The Moth on The Stoop

The Stoop

Hana Baba and Leila Day

Identity, International, Thestoop, Blackness, Storytelling, African, Personal Journals, Africanamerican, Blackidentity, Blackart, Journalism, Society & Culture, Black, Diaspora, Blackculture

4.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This summer, The Moth and The Stoop are getting cozy and sharing stories. Today, we invite special guest, Suzanne Rust, the host of The Moth storytelling series, to share a tale she loves. This story is by Ivan McClellan, a photographer who lives in Portland, Oregon. Ivan found something very unexpected in his hometown of Kansas City, Kansas when he learns about the black rodeo. In this double feature, we also stoop it out with Suzanne about The Stoop’s episode —episode 75 —“Black don’t crack?” and how we really feel about aging.

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0:00.0	The Stoop.
0:00.7	The Stoop.
0:06.7	The Stoop.
0:07.6	The Stoop.
0:08.7	The Stoop.
0:09.0	Stories coming across the Black Dias.
0:10.4	Right.
0:11.5	That we meet to talk about.
0:12.9	My cousins were water and grease girls.
0:14.8	And I couldn't be a water and grease girl.
0:16.6	That's what I'm talking about, ballerina in the hood.
0:18.9	We be gulligitian- troublemakers.
0:20.9	When a Black woman walks up to the desk in labor,
0:25.8	what preconceived notions do you have about her?
0:28.6	I didn't even know we had a hair shard.
0:30.9	I had never felt more separated from black culture and it went to a rodeo seemed like
0:44.6	the furthest thing from working at a computer that I could think of.
0:48.1	And so I went home and I bought my plane ticket and I just sat there for the next few months
0:53.0	anticipating what this could possibly be like.
0:56.7	In my head, it was like soul train, but everybody was on a horse.
1:00.7	Hey Leela!
1:03.7	Hey Hanah!
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