Eve Ewing On Prince, Afrofuturism And Sweaters
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Knitting can be dangerous. Just ask author, scholar, and (of course) knitter Eve Ewing. She explains what she calls “the sweater curse” to Nerdette hosts Tricia Bobeda and Greta Johnsen. They also discuss the impact of the late music icon Prince, the rise of Afrofuturism, and why Ewing can’t wait to get off social media. Plus, an excerpt from Ewing's new book of poetry Electric Arches.
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| 0:00.0 | This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events. |
| 0:05.0 | Join us in person for smart discussions, heartfelt storytelling, and more. |
| 0:09.0 | Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org slash events. |
| 0:17.2 | From W be easy Chicago this is Nurdette I'm Greta Johnson and I'm Tricia |
| 0:21.2 | Bobita and I want to know Greta Johnson. What are you wearing? |
| 0:24.4 | Yo, this is a cape. This is new. It is new. I just got it in the mail yesterday. I was inspired by our time hanging out with Kelly McHevers a couple of weeks ago. |
| 0:32.4 | Oh hang out, let me pick up that name and just dropped. |
| 0:34.4 | Kelly is... |
| 0:36.4 | Here, hang on, I'm going to set it down. |
| 0:38.4 | There's going to be a Foley artist pantomimes. |
| 0:40.7 | For those of you who don't know who Kelly is is she is the host of all things considered on |
| 0:45.1 | NPR and she has a podcast called Embedded she is a wonderful human and we got to spend |
| 0:49.5 | some time with her a couple of weeks ago and Squad Goals hashtag |
| 0:52.3 | Squad Goals. Yes and Squad Goals. H- Absolutely Squad Goals. |
| 0:58.1 | She was wearing a cape that I kept accidentally calling a pawn show. I did not make such a mistake because I want everything to be a cape always. |
| 1:02.8 | She just kept like swooshing it over her shoulder |
| 1:05.0 | in this really magical way and I was like, |
| 1:06.4 | I need to get me one of those. |
| 1:07.6 | And now look at you. |
| 1:08.8 | And it came in the mail yesterday and here we are. |
| 1:11.0 | All right, down to business. |
| 1:12.4 | Our guest this week is a bit of a superhero. |
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