Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast
Episodes
Everybody Don't Need to Be in Everything Unless They are White: Empire Blues and White Lies
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We're back, ya'll! Join us for another episode in the terrordome: What does freedom look like? white "rappers" and all manner of wiggerish nonsense t...
Heated Rivalry: A Yearning for D!ck and Crude Oil featuring Bryson Rose
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This Episode is dedicated to the People (those living and fighting another day from Venezuela to Iran to Minneapolis to N.E.W. Oakland to Chicago to B...
What's Love Got to Do With It: The World is Organized by its Hatred of Black People, But...
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
...we are not allowed to hate in return. Does whiteness make room for love? Does it have the capacity to do so? I think Aileen Wuornos may have been...
Desirability Part 2: Disobeying white Eurocentric Beauty Standards
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
...And the beauty of not falling in line. Ya'll asked, we complied: the desirability episode part 2! A special ask: if you liked what you heard and...
On Desirability: Karl Marx, Beyonce, and You feat Deme & Isaiah
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is dedicated to the life of Selamawit D. Terrefe, George Jackson and Jonathan Jackson. Rest in Power. Free Em All Join us for a very spe...
Pride of Mass Destruction: Do You Want The Aesthetic of Freedom or to Actually Be Free?
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is dedicated to the life and memory of Adriana Smith Donate to the Celebration of Black Transwomen Cookout in NYC: https://www.gofundme....
The Merrells to Misogyny Pipeline: What Mr. Charlie/Sanders/Schulz Taught You About Being a Man
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
-Said another way, all the lies white cis men have told Black cis men about manhood (p1)--Happy Pride! - They thought they found "aMerIKA" and the ni...
Put Some Lulu on My Butt While Whitey's on the Moon: What's a Life Worth...
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
...under global racial capitalism and whose lives are seen as valuable in the first place? What makes a life worth living to those who decide whether ...
Restoring American Values: Buying Skims in a Lonely Sundown Town
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode dedicated to the memory of Sam Nordquist (Rest in Power) Free Melissa Atwell-Holder, Rumeysa Ozturk, Mahmoud Khalil NOW Free Em All Justice f...
New DEI, Same Ol' Ethnostate: Desperation, Extermination, Imitation
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you'd like to join the Spring 2025 Cohort for Sex Ed as Resistance, apply here!: https://ihartericka.com/sex-ed-as-resistance/ "Racism and raciall...
Bipartisan Genocide: Don't Blame the Colonized for the Colony's Design
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
...What we finna do come tomorrow? ...especially if the overseer of your choice doesn't win ...will you fear power or contest with it? A hallmark fe...
There's No Democracy to Save and No One is Telling Ya'll Not to Vote: Hammer, Sickles & Stickers
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Intro: Fannie Lou Hamer's Credentials Committee Testimony (1964) for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party which she co-founded. https://www.youtub...
Painting the Rainbow Green: The White Cisgaytriarchy’s Oeuvre of the Almighty Dollar
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alt episode titles: Somewhere Over the Chase Bank, There is Community and Solidarity They Just Want Our Money, Not Our Pride: The Rainbow Capitalism...
Until Black Trans Women are Free, Ya'll Will Have Macklemore Ol' Bleach Blonde Ass ft Elle Moxley
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
No Pride without Black Trans Liberation and Reparations--Not Rations, Pooh. Black trans liberation, much like Black liberation and the liberation of ...
Don't fall for the okey doke: Anti-Blackness is Divisive and Perpetuates Settler Colonial Violence
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For Hind, For Dexter, For Wadea, For Jordan and all others whose names go underreported, whose lives are undervauled, whose resistance is met with no ...
Who Tf Was I Friends With? Community and Friendships in the Age of Aquarius feat Elle Moxley
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Parts 1 and 2 If the shoe fit, go grab some socks "without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice betwee...
Be a Revolution or Get *Swallooowed* Up feat Ijeoma Oluo
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alternate episode titles: -Be a Revolution or Keep it Moving, either way don't step on a n*gga toes -Just Circling Back to Next Steps from 2020 -Ijeom...
Resting My Eyes (with a pistol in my apron): Tricia Hersey's Ministry is About More Than Naps
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
...and can save your life. Join us for a very special episode of Black People Tell Black History with the one and only Tricia Hersey (IG @thenapminist...
While White People Didn't Create Country Music, They Did Manage to Invent Colorism feat. Mayowa
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
...it is now a multiracial collaboration, an amerikkkan "folk" tradition, if you will. From its pseudoscientific, colonial roots to nick cannon, join...
Saifa is Not About the Silos: What Black Intersex Justice Got to do With It? Everything.
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” ― Audre Lorde Join us in discussing the Black in...
Twin, Where Have You Been?: A Tender Conversation with Dr. Joy James
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alternate episode titles: -Dr. Joy James Might Break the Internet If You Would Let Her Upgrade You -This is a wonderful, Establishment, Trump and Swi...
