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Quinta Brunson was a delight in her second time hosting on May 3, 2025. Her presence was refreshing and she carried her sketches with a joy that was infectious. We discuss the inside humor of racial epithets on Weekend Update: Two Applebee’s Barflies Duke and Darlene, the complicated experience of laughing at oneself in Two Bitches vs. a Gorilla and Forever 31, and the racial politics of time in Will and Todd’s Radical Experience. Readings include a SCOTUS briefing on racial epithets, explorations of intersectional womanhood, and “The Chronopolitics of Racial Time,” a 2020 essay by Charles Mills. Check out more videos in additional resources along with our reflections on Quinta’s hosting debut in S48E16 back when we called the podcast, “Monday Not Live.” 

Listen on Libsyn: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/36850455

Readings

Anderson, L. (2018). Calling, addressing, and appropriation. In D. Sosa (Ed), Bad words (pp 6-28), University of Oxford. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Bad_Words/c5FlDwAAQBAJ 

Chappell, B. (2017 June 19). The Slants Win Supreme Court Battle Over Band’s Name In Trademark Dispute. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/19/533514196/the-slants-win-supreme-court-battle-over-bands-name-in-trademark-dispute 

Matal v. Tam (2017). https://www.oyez.org/cases/2016/15-1293 

Melton, D. (2021 March). “Racism has broadened ‘Black time’ to an always and everywhere” https://psyche.co/ideas/racism-has-broadened-black-time-to-an-always-and-everywhere 

Mills, C. (2020) “The Chronopolitics of Racial Time” Time and Society, 29(2) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0961463X20903650

Scott, K. D. (2013). Communication strategies across cultural borders: Dispelling stereotypes, performing competence, and redefining Black womanhood. Women’s Studies in Communication, 36(3), 312-329. https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2013.831005 

Additional Resources 

Black American Timeline w/ Cheryl Grills (2014). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnpK_Ywcm0w  

Stop Asking Black People If They Want To Time Travel | The Amber Ruffin Show (2022 March 4) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4tG7wA2vqg