Savala Nolan, DON'T LET IT GET YOU DOWN: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Lawyer, professor, and writer Savala Nolan joins Zibby to discuss her debut essay collection, Don’t Let It Get You Down, which covers the topics of race, gender, and our bodies. Savala reflects on the different iterations her relationship with her mother has gone through and shares where they are today. The two also talk about how Savala began writing as a way to find her place in a world where she doesn't fit in seamlessly, and how it has also allowed her to process experiences that would have otherwise festered inside of her.

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1:05.9	author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids. Hi. Hi. Hello. Enjoy the show.
1:13.2	If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't
1:17.8	Have Time to Have Kids.
1:19.5	Here's a little snippet by one of the authors from the anthology.
1:23.2	My name is Jean Kwok, and I'm thrilled to have contributed to moms don't have time to have kids.
1:31.6	My essay is called, Mama, Am I Pretty?
1:35.9	And what I really don't have time for is putting on makeup.
1:42.7	Savala Nolan Trapinski is the author of Don't Let It Get You Down, essays on race, gender, and
1:48.2	The Body.
1:49.0	Savala is executive director of the Felton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at the
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