girls like us

Round the houses guv! It's a trip to South London this week for Tom and guest co-host Mark L Williamson (Niall's off on a Kraftwerk pilgrimage) to meet, greet and chat with grungy, punky 3 piece Girls Like Us.

We discuss their upcoming festival appearances, hear about their fame amongst the narcotic retail community and get the inside track on their personal and sincere lyrical content.

It wouldn’t be an episode featuring women if we didn't have to force home the message that touching people without consent isn't bloody on. Their drummer dials in from South Africa, which is a first.

AI Tony gets right on, Tom reviews his trip to the North East,  we discuss the terrible behaviour of Justin Sane (allegedly), singer of perrenial try-hards Anti-Flag and much more.

Music this episode is from: The Bucky Bombs, BSS, Tilt, The Creeps and Heligan.

Transcript available here.

This week, we talk about social movements you've probably heard of - but did you know they were started by Black women? Topics of discussion include #MeToo, Girls Like Us, and Why I Stayed. This episode contains a content note for discussions on domestic and sexual violence. 

Resource List:

• Me Too 
• Girls Like Us
• Why I Stayed
• “Why abolishing the police and turning to the community won't protect women” (UK Independent)
• Aura Freedom International

Do The Kids Know? is a series of conversations between friends, Prakash and Kristen, where we challenge our understanding of contemporary media, popular culture, and what it means to live as racialized millennials in KKKanada (That’s Canada spelled with three K’s) 

Our goal for this series is to have frank discussions about the stories and nuances missed by sensationalist media as well as to uncover the ways in which white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism is shaping our movements and behaviours. 

Keep tuning in to be a part of the conversation… don’t be a kid who doesn’t know!

Find us: @dothekidsknow

Email us: dothekidsknow@gmail.com

Support us: https://patreon.com/dothekidsknow

Artwork by Daniela Silva (https://instagram.com/danielasilvatrujillo)

Music by Steve Travale (https://stevetravale.com)

Until next time. Stay in the know~!

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Do The Kids Know? is a monthly series of discussions between community workers and educators, Prakash and Kristen, that unpack race, media, popular culture, and politics in KKKanada (That’s Canada spelled with three K’s) from an anti-colonial perspective.

Our goal is to bring nuance to sensationalist media as well as to uncover the ways in which white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism is shaping our movements and behaviours.

Keep tuning in to be a part of the conversation… don’t be a kid who doesn’t know!

Find us: @dothekidsknow (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok)
Email us: dothekidsknow@gmail.com
Tip us: patreon.com/dothekidsknow
Newsletter: tinyletter.com/dothekidsknow
Artwork by Daniela Silva (instagram.com/danielasilvatrujillo)
Music by Steve Travale (https://stevetravale.com)

DTKK is recorded on the traditional and unceded Indigenous lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka and Algonquin Nations. We are committed to working with Indigenous communities and leaders locally and across Turtle Island to fight for Indigenous rights, resurgence, and sovereignty.

Until next time. Stay in the know~!

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This week the girls address George Floyd's murder, the events that have been going throughout Chicago as well as how it has affected their own healing.


National Sexual Assault Hotline;
1-800-656-HOPE (4673)
https://www.rainn.org/ (you can also chat with them)

We can be reached at;
IG:_girls.like.us
Facebook: facebook.com/girlslikeus619/
girlslikeus619@gmail.com
312-480-4101

Rachel Dick is a queer identifying grad student at Fordham University with a passion for hanging from aerial apparatuses, and the new co-host of the OFM Podcast. She grew up in Memphis but never went to Graceland, and has spent the last 7 years in Chicago without ever once seeing a Cubs game.

She’d love to eventually obtain a Ph.D in Human Sexuality with an emphasis on sexuality in spiritual traditions so she can spend her life writing niche pieces about people’s sex lives that no one will probably ever read. When she’s not wasting time on social media, she’s reading fantasy novels and looking for cute dogs to pet.

We chat about anxiety, depression, misdiagnosis, the diagnosis journey, the shocking impact being queer can have on your psyche in today's society, and more. As she says at the end of the episode "10/10 would record again."