Do The Kids Know?
Episodes
77 episodes
...About Our Season 3 Finale?
Transcript (PDF) available here.Hey kids, we're back to close out the year with a little reflection on the past year season/year and wha...
...About Long Term Housing?
Transcript (PDF) available here.Fancy a game of Canadian real estate vs. literal European castles, anyone?The housing situation is b...
...About the Impacts of Airbnb
Transcript coming soon. This episode, we talk about how Airbnb is really messing things up for local communities. For further reading:Help S...
...About the Decent Work and Health Network?
Transcript (PDF) available here.We're back with a guest episode including friend of the pod, Yasmin, who joined us to talk about health ...
...These New (to us) Media?
Hey kids, we're back with an actual new episode! We're resuming Season 3 on a monthly schedule (shout out to doing less!) and we're starting off easy with a reflection for some of our top TV watches and recommendations from the past year. ...
[Revisiting]...How to Self Care?
Transcript available here. Hey, kids! After some much-needed rest, we're coming back next month with new episodes! In the...
[Revisiting]...About Environmental Racism?
While we're still on hiatus, we are republishing this episode from Season 1 that we think is worth revisiting as climate emergencies and its effects are felt around the world. Take care out there. See you soon.------Transcript <...
...About Health Care News?
This week we discuss topics in the Canadian health care news, including a possible breakthrough COVID discovery, and the problems with selling plasma and Doug Ford's (and since recording, François Legault's) plans for instituting private health...
...About The Peel Police's Nonsense?
We're taking a trip back to our hometown to talk about the nonsense that is the new Peel Police's anti-racism committee and why efforts like these, while look nice, do nothing. References:
...About the Status Quo?
Transcript available here. We rant about the status quo in Canada to be continually responding to crisis rather than approach problems with...
...What Makes "Good" TV? (Part 2)
Transcript available here.We finish the list of 5 "perfect" shows we would teach in a class and end with some honourable mentions we think ...
...What Makes "Good" TV? (Part 1)
Transcript available here.Fun, pop culture, episode this week inspired by
...About Digital Blackface?
Following our last episode, we talk about the phenomenon of "Digital Blackface", what it means, and if it's ok to use memes of Black people if you're not yourself Black. ------Do The Kids Know? is a biweekly series ...
...About Blackface?
Transcript available here.Part 1 of 2, we lay down some historical and contemporary information around the practice of blackface, why it's ...
...About Being "Overeducated"?
Transcript available here.This week we discuss the Twitter debate around being too "overeducated" and how it is misogynistic nonsense. We a...
...About Diversity Hiring Practices?
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...Why DEI is a Scam?
Transcript available here.We're back again on our frustrated rants talking about DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) and how often vario...
...That You Can't Spell "Professionalism" Without "Racism"?
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...About White Flight?
Transcript available here.We talk about white fragility in housing, wtf an "ethnoburb" is, and more exasperation around white nonsense, xeno...
...About Body Neutrality?
Transcript available here.As a follow up to our conversation about Body Positivity (Season 1 Episode 7), we discuss this
...Whether to Decriminalize or Legalize Drugs?
Transcript available here.This is part one of a two-parter in which we discuss the merits and pitfalls around the decriminalization vs legal...
...About Fetishizing Fatness?
Transcript available here.We follow up previous discussions we've had about fetishizing racialized identities (see Season 2, Episode...
...About Allyship Regression?
Transcript available here.It's been over a year since will talked to y'all about how to be good allies (Season 1, Episode 1) and yet it seem...