LUEE Episode 91: Straight White Christmas

In this episode of Life, the Universe & Everything Else, Ashlyn is joined by Laura, Gem, and Lauren to discuss oppression, privilege, and intersectionality, both in society at large and as it relates to the skeptical community, and then the panel caps off the episode with a game of Name That Holiday Tradition!

Life, the Universe & Everything Else is a program promoting secular humanism and scientific skepticism that is produced by the Winnipeg Skeptics and the Humanists, Atheists & Agnostics of Manitoba.

Note: Due to technical issues, we needed to switch over to our backup recording near the end of the episode, so we apologize for the decrease in audio quality. And continuing in our tradition of stealing games from other podcasts, this episode's game is in the spirit of Pat Roach's "Name That" from The Reality Check. If you don’t listen to that excellent podcast, you probably should!

Correction: The ability to read is apparently not one of Gem's strengths, as he insisted on pronouncing "Befana" as "Bellfana" for most of the recording. Sorry about that.

Links: Privilege (social inequality) (Wikipedia) | Privilege 101: A Quick and Dirty Guide (Everyday Feminism) | Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is (Whatever) | Facts are Cool | Glavin: Canadians have no reason to be smug about race (Ottawa Citizen) | This Teacher Taught His Class A Powerful Lesson About Privilege | Equality and Justice | Social Justice 101: Intersectionality (We Got So Far To Go) | Intersectionality (Geek Feminism Wiki) | Intersectionality 101 (Shit Reddit Says) | AAS Issues Statement on "Shirtgate"/"Shirtstorm" (American Astronomical Society) | A pornographer (and atheist) explains why the science guy’s shirt crash-landed | Casual sexism: When a shirt is more than a shirt. | Dismayingly Dawkins | It's Time to Push Back Against Feminist Bullies | Karl Stefanovic wears the same suit for a year | Aamer Rahman (Fear of a Brown Planet) - Reverse Racism (YouTube) | Befana (Wikipedia) | 7 Winter Solstice Celebrations (Encyclopedia Britannica) | 13 Unusual Holiday Traditions From Around the World (Reader's Digest) | Yule Lads (Wikipedia) | Kwanzaa (Wikipedia) | Lohri (Wikipedia) | Sadeh: A Middle Eastern Coffeehouse Experience

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