


Gay’s departure comes after India Arie, a musician and podcaster said she would be pulling her podcast SongVersation from Spotify in protest of Joe Rogan’s comments on his podcast that it would be “weird” to call Black people “black” unless they were “100 percent African, from the darkest place, where they’re not wearing any clothes all day.” “That’s all there really is to say about that. Roxane Gay, the host of The Roxane Gay Agenda podcast, has removed her show from Spotify amid a growing number of high-profile departures from the streaming platform.Īs of Wednesday, the podcast - which premiered in late January - is not available on Spotify but can still be streamed on Apple Podcasts or the Luminary app. “It won’t move any sort of needle but I removed my podcast from Spotify,” the Bad Feminist author tweeted.
