In this episode of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Pastor Alexa from First Olympia UMC to discuss Kim's Convenience, the Korean Army, ignorance, unconscious bias, decentering ourselves when we seek to repair damaged relationships, white guilt, and spoons.
Learn more about ARFC: https://bravestfire.com/arfc
Watch a table read from the original cast for a charity stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2TYM542nx0
In this episode of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Miss Brittney from First Olympia UMC to discuss The Book of Life, Mexican culture, All Saints Day, traffic lights, bullfighters, and how we can foster curiosity in children to grow their cultural awareness.
Learn more about ARFC: https://bravestfire.com/arfc
Read some reviews of the film:
https://medium.com/@lauragba39/the-book-of-life-a-cultural-metamorphosis-41992ea59b7d
In this episode of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Pastor Alexa from First Olympia UMC to discuss The Wiz, colorism, Motown Productions, L Frank Baum, learned incompetence, and how to negotiate the "canon" of beloved adaptations.
Learn more about ARFC: https://bravestfire.com
Read some reviews of the film:
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anxiety/articles/what-the-wiz-was-and-is-to-black-culture
https://heycheyennehey.com/2016/08/20/the-unapologetic-blackness-of-the-wiz/
In this episode of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Pastor Kellen from Tumwater UMC to discuss Creed, boxing films, healthy masculinity, Michael B Jordan, Ryan Coogler's filmography, Philadelphia, and the repeated subversion of genre expectations .
In this episode of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Pastor Heather from First Olympia UMC to discuss West Side Story, musicals, gang violence, gentrification, trans representation, accuracy vs authenticity, Rita Moreno, and a few flaws in the American Dream.
Find more info about the ARFC here: https://fumcoly.org
Read the NY Times article Lauren mentioned:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/opinion/west-side-story-broadway.html
Watch a video essay on changes between the 1961 and 2021 versions of the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwGsNPHvghU&ab_channel=BeKindRewind
In this episode of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Pastor Kelly from Shelton UMC to discuss Next Goal Wins, deconstructing the white savior, soccer, satire, Taika Waititi, American Samoan culture, and trans representation.
Find more info about the ARFC here: https://fumcoly.org
In this episode of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Pastor Alexa from First Olympia UMC to discuss The Wind Rises, anime, complicity, Studio Ghibli, resisting the spiritual forces of wickedness, secret police, and the beautiful cursed dreams in our world today.
Find more info about the ARFC here: https://fumcoly.org
Watch Miyazaki animate the last frames of this movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFIE-ISqNoU&ab_channel=GermainLussier
Read an online review: https://cinemafromthespectrum.com/2016/05/26/the-wind-rises-review/
In this episode of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Pastor Kellen from Tumwater UMC to discuss Flamin' Hot, Cheetos, representation, problematic endorsement of capitalism, initiative, and how the flavors of a Mexican neighborhood changed chips forever.
Find more info about the ARFC here: https://fumcoly.org
Read the articles Pastor Kellen mentioned:
https://www.latinorebels.com/2023/06/09/flaminhotreview/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/opinion/flamin-hot-propaganda.html
In this episode of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Pastor Heather from First Olympia UMC to discuss The Six Triple Eight, historical dramas, systematic racism, Major Charity Adams, intersectionality, and the heroism of these forgotten American soldiers.
Find more info about the ARFC here: https://fumcoly.org
Watch an interview with Kerry Washington: https://youtu.be/LS2Rnq4sCpk
In this episode of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Pastor Kelly from Shelton UMC to discuss Stamped From The Beginning, the myth of Whiteness, Harriet Jacobs, the evolution of lynching into police brutality, Black progress, and questions we should all ask ourselves about the myths we've been taught (or might still believe).
Find more info about the ARFC here: https://fumcoly.org
In this episode of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Pastor Alexa from First Olympia UMC to discuss See You Yesterday, Black excellence, time travel ethics, sucking teeth, Caribbean influence, 40 Acres and a Mule.
Find more info about the ARFC here: https://fumcoly.org
Read the articles Pastor Alexa mentioned:
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/see-you-yesterday-2019
Watch a video on the culture of sucking teeth: https://youtu.be/l9x84MgFwYQ?si=rOoH7-yBSkl0Fk0x https://www.ankataa.com/blog/suck-teeth-in-west-africa
In this episode of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Pastor Kellen from Tumwater UMC to discuss Christmas in the Clouds, the vile history of Indigenous peoples on screen, subversive normalcy, fantasy romance novels, militant vegetarians, and goofy holiday hijinks.
