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    On My Nightstand: The Incredible Shrinking Woman By Athena Dixon

    On My Nightstand: The Incredible Shrinking Woman By Athena Dixon

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    On My Nightstand: The Incredible Shrinking Woman By Athena Dixon

    FromOnly One In The Room

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    Length:
    13 minutes
    Released:
    Mar 12, 2021
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    Today’s reading is from the essay titled, The Incredible Shrinking Woman from the collection of essays, The Incredible Shrinking Woman by author Athena Dixon.
    Athena Dixon is the author of The Incredible Shrinking Woman, and No God in This Room. Her work also appears in The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic. Athena’s work has appeared in various publications including GAY Magazine and Narratively. She is the founder of Linden Avenue Literary Journal and is the co-host of the New Books in Poetry Podcast via the New Books Network. She resides in Philadelphia. 
    You can listen to Athena’s episode of The Only One In The Room here
    And find out more about her here https://athenadixon.com/ 
    You can listen to Cole’s episode of The Only One In The Room: Cole Brown Is The Only One Who Is Always The Only One Episode 61
    and find out more about Cole here: https://colebrown.com/
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    Released:
    Mar 12, 2021
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    Hosted by Laura Cathcart Robbins, a writer and a recovery thriver and survivor, Laura found herself in an all too familiar position. In September 2018, she was the only black woman in the room at Brave Magic, a famed writer’s retreat. After it was over, she wrote about her “only one” experience in The Huffington Post and comments started flooding into her DM. These comments were from people from all races, ethnicities, creeds, and nationalities who had felt “othered”. Laura beautifully interviews a person about their Only One story each episode and addresses as many of those DM’s as possible in the process. In this podcast, you’ll hear raw, vulnerable accounts from people who are, like most of us, just eager to connect. Our hope is that The Only One In The Room will inspire a change of perspective in how we all see and hear each other’s stories. We want you think twice before judging the person standing next to you at a party, in the pick-up line at school or in a crowded subway car. This is a podcast for anyone who has ever felt alone in a room full of people – which is to say, that this podcast is for everyone.