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First, Ashley talks about the book, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison. She further talks about Toni Morrison\\u2019s way of speaking about criticism, why opinion as criticism is a dire mistake, and how Ms. Morrison\\u2019s work stays in the present.\\xa0\\xa0
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in the second segment, Tayler and Briana Holt ask you two things: Please stop calling the Black women in your life strong. And no more calling Karens Karen.\\xa0
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Listen in as they also discuss Briana Holt\\u2019s debut part memoir, part cultural critique, In Our Shoes: On Being A Young Black Woman In Not-So "Post-Racial" America.\\xa0
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Books Brianna Loves:
White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind by Koa Beck
The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance by Celeste Vaughan Curington, Jennifer Hickes Lundquist, and Ken-Hou Lin
8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go by Jay Shetty
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This episode was edited by Niba and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.
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Original music by @iam.onyxrose
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