Unruly Subjects
Unruly Subjects is Chenjerai Kumanyika’s podcast where he goes off script to make space to think through the week’s politics, culture, and struggles together with family, friends, and interesting people. The show is created in partnership with Rowhome Productions. Support Unruly Subjects at Patreon.com/UnrulySubjects
Episodes
9 episodes
How Trump 2.0 Built a Vote Purging Machine with Abby Vesoulis
This week, we feature an interview with Mother Jones reporter Abby Vesoulis, who recently co-authored with Ari Berman the report “Y...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:00:46
Debate, Journalism, and Power in the Feed with George “Conscious” Lee
This week, we feature an interview with George “Conscious” Lee. He’s an orator, educator, and social media influencer who uses his platform to break news and promote dynamic understandings of justi...
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Episode 5
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1:08:34
*UNRULY HOTLINE* The Love Struggle
While we're cooking up our next full episodes of Unruly Subjects, we wanted to re-share our first UNRULY HOTLINE segment that we originally published in Episode 2. In this segment, Chenjerai listens and reacts to callers that responded to the q...
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How Civil Rights Law Became a Weapon Against Dissent—on Palestine and Beyond
As the assault on Gaza continues and the crisis deepens, our individual freedom to critique Israel’s actions has become more and more fraught. We have a deep commitment to anti-racism in all its forms on Unruly Subjects, including antisemitism....
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:18:13
*BONUS EPISODE* News Fiend #3 (Dec 8-12, 2025)
NEWS FIEND is a weekly segment where Chenjerai offers his commentary and reflections on some of the week's headlines. This is a feature that is offered for all Patreon members of Unruly Subjects, ...
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Episode 4
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Giving organizers of color power in electoral politics with Maya Meredith
This week - on the heels of Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in NYC’s mayoral election - we’re featuring an interview with Maya Meredith, a Brooklyn-based leader in the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America’s Afrosocial...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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1:10:50
What do we need from the culture? Lovia Gyarkye on writing critically in an age of fascism
This week, we’re featuring an interview with the writer & culture critic Lovia Gyarkye, an editor at Hammer & Hope, a magazine of Black politics and culture. Lovia discusses her approach to cultura...
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Episode 2
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1:15:42
The Truth Behind The Joke: Roy Wood Jr. on Comedy and Survival
This is the very first episode of Unruly Subjects! And we’re featuring an interview with Roy Wood Jr. Roy is a stand-up comedian and Emmy-nominated writer with a new book out - a memoir entitled The Man of Many Fathers. We talk a...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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