In Your Skin (with Nic Stone)

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🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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DeRay, Brittany, Clint, and Sam discuss the hidden history of slavery in the North, alien encouragement provisions, misguigded magistrates, and Iraqi protests. DeRay talks to author Nic Stone about her book "Dear Martin" and her flurry of new releases that aim to influence a younger generation's understanding of racism and fantastical visions of processing the past. https://www.propublica.org/article/these-judges-can-have-less-training-than-barbers-but-still-decide-thousands-of-cases-each-year https://www.vox.com/2019/10/9/20903541/trump-proclamation-legal-immigration-health-insurance https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iraqi-prime-minister-says-he-will-resign-statement https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/09/nyregion/dig-unearths-early-black-burial-ground.html https://www.upstart.com/personal-loans?podcast=PEOPLE&utm_campaign=PEOPLE&utm_source=podcast https://bombas.com/pages/people?utm_source=people&utm_medium=podcast Babbel.com promo code People

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Durey and we're going to file some of the people in this episode with me,
0:05.6	Brittany Clinton, Sam, as usual.
0:07.7	And then we're joined by the incredible author Nick Stone to talk about her work teaching
0:12.2	young audiences about the past and the future and about her upcoming books.
0:16.2	And the message this week is a tweet that I saw and posted about Thanksgiving.
0:20.6	It's a tweet from prison culture.
0:23.0	Was she wrote, I love mostly for the ending.
0:25.6	So she wrote, a lot of what people project onto you doesn't in fact belong to you.
0:30.4	You learn this with experience.
0:31.8	You have to let go of what doesn't in fact belong to you.
0:34.5	The trick is that you don't know what that is until you get more comfortable in your own
0:38.7	skin until you know yourself.
0:41.1	I love how simply she says the trick is that you don't know what that is until you get
0:45.0	more comfortable in your own skin until you know yourself.
0:47.6	I think that's so true.
0:48.6	I think that a lot of people aren't yet comfortable in their own skin.
0:51.6	Who don't know themselves.
0:52.8	I think I'm still trying to figure that out some days.
0:55.4	And the people who project things onto me and because I might be a little shaky and
0:59.0	who I think I am in the moment, I might take more than I should or take the wrong thing.
1:04.4	So that was my lesson this week.
1:06.3	It's like remember that the better you know yourself, the better you're able to navigate
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