Presenting 'Code Switch': To Love And Not Forgive With Ashley C. Ford

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🗓️ 31 August 2021

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In this special episode from our friends at the Code Switch podcast, we feature author Ashley C. Ford. For much of her childhood, Ford's father was incarcerated, and her mother struggled to raise her while grappling with her own upended life plans. In her recent memoir, Somebody's Daughter, Ford explores how these formative conditions shaped her understanding of childhood, authority, forgiveness and freedom.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, you're listening to It's Been A Minute from NPR.
0:06.4	I'm Sam Sanders and today we're bringing you a very special episode from our friends
0:11.0	over at NPR's Code Switch Podcast.
0:13.9	This episode is a chat with author Ashley C. Ford.
0:17.4	She's out with a new memoir called Somebody's Daughter.
0:20.4	This book is all about Ashley and her dad and his incarceration when she was a kid.
0:25.7	Now that experience and others made her understand a lot more about authority and forgiveness
0:31.3	and freedom.
0:32.8	This book is also very heavy.
0:35.1	It deals with trauma, but it's a must read.
0:38.0	And this chat you're going to hear now, it is a must listen.
0:41.2	Ashley is in conversation with my friend and colleague, Jean Dimby.
0:44.6	He's one of the co-hosts of Code Switch.
0:46.6	Alright, let's get to it with that.
0:48.3	Jean will take it from here.
0:51.3	Next up is this episode contains discussions of sexual assault and rape.
0:58.0	I'm Shireen Marisol Maraji.
1:00.0	I'm Jean Dimby and you're listening to Code Switch from NPR.
1:04.7	If you've been listening to the podcast lately, you know that all this month we're talking
1:08.9	about books and particularly books about freedom.
1:13.6	All kinds of freedom.
1:14.9	Ensuring freedom is something that we realize that we have only when we no longer have it.
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