Brown Girl in the Ring – Part 1

Shelved By Genre

Ranged Touch

Books, Education, Arts

4.9 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 137 minutes

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We read the first 7 chapters of Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring. Content warnings for: racism, misogyny, drugs and addiction, body horror, medical horror. On the next episode, we’re discussing the rest of Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring. You can go to patreon.com/rangedtouch to support the show and access the bonus episode feed.… Continue reading

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0:12.0	Oh Welcome to Shelf by genre, a show about types of literature in the worlds they imagine.
0:35.9	We are continuing our unit on post-apocalypse with a book that is post-apocalyptic, I promise.
0:44.2	Today we're reading the first seven, seven, statement, seven chapters of Nilo Hopkinson's
0:52.4	Brown Girl in the Ring.
0:54.2	I am Cameron, and with me here are the two zombies, Michael and Austin.
1:01.7	So you need me to, like, clean anything for you or, like, open someone's eyelids and then close them again?
1:10.0	I'm holding a carafe.
1:13.0	What's in there?
1:14.0	Austin, I command you to go to Red Lobster.
1:19.2	Okay.
1:20.4	But if you want me to get you anything,
1:22.3	you'll have to tell me now,
1:23.2	because I can't,
1:24.1	I won't have the willpower to call you to ask.
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