Hosted by Hilerie Lind · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 36 episodes
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A podcast where Black feminist analysis meets cultural commentary. This is your command center for understanding the systems that shape Black life, Black love, and Black survival. Each episode is a strategic briefing on the forces we're up against and the tools we need to fight back. From the "Sacrificial Bargain" that polices Black women's bodies and choices, to the "Faustian Bargain" that questions Black men's authenticity, we're breaking down the vernacular theories that govern how we judge success, navigate trauma, and protect—or abandon—each other.
Hilerie Lind hosts The General's Briefing, a society show with 36 episodes published.
On May 31, 2026, a tape from Diddy's federal sex trafficking trial became public. It featured Daphne Joy, a woman believed to have anonymously testified against him. She did not choose to be in that courtroom. She did no
Show notesIn 1935, a gangster named Dutch Schultz lay dying in a hospital in Newark, New Jersey. He had spent years trying to take over the Harlem numbers empire built by a Black Caribbean immigrant woman named Stephanie St. Clair
Show notesThis episode is about the body. Who owns it. Who controls it. Who profits from it when we can't say no. And what it sounds like when Black women finally refuse. I connect the RSV lawsuit to the 105th anniversary of the T
Show notesChopped and screwed music was born in Houston, Texas. DJ Screw took records that everyone already knew, songs they'd heard a hundred times, and he slowed them down. He chopped them up. He revealed what was hiding underne
Show notes"My skin is black / My arms are long / My hair is woolly / My back is strong / Strong enough to take the pain / Inflicted again and again / What do they call me? / My name is Aunt Sarah." — Nina Simone, "Four Women" (196
Show notesThe day before the Georgia Democratic primary. And I'm sitting down with State Representative Derrick Jackson, the man I've been fighting for, the man I believe in, the man who is the most qualified candidate in this rac
Show notesIt's Monday, May 18, 2026. The day before the Georgia Democratic primary. And I just got back from driving around DeKalb County, placing signs for State Representative Derrick Jackson. I've been doing this for weeks. Put
Show notesI need to talk about Cheyenne Bryant. And I need to be very clear about why I'm talking about her. This is not about jealousy. This is not about tearing down another Black woman. This is not about being divisive. This is
Show notesThe world is burning. And I still yearn for love." I know that sounds ridiculous. I know that sounds naive. I know that sounds like I'm not paying attention to what's happening around me. But it's the truth. The country
Show notesIn this episode, I teach you about the two-fold Sacrificial Bargain, the impossible choice that Black women have been forced to make for generations: OPTION 1: The Boomer Sacrificial Bargain (Silence + Community) You hav
Show notesOn May 4, 2026, the Supreme Court issued an emergency ruling that devastated Black political power across the South. The Court struck down Louisiana's congressional map, eliminating two majority-Black districts, and gutt
Show notesYesterday, I recorded three episodes. And I was sitting there wanting to record a fourth one. Not because I had something urgent to say. But because I didn't want to feel what I was feeling. I was sad as fuck. I was lone
Show notesI am Hilerie Lind. And I am unbought and unbossed. In this episode, I teach you about the Crooked Room, the disorienting psychological and structural space that Black women navigate, where the norms themselves are tilted
Show notesA few weeks ago, Kip Carr called me "the Harriet Tubman of this century." And when he said it, I didn't know what to do with it. I didn't know if I was worthy of that title. I didn't know if I could live up to it. But th
Show notesIn this episode, I connect my personal life to Georgia politics to show you how the Sacrificial Bargain operates everywhere, in our relationships, in our political campaigns, in our communities. I tell you about the man
Show notesOn Sunday, April 26, 2026, I executed one of the most successful political events of my career. Over 200 people attended. The execution was flawless. And Congresswoman Joyce Beatty, a senior member of Congress, a former
Show notesIn 1991, Eric "Eazy-E" Wright—the founder of N.W.A., the man who rapped "Fuck tha Police", attended a Republican fundraiser at the White House and met President George H.W. Bush. Most people think it was a publicity stun
Show notesIn 1996, Tupac Shakur released a song called "How Do U Want It." It was a hit. It went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was played on every radio station, in every club, at every party. But buried in the second verse w
Show notesIn 1990, a federal judge in Florida declared an album legally obscene for the first time in U.S. history. The album was As Nasty As They Wanna Be by 2 Live Crew. Record store owners were arrested for selling it. Members
Show notesI woke up this morning feeling blah. I looked at my phone. And it was dry. Again. And it hurt. Then I thought about Monty—my first love, the man who introduced me to hip-hop. And I felt 12 years old again. Then I started
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