Act Like You Know: A Podcast Preview and Talkback on Black Folks, Pop Culture, and Politics
Act Like You Know: A Podcast Preview and Talkback on Black Folks, Pop Culture, and Politics
Act Like You Know is a podcast preview and talk-back event that centers the technical and
professional communication value of Black cultural and rhetorical practices. Featuring Dapper
Dan Midas aka Ddm, who hosts the Secretary of Shade YouTube channel, the event will screen
excerpts from the first episode of the Act Like You Know podcast, followed by a talk-back style
panel discussion. Together, we’ll explore the use of Black and queer cultural knowledge and
language practices to communicate and translate his social and political commentary in ways
that Ddm’s audience can use. The event’s goal is to spark a dialogue about language, expertise,
and ethos among folks within and outside the academy and to prompt us all to consider the
cultural, rhetorical, and linguistic skills that Black (and other marginalized) writers and
communicators bring to the task of making complex and specialized knowledge more legible,
accessible, and ultimately more useful.