Black Midwives Existed Before Doctors and are Still Delivering Us Today ft. Racha
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Traditional Midwives were criminalized, exploited and erased, their 1000 year old practices mined to create the field of obstetrics and this marginali...
From the river to the sea (who gon check me boo?): Someday We'll All Be Free
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's me again...and we're back... Alternate episode titles: -One genocide minds -Destabilize, Disrupt and Destroy: US Foreign Policy in Palestine, Sy...
Gettin' Free: A Juneteenth Collaboration
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gettin’ Free! : A Juneteenth Collaboration brought to you by Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast. We know that history is told from the side of th...
Why Ya'll Gagging Tho: Black Queer and Trans Origins of Club, House and Techno Ft. Deborah Conton
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
And disco and every other offshoot and derivative therein. Argue with my mom, who was there and could tell you. Black queer and trans people were forc...
The Spiritual Experiences of Negros--Stolen: All "American" Music is Black Music Feat Patience Sings
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Or alt title: Stealing Negros Spiritual Experiences. And I don't know how many times we have to say this. Even the existence of such a thing as "Ameri...
Are US schools really desegregated if Black history is illegal? Feat. Liz Thompson
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Day 3: Black People Tell Black History feat Liz Thompson. 69 Years after Brown v Board of Education and 59 years after 464,000 Black NYC public schoo...
Intersex People Be Clapping Cheeks Too feat. Saifa Wall
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Day 2: Black People Tell Black History featuring the number one cheek-clapper-in-residence---activist, researcher and scholar Saifa Wall (@saifaemerge...
Living in the Last Days of Antiblackness and Transphobia feat. J Mase III
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Day 1: Black People Tell Black History with J Mase III (@jmaseiii) In the beginning there was the Word and the Word was with God but it was also like...
What is Brown?: The Fear and Future of a Black Planet feat. Alan Pelaez(@Migrantscribble)
11 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
BIPOC, POC, NBPOC and other acronyms for Others...what are their origins and how do they inform a desire for and distance from Blackness across nation...
You Can't Tax the Rich in an Oligarchy: Haiti, Afghanistan, Upper East Side Goddam
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A longie but goodie just in time for the fall of US imperialist projects in Afghanistan...and autumn. TLDR: It’s giving very much hating on the not ...
The Negro Problem and Asian Hate: The Fight for White
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is dedicated to the memory and power of the victims of white domestic terrorism in Atlanta, the survivors and their families as well as t...
Our Election System is Based on 5 Black Ppl Being Worth 3 white but the US is definitely a Democracy
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I know because my fascist government that sends its CIA to destabilize other countries it criticizes for not being democracies in bloody coups that ki...
White Ppl Can't Get Cancelled: The Bezos You Know; The Hankinsons, Cosgroves and Mattinglys You Dont
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
And the Epsteins, the Michael Wolls, the Roger Stones, the Alexander Hamiltons, the David Starkeys, the Stephen Millers, the William Barrs, the Joe Bi...
When the Chickens Come Home to Roost They Will Be Seasoned
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There is a genocide against Black people in the United States happening now and white people are intentionally killing us while other white people, in...
30 Days A Slav--Essential: Disposable Tomorrow.
17 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's business as usual in AmeriKKKa...a state of emergency has been declared in New York State yet rent is still due all the same. Black people still ...
Washing Our Hands of White Supremacy: Coronavirus and all the Other Pandemics #Suspend Rent Now!
21 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Suspend Rent Now. Tweet, call your state and local elected officials, send them letters, sign existing petitions like this one or create your own: htt...
Hell in a Handbasket: Which Old White Person You Voting For? #Notmeyall
10 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alternative episode names: -Bandaid over a Gunshot Wound: #Notmeus2020 -I don’t care who you vote for just get your hand outta my pocket -Bush, Ber...
Love is Love...Or is it Tho? The Interracial Dating Episode
03 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Does black love include white people (or anyone who isn't black)? We all know the answer to that. Pack a lunch---this is a long one with an extended r...
Toxic Masculinity: How to be a White Cis Man 101
21 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
From Rockefeller's Standard Oil monopoly of America's early industrialization period to the "only Christopher we acknowledge", the drive to forgive th...
Everything's #Epic, Everyone's #Iconic, Everybody's #Dead: The Internet
30 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This internet shit is fake as fuck and it's hard to navigate--join us as we attempt to. Highly Recommended Reading: Algorithms of Oppression: How Se...
The Light Skin Elephant in the Room---Colorism
12 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for one of an ongoing conversation on colorism--the light skin elephant in the room; seldom talked about but no less visible when we walk down...
Two Geminis and a Sag Walk into C.O.G.I.C. on Mothers Day feat. Elle Hearns (@soulfreedreams)
10 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ramadan Mubarak! Join us for an intimate conversation with our special guest veteran organizer, renown writer and co-founder of the Black Lives Matte...
What is Black? Happy April Fools Year & the Words They Say to Make us Think They Aren't Bigots.
