Savala Nolan Recounts Trespass Against Black Womens’ Bodies in ‘Don’t Let it Get you Down’

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🗓️ 27 August 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In her debut memoir, "Don’t Let it Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body," Savala Nolan’s 12 deeply personal essays probe unsettled territory in her own life. Nolan tackles motherhood, sex, and feelings of otherness from the perspective of a self-described big-bodied mixed-race woman. One essay recounts her persistent prenatal pain that was ignored by her white physicians despite multiple emergency room visits. The author and director of the Center for Social Justice at the University of California, Berkeley, joins us to share her observations about the way our culture treats Black women. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.5	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. I describe myself as an in-between,
0:58.7	writes Savala Nolan and her new book, Don't Let It Get You Down. In Between Economic Classes, Racial and Ethnic Categories, painfully thin, and truly fat.
1:02.9	Nolan, who heads a law center at UC Berkeley, has written a searing, unsettling, beautiful set of investigations deep into her own mind, body, and personal history.
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