Ep. 128 Big Friendships with Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

Literature, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman are the friends behind the podcast Call Your Girlfriend, and now the authors of the New York Times Best Selling book Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close. Today we talk about the obstacles they found in researching their book on friendship, finding their voice, the questions that come up in interracial friendships, and about their idea of "shine theory".

The Stacks Book Club selection for September is The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, we will discuss the book with Lupita Aquino on September 30.

You can find links to everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' Website: https://thestackspodcast.com/2020/09/09/ep-128-aminatou-sow-ann-friedman

Connect with Aminatou & Ann: Aminatou Twitter|Aminatou Instagram|Ann Twitter|Call Your Girlfriend | Big Friendship

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the stats, a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your
0:07.7	host Tracy Thomas. Today we have two guests for you, the best friend duo of Aminatouso and Ann Friedman.
0:15.4	Aminatu and Anne are the hosts of the Call Your Girlfriend podcast and they're the
0:21.1	authors of a brand new book on Friendship called Big Friendship,
0:24.6	How We Keep Each Other Close.
0:26.5	As a reminder, everything we discuss on today's episode can be found in the show notes.
0:30.9	Before we get to Anne and Aminatu, I just wanted to take a moment to thank the Stax Pack.
0:35.8	The people who make this show possible by contributing monthly to our Patreon and putting their
0:40.0	money where their mouth is.
0:41.7	And in exchange, they earn perks and inside access to this show.
0:45.9	To join the Staxpack head to Patreon.com slash the Stax.
0:50.0	This week I'm saying an extra special thank you to Rachel Blumenthal,
0:53.1	Kelsey Ekberg, Caitlin Sowers, Candice Narrows,
0:57.2	Vicky Preble, Sarah Howard,
0:59.9	Christy Nelson, Emily Reddy, Deb Weintier,
1:03.7	Sarah, Lily Herman, A. Laken, Cassandra Fugel,
1:08.6	and Madison Flores.
1:10.4	Thank you all so much.
1:13.0	All right, let's get to my conversation with Aminatu Soe and Anne Friedman.
1:18.0	All right, everybody. I am here with Aminatoussou and Anne Friedman, the authors of Big Friendship. Ladies,
1:29.6	welcome to the Stacks.
1:31.6	Oh, thank you for having us. Hi Tracy. Hi I'm really excited for a lot of
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