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Episode 1.09: Avatar the Last Airbender

Season 1, Ep. 9

Join historian John Lestrange and podcaster extraordinaire Frankie Bradley for Episode 9p of Genostory: We Agreed to do This. This month we'll be starting a new arc on the representation of genocide in cartoons by diving into Avatar the Last Airbender.

Also, as a reminder to everyone listening Black Lives Matter and All Cops are Bastards.

Special thanks to the app Hatchful and MJ Bradley for designing and editing out logo.

Show music is "Crusade - Heavy Industry by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License.

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