Shouting and Sweating in Snake Prints

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In vintage CYG fashion, Amina and Ann discuss their Harry Potter houses (as sorted by Gina) and then move on to sadder and more serious topics. The intractable problems of hate and guns, men who abused their power and want it back. And, Rest in Power, Toni Morrison. Content warning: gun violence and the fact of sexual violence are acknowledged in this episode.

Links

Mona Chalabi’s charts on domestic terrorism
Metoo check in: Age of consent laws and Epstein
Alan Dershowitz profile
Epstein case explained
Al Franken (New Yorker profile / Jezebel report) and Aziz Ansari (reporting on Babe.net / “reflective” new set) stage their comebacks
Toni Morrison's 2011 commencement address at Rutgers: "I am myself a storyteller, and therefore, an optimist—a firm believer in the ethical bend of the human heart; a believer in the mind’s appetite for truth and its disgust with fraud and selfishness. From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny. From my point of view, your life is already artful—waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art."

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriends.
0:01.8	A podcast for long distance festies everywhere.
0:04.3	I'm Amina Tussaud.
0:05.7	And I'm Ann Friedman.
0:07.0	Hi Ann Friedman, how's it going?
0:09.3	You know, I know you didn't ask, what are you wearing,
0:12.3	but I'm going to answer that question instead.
0:14.3	Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
0:16.3	You know, and I respect my friends,
0:18.8	and I don't objectify them.
0:20.1	So, you know, tell them.
0:22.3	Okay, what are you wearing?
0:23.3	What are you wearing?
0:24.3	I am wearing a kind of like railroad stripe big Mac,
0:28.3	like men's set of like cover all jumpsuit thing
0:33.3	that I got in a clothing swap a couple years ago.
0:36.3	I put it on when I have some like serious words work to do.
0:39.3	It's like I'm under the hood.
0:40.3	I'm really getting in there.
0:42.3	Like she's she's about to perform some labor on these documents.
0:45.3	That is my look and my attitude today.
0:48.3	I love this.
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