Explore every episode of the podcast UNWOKE: A Memoir in Episodes

It's January 6th, and Jebra will never forget the fear shefaced that day.

She locks every door and window in case the insurrectionistsbook a connecting flight to LAX. She converts the pantry into an emergency bunker with canned chickpeas and dried jackfruit. She starts a GoFundMe for her emotional recovery.

Then Ginsburg comes home from the park radicalized. He islistening to The Daily Wire. He has hung an American flag in his room. He has created a PowerPoint about small government.

Jebra emails Ibram X. Kendi for help, but he doesn't reply.She researches orphanages in Canada to rehome him. She buys a telescope to monitor her neighbors, whom she suspects are radical MAGA. She considers pubertyblockers for Ginsburg’s ongoing interest in right-wing politics.

Then she Googles "symptoms of political radicalizationin children" and finds something she wasn't looking for.

Jebra's neighbor Joe offers to fill her tire. He is Black. He has a Let's Go Brandon sticker. Jebra struggles to be an ally and to convince him to accept reparations.

Then George Floyd happens, and Jebra does what any committed ally would do — she takes her reluctant teenage daughter to CHAZ, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle, packs organic mushroom jerky, and prepares for the Summer of Love.

Featuring: a glow-in-the-dark BLM flag, five Blacknificent t-shirts, a gender-fluid Anne Frank play by candlelight, a tear gas canister to the chest, and Literaleigh eating a Cinnabon at the airport while her mother processes her radicalization.

It's 2016, and Jebra Faushay is certain Hillary Clinton will win. She has the fireworks, the vegan charcuterie, and the champagne ready to uncork.

In the first chapter of UNWOKE, Jebra takes us through the election night that broke her, the COVID years that consumed her, and the glorious arrival of Joe Biden, coming to save the country.

Featuring: a four-hour champagne hunger strike, a hazmat suit at Whole Foods, six keyed cars, and the ancestry results that made her 0.1% African and 100% certain she was now BIPOC.

Before Chapter 1, meet Jebra Faushay. Suburban Los Angeles mother, former ally, recovering activist. This is her story.

UNWOKE: A Memoir in Episodes, new chapters every Monday.