Bourbon 'n BrownTown

SoapBox Productions and Organizing's affiliate podcast pairs critical analyses of media, culture, politics, and everyday happenings with the tastiest of spirits. Friends, SoapBox colleagues, and roommates Caullen Hudson and David A. Moran make up 2/3 of BrownTown. With the occasional help of Chicago’s most talented and creative activists, filmmakers, academics, and social entrepreneurs, BrownTown unpacks current events, social issues, and gives personal insight into various topics. 

Chi DNA Episodes

These episodes feature special guests from the Chicago Drill and Activism documentary and multimedia project. Watch, read, and interact with Chi DNA at

Episodes

Ep. 17 - Happy Mother's Day
 ​​May 13, 2018 | 42 minutes
BrownTown chops it up with friend, journalist, and mother Jamie Nesbitt about all things motherhood, relating to our mothers as adolescents and adults, and the importance of our mothers on this special day.

Ep. 16 - Environmental Justice & Faith-based Organizing against White Supremacy

April 21, 2018 | 48 minutes
BrownTown chats with Mennonite Reverend and environmental activist Brian Sauder about his organizing work and the ways in which white supremacy and related systems of oppression inform the root causes of environmental issues.

Ep. 15 - Chi DNA: #RealTalk with a Veteran Raptivist 

April 4, 2018 | 1 hour 1 minute
​BrownTown sits down with Chicago rapper and activist Tweak’G to discuss her organizing origins, finding hip-hop, military service, and journey navigating these spaces as an outspoken Black lesbian woman.

Ep. 14 - Chi DNA: Electoral v. Radical Politics ​

March 20, 2018 | 1 hours 5 minutes
BrownTown is joined by Chicago activist Camille Williams who's background allows for special insight into the role radical politics has to play in our electoral process and the importance of voting in this year's midterm elections.

Ep. 13 - Chi DNA: Black History & Resistance in Chicago

February 28, 2018 | 1 hour 3 minutes
BrownTown is joined by Kofi Ademola, a Pan-African activist, community organizer, and leader in the Black Lives Matter movement to discuss the unique history of Black resistance and political organizing in Chicago and how it impacts the movement today. 

Ep. 12 - Self Love & Self Care
 ​​February 22, 2018 | 45 minutes
BrownTown on BrownTown. We take a step back to discuss the importance of self love, self care, and self understanding. In order to do right in the world, we must first do right by ourselves.

Ep. 11 - Chi DNA: Intersectionality, #NoCopAcademy, Activist Art, & Organizing the Newly Radicalized

 ​​February 15, 2018 | 31 minutes
BrownTown and Ruby Pinto, activist, organizer, and art and jewelry creator take an intersectional approach to Chicago organizing, challenging privilege, #MeToo and rape culture, state capitalism, police abolition, and more.

Ep. 10 - Drugs! Treatment, Criminalization, & Racial Framing in the Opioid & Crack Epidemics

 ​​​February 2, 2018 | 31 minutes
BrownTown dissects the framing, policy, history, and aftermath of the “War on Drugs” and the opioid crisis. As the current crisis is handled with humanity and treatment for those largely white demographics affected, the crack “epidemic” was framed much differently when it came to black and brown communities.

Ep. 9 - Chi DNA: Art in Activism
 ​​​January 8, 2018 | 52 minutes
BrownTown sits down with Charles Preston, activist, journalist, artist, and creator of Church on the 9 to discuss the effects of drill rap and art that engages in politics and its importance on our revolution. 

Ep. 8.3. - Sexism in Mixed Company

 ​​​December 28, 2017 |  44 minutes
Part 3 of 3 featuring all Episode 8 guests. Using Part 1 and 2 as a springboard, BrownTown attempts to take on gender, sexism, feminism, and masculinity in mixed company of men and women. Unfortunately, a practical interruption causes the conversation to go awry yet allows for further dialogue regarding said issues and much more.

Ep. 8.2 - Everyday Feminism & Fighting the Patriarchy

 ​​​December 27, 2017 |  41 minutes
Part 2 of 3 featuring Jamie Nesbitt, Madison Zielinski, and Joanna Preston. Female guests school BrownTown on gender, sexism, and feminism in the midst of recent sexual allegations coming out in Washington, Hollywood, and...well...everywhere.

Ep. 8.1 - Toxic Masculinity & Resisting with Privilege

​​​December 26, 2017 |  44 minutes
Part 1 of 3 featuring Larone Ellison. BrownTown adds to the conversation of gender, sexism, and toxic masculinity in the midst of recent sexual allegations coming out in Washington, Hollywood, and...well...everywhere.​ Originally recorded August 2017.

Ep. 7 - Public Health & The Death Gap

October 11, 2017 |  42 minutes
BrownTown is joined by Jessica Puri, a public health professional in Chicago, to discuss the social determinants of health and how their disparities are affected by segregation, education, income and more.   

Ep. 6 - The Real Color in Sports
​​​September 5, 2017 |  41 minutes
​BrownTown takes a moment to talk about Kaepernick, the meaning behind his movement and the underlining dangers that have always existed for athletes who, having a platform, decide to speak out about injustice.​ Originally recorded July 2017.

Ep. 5 - Hip-Hop in the Age of Spin​
​​​​​​August 23, 2017 |  1 hour 6 minutes
​BrownTown is joined by audio engineer Genta Tamashiro as the group shares some whisky and discusses some of hip-hop's influences,  effects on culture, and the problem we all face in an oversaturated generation.

Ep. 4 - Decoding Trumpism
June 25, 2017 | 36 minutes
Neoliberalism, Reagan, the white working class, and the coding/decoding of "whiteness" are deconstructed in terms of the 2016 presidential election. Originally recorded April 2017.

Ep. 3 - Happy Birthday, Malcolm X
May 19, 2017 | 27 minutes
May 19th is Malcolm X Day. Unfortunately, this is not widely known. Listen to us unpack Malcolm's misunderstood legacy, his likeness with Martin Luther King Jr., and infer what he may say today.

Ep. 2 - Trump's First 100 Days
April 29, 2017 | 33 minutes
BrownTown's take on President Trump's first 100 days in office (yes, it's only been 100 days). We laughed, we cried, we drank some Maker's Mark. 

Ep. 1 - Black and Brown Representation in Media

April 14, 2017 | 40 minutes
A critical race analysis on Atlanta, Moonlight, Get Out, recent Star Wars films and other ramblings about toxic masculinity and feminism. First ever podcast...don't judge. 

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