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🗓️ 1 March 2023
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Today professor and author Shanita Hubbard speaks with The Stacks about her book Ride or Die: A Feminist Manifesto for the Well-Being of Black Women. We discuss the cultural erasure of Black women and why the idea that they will "save the world" is manipulative. We also note how Black female essayists have been weaving together scholarly and pop cultural commentary in the most complex and delightful ways.
The Stacks Book Club selection for March is Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay. We will discuss the book on March 29th with Shanita Hubbard.
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0:00.0 | You guys, the live and the stacks tour is underway. |
0:03.8 | We had an incredible night in Oakland filled with bookish conversations, hot takes, games, |
0:08.8 | cocktails. If you missed it, I'm sorry, but don't worry, it's not too late to see the stacks |
0:14.8 | live in one of our next four stops. Join me in Chicago with Samantha Erby on August 27th |
0:21.6 | in Washington, D.C. with Jason Reynolds on September 24th in New York City with KSA |
0:26.9 | Laman on September 25th and in LA on October 18th with some extra special guests that we will be |
0:33.6 | announcing real soon. Tickets are selling fast so head to the stackspodcast.com slash tour and |
0:40.6 | get your tickets before we sell out. |
0:52.4 | Welcome to the stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your host, |
0:56.0 | Tracy Thomas and today we are joined by journalist and sociology professor, author and advocate |
1:02.5 | Shanita Hubbard. Shanita is here to talk with us about her work and her new book, Ride or Die, |
1:07.8 | a feminist manifesto for the well-being of black women. Shanita's a former therapist and she teaches |
1:12.9 | in Toronto and is the chair of the freelance task force for the National Association of Black |
1:17.4 | Journalists. She's also a Soros Fellow and was awarded the Baldwin Writers Residency Fellowship |
1:23.4 | in 2020. We talk about black women's erasure and culture, why she hates this idea of black women |
1:29.5 | saving the world, and then of course we talk about the many books that have shaped Shanita's life. |
1:35.2 | Our March Book Club pick is the essay collection, Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay. Shanita will be back |
1:41.0 | on March 29th for our discussion of the book. Quick reminder, everything we talk about on each |
1:46.1 | episode of the show can be found in the link in the show notes. If you love the show and you want |
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1:55.8 | When you join you get bonus episodes of the podcast like this month's conversation where I begged |
2:00.4 | Mr. Stacks to join me. You get access to the discord which is full of the best bookish |
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