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Stay In The Sun is a bi-weekly audio series from the POV of two Caribbean American M.S.W. (Master's of Social Work) millennials Toni (@FatBlackLuxury) and Alexis (@FromAlexisNicole) who met while working on behalf of Black and Brown women & femmes. After building sisterhood, engaging in much needed turn ups, culture dialogue, and shared truths, Toni and Alexis decided to share these thoughts and create a space for some Black girl politicking and joy. Listen as Toni and Alexis give culturally responsive commentary on news, music, politics, current events, scholarship, and whatever our personal lives throw at us. In each episode we’ll dive into aspects of our identities and will engage in conversation on what it’s like navigating life as a Black millennial. There will be plenty of laughs, cultural colloquialisms, and guests who will be able to provide more to the conversation.Hopefully you'll grow with us and we'll grow with you! Follow Us on Twitter & IG: @StayintheSunPod

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[Episode 23] Whose Gaze Is It Anyway?

June 02, 2021 • Stay In The Sun

Alexis and Toni are heading back to CARNIVAL ROAD! Miami Carnival is a GO for 2021 and yall know your girls are coming to mash it up, shell it dung, and tun it ovah! Bonnets, Ari Lennox, BET Award Nominations. Whew, what gaze are we all performing for anyway? In this episode, we discuss folks pushback against Ari Lennox and her change of aesthetics, featurism, fatphobia, and desirability politics and what does that mean or does it mean anything. The BET nominations are colorist and they need to start gatekeeping Blackness forreal forreal, but there's nothing new there. And yall know we had to get in on this "bonnet debacle" and all the misogynoir it's giving. But also, are we wearing our bonnets outside? Take a listen and let us know your thoughts on bnnets, Ari, and everything else.