Bringing Ourselves to the Red Kitchen Table

Gettin' Grown

Loud Speakers Network

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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As we’re at the halfway point of the longest decade ever, 2020, Jade and Keia reflect on a few things they’ve learned and wish they knew at the top of the quarantine. Shout Out: Mary Akpa https://song.link/BlackBody IG: @maryakpa Mattapan Tech’s Scholarship in honor of Zoila Weddborn- $1000 Scholarship for Black and Latina Women in Massachusetts studying in the health care field https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdlip7hZk6ToeUsiTMhu4D2qqzLAPGEOg8FLdvd7LTX3BjT8g/viewform Wanna help celebrate Keia’s huge accomplishment? https://www.myregistry.com/giftlist/keiasfirsthome Ben & Jerry’s three new Non-Dairy Frozen Desserts are a new twist on vegan euphoria. Check out the Ben & Jerry’s sunflower butter lineup, and the whole Non-Dairy family at benjerry.com Need an escape from self-isolating? Experience the best in Black TV and Film with UMC- Urban Movie Channel. Visit UMC.TV and use code GROWN for an extended 30-day free trial today. If you’re a fan of Samantha Irby, Roxane Gay, Morgan Jerkins, and Lindy West, you’ll LOVE this book of essays. Timely, enlightening, and wickedly sharp, ‘This Is Major’ places black women at the center—no longer silenced, no longer the minority. https://gettingrown.co/ Email: [email protected] Twitter: @GettinGrownPod IG: @GettinGrownPod Facebook: www.Facebook.com/GettinGrownPodcast

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0:00.0	Today's episode is brought to you by This is Major,
0:03.3	notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls and Being Dope,
0:06.0	a riveting collection of personal essays on Black Girl culture by Shaila Lawson.
0:10.8	Whether she's taking on workplace microaggressions or upending racist stereotypes,
0:15.7	Shaila Lawson looks for the side of the story that isn't always told.
0:19.5	Timely, enlightening and wiggitly sharp,
0:22.0	this is Major Places Black Women at the Center.
0:25.0	No longer silenced, no longer the minority.
0:30.0	I don't know what to do.
0:32.0	Come on.
0:34.0	I ain't.
0:36.0	But I gotta be a woman.
0:40.0	I gotta go over you.
0:42.0	I ain't gonna be a woman.
0:46.0	I ain't gonna be a woman.
0:50.0	I ain't gonna be a woman.
0:54.0	I ain't gonna be a woman.
0:56.0	I gotta go over you.
1:04.0	Think I saw your baby's mother creeping at your back door.
1:14.0	Come on, Echo.
1:16.0	And your lion has been cheating.
1:20.0	And I can't take it no more.
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