Deborah Riley Draper, an AKA herself, joins us to tell the story of the oldest Black Greek letter sorority, which was founded at Howard University.
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The Links Between Structural Racism And Mental Illness
Dr. Ruth S. Shim joins us to discuss the lack of access to care for people of color and the links between structural racism and mental health.
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A Story Of Chinese Immigrants In The Jim Crow South
Filmmaker Larissa Lam joins us to tell the story of one man’s journey to document his Chinese family’s history in the Jim Crow South.
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An Honest Conversation About Being Fat
Aubrey Gordon is the previously anonymous writer behind the popular Your Fat Friend essays and social media posts, and she joins us to talk about why the “body positivity” movement doesn’t go far enough to achieve real social justice and basic human rights.
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She Lost Her Mom But Kept Her Korean Identity
Michelle Zauner joins us to talk about her caring for her dying mother and how she fought to maintain a link to her Korean heritage after her mother was gone.
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An Illusionist Reveals His Secrets
Derek DelGaudio joins us to talk about his autobiography, a deep dive into how illusion and identity shaped his life.
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How We Got To BIPOC
Christopher MacDonald-Dennis is chief diversity officer at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, and he joins us to talk about the evolution of BIPOC and similar terms – and why some people embrace them while others don’t.
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The South Lives On In White Sororities
Scholar Margaret L. Freeman joins us to talk about the hyperfeminine world of sorority life and how sororities contribute to maintaining southern social hierarchies.
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When Your Parent Is Mentally Ill
Clinical psychologist Vinita Mehta joins us to talk about how nearly one in four children worldwide have a parent with mental illness and how that can affect both child development and the parent-child relationship into adulthood.
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Humorist Jenny Lawson Lives With Depression
Jenny Lawson joins us to talk about her battle with mental illness and her quest to find health, which she navigates with levity and laughter even in the darkest times.
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She Grew Up In A Cult … And That Was Just The Beginning
Lauren Hough joins us to talk about growing up in a cult, joining the military, contending with homelessness, and chronicling her exceptional life story along the way.
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Growing Up Racially Black … But Not Culturally Black In America
Louis Chude-Sokei, director of the African American studies program at Boston University, joins us to talk about his journey to understand his place in the Black diaspora.
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