TBG Library: "You Get What You Pay For"
Therapy for Black Girls
iHeartPodcasts and Joy Harden Bradford, Ph.D.
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
It’s time to make some space on your bookshelf for a new addition because we’re back with another TBG Library pick. Today’s pick is the debut book of essays by award-winning author Morgan Parker, titled, “You Get What you Pay For.”
Morgan Parker is a poet, novelist, and author of works such as the young adult novel Who Put This Song On? and the poetry collection Magical Negro, which won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award. In You Get What You Pay For, Morgan traces the difficulty and beauty of existing as a Black woman through American history, from the foundational trauma of the slave trade all the way up to Serena Williams and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Morgan joins me today to discuss what it means to experience hypervisibility as a Black woman regardless of class, how as a teenager she advocated for her own mental health with her parents, and the ways in which conversations with her therapist influence her writing, and vice versa.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Therapy for Black Girls Podcast, a weekly conversation about mental health, |
| 0:16.3 | personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to become the best |
| 0:21.5 | possible versions of ourselves. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm your host, Dr Joy Harden Bradford, |
| 0:27.0 | a licensed psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| 0:30.3 | For more information or to find a therapist in your area, |
| 0:34.1 | visit our website at therapy for black girls.com. |
| 0:38.0 | While I hope you love listening to |
| 0:40.6 | and learning from the podcast, it is not meant to be a substitute for a relationship |
| 0:46.2 | with a licensed mental health professional. Hey y'all, |
| 0:55.0 | all. Thanks so much for joining me for a special bonus episode of the |
| 1:00.0 | Therapy for Black Girls podcast. We'll get right into our conversation after a word from our |
| 1:04.9 | sponsors. |
| 1:05.9 | Hi, I'm Morgan Parker and I'm on the Therapy for Black Girls Podcast. |
| 1:10.3 | And we're in session today unpacking my collection of essays. You get what you pay for. Hey y'all it's time to make some space on your bookshelf because we're back with |
| 1:27.5 | another edition of TBG Library. Today's pick is the debut book of essays by award-winning author, |
| 1:34.0 | Morgan Parker, titled You Get What You Pay for. |
| 1:37.0 | Morgan is a poet, novelist, and author of works such as the young adult novel |
| 1:42.0 | who put this song on, and the Poetry Collection |
| 1:45.0 | Magical Negro, which won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award. |
| 1:51.0 | And you get what you pay for, Morgan traces the difficulty and beauty of |
| 1:55.1 | existing as a black woman through American history from the foundational |
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