What the fuck is a "The Discourse?"

That's a great, and vulgarly phrased question, so you're in the right place. In this context, The Discourse, as opposed to the discourse, is a podcast (*cough* vanity project *cough*) hosted by Black Leftists and a revolving door of assorted riff raff. Frankly, The Discourse was started in order to fill the gaps left in the media on certain topics.

Shows on The Discourse is loosely comprised of three separate genres. A weekly live panel show that covers the news and important topics of the week, prerecorded shows with special guests on a variety of topics, and semi regular interviews with local politicians and activists. The live show airs on YouTube Thursdays from 8-9. However, the show usually goes on for another 60-90 minutes past what is available live and that will be available as an audio podcast as well. We also record various shows throughout the week and make them available. So you can expect between 2-7 hours of content a week from The Discourse.

Our style has been called "conversational academic," which is code for occasionally uses multi-syllabic words, says 'fuck' and occasionally talks about Brandon's gross dating life or his love of comic books and horror movies. We are also unapologetic about being Leftists. However, regardless of ideology, we are dedicated to bringing nuance to topics that the do not receive enough of it.

I know it is kind of weird given how the theories on monetizing things online works, but as a personal philosophy, I do not believe in gating off actual content and creating a have versus have nots system as it pertains to that kind of information. I just don't it feels weird to me, as someone who taught, to create things intended to educate and entertain people and then go "but if you want the knowledge you gotta fork up the dough". I'm bad at capitalism, butttt I promise not to spend all your money on drugs.

Just remember. by supporting us you are supporting independent, Progressive media in a time when, to be frank, most media is kind of shit. I mean, we might also be shit, but ideally if you are here you recognize the former is true and do not believe the latter. I'm going to stop writing about us because it is starting to sound like an online dating profile.

I'm not making an intro video, that's weird. Here is a link to the Podcast:

https://soundcloud.com/ExpandTheDiscourse