Ep. 193 Betting on the Kids with Angelina Jolie and Tokata Iron Eyes
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Angelina Jolie, actor-director-humanitarian, and Indigenous activist Tokata Iron Eyes join Traci to discuss Jolie's book Know Your Rights an Claim Them: A Guide for Youth, which she wrote with Geraldine Van Bueren and Amnesty International. The conversation is a candid discussion with two people who are helping to shape the dialogue around activism, especially when it comes to the global rights of children, and the ways activism permeates all facets of life.
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The Stacks Book Club selection for December is A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib, we will discuss this book on December 29th with Andrew Ti.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, the live in the stack store is on its last leg literally. We only have one show left |
| 0:08.5 | Join me in Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 18th with three of my favorite ever podcast guests and friends of this show |
| 0:16.2 | We are gonna be joined by Rachel Lindsey. Yes, that Rachel Lindsey the first black bachelor at also |
| 0:22.2 | She is an author a podcaster a TV host and a wonderful human being |
| 0:26.4 | We're gonna be joined by Sam Sanders podcast host journalist and I think arguably the cultural critic of our time and |
| 0:33.7 | The wonderful hilarious and super duper smart Chelsea Devantes who is an any nominated TV writer, comedian director and of course the host of |
| 0:42.6 | Glamrs trash formerly known as the celebrity book club podcast |
| 0:46.6 | We are going to have a blast bringing this tour to a close and not to mention that our friends from reparations book club |
| 0:52.6 | One of my favorite bookstores here in L.A. is curating a pop-up bookshop of our dreams |
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| 1:15.0 | Welcome to the stacks a podcast about books and the people who read them |
| 1:18.0 | I'm your host Tracy Thomas, and I am thrilled to tell you about today's episode today |
| 1:22.2 | We are joined by two incredible guests Angelina Jolie and Tokata ironized |
| 1:28.1 | Angelina Jolie yes, that one is the well-known actor director and humanitarian and one of the authors of know your rights and claim them a |
| 1:35.8 | Guide for youth a book she co-wrote with Geraldine Van Buren and Amnesty International that is all about the rights of children and how young people |
| 1:43.0 | Can learn what rights they are afforded and make changes in their communities |
| 1:47.0 | Tokata ironized is a Native American activist who rose to prominence for her efforts of organizing against the Dakota axis pipeline |
| 1:54.9 | We talked today about the book and the ways young people have the power to affect real change |
| 1:59.9 | The stacks book club pick for December is a little devil in America by Heneath abdua keeb |
| 2:04.3 | We will be discussing the book on Wednesday December 29th with Andrew T |
| 2:08.9 | If you want more of the stacks you can find bonus episodes a discord community virtual book clubs and more over on patreon |
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