Tayari Jones & Carrie Mae Weems: What's It Like Up There?

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Podcasts

Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In the final installment of our maternity leave lineup, bestselling author Tayari Jones sits down with artist Carrie Mae Weems to talk about independence, art, relationships, and one very fabulous white silk dress worn for a spur-of-the-moment wedding. This episode is part of our 2019 Maternity Leave Lineup of guest hosted shows while our regular host, Anna Sale, is out on leave. Are you new to Death, Sex & Money? Check out our starter kit of some of our favorite episodes. And subscribe to our weekly email newsletter! Every Wednesday we send out podcast listening recommendations, fascinating letters from our inbox and updates from the show. Sign up at deathsexmoney.org/newsletter. Support Death, Sex & Money today at deathsexmoney.org/donate. Follow the show on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Got a story to share? Email us any time at [email protected].

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0:00.0	So you're interviewing me? I am. Oh goodness I thought it was like more of a conversation
0:06.2	somehow between the two of us. Well which is also true. It's our hour to do with as we please.
0:12.1	I'm ready.
0:16.0	This is death, sex, and money.
0:18.0	Women pay me to give them pleasure.
0:21.0	The show from WNY NYC about the things we think about a lot.
0:25.8	Okay I'll just I'll lose my job and need to talk about more.
0:29.4	It's your funeral, sir. I'm Tyari Jones Jones in for Anna Sale.
0:35.0	Artist Carrie Mae Weems was in her late teens when she got her first camera.
0:40.0	It was a gift from a boyfriend.
0:43.0	I was, I think, maybe 18 or 19 years old.
0:47.0	And he was doing it, he was really an awful person in so many ways,
0:51.0	but he did give me a tool and that was my camera that really took me into my life in a very interesting and important way.
1:00.0	I'm so tickled that you see.
1:04.0	I'm a powerful person in a lot of ways.
1:06.0	That was funny.
1:07.0	Oh, he really, really was.
1:09.0	You know, he was the kind of person who was, know really really smart but really manipulative and that to me is a
1:19.9	really dangerous person and and so I left him and he was stunned. He just could not believe
1:27.0	that this woman was leaving him. And so he's you know he's been obsessed with me for years because I'm one of the only ones who left.
1:35.0	The one who got away.
1:38.0	But he gave me a camera and he gave me some ideas about what I wanted to do in the world and for that I'm deeply grateful.
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