I Ain't Got Time To Read
by I Ain't Got Time To Read
Hi! We're Sadie and Zami A., two deeply bonded millennials who, through reading, wanted to equip ourselves with the tools to better name and examine our experiences as women of color. Our goal is to make this accessible for the community who may not have time to read or would like to do so in a communal way. Each episode is a recorded discussion of the questions and themes noted in the study guide we've created (see show notes to access). So this podcast is "for colored folks who have considered doing the readings but the time in the day wasn't enough."
Episodes
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What It Takes to Heal Part 4
Listen to today's discussion on Chapter 7 and 8 of "What It Takes to Heal" by Prentis Hemphill. We created a free study guide based off the book, check it our here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hKh81SLpJixqlbznPnAYz6bW4h5d2WOWSJzC7slCs7k/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.sa0dkhn9q7vo We hope this...
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What It Takes to Heal Part 3
Listen to today's discussion on Chapter 5 and 6 of "What It Takes to Heal" by Prentis Hemphill. We created a free study guide based off the book, check it our here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hKh81SLpJixqlbznPnAYz6bW4h5d2WOWSJzC7slCs7k/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.sa0dkhn9q7vo We hope this...
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What It Takes to Heal Part 2
Listen to today's discussion on Chapter 3 and 4 of "What It Takes to Heal" by Prentis Hemphill. We created a free study guide based off the book, check it our here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hKh81SLpJixqlbznPnAYz6bW4h5d2WOWSJzC7slCs7k/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.sa0dkhn9q7vo We hope this...
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What It Takes to Heal Part 1
Listen to today's discussion on Chapter 1 and 2 of "What It Takes to Heal" by Prentis Hemphill. We created a free study guide based off the book, check it our here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hKh81SLpJixqlbznPnAYz6bW4h5d2WOWSJzC7slCs7k/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.sa0dkhn9q7vo We hope this…
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Sassafrass, Indigo & Cypress: Part 5
This week, in part 5, we continue to cover the character Cypress as she navigates moving across the county, new relationships, and heartache. As always, we have created a free study guide for this book, that you can access here:...
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Sassafrass, Indigo & Cypress: Part 4
This week, in part 4, we cover the character Cypress as she navigates moving across the county, new relationships, and heartache. As always, we have created a free study guide for this book, that you can access here:...
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Sassafrass, Indigo & Cypress: Part 3
This week, in part 3, we continue to cover the character Sassafrass as she navigates through her relationships with her lover, her sister and her self. As always, we have created a free study guide for this book, that you can access here:...
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Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo: Part 2
This week, in part 2, we cover the character Sassafrass as she navigates through her relationships with her lover, her mother and her self. As always, we have created a free study guide for this book, that you can access here:...
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Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo: Part 1
Welcome back listeners! In this new season we will be discussing Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo by Ntozake Shange. For this six part series Zami A. and Sadie are joined by a special guest and book lover, Imani! Part 1 covers the character Indigo as she navigates through the transition of girlhood…
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Black Food Matters Chapter 9
Listen to today's discussion on the racist history of the US Department of Agricultural. The conversation is based off the topics and information we learned while reading Chapter 9 of Black Food Matters. We created a free study guide based off the book, check it our here:...
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Black Food Matters Chapter 10
Listen to the last episode of the season, as we discuss resistance and capitalism in modern food landscapes. The conversation is based off the topics and information we learned while reading Chapter 10 of Black Food Matters. We've created a free study guide based off the book, check it our here:...
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Black Food Matters Chapter 8
Listen to today's discussion on Black women in agricultural spaces. The conversation is based off the topics and information we learned while reading Chapter 8 of Black Food Matters. We created a free study guide based off the book, check it our here:...
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Black Food Matters Chapter 7
Listen to today's discussion on the Black history of BBQ. The conversation is based off the topics and information we learned while reading Chapter 7 of Black Food Matters. We created a free study guide based off the book, check it our here:...
