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Our Body Politic

Diaspora Farms, LLC

News Commentary, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government, News

4.8 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week, Farai interviews New York Times bestselling author Julie Lythcott-Haims on what adulthood— or “adulting”— looks like for millennials and Gen Zers, and how generally we can all live with more authenticity in her new book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult. Then in the weekly segment, Sippin’ the Political Tea, we revisit an enlightening conversation about abortion access for Black women and girls between Farai, Georgetown law professor and OBP legal contributor Tiffany Jeffers, and UC Irvine law professor, Michelle Goodwin.

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0:00.0	Hi, folks, we are so glad that you're listening to Our Body Politic. If you have time, please consider
0:21.6	leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps other listeners find us and we read them for your
0:27.1	feedback. We're here for you, with you, and because of you. Thank you. This is Our Body
0:35.9	Politic. I'm Farai Chidea. Becoming an adult has never been easy, but today we have COVID, violent extremism, climate change, and an unstable economy. People in their 20s and 30s are under a lot of added pressure as they launch independent lives. So what does it take to get adulting right and how is growing up
0:55.1	today different from what it used to be? Julie Lithcott Hames is a New York Times bestselling author
1:00.7	of How to Raise an Adult. She did a viral TED talk about how parents can stop micromanaging their
1:05.9	children's lives. Her latest book is your turn, How to Be an Adult, and Julie speaks directly to young adults
1:12.4	about what they can do to lead successful, fulfilling lives.
1:17.2	So I have to say, first of all, I absolutely love your newsletter.
1:21.9	Writing a good newsletter takes a lot of time, and one of your recent ones was called Our
1:26.3	Eyes Locked as she drew my blood.
1:28.7	It really resonated with me as, you know, along with my friends, I'm doing all of my
1:33.7	middle-aged health care and lifestyle adjustments. And we do a lot of coverage of health and wellness
1:40.7	on our body politics. So tell us about the experience that you share.
1:45.4	Yeah, so that experience was sitting atop the larger experience of my having been body
1:50.8	shamed by a doctor at my student health center back when I was 20, and I'm 54 as we chat today.
1:56.8	So I've been carrying the memory of that shame. I went in for bronchitis and came out with a sheet describing a 1,200 calorie diet.
2:05.8	And I learned then that potentially any doctor would not be able to see past my weight to the actual underlying need.
2:14.3	I'm the child of a public health doctor who has been taught to fear health care
2:19.9	because of how I was treated and mistreated over the years. And so this most recent story,
2:26.0	I'm getting my blood drawn and I had one arm already bandaged and she looked at it and sort of,
2:32.2	why is your arm already bandaged since I'm about to draw your blood?
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