I Guess It's Time to Move?

The Cut

New York Magazine

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🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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It feels like everyone’s moving. The Cut host Avery Trufelman talks with Chanel Miller, author of Know My Name, about what it’s like to move to a new neighborhood when it feels like a shadow of itself and whether we can become our new selves in a new place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In December 2020, a Latino couple was falsely accused by a white mom
0:04.9	influencer of attempting to kidnap her children. The Karen phenomenon where white
0:09.6	women falsely accused people of color of crimes usually fixates on the
0:13.5	accuser the so-called Karen. But for this series we focus on the
0:17.2	innocent couple at the heart of this story. I just want the public to know
0:21.9	what she did was wrong.
0:24.0	In Perfect Paradise People versus Karen
0:26.3	available now wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.1	The cut.
0:31.1	The cut.
0:32.1	Cut. The cut. The cut.
0:34.0	The cut.
0:35.0	The cut. The cut.
0:38.0	I gave everything away.
0:40.0	One friend took my Ottoman,
0:42.0	another took my copy of the collected works of Joe Brainerd.
0:45.0	I unloaded it all in handoffs in the park, where I'd placed the object between us and then my friend would take it in their arms.
0:52.0	My possessions became the conduit for our... and then my friend would take it in their arms.
0:56.0	My possessions became the conduit for our intimacy, because I couldn't hug them goodbye
0:58.0	and I couldn't throw a party.
1:00.0	I was moving during COVID.
1:05.2	It felt like a bonkers idea to move right now.
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