Adultification, How Medical Misinformation Is Harmful And The Appropriation Of Black Culture With Author Brianna Holt

Brown Girl Self-Care

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In this episode, join me as I engage in a meaningful conversation with Brianna Holt, author, writer, and reporter, on her debut book titled IN OUR SHOES: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So "Post-Racial" America. Together, we explore the pervasive stereotypes and systemic challenges that Black women face on a daily basis, and empower ourselves to stand in our power.

Holt's book offers a roadmap for expanding empathy, understanding, and allyship, as we dive deep into critical topics such as:

• The "adultification" of Black girls, which has been linked to violence against them;

• The danger of medical misinformation, which often results in Black women being ignored, disrespected, and even fatally harmed;

• The prevalence of appropriation, where non-Black individuals treat Black art, music, and style as trends to try on, while Black individuals are criticized for the same things that are part of their cultural identity.

Join us as we unpack these important issues and learn from Holt's insights and solutions.

You can purchase her book here* -> In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So "Post-Racial" America

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Brown Girl self-care podcast my name is free Mitchell
0:03.5	I'm the host of the show as well as the founder of brown girl self-care
0:07.3	Brown girl self-care was designed specifically for black women to
0:12.8	Just help us to get to where the healing resides as we exist in a world that does not prioritize our humanity
0:19.6	So today I actually have a guest her name is Brianna Holt. She's an author a writer
0:26.2	Probably a billion things, but a reporter a writer an author and she wrote this book in our shoes
0:34.8	which I
0:36.8	Had the opportunity to read it's in our shoes. Let me read the whole thing on being a young black woman and not so post-racial
0:43.2	America's book. Y'all is
0:46.2	Amazing, especially since I think I'm a gen ex. So this was a really good read
0:52.0	So before we get started Brianna first of all welcome, please introduce yourself and tell us more about you
0:57.0	Yeah, thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited to be here
1:01.0	Yeah, as you mentioned my name is Brianna. I held from Dallas, Texas, but I currently live in New York City
1:08.0	been out here for about five or six years now and
1:11.7	Yeah, this is my first book. It's my debut book, but not my first time writing
1:15.4	I've written about
1:17.3	Identity and race and more specifically black woman identity and black womanhood
1:21.7	For various publications like the New York Times, the Guardian, Rolling Stone, GQ
1:28.1	And so yeah, it was time to put this all together
1:32.0	Into a manuscript into a book because a lot of these topics that I covered in this book were things that I was
1:38.2	recovering individually in articles and in thing pieces
1:42.0	Why did you write this book in our shoes? Like I know there has to be a reason where something you like, you know what?
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