Seriously...What Is This Hot Mess?: A mess of a trailer.

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00:00:02: What the?

00:00:02: What the

00:00:03: actual?

00:00:08: Everywhere you look, the world feels like a dumpster fire.

00:00:12: If it's not fascism, it's racism.

00:00:14: If it's not the rolling out of institutional misogyny, it's the theft of our data and shaping the world in some dude bros image.

00:00:23: Do not even get me started on the price of groceries.

00:00:25: Oh, fuel.

00:00:26: Also, the climate.

00:00:28: Throw that one in there.

00:00:29: Looking around makes you want to ask, what?

00:00:32: is this hot mess.

00:00:35: Like, what is this hot mess, right?

00:00:37: So welcome to your new favorite feminist podcast that asks just that exact question.

00:00:44: What is this hot mess?

00:00:47: My name is Tiffany Kaguremuga, co-founder of Hala Africa and retired menace at large, trying to wrestle this life into its soft girl era.

00:00:55: I'm also your curator of chaos for this particular podcast, taking you around the globe to have funky, fun conversations with feminists, doing a whole host of things to keep the end of the world at bay.

00:01:09: All of this is done in collaboration with the Global Unit for Feminism and Gender Democracy of the Heinrich Bohr Foundation.

00:01:16: executive produced by me and mix and mastered by Rachel and Sheldon.

00:01:22: This podcast sits with people trying to clean this place up.

00:01:26: The feminist telling the world to pick its fascism off the floor and put its hate, nonsense and violence away because no one wants to see it.

00:01:34: A space for great conversations such as this one.

00:01:38: I think of menopause now as this process, this transition of leaving the old Mona plural behind in order

00:01:48: to walk

00:01:48: towards the monor plural that I am becoming.

00:01:53: Or this one.

00:01:54: I guess it depends on what you mean by AI because I feel like so much of what the conversation around AI or what is being talked about as AI.

00:02:05: Number one, you kind of add AI and stir to everything, right?

00:02:08: And suddenly it's like, no, no, we cannot talk about technology now without just adding AI.

00:02:11: Like my toaster has AI.

00:02:13: You know, my shoe has AI, like my pencil has AI.

00:02:16: Everything is like, AI, AI, I'm like, dude, what are you?

00:02:19: Like, what are we even talking about?

00:02:22: Or even this one.

00:02:24: People like shitting on older black women.

00:02:27: And I mean, older black women are not perfect.

00:02:30: The aunties are also hectic and the aunties become more hectic as they age.

00:02:33: They really do.

00:02:34: And I say it as a hectic aging

00:02:36: auntie, you know?

00:02:38: And I mean, I think especially for that generation, like, your therapy was not a thing, right?

00:02:44: Emotional intelligence was not a thing.

00:02:46: That was a grin and bear it and get on with it generation.

00:02:50: Frankly, it feels like the end times and I thought I would be rocking it differently.

00:02:54: I thought I would be wearing a lot more tank tops, probably rocking a pair of Tim's, running a small rabbit farm and selling my homemade wine for carrots and maybe some batteries.

00:03:04: Instead, I am here podcasting and finding out what the feminists are doing as I ask what the fuck is going on and also paying bills.

00:03:13: and doing laundry.

00:03:14: So join me as I sit and I have the conversations to find out what is this hot mess.