The Roxane Gay Agenda

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Hear to Slay: Something Has To Get Done (with Jordan Casteel, and Jeremy O. Harris) Mar 09, 2021

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Reflections on life as a Black creative, benevolent racism, making art during the pandemic, and more. In this except: painter Jordan Casteel. For the entire conversation, and an interview with playwright Jeremy O. Harris, go to www.luminary.link/slay

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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.

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Hear to Slay: Taking Up Space (with Amber J. Phillips, and Brittany Gibson) Mar 02, 2021

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Activist and storyteller Amber J. Phillips on the importance of being who you are, politically and publicly. Also, journalist Brittany Gibson on the breathtaking scope of new Republican voter suppression efforts.

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Hear to Slay: Freedom to Breathe (with Senator Elizabeth Warren) Feb 23, 2021

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Senator Elizabeth Warren on the moral and political imperative of forgiving student loan debt. Plus Roxane and Tressie respond to listener voicemails about what they would do if their student loan debt was forgiven.

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Hear to Slay: Out of Little Africa (with Dr. Ebony Hilton) Feb 16, 2021

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Featuring Dr. Ebony Hilton on the inequities revealed by the virus and the vaccine rollout.

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Three American Mothers, On the Brink
Evicted, by Matthew Desmond

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Hear to Slay: The Fat Tax (with Sabrina Strings, and Sonya Renee Taylor) Feb 09, 2021

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Sabrina Strings joins Roxane and Tressie to discuss the racist historical roots of fat phobia and what it means for health care today in this special excerpt.. In the full episode Sonya Renee Taylor coaches Roxane and Tressie on how to accept their bodies, and why self-love is a contagious political act. Hear more of this episode, and the entire season, on Luminary (@hearluminary, and www.luminary.link/slay).

Show Notes:

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

The Body is Not an Apology

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Hear to Slay: It’s Our Country, Too (with Rissi Palmer) Feb 02, 2021

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How is our relationship to the news changing these days? Plus: singer/songwriter/podcaster Rissi Palmer on why Black contributions to country music have been ignored if not erased. Hear more of this episode and the entire season on Luminary (@hearluminary, and www.luminarypodcasts.com).

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Color Me Country podcast is hosted by Rissi Palmer on Apple Music.
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CREDITS: 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 is the intern.

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Hear to Slay: He's Gone (with Rebecca Nagle) Jan 22, 2021

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Tressie and Roxane process the inauguration of Biden and Harris. In the extended version of the episode (on Luminary) our hosts chat with writer, and podcaster Rebecca Nagle (This Land) on the view from Indian country in the time of Covid-19.

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Hear to Slay: In the Gap (with Carol Anderson) Jan 15, 2021

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White supremacy left its fingerprints all over the insurrection at the Capitol. Tressie and Roxane break it down.

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Article: Misogyny in the Capitol: Among the insurectionsis a lot of angry men who don’t like women

Book: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson

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Hear to Slay: White Nonsense (with Sarah Silverman) Jan 15, 2021