Honestly how can you resist this solid gold? Go listen. And when Tressie says that Black people are the most future people she knows, if you don’t know what she means, you will definitely know what she means by the end of this episode. It keeps you from doing your work.” This conversation is full of joy and joy real talk about writing and the subject of race. Tressie and Gabe discuss Toni Morrison’s famous quote, “The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. And how Tressie’s mother’s comrades from the Black Panthers and their stories are present and very alive in Tressie’s life today. Tressie talks about how her mother was a member of the Black Panthers in college. We learn how the strong and creative and playful Black women in Tressie’s family helped shape her. This interview feels personal for Tressie and Gabe: because they both grew up in North Carolina at the same time and were shaped by many of the same cultural forces. Tressie is a renowned sociologist and the author of several award-winning books, including Thick and Other Essays.

In our second episode, Gabe sits down with Gen X icon and University of North Carolina professor and MacArthur Genius Award winner, Tressie McMillan Cottom. Presented by Literary Hub and Best Case Studios. Then Gabe and the guest use that tweet as an entry point into a conversation designed to illuminate the writer’s heart and mind. The guest reads one of those tweets out loud.

Each week, Gabe Hudson welcomes one of his favorite writers and pulls four of their tweets. You have just now entered the Twitterverse. A dimension of tweets and the writers who send them.

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