There Are No Girls on the Internet

Lynika Strozier was a promising scientist who died of COVID at age 35. Her friend and colleague Dr. Corrie Moreau remembers her friend and talks about efforts to keep Lynika’s legacy alive.Read more about Lynika: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/obituaries/lynika-strozier-dead-coronavirus.htmlGofund me for Lynika: https://www.gofundme.com/f/552b3q-lynika039s-funeral-expensesWe hope you enjoyed season 1 of TANGOTI. We’re taking a break but watch this space because we’ll be back with more real soon.In the meantime, say hi at hello@Tangoti.com Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Why is Washington DC's professional football team changing their offensive name? In part because of people like Jacqueline Keeler, who helped create the #NotYourMascot movement.Go to Pollen Nation's Facebook page to check out Jacqueline's podcast: https://www.pollennationmagazine.com/Follow Jacqueline on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jfkeeler?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist turned climate activist. Here's why she has hope for the future. Get Dr. Johnson's book: https://www.amazon.com/All-We-Can-Save-Solutions/dp/0593237064Listen to Dr. Johnson's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-save-a-planet/id1525955817 Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Here's a quick rundown of the controversy behind Netflix's new film Cuties.The Netflix Movie "Cuties" Has Become The Latest Target Of #SaveTheChildren Conspiracy Theorists:https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemcneal/netflix-cuties-qanon-targetDid you see the film? Let us know what you think at hello@tangoti.com Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode is a little different than the usual ones. Bridget is feeling out of sorts and is joined by Anne Helen Peterson, author of Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation and editor of Substack's Culture Study to talk about why so many of us are feeling burnt out and what can be done about it.Get Anne's book: https://www.amazon.com/Cant-Even-Millennials-Burnout-Generation/dp/0358315077How Work Became an Inescapable Hellhole : https://www.wired.com/story/how-work-became-an-inescapable-hellhole/How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation:https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/millennials-burnout-generation-debt-workCheck out Anne’s Substack Culture Study: https://annehelen.substack.com/ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jade Magnus Ogunnaike from the Color of Change explains their work to get major wedding websites like Zola and Pinterest to change how they deal with plantations as wedding venues.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nandini Jammi co founded Sleeping Giants, one of the most influential activist campaigns of the Trump era. But she was almost completely left out of the movement she helped build. Nandini's Medium piece: https://medium.com/@nandoodles/im-leaving-sleeping-giants-but-not-because-i-want-to-d9c4f488642Wired piece on Check My Ads: https://www.wired.com/story/she-helped-wreck-the-news-business-heres-her-plan-to-fix-it/ We'd love to hear from you! hello@Tangoti.com Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Let's take a little break from the depressing newscycle and talk about the iconic Missy Elliott and how she's been changing the digital game since the very beginning. Check out the video for The Rain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHcyJPTTn9w “Supa Dupa Fly: Black Women as Cyborgs in Hiphop Videos" by Dr. Shaviro: http://www.shaviro.com/Othertexts/MissyKim.pdf"Missy Elliott" with Margot and Richie Tenenbaum, Halloween 2008: https://www.tangoti.com/episode-12-missy-elliott-digital-innovator Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Everything feels awful right now, but it's not all doom and gloom. Employees at big tech companies like Facebook are pushing platforms to be better and they might just be one of our best resources. Catherine Bracy, founder of the TechEquity Collaborative, explains how tech staffers are pushing companies to move beyond a Black Lives Matter statement, and make real change. Read Catherine's TechCrunch piece: https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/11/tech-companies-its-time-to-show-that-black-lives-really-matter-to-you/Learn more about the TechEquity Collaborative: https://techequitycollaborative.org/Send us an email at Hello@Tangoti.com  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week’s episode we spoke to attorney Carrie Goldberg about her fight against revenge porn. In that ep, we briefly mentioned Aaron Coleman, the winner of the Kansas State House of Representatives Democratic primary and his history of revenge porn. In this supplementary ep, Bridget gives a little more information about his case, how it played out, and what it tells us about how society minimizes revenge porn.Listen to Carrie Goldberg’s episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/building-a-better-internet-with-carrie-goldberg/id1520715907?i=1000489091000Background on Aaron Coleman the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/us/elections/aaron-coleman-kansas-house.htmlRead more on Coleman’s history of recent abuse: https://gen.medium.com/aaron-colemans-ex-girlfriend-says-his-misogynist-abuse-didn-t-stop-in-middle-school-1c82a836a5d8 Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.