Show overview
American Beauty has published 5 episodes during 2018. That works out to roughly 3 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 28 min and 39 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. It is catalogued as a EN-language News show.
The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 7.9 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year.
From the publisher
Anxious about democracy? Frustrated by the ugliness of politics? Find the beauty in the struggle by listening to women activists, citizens and scholars. Launching 9/17. americanbeautypodcast.org / @_joannabrooks
Latest Episodes
7.3 #vote: real threats to our elections--conversation
Artists, scholars, and activists Drs. Emily Socolov, Honoree Jeffers, Pippa Holloway, and Alison Kanosky talk real-life and history about voting, the soul of democracy.
7.2 #vote: real threats to our elections--the experts
Alison Kanosky (CSU Fullerton) on how concerns about safety and security impact our democracy; Pippa Holloway (Middle Tennessee State University) on histories of voter enfranchisement and disfranchisement; and Dr. Honoree Jeffers (University of Oklahoma) on a poet’s view of voter mobilization in African-American communities and what it teaches us about democracy.
7.1 #vote: facing real threats to elections & democracy
Does worrying about fraud, bots, and Facebook get to the heart of strengthening democracy? Beyond the numbers games, and the winners, and losers, what’s at stake in getting out the vote? Emily Socolov, election protection activist, explains.
6.2 Political "self-care" and its deeper histories--the experts
Dr. Alondra Nelson, Dr. Pat Zavella, and Dr. Liz Hoover take us into the deeper roots and dimensions of self-care, with important lessons from the Black Panther Party, Latinx health advocates, and the indigenous food sovereignty movement.
6.1 Political "self-care": beyond yoga and a manicure
Where does our idea of “self-care” come from? How does “self-care” support or distract us from the work of democracy and community engagement? A conversation with Gretchen Mallios, a therapist who has rebuilt her practice for our times.