Content Note: This episode contains discussions of slavery, racism, sexual assault, harassment, hate crimes, violence, abuse, murder, and more. We start off by discussing a gruesome lynching that happens in the miniseries, and we also talk about modern events of white supremacy and violence against Black people. It’s a heavy discussion. We think it was worth having, but we wanted you to be prepared.
Nuance Vivian joins us to talk about a miniseries that made her think a lot about her own experiences as a mixed race person, Alex Haley’s Queen. This discussion is a lot more serious than our usual episodes, and as there’s a lot to unpack, we’re breaking it into two parts. This is Part 2.
Nuance plays a cleric in the actual play podcast Fast Times at D&D High, and she’s on staff for some Boston area LARPS. She’s @Shadowravyn on Twitter.
Image Description: Danny Glover as Alec Haley and Halle Berry as Queen on their wedding day.
Alex Haley’s Queen is a three part miniseries based on a novel about Alex Haley’s grandmother, who was the daughter of a Black slave woman and a white plantation owner man. The story follows her from birth through old age and covers the entire second half of the 19th century.
Nuance brought up a few things including:
Soujourner Truth’s famous speech from the 1851 Women’s Convention, which may not have been delivered in the way people most often assume.
The WGN series Underground, featuring Jurnee Smollett as another light skinned Black person working for white people.
The Whitney Plantation is not far from New Orleans. You can visit and learn about the experiences of slaves who lived there.
If you want to hear Nuance discussing something lighter, she discussed Garfield’s Halloween Adventure with us as a paid subscriber bonus just a few days ago! We were relieved to find that though it was spooky, it was much less horrifying than Garfield’s Thanksgiving was…
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