Mónica Guzmán , author of I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times , is the Director of Digital and Storytelling at Braver Angels which is a cross-partisan nonprofit organization dedicated to bridging America's widening political divide. Mónica’s background in journalism and her own life experiences brought her to Braver Angels as a person interested in conversation without judgment. As a daughter of Mexican immigrants who consider...
Mar 28, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 94
For more with Josie Duffy Rice, listen to Episode 93 ! –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry , Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at [email protected] . Music: “In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X. In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmet Spaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeats Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Do...
Mar 21, 2022•9 min
This week Henry and Colin catch up with AnnLab Civic Media Fellow Josie Duffy Rice to talk about the stories we hear and tell about our criminal justice system, and how we can reframe them to focus on people, not punishment. Josie recalls how her early experiences as a journalist covering public prosecutors quickly made her realize how opaque the system was and how she continues to work to humanize issues of criminal justice reform and abolition through her work as a writer and podcast host on W...
Mar 07, 2022•46 min•Ep. 93
Rebecca Williams and Lauren Sowa discuss Disney theme park fandom from Disneyland California to Disney theme parks across the globe. Williams and Sowa share their history with Disney films and how that love has translated into their love for the theme parks as adults. We then dive further into the theme park as a space of play for adults and why being a childless adult at Disney has been unjustly stigmatized. Even with strict rules and regulations, Disney theme parks offer spaces of play for adu...
Feb 28, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 92
This week we’re joined by a whoopensocker of a guest - Erica Halverson. After telling us all what a “whoopensocker” is, she brings us up to speed on her education intervention of the same name, where teaching artists employ the rules of improv to encourage kids to express themselves and engage in collaborative storytelling. Those stories are then presented back to them in the form of a professionalized vaudeville show on the Whoopensocker podcast and YouTube channel . We discuss how these method...
Feb 21, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 91
This week Henry & Colin are joined by Lori Kido Lopez , Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and Director of the Asian American Studies Program at University of Wisconsin-Madison, to discuss her new book, Micro Media Industries: Hmong American Media Innovation in the Diaspora . Lopez shares some background on this little-known ethnic community’s place in the U.S. and how their unique media ecologies serve their needs. We also consider the many innovations in format, genre, and technology ...
Dec 16, 2021•56 min•Ep. 90
This week, Sherry Turkle , MIT professor and author, joins Henry & Colin to discuss her new memoir, The Empathy Diaries. Sherry and Henry talk about their shared experiences of teaching arts & humanities at MIT. Since Sherry’s work is usually interpreted as a critique of technology and Henry’s work is interpreted as a support of technology, they both start by sharing some recent optimism that Sherry has about technology, and some recent pessimism that Henry has about technology. Sherry e...
Dec 03, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 89
This week, Henry & Colin are joined by three fan studies scholars, andré m. carrington ,author of Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction ; Abigail De Kosnik , author of #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation ; and Rukmini Pande author of Fandom, Now in Color and Squee from the Margins . We talk about how race has been addressed (or not) in fandoms and fan studies, digging into recent fandom controversies over race, such as Star Wars: The Last Jedi , ...
Nov 19, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 88
This week, we are joined by Te Rita Papesch , a legendary figure in the Maori tradition of Kapa Haka, and Sharon Mazer , her friend and an American performance studies researcher. Together, they converse about Kapa Haka as a manifestation of the historic relations between the Maori people and their “Kiwi” colonizers, one which is embedded in the everyday life of the community but also undergoing constant change as performers adjust to the increased global visibility of their performances. Mazer ...
May 03, 2021•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 87
This week's media recommendations come from Ioana Mischie, a transmedia artist working with creative writing, film, and virtual reality, and Howard Blumenthal, a television and new media creative, to talk about how children can shape the future of education and our world. Their recommendations span everything from jazz to emerging futuristic fiction. You'll love em! –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You ca...
Apr 27, 2021•7 min
This week we invited Ioana Mischie , a futurist and transmedia artist working with creative writing, film, and virtual reality, and Howard Blumenthal , a television and new media creative, to discuss the future of education and the role of children in shaping the field. Mischie’s work includes Government of Children and Tangible Utopias , which both place children as the arbiters of new types of governments and cities, and Blumenthal was heavily influenced by his time on Where in the World is Ca...
Apr 22, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 86
This week's media recommendations come from scientist turned author S.B. Divya and philosophy student turned conceptual artist Jonathon Keats. Their list includes everything from 1960s architecture collectives to a weekly science fiction podcast! –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at [email protected]. Music: “In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X. In ...
Apr 20, 2021•5 min
This week's conversation with scientist turned author SB Divya and philosophy student turned conceptual artist Jonathon Keats continues our series on climate futures by beginning with the notion of a thought experiment, and how that is manifested in both Divya’s fiction and Jonathon’s art projects. They discuss the tools each of them uses to invite their audiences to participate with them in optimistic speculation about the future, and how they try to overcome resistance to that journey through ...
Apr 15, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 85
This week's media recommendations come from two writers/scholars of the Solarpunk movement: Sarena Ulibarri, Editor-in-Chief of World Weaver Press and a science fiction writer whose works include Glass and Gardens and Biketopia, and Ed Finn, the Director of the Center for Science and Imagination at Arizona State University. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at howdoyoulikeitsofarpodca...
Apr 13, 2021•4 min
This week, we’re joined by Sarena Ulibarri , Editor-in-Chief of World Weaver Press and a science fiction writer whose works include Glass and Gardens and Biketopia , and Ed Finn , the Director of the Center for Science and Imagination at Arizona State University , to talk about how solarpunk can shape our understanding of climate change, social issues, and the future. They discuss the immense potential of storytelling in defining an achievable vision for a more sustainable world through a versio...
