Phone-a-friend: Doreen St. Félix

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2016

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Aminatou chats IRL with Doreen St. Félix, brilliant MTV News writer and co-host of the podcast Speed Dial to discuss black excellence, the beautiful upcoming film, Moonlight, their real ages, and the many TV shows they're watching this fall.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend!
0:02.0	A podcast for long distance festies everywhere.
0:04.5	I'm Amina Tussaud, and I'm Anne Friedman.
0:07.3	And this is producer Gina Delvack.
0:09.7	On this week's agenda, a special phone-of-friend episode between Amina and Doreen St. Felix.
0:15.1	Doreen is a simply incredible writer. Check out her workshies at MTV.
0:19.6	She has written for Leningradder, New Yorker, Pitchfork, many others been featured by Vice.
0:25.9	And they talk about black female criticism, the beautiful new movie that's coming out soon called Moonlight.
0:33.2	A bunch of other TV that Amina and Doreen are watching, including The Night of Real Husbands of Hollywood, S.V.U., Jane The Virgin.
0:42.0	Why white people are so sensitive when talking about race?
0:45.8	Why we seem to be obsessed with making our celebrities and athletes spokespeople on major issues of the day, and Doreen's podcast Speed Dial.
0:55.8	Call your girlfriend.
1:00.8	It's time you had the talk.
1:05.8	Give your reasons.
1:08.8	Say it's not her fault.
1:13.8	Ready you.
1:15.8	Just met somebody new.
1:19.8	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend, Doreen.
1:22.8	Hey, thanks for having me.
1:24.8	I am so pumped that you're here.
1:27.8	We might be here for three hours.
1:29.8	You are somebody that I have been reading for a long time before our friendship was even a twinkle in the eye of the goddess.
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