I’m in a “I forgot how much I hate podcasts” post-show slump, been enjoying not listening to things etc HOWEVER Reckon True Stories by Deesha Philyaw and Kiese Laymon is just delicious and I’m so back to listening. Just this show.

The English Teacher is a masterpiece

🚨 Reckon True Stories, Episode 9! Deesha Philyaw and Kiese Laymon dig into Toni Morrison's classic essay, "The Work You Do, the Person You Are," published in The The New Yorker in 2017. Listen & subscribe: link.chtbl.com/truestories

I've said this in interviews etc. & even so I often don't believe myself, but given the latest round of AI bullshit I'll say it again: if you're a writer, there's no external validation nor outcome that can mean as much as working with the language, getting to be rapt with effort

“I don’t know how you create dynamic, competent, death-defying art with any committee in mind, and especially not an academic committee.” ~ Kiese Laymon in conversation with Deesha Philyaw, Ursa Story Company podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rec…

My first biennial as a visual artist!! Excited to share that my artwork will be featured as part of the 9th Asian Art Biennial. “How to Hold Your Breath (所有令人屏息的).” Taking place in Taichung, Taiwan. Repping the #BlackPacific aesthetic. 🌊🌊

More love for Deesha Philyaw and Kiese Laymon on Reckon True Stories. Thank you for listening! ❤️ link.chtbl.com/truestories

Un libro importante che va riletto, mai come in questo momento. #kieselaymon #libri #consigliletterari #blm buff.ly/3Xu3lLO

‘“What they don’t like is that I am now applying the same social justice journalism principles that I’ve applied to race and that I’ve applied to LGBTQ people, to COVID and HIV, that I was now applying those to Palestine,” says Thrasher.’

Clowns applaud no answer.

Joe Kennedy III noting that even though the case that overturned Roe came from Mississippi, organizers here still don't get national resources to fight And that's a WORD.

Jackson Public Schools rallied for the “right to read” during the Children’s Defense Fund Summer Freedom Schools. mississippifreepress.org/at-jackson-fre…

if nothing else, Deion Sanders' run at Colorado has taught a lot of the more casual football fans that fixing a bad offensive line is hard as shit -- and you shouldn't ever let your OL get bad

“What I am experiencing now, what I think many of us are experiencing, is a kind of distributed mourning,” writes Christina Sharpe. Read her essay, “The Shapes of Grief,” in our fall issue. yalereview.org/article/christ…

If 37% of Americans can't afford an emergency expense over $400, why aren't we talking about poverty during election season? A whole lotta folks aren't middle class but straight up poor, and yet the working-poor and impoverished are so rarely addressed.

Tomorrow! Our Season One finale: Deesha Philyaw, Kiese Laymon (Kiese Laymon) and a special guest... ❤️ Follow us in your favorite podcast app to get notified: link.chtbl.com/truestories

the world owes the Haitian people an incalculable debt. The first nation in the world to ever truly free themselves and they’ve been punished endlessly for it

Thank y'all for giving us any of your time this season.

To do a variation on something my boy Kiese Laymon said: I ain’t seen a white boy get bodied like this since Mike Tyson embarrassed Peter McNeeley in the 90s.