Healing in the Past and Present with Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
English - April 28, 2022 10:28 - 22 minutes - 30.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsBooks Arts Society & Culture authors books feminism feministbooks fiction literature nonfiction subscriptionbox Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Ashley sits down with Dolen Perkins-Valdez to talk about her third novel, Take My Hand. This thoughtful conversation includes naming the story, the power of the main character’s name, writing about Black girls, and the Relf sisters' case that inspired the novel’s story about the sterilization of Black girls.
Content warning: abortion, forced sterilization, racism, depression
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This episode was edited and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.
Original music by @iam.onyxrose
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