Part One: The Colored Farmers Alliance and Early Black Cooperativism in the US
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🗓️ 23 February 2026
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Summary
Margaret talks to Courtney Kocak about the potentially million-strong alliance of Black farmers who built up a cooperative economics in the post-war American South
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | CoolZone Media. |
| 0:09.2 | Hello, and welcome to cool people who did cool stuff like Grow Food Cooperatively. |
| 0:13.6 | I am your host Margaret Kiljoy, and with me today is returning guest, Friend of the Pod, |
| 0:19.2 | the writer and podcaster, Courtney Cosek. Hi, how are you? |
| 0:23.5 | Hi. Thank you for having me. Yeah. I hear that you have a book coming out, a memoir, and I can even |
| 0:29.9 | look over your shoulder. This is an audio medium so people can't look over your shoulder, |
| 0:33.6 | but I see the cover of your book. It's a very sexy cover, isn't it? |
| 0:38.1 | It is. |
| 0:38.8 | I love it. |
| 0:40.2 | I did not mean to be on the cover. |
| 0:41.7 | I am on the cover, a younger version of me. |
| 0:44.3 | Yeah, I wrote down all of my most mortifying experiences, and I'm really excited for people to be able to order them and read them on the internet. |
| 0:54.8 | What's it called? |
| 0:55.7 | I mean, I can see it. |
| 0:56.6 | It's on the thing behind you, but... |
| 0:57.8 | Girl Gone Wild. |
| 0:59.4 | It's basically an unwitting feminist coming of age. |
| 1:03.6 | It's selling T-shirts on the Girls Gone Wild tour. |
| 1:06.4 | It's all of my fucked up experiences in Hollywood. |
| 1:09.7 | It's abortion. |
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