ICYMI - Darnell L. Moore on Rethinking Gender and Sexuality in "No Ashes in the Fire"

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🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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"No Ashes in the Fire" author Darnell L. Moore describes the obstacles facing black members of the LGBTQ community and discusses the "thuggish masculinity" of President Trump. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:02.5	BAM!
0:03.5	My guess tonight is a writer and activist whose new memoir is called No Ashes in the Fire,
0:10.7	coming of age black and free in America.
0:13.2	Please welcome Don Almoa.
0:14.7	Welcome to the show.
0:27.2	Thank you for having me here.
0:28.5	I have read a lot of your writing.
0:31.0	I have followed some of the pieces that you've written online.
0:34.3	Many people consider you one of the most important voices in young American black culture
0:39.6	and American culture as a whole.
0:41.1	Those are your friends, but they're good people.
0:44.4	The book though gave me an insight into your life and into a life that many people have
0:49.4	lived in America that's really painful and fascinating.
0:52.8	No Ashes in the Fire speaks to the first inciting incidents in this book where someone
0:58.7	tried to set you on fire as a child.
1:02.8	Now luckily that didn't happen.
1:03.8	Could you just share that story that gets us into the book?
1:06.8	Yeah, so I was 14 and a group of neighborhood kids.
1:11.9	People I would consider Folkwood and Friends at some point jump me.
1:15.5	I used to get picked on a lot because of my gender presentation.
1:19.7	And in this particular incident, after they jumped me they tried to light a match after
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