Apr 08, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 84
This week's media recommendations come from Julian Brave Noisecat and Candis Callison, leading Indigenous journalist and scholar, who share with us podcasts and books that highlight their voices -- and fantasy basketball. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at [email protected]. Music: “In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X. In Time (Instrumental) by Dy...
Mar 30, 2021•3 min
Candis Callison , an environmental journalist and associate professor at the University of British Columbia, and Julian Brave Noisecat , a Senior Media Fellow at the NDN Collective , join us today to talk about the role of Indigenous people in achieving environmental justice. They discuss methods that will better accommodate the inclusion of Indigenous voices in the present, particularly in approaching their stories through narratives that already exist such as marriage equality and climate chan...
Mar 25, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 83
You'd bet that the Pop Culture Collaborative would have good pop culture recommendations! And you're not wrong -- today's media recs come from Bridgit Antoinette Evans and Tracy Van Slyke, who touch on the big and bright sit-coms like The Office, Superstore and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and how we might revisit them in the light of last year. Also, we have the immortal works of Cicely Tyson, who left this world to ever appreciate her presence earlier this year. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Share you...
Mar 23, 2021•4 min
Bridgit Antoinette Evans and Tracy Van Slyke , co-founders of the Pop Culture Collaborative , join us today to talk about the meaning of a pluralistic society, pop culture for social change, and the intersection between the arts and social activism spheres. They delve into the notion of narrative oceans, how they can be used to unify people’s experiences but also drive harmful stereotypes of populations, such as the anti-Islamic rhetoric post-9/11 that informed media depictions and created swirl...
Mar 18, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 82
This week's media recommendations are all about fantasy, a realm that our last guest Warren Hedges is very, very fond of: From the African fantasy of Marlon James' "Black Leopard, Red Wolf" to a Skyrim Mod called "3DNPC." –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at [email protected]. Music: “In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X. In Time (Instrumental) by Dy...
Mar 16, 2021•3 min
This week’s guest, Warren Hedges, teaches a course at the Southern Oregon University on how speculative genres such as science fiction and fantasy help us imagine more inclusive cultures, societies, and worlds. He shared some thoughts on Facebook about Jacob Chansley, the so-called “Q Shaman” who participated in the January 6 insurrection in the U.S. Capital and the ways his dress and tattoos reflected long-standing nationalist and racist themes in High Fantasy. Across this conversation, Hedges ...
Mar 11, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 81
Is it a bird? Is it a rhopalocera? Is it a flying bipedal anthropoid? It's all three! Naturally, today's media recommendations come from the delightful James Paul Gee, who gave us some insights about all three of those animals last week. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at [email protected]. Music: “In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X. In Time (Ins...
Mar 02, 2021•1 min
This week we host James Paul Gee , recently retired Arizona State University professor and researcher in a plethora of topics including psycholinguistics and discourse analysis. As we talk about his latest book, What Is a Human? Language, Mind, and Culture , Gee casually uplifts our fundamental understanding of what it means to be, well, human and how we’ve severely underestimated animal intelligence and overestimated our own. We discuss the significance of identity signals throughout anthropolo...
Feb 25, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 80
This week, a pleasantly unexpected list of media recommendations comes from guests of our latest episode, Talia Stroud and Eli Pariser of Civic Signals, an organization dedicated to reimagine digital environments to be better public spaces, much like how humanity has strived to build healthy, flourishing civic spaces in the real world for millennia! –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us a...
Feb 23, 2021•3 min
This week we’re joined by Talia Stroud , Director of the Center for Media Engagement at The University of Texas at Austin, and Eli Pariser , formerly of Upworthy and MoveOn and author of The Filter Bubble , to talk about their latest project, Civic Signals/New Public . After several rounds of conversation on “what’s wrong with social media and how can we fix it?” Talia and Eli started Civic Signals to try to fill the gap between necessary critiques of our current online spaces and creating digit...
Feb 18, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 79
Did y'all enjoy our first episode of this season? Parmesh Shahani certainly inspired us about imagining more diverse and accepting societies by focusing on compelling narratives that shatter prejudices. And with that, this week's media recommendations are exactly those that make Parmesh hopeful about the future! –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at [email protected]...
Feb 16, 2021•3 min
This week we welcome Parmesh Shahani , founder of the Godrej India Culture Lab and author of Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)longing in Contemporary India and Queeristan: LGBTQ Inclusion in the Indian Workplace . While Parmesh was eating his blueberry cake and drinking coffee to start his day, the sun was setting in Los Angeles. Across this conversation, we explore his journey to the United States and how his time at MIT changed his world view; the legal and political struggles over LGBT...
Feb 11, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 78
News-flash! We'll be releasing our first regular episode for this season of How Do You Like It So Far this Thursday. But before you tune into Henry and Colin's riveting discussions, we have our weekly media recommendations! This week we have Dexter Thomas, a correspondent for Vice News and a scholar of Japanese Hip Hop. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at howdoyoulikeitsofarpodcast@g...
Feb 09, 2021•4 min
This week's media recommendations are from two USC scholars who found out the impact of skateboarding culture on youth: Zoë Corwin, director of Digital Equity in Education project for the Pullias Center of Higher Education, and Neftalie Williams, whose research with the 2019-2020 USC x Tony Hawk Foundation project is the first national effort to study the impact skateboarding has on young people and their educational and career trajectories. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Share your thoughts via...
Feb 02, 2021•5 min
With a new Spring Semester starting for many of us, we should remind ourselves of the importance of "play" in both civic and academic endeavors! This week's media recommendations come from Reanne Estrada, Creative Director of Public Matters, a Los Angeles-based creative studio for civic engagement, and Benjamin Stokes, Assistant Professor at American University and Director of The Playful City Lab. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do Yo...
Jan 26, 2021•4 min
