Post Surgical Shame
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Danny Lavery welcomes Emi Nietfeld, a writer, software engineer, and author of ACCEPTANCE: A Memoir. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Rumpus, Vice, and many more publications.
Lavery and Nietfeld take on two letters. First, someone trying to cope with a failed gender-affirming surgical procedure. Another letter writer is wondering how to have a conversation with her elderly mom about her mental health. Plus, a chat about Nietfeld’s memoir, Acceptance.
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| 1:20.8 | I am your host, Danny M. Lavery, and with me in the studio this week is Emmy Needfeld, a writer, software engineer, and author of acceptance, a memoir. |
| 1:29.2 | Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, The Rumpus, Vice, and other publications. |
| 1:33.3 | Emmy, welcome to the show. |
| 1:35.2 | Thank you so much for having me, Danny. |
| 1:37.1 | I am just so pleased that you're here, and I'm especially pleased that we were able to |
| 1:41.6 | help expand the little mnemonic device that you give |
| 1:45.0 | people learning how to pronounce your last name for the first time. Thank you. Yeah. |
| 1:49.5 | None of you know what it is because you weren't privy to our conversation earlier, |
| 1:53.0 | but Emmy had said like a neatly filled tree. And then I messed it up anyways. So all transparency |
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