STORYBOUND: Shayla Lawson

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Jude Brewer

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4.8 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Shayla Lawson reads "Black Lives Matter, Yard Signs Matter," which is an excerpt from her book This Is Major, with an original Storybound remix featuring Maita. Shayla Lawson is the author of This is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls & Being Dope, and three poetry collections. She has written for ESPN, Salon, Guernica, Vulture, and The Cut. She's a MacDowell and Yaddo Artist Colony Fellow, and is a 2020 National Book Critics Circle Finalist. MAITA is a Portland, OR based musician who's music has been described by Consequence of Sound as "anxious heartbreak that rips somewhere between Mitski and Summer Cannibals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Storybound.
0:04.0	This week we have author Shayla Lawson, who will be reading Black Lives Matter, Yard Signs Matter, an excerpt from This Is Major.
0:12.0	Shayla Lawson is the author of This Is Major, notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope.
0:19.0	She is written for ESPN, Salon, Guernica, Vulture, and the Cut.
0:24.8	Shayla is a McDowell and Yaddo artist Colony Fellow,
0:28.5	as well as a 2020 National Book Critic Circle finalist.
0:32.6	She will be accompanied by musical artist, Maita.
0:36.0	So strap yourselves in. This is Shayla Lawson, reading her story.
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