02 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
And what exactly do ya'll mean by "woke" when you say it in response to people resisting their own subjugation? Why would Van Jones applaud right wing...
Stop KonMari'ing Ya'll racism: Bernie, Kamala & What Won't Bring You Joy (reparations) in 2020
01 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Black Everything At All Times and Happy Black Hixtory Month. Join us for our first lil episode of 2019 and I'm already not having it. Alternati...
So We All on the Same Page in 2019: Gentrification is not Normal, it's Intentional ft. @Ecofeminista
21 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
FREE CYNTOIA FIRST AND FOREMOST: https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/free-cyntoia-brown Get this so we can all be on the same page in 2019: Gentrificat...
Gone til November: You Want Voting to End Oppression So You Won't Have To Featuring @iischristy
06 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"I know there's voter suppression but... "I know it won't change anything but... "Stop complaining and vote but... "Don't you dare sit at home and do ...
Will the World Ever Change or it Will it Continue to White?
04 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Is the World Cruel or is it just White? Will it ever change? How is changed defined? Who gets to decide? Greater good or creating change---are the...
Everybody wanna be black til it's time to be white: Non-Black POC & AAVE in service of Antiblackness
21 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
AAVE=African American Vernacular English POC= People of Color This Episode could have had a couple of names: No one wins when veiled anti-blackness ...
Whathahappened Was: Niggas in Andalucia & also Paris & London (Ep. Dedicated to Milan & Mama Rose)
24 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Back like we left something, Ericka and I just been in Europe where global anti-blackness (and baguettes) abound. It was hella racist but was it worth...
Happy Pride: We are Coming OUT!
05 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
You want me to come out but get mad when I call you out. The name of this episode could have been "Congratulatory, Aggrandizing and Gross" but it's ...
This is America: Black Cis Men Never Held Accountable for Selling Out Black Pain for White Pleasure
09 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
WHITE CIS MEN HAVE COMMITTED MORE MASS SHOOTINGS IN THE US THAN ANY OTHER GROUP...but I'm sleep. Black people are murdered and it’s an idea for a s...
Black People Die and People Theorize about their Deaths: Typical Day in America
12 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Typical day in America: people die at the hands of antiblack racism, people theorize about their deaths. An intellectual distancing from the deaths of...
Diversity and Inclusion is for White People: Beyond Bruno Mars, and the Love of Light Skin
14 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
https://www.patreon.com/seren_sensei "The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations which we seek to escape, but t...
A Revolution Televised and Paid for by Disney: Black Superheroes for the White Imagination
21 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine that: a vision of Africa that puts the onus of "what it could have been" on an imaginative restructuring of a whole 53 country continent while...
Astrology Takin' Over for the 99 and the Two Thou: A Chani Nicholas Gamesgiving
31 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Lots of memes declaring snarky platitudes and generalizing quips about astrological signs (e.g., what each sign would do in a horror movie, lots of ot...
#TimesUp on Defending Rich White People and Oprah: A Defense of Those Who Don't
11 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
H & m and how companies stocks go up when they stoke black peoples' anger in order to get a rise out of the market and oh, yeah, the Golden Globes. T...
When Black Scholars Fonk, a Cismas Miracle, a Look Ahead on the Late Night Tip
29 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Our last episode of the best and blackest year yet, we leaving 2017 with a pillar of salt in its wake. Recommended Reading on Obama Admin's mixed, n...
Cuffing Sagittarius Seasonal Affective Disorder: Winter with the shit
27 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A special winter is coming edition of HRHW where we reveal the ultimate gag about instagram activism, GOP tax cuts and how to be sad, mad and possibly...
October is Weird
20 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Strange happenings that have nothing to do with Halloween, roaches at the W, one #metoo too many, and a live troll on this latest catch-up episode of ...
How We Love and Why Even Bother: The Black/Queer Way
05 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We're just being hella vulnerable with each other about relationships, including friendships, how and why they end and the traumas and triumphs that i...
Can Distraction be Decolonizing?
29 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Said lil b***h (anxiety) you can't f**k w/ me (you could) if you wanted to: Fenty, Football, Fanfare and Puerto Rican-U.S. diplomacy for dummies Tip...
Gender 101: The Binary Won't Save You
20 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Refusing to acknowledge how gender works isn't doing you any favors, so gather round for this long awaited, very special teach-in episode w/ Resident ...
DACA is Racist and Anti-Poor
08 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
While DACA certainly isn't the enemy, patently xenophobic and anti-poor US Immigration Policy is certainly not a friend to those seeking refuge and op...
AFTERPunk: We Reminisce Over You, My God
29 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ya'll remember that song by J. Cole featuring Drake, "In the Morning", where Drake's voice is hella scratchy as if the song was recorded in the mornin...
Eclipsing Whiteness
23 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
When even saying, "I hate white people" is a privilege.
Melanated Alt-Right
15 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Self-care, shit talk and real shit for Black and POC in Perpetual Charlottesville. Music by Nappy Nina https://soundcloud.com/nappy_nina