Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts, BLACK JOY: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Professor and New York Times bestselling writer Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts joins Zibby to talk about her eighteenth book, Black Joy. Tracey shares the traumatic experience of losing her cousin to racialized gun violence, as well as memories of her grandmother that seem to bring her back to life. Zibby and Tracey also discuss how children often bring out a sense of innocence and playfulness in adults, why therapy was essential for Tracey to write this book, and the importance of healing tears and feeling joy.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.1	If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids.
0:12.9	Check it out, and you'll hear from 49 authors about all sorts of things moms don't have time to do.
0:17.9	All the authors have been on this podcast. Also, check out my TikTok at With Zibby and Tracy. My other podcast, Sex Talk with Zivie and Tracy. Check out Moms Don't Have Time to Write on Medium. And of course, my new publishing company called Zivvy Books. And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids. Hi. Hi.
0:37.8	Hello.
0:38.5	Enjoy the show.
0:40.8	Tracy Michael Lewis Giggitz is the author of Black Joy, Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration.
0:47.9	She's the author of 15 books and the host of the podcast, Heart Talk with Tracy
0:52.4	Michael.
0:53.2	Her writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including The Washington Post, Essence Oprah Daily, and more. We had such an amazing conversation. I hope you'll listen. All right. Welcome, Tracy. Thank you so much for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss Black Joy, stories of resistance, resilience, and restoration. Thank you so much.
1:10.9	Thank you for having me.
1:11.8	I appreciate you.
1:13.1	Tracy, your stories, they're so open and raw and beautiful, and there's so much pain in so many parts.
1:22.7	And I just was reading and I was like, oh, my gosh, I wish I could just reach through this book and hug this
1:28.0	woman for some of this stuff. But also, you come at it from such a positive point of view
1:34.7	and such empowering advice to like adopt this Black Joy frame of mind and sort of own it
1:41.9	and everything. And anyway, I was so moved. I was really, really moved
1:46.7	and touched. So. Thank you. That means, that means a lot because that's what I hope that people
1:52.8	get from the book, not just the pain, but also the joy. Yes. Obviously. I know I mentioned a minute ago your grandmother because you did such a great job of describing
2:06.7	her, Viola Brown, right?
2:08.1	Was that her name?
2:08.9	Viola.
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