{"id":408,"date":"2018-11-30T13:55:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T18:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mosaic\/?p=408"},"modified":"2018-11-30T15:49:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T20:49:08","slug":"listen-to-this-why-bad-bitchy-are-having-their-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mosaic\/2018\/11\/30\/listen-to-this-why-bad-bitchy-are-having-their-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to this: Why Bad + Bitchy are having their moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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or Erica Ifill, it started with a group chat between her friends. \u00a0Once Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, they decided that would not be enough. They got together, put an iPhone on the table and pressed record. \u201cVoila,\u201d Ifill says. \u201cWe had a podcast.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Erica Ifill, co-host of the Bad + Bitchy podcast.<\/p><\/div>\n

Today, that podcast is known as Bad+Bitchy. Every Tuesday, millennial feminists Ifill, Erin Gee and Amy Kishek take on the latest news in politics, social issues and pop culture. Issues are covered from a intersectional lense. This is a way of looking at issues through the scope of race, gender and class. For these co-hosts, these means covering issues from the perspective of the marginalized. They do so with vivacious back-and-forth on what is bothering, comedy about the ridiculousness of world and biting commentary on misogynistic public figures. <\/span><\/p>\n

The co-hosts come from different backgrounds to provide a variety of perspectives. Ifill is a black woman and economist who used to work for the Treasury Board of Canada and now runs her own digital media public relations company. Gee is a woman of Asian descent and is a freelancer in public relations and communications. Kishek is a woman of Palestinian-Canadian descent and a lawyer specializing in labour laws and human rights. <\/span><\/p>\n

A self-proclaimed talker, Ifill does not hold back on their segments, like \u201cThis Week in Feminism\u201d \u201cRent and Receipts\u201d and \u201cMisogynist of the Week.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

With the growth in podcast popularity, Ifill sees an opportunity to fill the gap in covering marginalized communities. This is a space Ifill wants Bad+Bitchy to have and the podcast works towards this goal every time an episode is downloaded. <\/span><\/p>\n

To Ifill and her co-hosts, mainstream media has a fatal flaw. \u201cWe were just tired of mainstream media not taking the viewpoints [of the marginalized] into consideration,\u201d says Ifill. \u201cWe decided to talk about those things in a specific way.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

That commentary can come out of episodes like \u2018Frenemies of Feminism\u2019, where Ifill talks about how Netflix giving black director Spike Lee\u2019s movie on the lives of black woman called \u2018She\u2019s Gotta Have It\u2019 a series reboot is an inclusive move that network television is failing to reciprocate. It can also range to the more political side, where Ifill rants about how government policies on poverty happen without consulting the actual people who are poor. \u00a0<\/span>
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