In Full Color

Last week’s episode featured Charlie Michael and Subha Xavier talking about the beginnings of their relationship as they navigated being an interracial couple. In part two, Charlie and Subha share their approaches to raising their multiracial sons and Taylor reflects on her own upbringing. The three discuss the importance of representation in the media, living in a bilingual and multicultural household, and how to talk about race with kids.

Welcome to Season 2 of In Full Color! And the very first two-part episode! In part one. Taylor chats with Dr. Charlie Michael and Dr. Subha Xavier - two professors in the Atlanta area. They share their experiences as an interracial and multiethnic couple and embracing Subha’s Sri Lankan and Canadian heritage. Subha and Charlie discuss the importance of raising their family in diverse spaces, speaking multiple languages, and using films like Into the Spiderverse to enrich their sons' exposure to diverse representations of BIPOC.

Happy LGBT History Month and in a few weeks National Coming Out Day! In this week’s episode, Taylor speaks with Megan Pendleton - a Black queer educator and doctoral student from Baltimore, Maryland. Megan shares her coming out experience, how she’s found community in intersectional spaces, and her connection to spoken word & slam poetry. She also talks about how her involvement in higher education and why she is passionate about empowering queer & trans students of color.

This week Taylor talks with Mariam Hassoun, an incoming graduate student at the University of Oxford and founder of Baraka English School, an organization providing English education programs for orphans in Baghdad, Iraq. Mariam reflects on her own experiences being Iraqi American and the importance of being multilingual in America as well as in the Middle East. She expresses the necessity of multicultural and interfaith spaces to integrate global perspectives in our daily life.

In this week’s episode, Taylor catches up with Erin Oquindo - a mixed-race Filipino-American activist and abolitionist. Erin shares how they’ve embraced their heritage & culture and their connection to Filipino Liberation. They shed light on the perils of human caging and explain what it means to say “mass incarceration is mass elimination.” Erin emphasizes to listeners the tangible and actional steps towards abolishing the prison industrial complex and more broadly the criminal justice system.

This week Taylor talks with a former classmate Kelsey Brown, a Black woman, reproductive justice advocate, and student at Vanderbilt University. Kelsey shares how she uses roller skating to create a space for rest and to celebrate the liberating power of Black joy. Also, Kelsey discusses how she got involved in intersectional reproductive justice and the importance of centering Blackness in feminist discourse.

In this week’s episode, Taylor interviews Michael Samuel, an attorney and Ph.D. Candidate in Islamic Civilizations. He describes his experiences growing up in Israel as a Mizrahi Jew, as well as being Biracial -- half-Indian and half-Kurdish. Michael expresses that his self-identification is separate from how he is perceived as Arab (“Brown with a beard”) and the politicization of his cultural heritage and religious identity in the Middle East as well as in the United States.

In this week’s episode, Taylor chats with three of her close friends - Allison, Blair, and Emily. Throughout the episode, they talk about the strides they have taken to be anti-racist in their daily lives and how to be a better White ally for BIPOC communities - including reconnecting with their Jewish heritage and ties to intersectional feminism. They share how they have been checking their privilege, reconciling with their guilt, and calling out other White people. Together, they discuss how to use the collective activist energy in the wake of George Floyd’s death to fuel people to go to the polls in November 2020.

For the first episode of In Full Color, Taylor sits down with her sister Cana, a musicologist, environmentalist, and aspiring author. They both share their experiences growing up Biracial and reflect on how they navigate notions of White passing, privilege, and performing race. They also discuss the impact of Representative John Lewis’s death and how young people can keep the momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement going.

Hey there! Welcome to In Full Color, a podcast about race, community, and justice. Hear a brief introduction from host Taylor McGhee, why she created this podcast, and a teaser of what you'll hear weekly! Make sure to follow our podcast so you can stay up to date when we post a new episode. To learn more about the project, check out www.grayscalemovement.org!