She Didn’t Sound ‘American’
“I was on WGN for a live interview last week, and was asked to speak about my work and my book, but when I gave answers the hosts didn’t like, their questions (and comments) started to get hostile, literally telling me I ‘don’t sound American,'” Hoda Katebi writes on YouTube.
“I also published a few quick thoughts about this interview (which they also refused to publish online, or give us access to the clip), as I feel it serves as a good example for a bit of commentary that can be applied to so many conversations happening now, and relevant to the work that is happening on JooJoo Azad.
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Favorite YouTube comment:
Stellouise: “What a SUPER BADASS distilling massive understanding into simple sentences and not being muscled out by their lazy understanding. I’m so enlivened to see this.”
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When the fashion blogger is way smarter than the TV news people . . .
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WGN should hire her as a political commentator. And for fashion.
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See also:
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Also I hope this serves as, among other things, a friendly reminder that fashion is *so* political so no more patriarchal notions that this historically women-dominated industry is nothing but shallow and useless (ur thinking of capitalism) https://t.co/Mr2XfrcTcc
— Hoda Katebi (@hodakatebi) February 12, 2018
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My latest on JooJoo Azad: Making Racists Uncomfortable, One Outfit at a Time💅🏽 On reclaiming agency through fashion.https://t.co/qRP7pWa4T4
— Hoda Katebi (@hodakatebi) October 17, 2017
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UPDATE:
3/ One proposal I suggested of course, is for WGN to publish a reading list I put together & do an on-air interview where we discuss what happened for their audience, what went wrong, and then to talk about Fanon, Assata Shakur, Edward Said, etc, & American imperialism 😇
— Hoda Katebi (@hodakatebi) February 14, 2018
Posted on February 14, 2018