All Episodes

August 1, 2023 50 mins

How do we talk about race? How should we? And how do we hold healing, constructive dialogues about race when we come from different racial identities and experiences?


Yseult Polfliet Mukantabana and Hannah Summerhill are the hosts of the award-winning podcast, Kinswomen, which was named Best Podcast of 2020 by Elle, Cosmopolitan, and Marie Claire. After meeting at an event about race in January 2019 in New York City, Yseult and Hannah decided to take their passion for constructive cross-racial dialogues to a broader audience.


They are the authors of the book, Real Friends Talk About Race: Bridging the Gaps Through Uncomfortable Conversations.


In this interview, Yseult, Hannah, and Dave reflect on…


  • The emotional labor—and potential retraumatization—when writing about race and racism as a person from a marginalized identity
  • Specific techniques to becoming a better friend and human in relationship to others’ identities of historical marginalization
  • How Yseult and Hannah keep finding the energy and passion to teach healthy, cross-racial dialogues—even though the attention of “allies” may be moving on


Please rate and review our show on Apple Podcasts and Spotify to help other listeners find our work!


Want to get in touch? Leave us a voicemail!


Support our partners and affiliates for exclusive discounts:


  • Fathom Analytics: Get beautiful, secure website data without trading your customers’ private browsing data to Google and Facebook
  • Flywheel: Seamless WordPress website hosting on US-based servers
  • Hover: Register domains with ease. Save $2 on your first purchase
  • MailerLite: A powerful, affordable email marketing platform with premium plans starting at just $9/mo.
  • Sanebox: Take back your inbox with machine learning to automatically organize your emails. Save $5 when you join.
  • Trint: Turn recordings of meetings, calls, and interviews into transcripts with 99% accuracy.


Affiliate Disclosure: Our show is listener supported through affiliate and partner links. By clicking one of the above links and registering or making a purchase, we may earn a small commission, which helps pay for the costs of our show.


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark as Played

Advertise With Us

Popular Podcasts

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!

Stuff You Should Know

Stuff You Should Know

If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.

The Joe Rogan Experience

The Joe Rogan Experience

The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.

Music, radio and podcasts, all free. Listen online or download the iHeart App.

Connect

© 2025 iHeartMedia, Inc.