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Luna Malbroux on Her Wage Gap App and Why It’s Tricky to Be Black and into BDSM

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This week, we’re joined by Luna Malbroux, a diversity consultant for schools and workplaces by day, a hilarious comedian by night, an app creator sometime in between, and also potentially the love child of Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey. 

We talk to Luna about EquiTable, her app that uses comedy to raise awareness around the wage gap:

We then switch gears to get the lowdown on why it’s complicated for some black people to explore BDSM:

Why It’s Hard To Be Black And Also Into BDSM

I don’t remember a time when I didn’t have fantasies about being dominated. I would imagine someone gripping my hair tightly or a stinging slap on my ass-all very exciting. But every time I would let my thoughts run wild, they would get rudely interrupted, like an angry grandmother unplugging the cord while you’re sneakily watching TV after 2 a.m., yelling “Turn this OFF!”

We pay homage to the still-relevant Samantha Jones:

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And we cap things off with a song of Luna’s choice: FKA Twigs’ “Two Weeks”:

Until next week!

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