Find more info about the ARFC here: https://fumcoly.org
Read the article Pastor Kellen mentioned:
Watch a short interview with Marian Tosca: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCxIRQUxAKE&ab_channel=argosgem
In this episode of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Pastor Heather from First Olympia UMC to discuss Black-ish, sitcoms, bi-racial identities, Black History Month, Lewis Howard Latimer, and what it looks like to learn through laughter.
Find more info about the ARFC here: https://fumcoly.org Watch an interview with the cast: https://youtu.be/cDQxanaj0H0?si=FJj-33XqwTIUz_J9
In this spooky kickoff to season 3 of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Pastor Denise from St Andrews UMC to discuss Nope, horror movies, exploitation, jellyfish anatomy, processing trauma, and the inherent contradictions of spectacle.
Find more info about the ARFC here: https://fumcoly.org
Get on the ARFC mailing list: multimedia@fumcoly.org
Watch a video essay on the theme of spectacle in Nope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n74ZpnPY_yI&ab_channel=ThomasFlight
Watch and interview with the cast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__SNN6xpFx4&t=941s&ab_channel=EntertainmentWeekly
TW: Discussion of Sexual Assault
In this episode of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Pastor Alexa from First Olympia UMC to discuss The Woman King, white greed, the Agojie, how community fights patriarchy, TULIP, Afrofuturism, and the beasts we must name to heal together.
Find more info about the ARFC here: https://fumcoly.org
Listen to the podcast Pastor Alexa referenced: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/623/we-are-in-the-future-2017 Watch an interview with the cast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBYm8uyLZ78
Octavia Butler: https://www.octaviabutler.com/
NM Jemisin: https://nkjemisin.com/
In this episode of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Pastor Kelly from Shelton UMC to discuss 42, baseball, segregation, the color of greed, racial slurs, hate mail, and the exceptional life of Jackie Robinson.
Find more info about the ARFC here: https://fumcoly.org
Read a few reviews of the film when it first came out:
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/movies/42-with-chadwick-boseman-as-jackie-robinson.html
See you next month!
In this episode of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Brittney Gilleland from First Olympia UMC to discuss Kung Fu Panda 2, children's ministry, inner peace, processing trauma, found family, and why the difficulty of anti-racist discussion is a necessary burden.
Find more info about the ARFC here: https://fumcoly.org
Watch a cultural breakdown of the first Kung Fu Panda film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1eHIfUyYfs&ab_channel=XiranJayZhao
See you next month!
In this episode of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Pastor Heather from First Olympia UMC to discuss Bend It Like Beckham, soccer, LGBTQ+ themes, hypocrisy, curry, and navigating the preservation of culture in diaspora.
Find more info about the ARFC here: https://fumcoly.org
Read my college paper (for fun!): https://storage2.snappages.site/JDVQQW/assets/files/ENG-464-Final.pdf
Watch an interview with Gurinder Chada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shnHWt_-jHg
See you next month!
TW: discussion of sexual assault, self-harm, and violence
In this episode of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Pastor Kellen and Laura Edmonston from Tumwater UMC to discuss Wind River, the historical portrayal of "cowboys and Indians" on film, cultural genocide, coyotes, systemic barriers to justice, and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Crisis.
Find more info about the ARFC here: https://fumcoly.org
Learn more about the MMIW movement:
https://www.nativehope.org/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-mmiw
https://www.nativehope.org/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-mmiw
https://www.wsp.wa.gov/crime/alerts-missing-persons/missing-indigenous-persons/
https://www.king5.com/article/news/community/facing-race/missing-indegenous-women-people-in-washington-state/281-488a7687-bafc-49dd-9d0d-b38fdc46844a
https://apnews.com/article/indigenous-people-cold-case-unit-washington-96a1bab5f5e124c3d8b183c688733983
https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/treaty-justice-revisits-the-1974-boldt-decision-and-its-far-reaching-impacts/
Read the article Pastor Kellen mentioned:
https://www.hcn.org/issues/49-18/tribal-affairs-why-do-white-writers-keep-making-films-about-indian-country/
See you next month!
In this alternate universe episode of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Pastor Alexa sits down with Lauren to discuss Lilo & Stitch, deleted scenes, alienation, the Hawaiian language, the insidious tourist industry, Pudge the magic weather-controlling fish, and how this film walks the fine line between cultural appreciation and appropriation.
Find more info about the ARFC here: https://fumcoly.org
Read the essay we mentioned about Aloha 'Oe: https://scholarworks.seattleu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1020&context=suurj
Watch some BTS footage:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd2SlEFuj4o&ab_channel=Arrghigiveup