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Luna Malbroux on Her Wage Gap App and Why It’s Tricky to Be Black and into BDSM
39 minutes Posted Mar 31, 2016 at 2:59 am.
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The EquiTable app creator chats with us about everything from racism in the Bay Area to why playing Bone Thugs-N-Harmony will not get you to second base.

https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/thecooler/2016/03/LunaMalbroux.mp3

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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2ybupRgffE

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

http://fusion.net/story/281403/bdsm-while-black/

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”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yDP9MKVhZc

Until next week!

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