In the same way that we often only talk about criminal justice when it comes to Black people, we will often only talk about childcare or reproductive justice for women. I think we make the mistake often in media where we treat issues for women and gender-nonconforming people like a separate set of issues. Can you tease anything for future episodes of Undistracted? I know that there are already a few special guests lined up for future episodes, but what other topics are you hoping to cover, and who would you want to speak to? And the donation of that ad space towards creating just a little bit more equity is something that was really important to the team and that I'm hoping can help enlarge that Undistracted community so that we can be supporting one another's ventures and learning about one another's ideas. Our potential advertisers seem to be very excited by it as well. We have an opportunity to help those businesses, those ventures reach new audiences. So I know-I think, especially in the time of COVID-just how hard-hit BIPOC-owned businesses have been. We're really excited about what this means. When Cindi Leive and I first started talking about the concept for this podcast, we really wanted to practice equity as much as we preached it. It was my idea, but it was immediately embraced by the entire team. What was the process of creating this model like? Undistracted also has a first-of-its-kind advertising model that showcases businesses owned by BIPOC, femmes, and gender-nonconforming people. When we are undistracted, not only can we fight the injustice, we can actually design the world that we deserve. And what's unique is that lens of intersectional feminism that will help us focus and remain undistracted.
And the podcast really is for anyone and everyone who wants to build a more just world. Intersectional feminism helps us ensure that women, femmes, and gender nonbinary people are centered in the solutions we create. We really want to look at the news of the day and deep-dive on the issues that matter through a lens that requires all of us to build better solutions and to ask better questions. My time on Pod Save the People was so important to me, and I'm really grateful for the time I spent with the team and for all of the things I learned about the medium of podcasting. We are taking, in particular, an intersectional and an intersectional feminist look at the world. What do you think distinguishes Undistracted from that one? And in order to build a whole new world, you have to be undistracted.Ĭourtesy You have some prior experience in making podcasts with Pod Save the People. We wanted to launch a podcast to help us build the next tomorrow, to help us design the world that we deserve, and to help empower and activate everyday people to do exactly that. And it's not to say that injustice isn't real, but it is to say that, when we are undistracted, not only can we fight the injustice, we can actually design the world that we deserve. That idea of distraction can be applied to so many things. It is always powerful to understand what works against you for what it is. It keeps you explaining over and over your reason for being. She says it keeps you from doing your work. And in this particular case, there is a quote from Toni Morrison that we play in the opening of the first episode, where she talks about the function of racism is to cause distraction. We really look to the leaders of the past and the present to help us guide our way. How did you and the rest of the team arrive at this title? And how did you know what you wanted to make the focus of the series?
PODCAST UNDISTRACTED SERIES
The name Undistracted for this podcast seems especially keen, given the growing popularity of podcasts and the volume of new podcast series that are popping up. I'm really prayerful that we can grow a community that holds us at Undistracted and one another accountable for being better, doing better, and always using our power."Īhead, Packnett Cunningham talks about her new podcast (including her hope to have Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, one day guest star), the 2020 election, and radical ideas at last entering the mainstream. "I'm really grateful to the people who've already listened and downloaded and shared. "I'm really excited about all of the possibilities," she says. Since then, she became a member of President Barack Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing, joined the anti-police brutality initiative Campaign Zero (which she has since left), cohosted Pod Save the People, and became an NBC News and MSNBC contributor. Packnett Cunningham was propelled to the national spotlight following her organizing efforts with the 2014 Ferguson protests.
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