Nerdette's Finest: Roxane Gay
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Nerdette has been around for FIVE YEARS! And we're celebrating our birthday by showcasing some of our favorite parts of our favorite episodes.
Did you know that writer Roxane Gay has a fascination with Channing Tatum's neck? You're about to! Because this special episode is from our 2017 interview with the amazing author of Difficult Women. Roxane Gay also tells us about her love of Thor, her co-authoring of a little Marvel comic called Black Panther, and how she never reads anybody's Goodreads reviews of her work.
Real talk: these five years of Nerdette have been made possible by you. You're a part of the team. And we're asking you to support the future of Nerdette. As a thank you for donating, you'll get some fun gifts! Like mugs, sweatbands, buttons, and even Lady Nerds of History posters. Read about what you can get (and donate!) here: www.wbez.org/nerdalert
THANK YOU!
(And if you want to hear our full interview with Roxane Gay, check it out here.)
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still |
| 0:06.1 | watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you, |
| 0:12.7 | soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making, |
| 0:18.0 | Stories Without End from WBEZ Chicago, join me as I share how the genre |
| 0:22.3 | began, their social impact, and why these stories endure. Listen, wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:30.1 | Are we going to do new? Can it be like trumpets, like fanfare music? |
| 0:43.0 | Yeah. fanfare music. Okay. |
| 0:45.3 | From WBEZ Chicago, I am Greta Johnson, and this is Nerdette's finest. |
| 0:52.6 | Nerdette this month is almost exactly five years old, and we are celebrating by reminding |
| 0:57.9 | you of nerds from the past. |
| 1:00.2 | Part of the reason why we are doing that is because NERDET is made here at WBEZ, which |
| 1:05.5 | is listener-supported radio, which means that we rely on listeners like you to help |
| 1:10.1 | make our show. When it comes to thinking |
| 1:12.5 | about the future of Nourdet, you play a really big role in that. And that is why we are here |
| 1:17.9 | to play for you some of our favorite interviews from the past. After we listen to our interview |
| 1:24.4 | this week with Roxanne Gay, I'm going to tell you a little bit about some of our thank you gifts and all that good stuff. But if you are much more excited about |
| 1:32.0 | nerd at sweatbands than you are about hearing from Roxanne Gay, go for it. Our web address is |
| 1:37.9 | wb-easy.org slash nerd alert. Okay, so when we're thinking about things that listeners like you have made |
| 1:44.8 | possible in the past, one of our favorite interviews that came to mind is with author Roxanne Gay. |
| 1:50.4 | She is an English professor at Purdue University. She has written so many excellent things, |
| 1:56.2 | including an essay collection called Bad Feminist. She also wrote a memoir called Hunger. |
| 2:02.3 | She's got a novel, |
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