Cece and Anthony are joined this month by writer and professor Susan Muaddi Darraj. Susan discusses her essay, “No Shame in Our Game,” about the stigma of community colleges (4:45); being a first-generation college student and how that informs her teaching (9:00); navigating the publishing industry (13:00); and her new children’s chapter book, and the lack of diversity in that genre (18:00). In the Pop! section, the trio discuss Billy Porter winning an Emmy (26:33), ) Jennifer Lopez and Shakira performing at the Super Bowl Halftime Show (30:45), MacArthur Grant Winners (34:15), and gender-neutral Mattel dolls (36:00). In the Bang! section, the three answer a pair of existential OkCupid questions (38:30).
Links
Susan Muaddi Durraj
https://susanmuaddidarraj.com/
“No Shame in Our Game” community college essay
https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2019/05/31/people-higher-ed-should-stop-disdaining-those-who-attend-or-work-community
Farrah Rocks Fifth Grade
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42283949-farah-rocks-fifth-grade
Billy Porter on men wearing dresses
https://twitter.com/channel4news/status/1147816260740235264?lang=en
Halftime Performance
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/super-bowl/8531475/jennifer-lopez-shakira-super-bowl-halftime-performance
MacArthur Grant Winners
https://www.businessinsider.com/macarthur-fellowship-genius-grant-winners-2019-9
Mattel Creatable Worlds
https://time.com/5684822/mattel-gender-neutral-doll/
OkCupid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OkCupid
Rocky
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Rocky-film-by-Avildsen
SASE
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/sase
Toni Morrison's influence on the publishing industry
https://www.marketplace.org/2019/08/06/toni-morrisons-impact-on-publishing-industry/
Baltimore Review
https://www.baltimorereview.org
Susan's Inheritance of Exile: Stories from South Philly
https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-268-03503-7
"Black Kids Don't Want to Write about Harriet Tubman All The Time"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/children-literature-books-blacks.html
Billy Porter's Emmy Acceptance Speech
https://www.vulture.com/2019/09/emmys-2019-billy-porter-acceptance-speech.html
Greta Thunberg
https://www.businessinsider.com/greta-thunberg-bio-climate-change-activist-2019-9