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What I Hear When You Say is a video series that explores how words can both unite and divide us depending on our own perspective, experience, and interpretation. Each episode covers a different phrase or term that challenges what we think we know about race, class, gender, and identity.

Advocate Christopher Punongbayan’s explains how racial prejudices unfold.
One woman reflects on her classroom encounter with a professor about “pulling the race car
A professor, a comedian, and an artist break down their interpretation “race card."
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A professor, a comedian, and an artist break down their interpretation “race card."
Explore the assumptions and misgivings of pejorative phrases like “Welfare queen.”
What does it mean to appreciate vs. appropriate culture? Explore unique perspectives.
An author, a professor and a filmmaker discuss their unique takes on gentrification.
A filmmaker, a comedian and a musician explore the use of the term “white pride.”
Explore the use of this term “Model Minority” to describe Asian American communities.
What’s the intent behind a simple question like, “What are you?”
What does it mean to be a “feminist” today? Explore from three unique perspectives.
Examine the current function and long history of American’s use of “code words”.
Examine the code words and phrases used to describe LGBTQA communities.
Extras
Musician Daryl Davis seeks to understand the perspectives of the KKK.
What does it mean to appreciate vs. appropriate culture in regards to streetwear?
Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw: "Welfare Queen" exemplifies intersectional discrimination.
Journalist and Author Desiree Cooper discusses the history of gentrification in Detroit.
Filmmaker Jasmine Rivera discusses what it means to be a feminist today.
Professor Ann Morning analyzes the fluidity of race across culture and time.
Professor Pedro Noguera studies the history of coded language and its effects on all of us
Professor Moya Bailey explores code words and phrases used to describe LGBTQA communities.
Pilot Episode of a new series that deconstructs words used to describe race & identity.
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