Morgan Jerkins: Ruthlessly Herself

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

We discuss finding your voice and power, particularly as a black woman, with Morgan Jerkins. Her essay collection, This Will Be My Undoing, is out this week. Part memoir, it's a real time exploration of living through your 20s. Plus, Morgan shares her career journey with Amina and her exciting projects to come.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend!
0:02.6	A podcast for long-distance besties everywhere.
0:05.4	I'm Amina Tuso.
0:07.0	And I'm Anne Friedman.
0:08.8	On this week's agenda, finding your voice, finding your power,
0:11.8	and Amina interviews Morgan Jirkins about her new book,
0:14.4	This Will Be My Undoing.
0:15.8	Call Your Girlfriend.
0:22.8	It's time you had the talk.
0:26.8	Give your reasons.
0:30.8	Say it's not her fault.
0:34.8	Ready you just met somebody new.
0:39.8	Hey, hey, girl.
0:40.8	Hey, Amina Tuso.
0:43.8	How's it going over there?
0:45.8	Oh, you know, I'm pretty good.
0:47.8	I'm excited for our special guest this week.
0:50.8	I'm very excited about our special guest this week.
0:53.8	I talk to Morgan Jirkins, who is a New York City-based writer in her 20s.
1:00.8	She's so smart, she graduated Princeton with so many degrees.
1:03.8	She has an MFA from the Bennington Writers Program.
1:06.8	And she is the contributing editor at Catapult.
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