Finding Joy in Stories, Service, and the Great Outdoors

Our Body Politic

Diaspora Farms, LLC

News Commentary, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government, News

4.8 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week, we are revisiting some of OBP’s most joyous interviews starting with Farai’s conversation with two publishers of color, Elizabeth Méndez Berry, vice president and executive editor at One World, an imprint at Penguin Random House, and Lisa Lucas, senior vice president and publisher at Pantheon and Schocken Books on celebrating the work of BIPOC authors and critics. Then public health professionals and sisters Nilufar Kayhani and Nazineen Kandahari share the inspiration and beauty behind starting the Afghan Clinic, an online space that serves the health needs of fellow Afghans. Farai then speaks with Rue Mapp, founder of Outdoor Afro, about finding joy in the great outdoors and encouraging others to do the same. And in the weekly roundtable Sippin’ the Political Tea, Farai talks with fellow women of color journalists, S. Mitra Kalita, founder and publisher of Epicenter NYC, and Jenni Monet, CEO of URL Media and author of newsletter Indigenously about what it means to identify as women of color and why identifying as one can evoke both personally powerful and political implications.

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0:00.0	Hi, folks, we are so glad that you're listening to Our Body Politics.
0:19.3	If you have time, please consider leaving us a review on Apple Podcast.
0:23.5	It helps other listeners find us and we read them for your feedback.
0:27.2	We'd also love you to join in financially supporting the show if you're able.
0:31.0	You can find out more at ourbodypolitic.com slash donate.
0:37.0	We are here for you, with you, and because of you. Thank you.
0:43.3	This is Our Body Politics. I'm Farai Chidea. This week on the show, we're talking about joy.
0:51.1	When we started Our Body Politics, we wanted to make space for our full selves, our challenges,
0:56.6	our celebrations. So we're taking stock and sharing with you some of our favorite past
1:01.1	conversations with creators, community builders, and change makers. First, as a lifelong lover of
1:07.3	books and also someone who's written half a dozen of them myself, reading has brought me
1:11.8	a lot of joy, and I wanted to bring you two people publishing writers of color. Elizabeth Mendez-Berry
1:18.6	is vice president and executive editor at One World, part of Penguin Random House and co-founder
1:23.7	of Critical Minded, a grant-making and learning initiative that supports cultural critics of
1:28.5	color in the U.S. We've also got Lisa Lucas, senior vice president and publisher at Pantheon
1:34.3	and Shockin Books. Welcome to Our Body Politic, Elizabeth. Thank you so much, glad to be here.
1:40.2	And we've also got Lisa Lucas returning to the show. Hey, Lisa.
1:46.2	Hey, it's great to be back.
1:48.3	So let me start with you, Elizabeth.
1:54.9	You know, women of color are over consumers of books compared to many other demographics.
2:04.1	And one world, your house that you're at, and helping to champion and lead and edit some of the most powerful intellectuals in America is publishing people like Nicole Hannah-Jones who are
2:11.1	pretty much directly under attack, not even indirectly, you know, in a general sense, but very directly
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