Spotlight is a culture podcast series by Daria Harper and India Fizer that focuses on issues regarding race, gender, sexuality, and class. We give the spotlight to marginalized groups to tell their stories and engage with one another.
Marginalized groups are not given enough alternative forms of media at news publications to tell their stories or engage in critical dialogue about the intersections of race, gender, class, and sexuality.
Conventional coverage of race, gender, class, and sexuality does not actively engage readers in other forms of media outside of traditional long form of journalistic writing, making it easy to ignore.
We want to emphasize the fact that one person’s story may not be the case for everyone, even within their community. With this in mind, some topics may come up again throughout the series because we want everyone to be able to be heard.