Episode 107: Summer of Aggravation
Call Your Girlfriend
Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow
4.7 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2017
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah's wrenching story about terrorist Dylann Roof. This Week in Menstruation: a woman fired from her job because of her heavy periods is suing her former employer. Zadie Smith goes after contouring. Aminatou talks to Nilofer Merchant about her new book, the Power of Onlyness. Related, why there will never be another Oprah.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Color Girlfriend. |
| 0:01.6 | A podcast for long-distance festies everywhere. |
| 0:04.1 | I am Amina Tusso, and I'm Anne Friedman. |
| 0:07.3 | On this week's agenda, Rachel Katsigansa's feature |
| 0:10.8 | on the making of Terrorist, Still and Roof, |
| 0:14.2 | this week's administration fired for heavy periods at work, |
| 0:17.8 | what the fuck, plus Zadie Smith against contouring, |
| 0:22.2 | also what the fuck, and an interview with Nilla for Merchant, |
| 0:25.5 | who's the power of onlyness we're loving, |
| 0:28.2 | and why there will never be another Oprah. |
| 0:59.2 | Hello, I am Friedman. |
| 1:02.9 | How you hold it up? |
| 1:05.0 | Oh my god, I am drowning in a pile of work. |
| 1:09.2 | I was sick earlier. |
| 1:11.2 | You know like what you know that you're not being your best self. |
| 1:13.6 | Like I'm having one of those weeks. |
| 1:15.5 | I mean, on this end, everything seems great. |
| 1:18.6 | I know how much you do for yourself, |
| 1:20.2 | for the culture, for the community, so. |
| 1:23.6 | So it's looking good over here. |
| 1:28.5 | I am feeling unusually on it, |
| 1:30.0 | because I haven't been traveling lately, |
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