Dear Prudence: My Mom Forgot to Take Her Medicine and “Accidentally” Made Racist Remarks. Help!

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🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In this episode, Kiese Laymon (author of Long Division, How to Slowly Kill Yourself in America, and Heavy: An American Memoir) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters from readers about how to convince your strict religious parents to let you go to an out-of-state college, whether to report a coworker’s insensitive gym behavior to HR, and how to deal with a mom who forgets to take her medication and immediately uses a racial slur. If you want more Dear Prudence, join Slate Plus, Slate’s membership program. Jenée answers an extra question every week, just for members. Go to Slate.com/prudieplus to sign up. It’s just $15 for your first three months. This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, and Jenée Desmond-Harris, with help from Maura Currie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.0	You're looking for someone to write your life story.
0:40.0	I was a young man, locked up in a terrible place.
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0:52.0	Watch now on Sky Atlantic and buy the book at All Good Book Shops. Welcome to Dear Prudence, I'm your Prudence,
1:07.0	Jene Desmond Harris.
1:09.0	Today we'll be discussing whether to report a co-worker's insensitive gym behavior to HR and how to deal
1:16.6	with a mom who forgets to take her medication and immediately uses a racial slur.
1:22.0	Here to help me out is the writer and professor Kiece Leaman. He's the
1:25.6	author of the award-winning books and essay collections, Long Division, How to Slowly Kill
1:30.1	Yours in America, and Heavy in American and heavy an American memoir.
1:34.0	He's also the founder of the Catherine Coleman Literary Arts and Justice
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1:38.0	And last but not least, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2022.
1:43.4	Welcome!
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