An Author Special with Yomi Adegoke & Elizabeth Uviebinené of Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible
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The High Low
4.8 • 9.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
The POTUS hit the UK for his week of ridicule: the balloon; the march; the press conference and *that* video gone viral of Trump barging in front of the Queen. Meanwhile, Dolly discovers a new music hero (David Keenan) and Pandora reads her first ‘work-help’ book (The Discomfort Zone by Farrah Storr.) Oh, and Love Island fans: Undercover Lover is your new favourite podcast. You’re welcome.
Today we are honoured to host Yomi Adegoke & Elizabeth Uviebinené, the writers of Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible. A meticulously researched and brilliantly written deep-dive into what it is to be a young black woman in the UK, the book prompted a 9-way publishing war and is stuffed full of interviews with famous black women including Olympic athlete Denise Lewis, barrister and author Afua Hirsch and former pop star Jamelia.
We discuss microaggressions and microinvalidations; the ‘white co-sign’; being racially palatable; why representation and sponsorship is so important (just 0.49% of university professors are black women); why black women are swiped left more than any other ethnic group on Tinder; and how Rihanna changed the black beauty industry.
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Links
Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible, by Yomi Adegoke & Elizabeth Uviebinené https://www.amazon.co.uk/Slay-Your-Lane-Black-Bible/dp/0008235627
Undercover Lover, hosted by Harriet Minter https://www.acast.com/undercoverlover
Caliphate - a New York Times podcast about ISIS, hosted by Rukmini Callimachi https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/podcasts/caliphate-isis-rukmini-callimachi.html
True heroes insist on staying in the shadows, by Janice Turner for The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/true-heroes-insist-on-staying-in-the-shadows-fkl7lj53w
Suzanne Moore on turning 60 for The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/17/im-a-woman-about-to-turn-60-heres-what-ive-learned-about-life
Elizabeth Day's new podcast How To Fail https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/how-to-fail-phoebe-waller-bridge/id1407451189?i=1000415790730&mt=2
David Keenan on Roisin Meets https://soundcloud.com/irishtimes-lifestyle/david-keenan
David Keenan https://www.davidkeenan.ie/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 64 of The Highloat, the weekly news and pop culture podcast brought |
| 0:19.8 | to you by journalist Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes. |
| 0:23.6 | How are you feeling about the cooling heat wave? |
| 0:25.4 | Is it cooler? |
| 0:26.4 | Yeah, apparently it's over, it's all over now. |
| 0:29.2 | Cool, that's really depressing, I hate it when people kept saying it was too hot. |
| 0:33.4 | I'm glad it's got, I think today is perfect. |
| 0:36.2 | It's still bright and tanning in. |
| 0:39.3 | Since we last spoke, the Trump baby balloon has taken off and my favourite picture, and |
| 0:44.0 | boy the choices were good, was the one of Nelson Mandela catching baby Trump as the |
| 0:48.8 | orange balloon appeared to float into the giant statues hands in Parliament Square. |
| 0:53.7 | Nearly 250,000 people joined the dump Trump march in Central London protesting against the |
| 0:58.3 | president's visit. |
| 0:59.3 | That's a huge turnout, no? |
| 1:01.3 | Yeah, enormous. |
| 1:02.6 | Next, there was a press conference at checkers between Trump and Theresa May, which was |
| 1:07.2 | described by press there as agonising. |
| 1:10.4 | Not so much a press conference as a 50 minute couples counselling session, one in which the |
| 1:14.6 | therapist was regrettably absent, leaving no one to mediate between two rapidly fragmenting |
| 1:19.5 | psyches, wrote John Crase in The Guardian. |
| 1:22.7 | Trump later suggested that Theresa May should sue the EU. |
| 1:27.7 | And of course the video of Trump barging in front of the Queen, leaving her to totter |
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