#161 - A Summer Reading Pledge

The Lazy Genius Podcast

Kendra Adachi

Arts, Education

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

This summer, you guys, is the summer I truly begin my education of being an anti-racist. I want to begin taking steps in how I see my summer stack and even in what I watch and listen to. I also want to do that with my kids. And I invite you to join me.

Stuff Mentioned

Books mentioned in this episode: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, The Enneagram of Belonging by Chris Heuertz, The Green Ember by S.D. Smith, The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek, Enter Wild by Carlos Whittaker, I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown, Be the Bridge by Latasha Morrison, The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, The Lazy Genius Way by me!
Movies mentioned in this episode: The Black Power Mixtape, The 13th, and When They See Us
Podcasts mentioned in this episode: 1619, Melanated Faith, and Throughline
Ro Williams Brann on Instagram, and her recommendations for the summer: The Colors of Us by Karen Katz and This Is How We Do It by Matt Lamothe.
A Kids Book About Racism (back-ordered) but you can follow them on Instagram here.
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0:00.0	Hey there, you're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast.
0:05.4	I'm Kendra Dachie and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that matter
0:09.2	and lazy about the things that don't.
0:11.8	Today's episode 161, a summer reading pledge.
0:17.2	Here's what it is.
0:18.4	The summer you guys is the summer I truly begin my education of being an anti-racist.
0:24.2	I want to begin taking steps and how I see my summer stack and even in what I watch and
0:29.3	listen to.
0:30.3	I also want to do that with my kids and I invite you to join me.
0:34.4	So this episode is your invitation.
0:37.3	We're going to walk through the why, how, when, where, who, and what of this summer reading
0:41.8	pledge.
0:42.8	And really, it's a summer consumption pledge, but that title feels weird and misleading
0:48.5	and maybe a little gross because of the word consumption.
0:50.6	So we will lead with reading, but this counts for all the things.
0:54.8	All right, first thing.
0:56.8	Why?
0:57.8	Why are we doing this?
0:59.3	Why is this summer reading pledge even necessary?
1:03.0	First, our country has been in crisis for well since its beginning in many ways, but that
1:09.8	crisis is at a certain peak right now and I am paying attention.
1:14.8	I shared this on Instagram last week, but I've recently been doing a little exercise that
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