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Black Food Matters Chapter 6
Listen to today's discussion on the gentrification of Soul Food. The conversation is based off the topics and information we learned while reading Chapter 6 of Black Food Matters. We created a free study guide based off the book, check it our here:...
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Black Food Matters Chapter 5
Listen to today's discussion on "healthy food" in relation to food access. The conversation is based off the topics and information we learned while reading Chapter 5 of Black Food Matters. We created a free study guide based off the book, check it our here:...
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Black Food Matters Chapter 4
Listen to today's discussion on white centric food ideals and how they negatively affect our relationship with food. The conversation is based off the topics and information we learned while reading Chapter 4 of Black Food Matters. We created a free study guide based off the book, check it our...
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Black Food Matters Chapter 3
Listen to today's discussion on the intersections of The Black Panther Party and food security. The conversation is based off the topics and information we learned while reading Chapter 3 of Black Food Matters. We created a free study guide based off the book, check it our here:...
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Black Food Matters Chapter 2
Listen to today's discussion on the intersections of community activism and food security. This conversation is based off the topics and information we learned while reading Chapter 2 of Black Food Matters. We created a free study guide based off the book, check it our here:...
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Black Food Matters Chapter 1
Join us as we discuss our evolving access to food in relation to the topics and information we learned while reading Chapter 1 of Black Food Matters. We created a free study guide based off the book, check it our here:...
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THICK: Essay 8 Girl 6
David Brooks wrote 865 words about how gourmet sandwiches are ruining america. The gourmet sandwiches in the essay were supposed to serve as an analogy of the growing class divide. In this essay, Tressie examines how Brooks, both white and male, was “tasked with making a mundane exchange…
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THICK: Essay 7 Black Girlhood, Interrupted
In this essay, Tressie intimately discusses experiences involving sexual violence perpetrated against herself and other Black girls and women. She covers high profile cases like R. Kelley and Mike Tyson, and examines how the Black community reacted. She discusses statistics that state Black women...
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THICK: Essay 6 The Price of Fabulousness
“Fabulousness…[is] about making a spectacle of oneself in a world that seeks to suppress and undervalue fabulous people.”- madison moore In this essay, Tressie discusses the ways people who have been devalued socially- the poor, the black, the brown, the woman and femme, the uneducated, the queer...
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THICK Essay 5: Black is Over (Or Special Black)
In this essay Tressie discusses the relationships between African Americans, and Black ethnics, or Black people who were not born in the US, she refers to them as “Special Blacks”. She focuses on the perception of “Special Blacks” in university settings, and how schools capitalize off this...
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THICK Essay 4: Know Your Whites
In this essay, Tressie details a story of attending an Obama party in North Carolina in a neighborhood where, at the time, she found it hard to believe was the choice spot . At the time of the party, Obama hadn’t been elected yet, but the party was filled with white people that were sure that he...
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THICK Essay 3: Dying to be competent
Join us in discussing the third essay in Tressie McMillian Cottom's book "Thick" as we unpack personal stories of sadness and frustration due to structural racism and sexism in both "professional spaces" and the healthcare industry. We discusses the different levels of competence, we as humans...
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THICK Essay 2: In the Name of Beauty
In the second essay, “In the Name of Beauty,” Tressie examines and names her experience of being deemed unattractive under the white gaze. She makes the point that beauty is about a power structure of domination and exclusion based on capitalism and the system of white supremacy. She defines the...
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THICK Essay 1: Thick
Join us as we discuss the first essay in Tressie McMillian Cottom's latest book "THICK". We walk through her experiences in addition to our own on the topics of Black girlhood, persistant with academia, and co-opting Blackness. We created a free study guide based off the book, check it out here:...
About this show
Hi! We're Sadie and Zami A., two deeply bonded millennials who, through reading, wanted to equip ourselves with the tools to better name and examine our experiences as women of color. Our goal is to make this accessible for the community who may not have time to read or would like to do so in a communal way. Each episode is a recorded discussion of the questions and themes noted in the study guide we've created (see show notes to access). So this podcast is "for colored folks who have considered doing the readings but the time in the day wasn't enough."
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