Lil Nas X is the Moment

<p><strong>Listener Feedback</strong></p><p>Shout out to the FANTI fam. You all ask us the best questions, including this week’s: When it comes to job hunting with personal ethics and values in mind, should I continue to hold out and work for companies truly committed to dismantling white supremacy and patriarchy even if it means struggling to make ends meet?</p><p><strong>DIS/Honorable Mentions </strong></p><p>HM: Disney Plus releases Sparkshorts <a href="https://www.indiewire.com/2021/09/twenty-something-pixar-disney-plus-sparkshort-interview-1234663470/"><i>Twenty Something</i></a> directed by Pixar’s rising animator Aphton Corbin.</p><p>HM:  Director Zach Parrish releases the romantic animated short <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ylr70WNAe8"><i>Us Again</i></a> about an elder interracial couple dancing back into the days of their youth.</p><p>HM: Getting into convo with bikers, host Christopher Stricklen talks racial justice on the soon-to-release episode of his podcast <a href="https://wegottohangout.com/">We Got to Hangout</a>.</p><p>HM: CBS’ <i>Big Brother</i> will have its first Black winner thanks to <a href="https://thegrio.com/2021/09/10/black-big-brother-alliance-the-cookout/">Tiffany Mitchell (and The Cookout Alliance)</a>.</p><p>HM: Megan Rohrer has become the first transgender bishop for the <a href="https://www.them.us/story/megan-rohrer-makes-history-first-trans-bishop-mainstream-us-denomination">Evangelical Lutheran Church</a>.</p><p>DM: Nicki Minaj’s vaccine tweets inspired the Barbz to get loud and unabashedly ignorant in <a href="https://twitter.com/khyisfly/status/1438509163672260610?s=21">these streets</a>.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Black History Is Happening Everyday</strong></p><p>Michaela Coel is the first Black woman to win an Emmy for writing <a href="https://www.etonline.com/michaela-coel-makes-history-as-first-black-woman-to-win-an-emmy-for-limited-series-writing-172462"><i>I May Destroy You</i></a>, one of the best limited series of the last decade, and she slayed her Emmy mo