Anti-Racist and Pride Reading Recs

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🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This week, Patricia and special guest Mary Kay discuss some Anti-Racist and Pride reading recommendations in a special themed episode! This episode is sponsored by Hey YA, Book Riot’s own podcast about all things young adult lit, Ritual, and Saga Press, publisher of award-winning speculative fiction. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed On The Show: Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall The Low, Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado (or, truly, anything by her) A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni & Tristan Jimerson Roots or The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley The Body is Not An Apology: the Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities by Mady G & J.R. Zuckerberg Gender: A Graphic Guide by Meg-John Barker Interlibrary Loan by Gene Wolfe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and
0:15.0	enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases. This is episode number
0:19.2	265 and today instead of talking about new books released on June 23rd 2020.
0:25.7	We are having a themed show where we'll be talking about some backlist anti-racist and pride
0:30.1	picks.
0:31.1	I'm Patricia Elsie Tuttle here with guest Mary Kay Mcbrayer from the novel gazing
0:35.1	podcast and the FrightStuff newsletter and we're coming to you from Book Riot.com.
0:39.8	Yay I'm so excited to be here with you today, Patricia, and I can't wait to do this episode.
0:46.5	I'm really excited that I got to fill in for Liberty, and she said to tell all of our
0:51.8	listeners that she's so sorry she can't be quote unquote here but
0:56.3	she'll be back next time absolutely I'll be back with liberty next week and we'll talk
1:00.4	about new books but Mary Kay I'm really excited to record with you.
1:04.0	I've never recorded with you before.
1:06.0	I know, it's going to be brand new, we're going to be best friends,
1:09.0	it's going to be amazing.
1:11.0	I'm really excited.
1:12.0	Okay, so before we get to our book picks, let's hear from our sponsor.
1:17.0	Today's episode is brought to you by Norton Young Readers.
1:22.0	October 16th marks the 55th anniversary of Tommy Smith's iconic and groundbreaking protest.
1:27.6	In 1968 at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommy Smith and his teammate John Carlos stood on the podium in black socks and
1:34.3	black gloves and raised their fist to protest racial injustice towards black people in
1:38.6	America. Both men were forced to leave the Olympics, received death threats, faced ostracism and blackballing in their sport, and in his first ever graphic novel memoir, Tommy Smith looks back on his childhood growing up in rural Texas as a son of a sharecropper, his young adult experiences with segregation
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