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The Mirror and The Window Podcast

This isn’t your typical movie blog. Here, we’re not just talking about what happens on screen—we’re talking about what happens within us because of it.

Every episode, we explore powerful themes like identity, memory, belonging, and transformation through the lens of cinema, music, and story. Some weeks we’ll start with a big life question. Other times, we’ll let a film lead us where we didn’t know we needed to go.

Introduction

Welcome to The Mirror and the Window podcast. In this brief video, we share what this blog is about and our goals.

Episode 1 : The Inheritance

This isn’t your typical movie blog. Here, we’re not just talking about what happens on screen—we’re talking about what happens within us because of it.

Episode 2 : The Fireworks and the Fury

Explores the deep contradiction of celebrating freedom in a country that, for centuries, denied that very freedom to millions.

Episode 3 : We Were Never Meant to Survive

What truths did your family—or your country—leave out of the story? What gets erased… and what we choose to remember.

Episode 4 : The Present Threat

This episode confronts the quiet erosion of integrity, the seduction of silence, and the everyday choices that define our courage.

Episode 5 : SOF – James Baldwin

This episode, through archival footage, history, and reflection, looks at the power of James Baldwin’s words to pierce illusion, challenge silence, and demand change.

Episode 6 : SOF – Audre Lorde

This episode explores the power, poetry, and purpose of Audre Lorde — a woman who transformed fear into fuel and anger into art.

Episode 7 : SOF – Octavia Butler

we step into the visionary world of Octavia E. Butler, whose words warned of collapse but also offered the blueprint for rebirth.

“Every frame, every word, is a conversation between the moment and the imagination.”

Gary Mobley

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