Episode 85: We Have A Big Announcement And We're Celebrating With A Book Burning (With Kat Rosenfield)
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2021
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
In the intro, Jesse makes a strong pro-Karen case. Then Jesse tells Katie about an amazing story from the frozen, mystical land of Kahn-a-da involving a very righteous book-burning. Then, a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT. In the final (and best) segment, author Kat Rosenfield joins to talk about her new book, No One Will Miss Her, her deranged enemies in YA Twitter, and, of course, the Bad Art Friend story. (This is the public version of this episode. For the version with comments enabled for our premium subscribers, go here.) (Image via Getty plus Jesse’s expert illo skills.)
Show notes/links:
No One Will Miss Her is great!: https://www.amazon.com/No-One-Will-Miss-Her/dp/0063057018
Canada’s residential system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system
Book burning first reported by Radio Canada on September 7 in some indecipherable code: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1817537/livres-autochtones-bibliotheques-ecoles-tintin-asterix-ontario-canada
Luckily that same day The National Post wrote it up in English: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/book-burning-at-ontario-francophone-schools-as-gesture-of-reconciliation-denounced
Resignation: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/indigenous-peoples-commission-resignation-1.6168910
Is ‘Two Spirit’ really a common thing?: https://rewirenewsgroup.com/article/2016/10/13/two-spirit-tradition-far-ubiquitous-among-tribes/
Kat’s big piece in Vulture about YA insanity: https://www.vulture.com/2017/08/the-toxic-drama-of-ya-twitter.html
Jesse on same subject:
https://reason.com/2019/05/05/teen-fiction-twitter-is-eating-its-young/
YA authors and others wrote in to Jesse about how insane it is:
Who Is the Bad Art Friend?: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/magazine/dorland-v-larson.html
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm just going to get a little bit of a revelation. |
| 0:08.5 | You a revelation? |
| 0:09.7 | What is happening? |
| 0:10.7 | I know. |
| 0:11.7 | I think I'm developing some sympathy for the Karen. |
| 0:15.2 | My people, what's going on? |
| 0:16.3 | The other day I was walking to pick up a sub for lunch. |
| 0:21.8 | As I'm walking, I'm approaching a street and it do just fucking zoom through the stop |
| 0:25.3 | side. |
| 0:26.3 | Just crosses the next street. |
| 0:27.6 | It doesn't slow down one bit. |
| 0:29.0 | Like a scooter, a car, on a street car. |
| 0:31.3 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:32.3 | You just zoom it like honestly as though there was no stop sign there. |
| 0:35.3 | And like people, bikers and pedestrians get killed in New York pretty frequently because |
| 0:40.7 | there's fucking crazy drivers everywhere. |
| 0:42.4 | So like I scream at him, but he doesn't hear me. |
| 0:45.6 | I continue walking and I'm like, no, fuck this. |
| 0:48.2 | And I run and I catch up to him because there's a stop sign in the next block. |
| 0:52.1 | And I take a photo of his license plate and I knock on his window. |
| 0:54.9 | Yeah, I swear to God. |
| 0:56.3 | And I'm just like, dude, you realize you just fucking ran through a stop sign and people |
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