Academy Vibe Podcast
Podcast Description
As close as we can get to the academic tea-spilling podcast without making it professionally irresponsible for our gests to participate.Hosted by T.X. Watson, a Communication PhD student and philosophy TikToker, and Astrid Lundberg, a paleontologist, paleontology content creator, and musician. Find T.X. on TikTok at @txwatson and BlueSky at @txwatson.com. Find Astrid on TikTok at @oddpride and Instagram at @astrid_lundberg.If you'd like to support the Academy Vibe Podcast, you can do so at patreon.com/txwatson.
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Content Themes
The podcast dives into various scholarly subjects, particularly focusing on sociology, cultural studies, and the implications of academic works on contemporary society, with episode examples such as discussions on Corey J. Miles' research, the artistic impact of poetry in social movements, and critiques of traditional sociological theorists like Karl Marx and W. E. B. Du Bois.
As close as we can get to the academic tea-spilling podcast without making it professionally irresponsible for our gests to participate.
Hosted by T.X. Watson, a Communication PhD student and philosophy TikToker, and Astrid Lundberg, a paleontologist, paleontology content creator, and musician. Find T.X. on TikTok at @txwatson and BlueSky at @txwatson.com. Find Astrid on TikTok at @oddpride and Instagram at @astrid_lundberg.
If you’d like to support the Academy Vibe Podcast, you can do so at patreon.com/txwatson.
Academy Vibes 01-01: Sociology with Corey J. Miles
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Corey J. Miles, Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South. 2023. https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/V/Vibe
Kiese Laymon, “My Head Is a Part of My Body and My Middle Name Is Makeba,” theroot.com, 13 August 2020. https://www.theroot.com/my-head-is-part-of-my-body-and-my-middle-name-is-makeba-1844716563
Rahsaan Mahadeo, Funk the Clock: Transgressing Time While Young, Perceptive, and Black. 2024.
“When movements have been unable to clear the clouds, it has been the poets … who have succeeded in imagining the color of the sky, in rendering the kinds of dreams and futures social movements are capable of producing. Knowing the color of the sky is far more important than counting clouds. … the most radical art is not protest art but works that take us to another place, envision a different way of seeing, perhaps a different way of feeling.”
Robin D.G. Kelley, “‘When History Sleeps’: A Beginning,” Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. 2002.
Works and scholars mentioned in the “Foundational Works” question: Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, W. E. B. Du Bois.
Journals:
- American Sociological Review
- Social Forces
- Social Problems
- Du Bois Review
Places to get into the cutting edge of sociology: Tressie McMillan Cottom, Contexts magazine
Good speakers: Saida Grundy (Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man. 2022), Rahsaan Mahadeo.
If your field were a song: “Never Scared” by Bone Crusher, ft. Killer Mike, T.I. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryIjCkw3Jfg
Who else we should have on: Jennifer C. Nash (Author, Black Feminism Reimagined), Brandi Thompson Summers (Author, Black in Place), Joshua Myers (Author, Of Black Study)
T.X. Watson: patreon.com/txwatson BlueSky @txwatson.com TikTok @txwatson
Astrid Lundberg: patreon.com/oddpride IG/Threads Astrid_Lundberg BlueSky @oddpride.com TikTok @oddpride
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