Ep 28: Danni Mullen

Gee Thanks, Just Bought It!

Caroline Moss

Fashion & Beauty, Arts, Games & Hobbies, Home & Garden, Leisure

4.6 • 912 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Proprietress of the only Black woman-owned (and Black lesbian woman-owned BTW!) bookstore in Chicago, Danni Mullen is here! We’re talking books and back scratchers. And how our partners don’t appreciate how funny we are.

Danni has raised nearly $100,000 this week to make sure underprivileged kids can come into the store and shop the shelves. In exchange for her valuable time on this week’s episode and her willingness to share her work with me, I’ve donated $500 to the #ClearTheShelves initiative with the hope that you will all join me in donating. If she’s reached $100k by the time you click the link, good news! SHE WILL STILL TAKE YOUR MONEY! I insist you donate.

And order all of your books—Black authors or non-Black authors—from Danni and Semicolon!

Mentioned On This Episode!

Shop Semicolon Chicago: https://bookshop.org/shop/Semicolonchi
Support Semicolon’s effort to #ClearTheShelves for Chicago kids: https://www.gofundme.com/f/reading-is-a-revolutionary-act
Follow Semicolon everywhere on social media: @SemicolonChi
The Backscratcher: https://amzn.to/3gWJUUs

To everyone who RSVP'd to my June 3rd Zoom with Sam Irby, we postponed and we promise we’ll figure out a time this summer to get online and hang out with everyone. Here is the email I sent out to all of the attendees: https://www.geethanksjustboughtit.com/blog/got-a-question-for-samantha-irby-ask-her-live-on-june-3rd-at-8pm-est and it has action items you can take TODAY to show up for the Black Lives Matter movement.

I have been starting each day this week listening to Danielle Henderson’s powerful words. Sometimes I listen multiple times. I would love for you to listen, too. Even if you already have. https://www.instagram.com/p/CA0bVCghhJS/

As always, reach me at [email protected] or leave me a message at 424-245-0736.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everyone welcome to another week of G Thanks Just Bought It. I'm your host
0:14.6	Caroline Moss and this is the podcast where we talk about what we just bought and
0:18.8	what you might need to buy next. My guest today is Danny Mullen. She is the proprietress of
0:25.8	semi-colon. Doesn't that sound good? It's so good. That's why I did that. I like it. I like it. I she's the proprietress the proprietress of
0:36.2	semi-colon in Chicago it is the city's only black woman owned bookstore in all of Chicago and it opened last summer it's not even
0:47.0	a year old your baby.
0:48.0	That's been a year old.
0:50.0	Welcome to the show.
0:51.0	I'm so happy to be here. Do you know you are the dopest person that I've had the chance to talk to in a long time?
0:58.4	Danny, that's sad. I want you to get out more. I need you to get out more. I need to get out more but I just love
1:09.1	super nerdy people. There's not enough of us left. And so I get to meet all the cool kids, like all the fashionistas, and I'm like, yeah, I'm not interested.
1:18.8	No. I'm just not interested. You need big losers. I was talking about you and my partner's like,
1:26.0	what is it about the readers and the writers?
1:29.0	Oh man, that's such a read on me. So true.
1:35.0	It is when I was like she's so cool. I so love her and we're just going to be best
1:42.2	season. She doesn't even have to know.
1:43.7	We're literally best friends already.
1:45.5	This is why I invited her.
1:46.5	It was just kind of an hour for Danny to compliment me, let me know how I'm doing.
1:51.9	I'm telling you, clearly you're killing. We literally had a conversation
1:55.9	last night via text about how we wanted to open another bookstore, but it's like strippers for books.
2:02.3	It was just like we went there
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