Brown Girl in the Ring – Part 2

Shelved By Genre

Ranged Touch

Books, Education, Arts

4.9 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 159 minutes

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We finish Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring. Content warnings for: racism, misogyny, torture, body horror, child death. On the next episode, we’re talking about 10.5 Apocalypse. You can go to patreon.com/rangedtouch to support the show and access the bonus episode feed. The show is hosted by Cameron Kunzelman, Michael Lutz, and Austin Walker.

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0:13.0	Oh Oh Welcome to Shelf by genre, a show about types of literature in the worlds they imagine.
0:35.4	We are continuing our unit on post-apocalypse with a book that is post-apocalyptic.
0:41.8	We're doing part two of Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson, and we are reading chapters
0:48.7	eight through the end of Brown Girl in the Ring.
0:56.0	I'm Cameron, and with me here, as always,
1:00.6	our two summoned spirits, Michael and Austin.
1:05.8	I'm going to get out in front here and say that this puts me in an uncomfortable position
1:10.7	in terms of the
1:11.6	types of a spirit that show up in this book and my ability to impersonate them yeah go
1:17.3	ahead buddy you can be from a different inherited you come in you don't have to be in this is like
1:22.2	a cross-cultural spirit you know like a slob knocker you know what I mean I could represent Ose and you could, like a slob knocker. You know what I mean?
1:28.0	I could represent Osain and you could represent like a Jesus.
1:32.9	Is that what of yours?
1:35.6	You could go probably with some like Irish folk tales.
1:39.4	Yeah.
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