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🗓️ 26 July 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Kelly shared the stage with acclaimed author (and personal hero) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at this year's Aspen Ideas Festival to talk cancel culture, the importance of free speech, tribalism in America, the impact of sensitivity readers in publishing, and the consequences of self-censorship. They also share personal reflections on grief, having both lost their parents in recent years.
(Speaking of families and loss, here's the link to Kelly's TED talk on the occasional need for extraordinary bravery in family life to share with your families and friends.)
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0:00.0 | Hi everybody. |
0:05.0 | This short segment is what we call for the good of the order. |
0:11.0 | It's something we used to do at the end of my sorority meetings, if you can believe that, |
0:15.0 | where someone would share something that they came across in the course of the week, a poem, a song lyric, a short story, that they found enormously helpful as they went about daily life. |
0:26.2 | And I wanted to pick up the thread because I am so often wowed by something I see in the world |
0:31.8 | that I want to bring back and hand off to you. |
0:34.0 | So every Friday we produce a short segment called for the good of the order. |
0:39.0 | Think of it like an audio greeting card, a thing to share with the people that you love around the country |
0:45.2 | who you don't get to see or talk to enough. A thing to discuss with the people you do see and talk to |
0:51.4 | on a more regular basis. |
0:53.5 | This is Kelly Corrigan Wonders from the stage of the Aspen Ideas Festival with author and really personal hero, |
1:16.4 | Chimamanda Nagozi Aditiate. |
1:18.8 | Together we talked about cancel culture and the importance of free speech, tribalism in America, the role and impact of sensitivity |
1:26.1 | readers in publishing, and the consequences of self-censorship. |
1:31.5 | We also shared some personal thoughts on grief having both |
1:34.5 | lost both our parents. So welcome to a very special go-to on Kelly Corrigan Wonders. |
1:40.3 | I think you're a really special thinker and voice and I have wanted to talk to you for a really long time. |
1:49.7 | So thank you, Tina and Dan and Graham for giving me the opportunity. Thank you, Tina, and Dan, and Graham |
1:52.7 | for giving me the opportunity. |
1:54.1 | Thank you, Kelly. |
1:54.9 | I've wanted to talk to, he just hasn't walked out, |
1:56.7 | so we're living in an atmosphere |
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