Maddie asks Essence to define “big banks,” how banks contributed to the 2008 Recession, and some of the long-term effects of the Recession. Essence asks Maddie to talk about her favorite movie– The Big Short, and how movies about historical events can be useful for understanding difficult topics like the Recession.

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Big Banks

• https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/black-recession-housing-race/396725/
• https://www.businessinsider.com/what-caused-the-great-recession
• https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/IN10853.pdf
• https://irle.berkeley.edu/files/2018/09/IRLE-What-Really-Caused-the-Great-Recession.pdf
• https://ftp.iza.org/dp4934.pdf

The Big Short: 

• https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/27/the-big-short-financially-accurate-adam-mckay-subprime-money-bale-gosling-pitt
• https://www.thirdway.org/memo/your-cheat-sheet-for-the-big-short
• https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/movies/review-in-the-big-short-economic-collapse-for-fun-and-profit.html
• https://www.vox.com/culture/2015/12/12/9947796/the-big-short-review-movie-ryan-gosling
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%932011_Icelandic_financial_crisis
• https://www.bbc.com/news/business-35485876
• ttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/17/the-miraculous-story-of-iceland/

Essence asks Maddie all about her favorite dystopian novels and movies, the evolution of dystopia over time, and why there has been a revival of dystopian literature among teens. Maddie asks Essence about #DefundthePolice, the goals of criminal justice reform, and why privileging marginalized experiences is essential for social movements!

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Dystopias:

• https://www.mindymcginnis.com/blog/why-do-people-find-dystopian-novels-so-appealing#:~:text=Dystopian%20novels%20are%20incredibly%20popular,people%20can't%20understand%20why 
• https://electricliterature.com/the-rise-of-dystopian-fiction-from-soviet-dissidents-to-70s-paranoia-to-murakami/
• https://www.abebooks.com/books/best-dystopia-books/
• https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/dystopian-movies/best-dystopian-movies-of-all-time-1/
• https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/oct/23/dystopian-fiction
• https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/05/a-golden-age-for-dystopian-fiction

Defund the Police:

• https://defundthepolice.org/
• https://civilrights.org/wp-content/uploads/Toolkit.pdf
• https://m4bl.org/defund-the-police/
• https://www.mpd150.com/
• https://www.nonewjails.nyc/
• https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/
• https://open.spotify.com/episode/2QlieFSgKl1zzdqrjNloUK
• https://open.spotify.com/episode/3rlXRvKMInY6siTVAKXmJ5?si=PM-aMcpwQzKS2i5NvrExEQ
• https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/14/democrats-suburbs-lets-fund-the-police-515966
• https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/10/us/dallas-police-defund.html
• https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/06/19/what-does-defund-the-police-mean-and-does-it-have-merit/
• 13th (Netflix Documentary)

Theory books to nerd out on abolition:

• Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punishment
• Angela Davis’s Are Prisons Obsolete?
• Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
• Alex Vitale’s The End of Policing As We Know It?

Maddie asks Essence to discuss the role of Vice President and Kamala Harris, our Vice President. Essence asks Maddie to explain why RomComs are so popular. This episode was recorded while VP Harris was still the president-elect.

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Episode’s resources and bonus material:

The VP:

• https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/interpretation/amendment-xii/interps/171
• https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/07/07/picking-the-vice-president/
• https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/11/kamala-harris-vp-background-bio-biden-running-mate-2020-393885
• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/us/politics/kamala-harris.html
• https://www.npr.org/2020/10/13/923369723/lets-talk-about-kamala-harris
• https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/1/23/18184192/kamala-harris-president-campaign-criminal-justice-record
• https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a28571249/kamala-harris-attorney-general-controversy/
• https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-53770654 

Rom Coms:

• https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-romantic-comedies-of-all-time/
• https://www.glamour.com/story/why-is-it-so-wrong-to-love-romantic-comedies