On Theme
Branding While Black ft. Bridget Todd
People have been branding themselves for a long time, but personal branding is a whole new beast in the digital age -- especially for Black folks. Katie and Yves speak with Bridget Todd of There Are No Girls on the Internet about what it means to share carefully crafted personas on social media. …
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Do We Need More Slavery Movies?
We're done with the trauma for trauma's sake. But can we trust folks to make informed, nuanced stories about enslaved people? Cheyney McKnight of Not Your Momma's History is skeptical. Katie and Yves speak with her about the horror of slavery films in Hollywood, her favorite movie about an enslaved…
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Join us in ATL on Juneteenth!
Join us on Juneteenth for a special edition of Write Club Atlanta! Write Club is a literary event where writers go head-to-head on opposing topics. Expect amazing writers, stories that will take you on an emotional roller coaster, and an appropriate amount of joyous yelling. All Black writers. …
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Survival of the Crunkest
Crunk music. Snap music. They go together like Atlanta and hip-hop. For the brief and delightful time that crunk and snap were in the limelight, hip-hop felt so carefree (and chaotic). Katie and Yves take a trip back to the aughts to pay homage to the two genres that brought people together — in re…
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Archive Alive
Yves and Katie share the mic with archivists who detail the funniest or most poignant stories they’ve discovered while in the stacks. Get show notes at ontheme.show Follow us on Instagram @onthemeshow Email us at hello@ontheme.show
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A VERY Important Announcement
Katie and Yves share a very important announcement about the show.
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Living, Breathing Poetry
Many anthologies of nature poetry and Black poetry have excluded Black nature poetry. But Black people have always written poetry about nature. We write about the land that supports us and challenges us. We write about the animals we care for and the disasters that destroy our homes. We write about…
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Pixel Power
Every photo tells a story. In this week’s episode, Katie and Yves take a look at specific instances when pictures were used for good…and for evil. Sometimes they expose the truth, but sometimes they obscure it. Act I: The Most Photographed Man In America How Frederick Douglass used his portrait…
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Rediscovering THE Pauline Hopkins
Pauline Hopkins was a literary pioneer in the science fiction, fantasy, romance, and detective genres. She wrote plenty of short stories, essays, books, and plays. But as is the case with so many Black women writers from the 19th and early 20th centuries, Hopkins’s work fell into relative obscurit…
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The Myth of Atlanta
It’s 404 Day, an annual celebration of all things Atlanta. And because Katie and Yves love Atlanta — Black Atlanta specifically — they’re talking about the myths Atlanta perpetuates and how those myths impact Black folks. Get show notes at ontheme.show Follow us on Instagram @onthemeshow Emai…
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