

You Are Your Best Thing
with Tarana J. Burke & Jason ReynoldsA special episode featuring two audio essays from You Are Your Best Thing, an anthology on the Black lived experience of vulnerability and shame resilience.
Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
Co-created with Tarana Burke, this anthology is a space to recognize and process the trauma of white supremacy, a space to be vulnerable and affirm the fullness of Black life and Black possibility, a space that gives Black humanity breathing room. Featuring essays by Jason Reynolds, Austin Channing Brown, Tanya Denise Fields, Kiese Makeba Laymon, Prentis Hemphill, Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts, Marc Lamont Hill, Keah Brown, Luvvie Ajayi Jones, Shawn A. Ginwright, Kaia Naadira, Deran Young, Sonya Renee Taylor, Irene Antonia Diane Reece, Yolo Akili Robinson, Laverne Cox, Jessica J. Williams, Aiko D. Bethea, and Imani Perry.
A special episode featuring two audio essays from You Are Your Best Thing, an anthology on the Black lived experience of vulnerability and shame resilience.
Tarana Burke and I discuss how You Are Your Best Thing, an anthology from a dynamic group of Black writers, organizers, artists, academics, and cultural figures, came to be.
Ordered as they appear in the anthology
Between Us: A Reckoning with My Mother
This Joy I Have
Dirty Business: The Messy Affair of Rejecting Shame
My Head Is a Part of My Body and Other Notes on Crazy
The Wisdom of Process
Love Lifted Me: Subverting Shame Narratives and Legitimizing Vulnerability as a Mechanism for Healing Women in the Black Church
Never Too Much
We Are Human Too: On Blackness, Vulnerability, Disability, and the Work Ahead
What’s in a Name?
The Blues of Vulnerability: Love and Healing Black Youth
Filling Every Page With Joy: Rewriting Trauma and Shame
Honoring Our Stories, Transforming Our Pain
Running Out of Gas
My Journey: Vulnerability, Rage, and Being Black in the Art World
Unlearning Shame and Remembering Love
Hurt People Hurt People
Black Surrender Within the Ivory Tower
Steps to Being Whole, on Your Terms
To You: Vulnerable Mother A Choreo-Essay
Where the Truth Rests
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