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Podcast: New Books in Politics and Polemics
Episode: Foluke Taylor, "Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room" (Norton, 2023)
Description: In 1977, The Combahee River Collective, a group of Black American feminists issued a statement communicating the harrowing following:
“The psychological toll of being a Black woman…can never be underestimated. There is a low value placed on Black women’s psyches in this society, which is both racist and sexist. We are dispossessed psychologically and on every other level and yet we feel the need to struggle to change the condition of all Black women.”
Almost 50 years later, we have a book that responds to this important group’s felt need.
Foluke Taylor’s Unruly The...