I Won't Shut Up with Ally Henny

The Preamble

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Writer Ally Henny joins Sharon today to talk about Bruno. But in this context, Bruno–always around, but only talked about in hushed tones–is race. Ally and Sharon have a candid conversation about the pitfalls of Respectability Politics and how white people can do better when it comes to getting uncomfortable in conversations about race. Ally’s new book, I Won’t Shut Up: Finding Your Voice When the World Tries to Silence You, is a great place to start if you are looking to understand the ways in which racism persists in America today.

Special thanks to our guest, Ally Henny, for joining us today. You can preorder I Won’t Shut Up here!

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Guest: Ally Henny

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome.
0:06.3	Thank you so much for being here today.
0:08.1	I am chatting today with author Ali Henney, who has written a book that comes out on June
0:13.9	20th called, I Won't Shut Up.
0:17.7	I really love this conversation about being exactly who you are.
0:23.2	So let's dive in.
0:26.4	I'm Sharon McMahon, and here's where it gets interesting.
0:32.8	I am really excited to be joined today by Ali Henney.
0:37.0	Thank you so much for being here.
0:38.2	Thank you for having me.
0:39.6	I read your book and you have such a fantastic writing style.
0:44.6	I was engaged from the very first page.
0:48.8	And your book is called, I Won't Shut Up.
0:52.2	Finding Your Voice When the World Tries to Silence You.
0:57.1	And I would love to first of all, just have you give everybody a really high level idea
1:03.3	about what your new book is about.
1:06.3	Well, it's kind of part personal memoir, which I don't really like to say that, but I guess that's
1:12.6	the truth of it because I mean, I'm under 40 years old.
1:17.0	So it kind of seems weird to be like, oh, I wrote my memoirs at 30 something years old.
1:22.4	But it's part memoir, part social justice book talking about race and racism in America,
1:30.4	and my experiences with race and racism in America, particularly in this small rule,
1:37.9	predominantly white town that I grew up in as well as some of the predominantly white cities
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