The Rachel Divide; & Dissecting The Met Gala

It’s a week of controversy: Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who says she’s black, is back in the public eye thanks to a Netflix documentary, The Rachel Divide. What trauma led to her fraudulent ‘transracial’ identity? And why does Rachel refuse to back down? We called up gal-dem deputy editor and Guardian writer Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff to discuss the documentary - and whether or not Netflix were right to air it.  Also on today’s agenda: the glitzy annual Met Gala and it’s ‘Catholic’ theme, courtesy of Andrew Bolton’s ‘Heavenly Bodies’ exhibition. From Rihanna’s papal mitre to Lena Waithe’s politically charged rainbow cape, via Jared Leto dressed as Jesus (God complex, much?) the dress code might have been crassly interpreted and as camp as Christmas, but does that make it offensive? We run the full gamut of opinions. Last thing - the Chuckle Brothers have not fallen out. We repeat: rumours of a feud are false.  [email protected] @thehighlowshow Links The Rachel Divide review by Doreen St Felix for The New Yorker  https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-rachel-divide-review-a-disturbing-portrait-of-dolezals-racial-fraudulence  The Rachel Divide on Netflix  https://www.netflix.com/title/80149821  Does Anyone Have The Right To Sex? By Amia Srinivasan, for The London Review of Books https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n06/amia-srinivasan/does-anyone-have-the-right-to-sex Sean Penn interview, by Emma Brockes for The Guardian  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/may/05/sean-penn-some-of-my-best-laughs-have-come-out-of-the-worst-reviews You Think It, I’ll Say It, short stories by Curtis Sittenfeld https://www.amazon.co.uk/You-Think-Ill-Say-Stories/dp/052552777X/ref=nodl_ Patrick Melrose, starts on Sunday on Sky Atlantic How The Met Gala Guests Tackled “The Heavenly Bodies” Theme, by Osman Ahmed for Vogue.co.uk http://www.vogue.co.uk/article/how-met-gala-guests-tackled-heavenly-bodies-them Radio 4 Soul Music on God Only Knows  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b01jsk Abi Morgan’s Desert Island Discs  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b01jsk For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy