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    Best of Hear to Slay: Chopped and Screwed (with Isabel Wilkerson)

    Best of Hear to Slay: Chopped and Screwed (with Isabel Wilkerson)

    FromThe Roxane Gay Agenda

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    Best of Hear to Slay: Chopped and Screwed (with Isabel Wilkerson)

    FromThe Roxane Gay Agenda

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    Length:
    51 minutes
    Released:
    Aug 31, 2021
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    Isabel Wilkerson reframes race and racism in her book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Here she talks about what inspired the book and about the craft behind her complex, big narratives. Spoiler: it doesn’t involve outlines. Plus, Tressie and Roxane on why you need to read more than one book about racism.

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    Caste: The Origins Of Our Discontents

    Hear To Slay theme music by Taka Yasuzawa and Alex Sugiura. Curtis Fox is the senior producer. Sarah Wyman and Catherine Fenollosa are the producers. Production help from Lauren Garcia and Kaityln Adams. Ali McPherson and Isoke Samuel are the interns.
    Released:
    Aug 31, 2021
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Titles in the series (50)

    Hear to Slay is the Black feminist podcast of your dreams—compelling conversations curated in only the way Black women can. Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom offer uncommonly incisive reads of the politics that shape the world we live in and the popular culture we consume. If you want to laugh as much as you want to be challenged, if you’re seriously smart but refuse to take yourself too seriously at all, come a little closer because we are here and hear, to slay.