060 Citizen by Claudia Rankine

Julia and Victoria spend a good portion of their conversation about Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine trying to figure out what a Lyric poem is. After that they can finally get into all the reasons why Rankine’s incredible, multi-media work about the experience of being a black person in America should be required reading for, well, everyone.

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Mentioned in the Episode:

• Morgan Parker’s poetry

• Black Lives Matter national organization

• “Situations” video series by Claudia Rankine

• Milton, Paradise Lost

• “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe

• “My Lost Youth” by Longfellow

• Sappho

• The Waves by VIrginia Woolf

• Good Omens tv series

• Doctor Who on HBO

Recommendations:

• I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men and What I Had On by Khadijah Queen

• Friday Black by Nan Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

• The Stacks podcast, Citizen episode

• Button Poetry

• Morgan Harper Nichols instagram

• Campaign Zero

• White Homework by Tori Douglass Williams

• Lighthouse Foundation Chicago

Currently Obsessed:

• Staged on Hulu

• The Fitness Marshall