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Permission to Be Uncomfortable (w/ Terry McMillan)

Permission to Be Uncomfortable (w/ Terry McMillan)

FromThe Roxane Gay Agenda


Permission to Be Uncomfortable (w/ Terry McMillan)

FromThe Roxane Gay Agenda

ratings:
Length:
32 minutes
Released:
Feb 1, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Novelist Terry McMillan set the table for so many Black creative women working today. She tells Roxane about how she became a writer without knowing she was one, and how she continues to write narratives that so many Black women identify with.

Mentions:
●     Roxane’s Story “North Country” is in her book Difficult Women: https://roxanegay.com/books/difficult-women/
●     Terry McMillan’s Website: https://www.terrymcmillan.com/
●     New York Times article, The Joys (and Challenges) of Sex after 70: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/12/magazine/sex-old-age.html

Credits: Curtis Fox is the producer. Yessenia Moreno is the intern. Production help from Kaitlyn Adams. Theme music by Taka Yasuzawa and Alex Sugiura.
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Released:
Feb 1, 2022
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.