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

https://www.pajiba.com/film_reviews/42-review-a-black-story-told-by-a-white-man-full-of-sound-and-fury-signifying-little.php

https://www.mic.com/articles/32663/42-movie-review-film-enables-public-to-discuss-racism-in-entertaining-way

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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

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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

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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/

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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

In this episode of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Pastor Kelly from Shelton UMC to discuss the original adaptation of The Color Purple, the portrayal of black men on film, Steven Spielberg, white supremacy in prisons, Hollywood marketing, and the holistic beauty of black joy.

Find more info about the ARFC here: https://fumcoly.org

Read the Clarence Page article I mentioned: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1986-03-30-8601230650-story.html

EDIT: the information I was referring to was actually from this NY Times article. My bad: https://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/27/us/blacks-in-heated-debate-over-the-color-purple.html

Watch an interview with Whoopi Goldberg about some of the film's controversy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIh4uaLyJMI&t=4s&ab_channel=FoundationINTERVIEWS

Watch LOTS of behind the scenes footage from the filmmakers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfVlK58Zm-g&ab_channel=WarnerBros.Entertainment

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To kick off an exciting new year of Anti-Racist Film Club, Lauren sits down with two members of the South Sound Co-op: Kim Fuchs and Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger (a retired NASA astronaut herself) to discuss the film A Million miles Away (2023), butterflies, influential teachers, the harmful narrative of sacrificing heritage for success, three American tragedies, and bringing tacos to space.

Find more info about the ARFC here: https://fumcoly.org

Watch an interview with the REAL Jose Hernandez:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ACcI_Ede9o&t=444s&ab_channel=ABCNews

Watch a interview with Michael Pena (who played him in the film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7MBYIvtm1g&ab_channel=SAG-AFTRAFoundation

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In this episode of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Pastor Heather from First Olympia UMC to discuss the film Black Nativity (2013), musicals, historical context for the birth of Jesus, avant garde dream dancing, holiday welcome, and the enduring legacy of Langston Hughes. 

Find more info about the ARFC here: https://fumcoly.org

Read "Harlem" by Langston Hughes: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46548/harlem

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