Just For Today (live with Bassey Ikpi)

Another Day with Ana Marie Cox

Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

News, Arts, Performing Arts, Business, Society & Culture, Politics

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Bassey Ikpi (@Basseyworld) joins Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) at Magers & Quinn Booksellers in Minneapolis for a live interview regarding her new book I’m Telling The Truth, But I’m Lying. This overwhelmingly open discussion dives into issues around mental health, the truth about Bold Introverts, the racial disparities in emotional healthcare, ranking the cultural sexiness of various bipolar disorders, and how there’s rarely a storybook happy ending for people with Different Brains. TW: Suicidal Ideations, Depression Bit of housekeeping: We at Crooked Media are teaming up with Stacey Abrams for Fair Fight 2020. We’re trying to donate at least a million dollars towards her five million dollar goal. Please donate here and encourage others to join in. Thanks to our sponsors! Everyone wants their home to look and feel great. Luckily, Snowe makes it incredibly simple. They create trend-proof, beautiful, functional, luxurious pieces at an affordable price. Snowe is offering our listeners $30 off your first purchase of $150 or more when you go to SnoweHome.com/FRIENDS. ThirdLove is the industry leader with 70 sizes, including its signature half-cups sizes. Hands down this is the most comfortable bra you’ll own. Tagless labels means no itching, plus straps that won't slip, ultra-soft smoothing fabrics, and lightweight, super thin memory foam cups. ThirdLove knows there’s a perfect bra for everyone, so right now go to Thirdlove.com/friends now to find your perfect-fitting bra… and get 15% off your first purchase! Everlane only makes premium essentials, using the finest materials, without traditional markups. Right now, you can check out our personalized collection at Everlane.com/FRIENDS and get free shipping on your first order. Last Day is a new podcast from Lemonada Media that takes a good, hard look at the things that are killing us — those massive epidemics we hear about constantly that are hard to comprehend and getting worse every day. Last Day zooms in on a person’s last day of life to try to figure out how they got there, and then zooms out to help all of us understand the bigger societal picture and what can be done about it. Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts. Brave New Words takes listeners backstage on winning progressive campaigns from around the world with communications researcher and campaign advisor Anat Shenker-Osorio. Brave New Words is essential listening to understand the strategies and messages that win progressive victories. Learn more at BraveNewWordsPod.com and subscribe now!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hi, I'm Anna Marie Cox and welcome to With Friends Like These.
0:08.7	That this week I can declare a 100% Trump-free zone.
0:14.4	I hope you appreciate that as much as I do.
0:17.3	Instead of Trump, well, we are going to be talking about mental health, which I suppose
0:21.2	does intersect with our president a little bit.
0:24.8	Mental health and self-care.
0:26.6	It's a conversation with Bassy Ickby.
0:28.8	You might know her from Twitter.
0:30.9	She is a Nigerian-born American-spoken word poet, writer, and mental health advocate.
0:36.7	She was for years on Russell Simmons' Deaf Poetry Jam.
0:39.8	She's opened for Grammy Award-winning artists.
0:42.8	She founded the No Shame Day, which encourages a worldwide discussion about mental health,
0:48.6	while also, of course, asking others to drop the stigma around it.
0:53.8	Most recently, she's the author of the Best Selling, New York Times Best Selling.
0:58.2	I'm telling the truth, but I'm lying.
1:00.4	Essays.
1:01.4	It is essays that are also a memoir.
1:03.8	A memoir about her journey to a diagnosis.
1:07.6	Something that those of us with mental health issues, I think, can fully relate to.
1:11.9	It is a journey to a diagnosis.
1:15.7	And she wound up some place that is familiar territory for me.
1:20.1	She was diagnosed with bipolar II, which we agree is the non-sexy bipolar disorder.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.