@farai

Independent media creator and researcher. Former host @OurBodyPolitic. Author of six books.

 NYC and Globally
farai.com/our-body-politic
Joined January 2009
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Idea: UHNW family offices create an intelligence service to better understand America, meet opportunities, and respond to threats. livingpolitics.substack.com/…
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I’m “neurospicy” too… my journey to understand myself and the arc between nurodivrgence and disability. open.substack.com/pub/living…
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Shasta’s recent election signals shift in what California’s most conservative voters will tolerate shastascout.org/shastas-rece…

Shasta’s recent election signals shift in what California’s most conservative voters will tolerate...

Interviews with about two dozen sources — including former, current and future county leaders — suggest the result of Shasta County's June election was less a rejection of conservatism than of a...

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Black Women Should Shut Up and Sit Down -- the case for NOT doing unpaid civic labor open.substack.com/pub/living…
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Episode 1 of AMERICAN COLONY, the story of Puerto Rico thelatinonewsletter.org/p/we… via @julito77

We Are a Colony / Somos Colonia

Episode 1 of AMERICAN COLONY

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Why Don't We Just Build Our Own Fucking AI Company? A Digital Emancipation Proclamation. livingpolitics.substack.com/…
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It's the kleptocracy, stupid: A reflection on money, government, and meritocracy. livingpolitics.substack.com/…
🤖 Made with AI
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Personal essay: What it feels like to know you're not the generation that fixes it... livingpolitics.substack.com/…
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Personal essay: Employment Discrimation Robbed Me of Having a Child livingpolitics.substack.com/…
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. @WNYC and Laura Walker failed to protect me from serial abuser John Hockenberry. I left the workplace; had to spend down savings for having a child; and never had a family. Real world consequences. Working on a memoir. Email [email protected] if I can interview you.
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Meanwhile, Walker and Hockenberry both have children. They deliberately harmed many people, and got money and security. There are so many layers to this including financial harms to the station for paying hush money.
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Requiem for An American Dream -- when black women, or anyone, loses because meritocracy fails, we all lose . open.substack.com/pub/living…
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What will you say when your children or godkids ask you what you did to prevent or end the democrapocalypse?
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Now's the time to plan and protect yourself from possible political violence in 2028. open.substack.com/pub/living…
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Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT politi.co/4qGv7Rh via @politico

Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT

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We're live! Call in....
Farai Chideya@faraiJan 26
Hot tea for a cold day: On @MiddayWYPR at noon, I'll be interviewing Maryland Labor Secretary Portia Wu about the jobs big picture, and other experts about black women's employment... plus career advice! Call or email with your questions: 410-662-8780 & [email protected]
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Hot tea for a cold day: On @MiddayWYPR at noon, I'll be interviewing Maryland Labor Secretary Portia Wu about the jobs big picture, and other experts about black women's employment... plus career advice! Call or email with your questions: 410-662-8780 & [email protected]
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I remain tremendously proud of this documentary I co-produced and hosted about investigators on the January 6 committee. Well worth a listen/re-listen. ourbodypolitic.com/jan6

January 6th

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Rest in power Alice. I will miss you. washingtonpost.com/obituarie…

Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51

Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.

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