DGA, and Peabody Award-winning producer and director of film and television. He is Executive Producer and Director on the Max Original drama series Tokyo Vice, written by Tony Award-winning playwright J.T.…

“The legal system is a colonial legal system that is designed to preserve capitalist extraction and all the racial dynamics required to produce racial capitalism. The system is already completely captured by our opponents. And anything that looks like it's good for us is probably actually not. People don't get what they're supposed to get. It's und…

 Dean Spade is an organizer, speaker, author, and professor at Seattle University's School of Law, where he teaches courses on policing, imprisonment, gender, race, and social movements. Spade has been organizing racial and economic movements for queer and trans liberation for the past 20 years. Spade's books include Normal Life: Administrative Vio…

In this episode of the Speaking Out of Place podcast, Professor David Palumbo-Liu and Azeezah Kanji talk with Sara Ahmed about her new book, The Feminist Killjoy Handbook. How and why is it that complaining about sexism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and other forms of bigotry, is considered impolite? How is civility uncivil, and the mandate t…

"I think when the novel went through many revisions and reiterations, a lot of Richard de Zoysa's biography got shared, and Maali Almeida emerged as a character. But that one detail stayed, the fact that he was a closeted gay man. Again, you write by instinct, and also I had to explain why was this privileged Colombo kid, going to these very danger…

What happens when we die? What happens to our memories and consciousness when our bodies cease to be? In the end, is it the things we did and the people we loved that give our lives meaning? Shehan Karunatilaka is the multi-award winning author. He is known for his novels dealing with the history, politics, and folklore of his home country of Sri L…

In this episode of the Speaking Out of Place podcast, Professor David Palumbo-Liu interviews Ching-In Chen & Kate Hao about the cancellation of the Asian American Literary Festival 2023. This August, the Asian American Literary Festival was to take place in Washington, DC.. The longstanding event had been on hiatus because of the pandemic, so this …

"So you're afraid to change cause you don't want people to call you strange. So I sort of get that. But I grew up in a very different situation. I'm actually always surprised that I'm even in communication with my parents at all. I didn't think anybody in my family would want to have anything to do with me cause that was the message I got from the …

How do you find your voice? As a writer, how do you take what you know and what you believe to share your stories with the world? How do we let young writers know just how powerful they are and that what they do matters? In How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill Pulitzer Prize winning, and National Book Award finalist author Jeri…