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Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday August 29th, a soup of hope

edition. I'm Christina Kauterucci, a staff writer at Slate and host of the

Slate Podcast Outward. I'm Marsha Ch Chattlin a professor of history at Georgetown University

I'm Nicole Perkins writer and co-host of Thirstaid Kit Thirstaid Kit a brilliant

podcast now coming to the slate podcast network.

We're slowly but surely dominating all of Nicole's time and work.

I love it.

I don't mind.

I'm so happy that you guys are coming to slate and that we're going to have even more of your work here.

Thank you. I'm excited too. We really liked the way slate presented itself to us and we just feel very comfortable with the

dynamic here. I'm looking forward to you know creating some magic here. I also

heard you have a new book deal?

Ooh.

Yeah.

What's that about?

I got a book deal for my memoir, which is going to be called

Sometimes I trip on how happy We Could Be, which is a line from my favorite

Prince song in the world, If I was your girlfriend from the Sign of the Times album. And it is going to look at black womanhood,

sexuality, my experience on early online communities

and pop culture and how all that kind of blended together

blended together to create me. Oh my God I'm so excited to read that

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