In this episode of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Pastor Kellen from Tumwater UMC to discuss Christmas in the Clouds, the vile history of Indigenous peoples on screen, subversive normalcy, fantasy romance novels, militant vegetarians, and goofy holiday hijinks.

Find more info about the ARFC here: ⁠⁠https://fumcoly.org⁠

Read the article Pastor Kellen mentioned:

https://www.nhonews.com/features/christmas-in-the-clouds----a-movie-review/article_224f8f3d-0ae0-5319-955f-a200130c5660.html

Watch a short interview with Marian Tosca: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCxIRQUxAKE&ab_channel=argosgem

In this episode of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Pastor Heather from First Olympia UMC to discuss Black-ish, sitcoms, bi-racial identities, Black History Month, Lewis Howard Latimer, and what it looks like to learn through laughter.

Find more info about the ARFC here: ⁠⁠https://fumcoly.org⁠ Watch an interview with the cast: https://youtu.be/cDQxanaj0H0?si=FJj-33XqwTIUz_J9

In this spooky kickoff to season 3 of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Pastor Denise from St Andrews UMC to discuss Nope, horror movies, exploitation, jellyfish anatomy, processing trauma, and the inherent contradictions of spectacle.

Find more info about the ARFC here: ⁠⁠https://fumcoly.org⁠

Get on the ARFC mailing list: multimedia@fumcoly.org

Watch a video essay on the theme of spectacle in Nope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n74ZpnPY_yI&ab_channel=ThomasFlight

Watch and interview with the cast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__SNN6xpFx4&t=941s&ab_channel=EntertainmentWeekly

TW: Discussion of Sexual Assault

In this episode of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Pastor Alexa from First Olympia UMC to discuss The Woman King, white greed, the Agojie, how community fights patriarchy, TULIP, Afrofuturism, and the beasts we must name to heal together.

Find more info about the ARFC here: ⁠https://fumcoly.org

Listen to the podcast Pastor Alexa referenced: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/623/we-are-in-the-future-2017 Watch an interview with the cast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBYm8uyLZ78

Octavia Butler: https://www.octaviabutler.com/

NM Jemisin: https://nkjemisin.com/

In this episode of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Pastor Kelly from Shelton UMC to discuss 42, baseball, segregation, the color of greed, racial slurs, hate mail, and the exceptional life of Jackie Robinson.

Find more info about the ARFC here: https://fumcoly.org

Read a few reviews of the film when it first came out:

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/movies/42-with-chadwick-boseman-as-jackie-robinson.html

https://www.pajiba.com/film_reviews/42-review-a-black-story-told-by-a-white-man-full-of-sound-and-fury-signifying-little.php

https://www.mic.com/articles/32663/42-movie-review-film-enables-public-to-discuss-racism-in-entertaining-way

See you next month!

In this episode of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Brittney Gilleland from First Olympia UMC to discuss Kung Fu Panda 2, children's ministry, inner peace, processing trauma, found family, and why the difficulty of anti-racist discussion is a necessary burden.

Find more info about the ARFC here: https://fumcoly.org

Watch a cultural breakdown of the first Kung Fu Panda film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1eHIfUyYfs&ab_channel=XiranJayZhao

See you next month!

In this episode of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Pastor Heather from First Olympia UMC to discuss Bend It Like Beckham, soccer, LGBTQ+ themes, hypocrisy, curry, and navigating the preservation of culture in diaspora.

Find more info about the ARFC here: https://fumcoly.org

Read my college paper (for fun!): https://storage2.snappages.site/JDVQQW/assets/files/ENG-464-Final.pdf

Watch an interview with Gurinder Chada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shnHWt_-jHg

See you next month!

TW: discussion of sexual assault, self-harm, and violence

In this episode of the Anti-Racist Film Club Podcast, Lauren sits down with Pastor Kellen and Laura Edmonston from Tumwater UMC to discuss Wind River, the historical portrayal of "cowboys and Indians" on film, cultural genocide, coyotes, systemic barriers to justice, and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Crisis.

Find more info about the ARFC here: https://fumcoly.org

Learn more about the MMIW movement:

https://www.nativehope.org/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-mmiw

https://www.nativehope.org/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-mmiw

https://www.wsp.wa.gov/crime/alerts-missing-persons/missing-indigenous-persons/

https://www.king5.com/article/news/community/facing-race/missing-indegenous-women-people-in-washington-state/281-488a7687-bafc-49dd-9d0d-b38fdc46844a

https://apnews.com/article/indigenous-people-cold-case-unit-washington-96a1bab5f5e124c3d8b183c688733983

https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/treaty-justice-revisits-the-1974-boldt-decision-and-its-far-reaching-impacts/

Read the article Pastor Kellen mentioned:

https://www.hcn.org/issues/49-18/tribal-affairs-why-do-white-writers-keep-making-films-about-indian-country/

See you next month!