the other black girl

Langston and David answer an email from one of our most infamous listeners. X-Pats, get ready.

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If you mention you're an "organ donor" on your driver's license, does that mean doctors won't save you? Langston and David dissect this conspiracy theory with Carl Foreman, Jr. (Search Party). Conversations about who is and who isn't an organ donor arise. Does it matter what type of organs go into certain bodies? They also talk about what recipients they would refuse to donate to (we're looking at you, Kid Rock). Plus, gruesome realizations happen along the way. Thanks, research!

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This week to get to know about Stephen's metaphysical passions as we discuss his Daily Tarot Card Draw, along with our hot-take on the 2023 suspense series, The Other Black Girl.

Topics covered:

• Our connection to tarot
• Turning Stephen's interest into a daily practice
• Favorite and Misunderstood Cards
• When should and how can you get a reading
• The Other Black Girl (Hulu 2023)- names and numbers behind the scenes
• Being 'The Other Gay Guy'
• Would you straightwash to achieve your goals?
• And much more!

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Zakiya Dalila Harris made a firm footprint in 2021 with her NY Times Bestselling debut novel, The Other Black Girl. Reading this book was a whirlwind. This book takes you on a traditional trail of a  black female protagonist to an all-out heart-racing thriller without you even realizing it.

In this first episode, Dana, our club founder, and her guest co-host, Mirlande, discuss Nella and Hazel working together as two black women in a predominantly white publishing firm, and the ups and downs Nella experiences as a result of "the other black girl."

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The interview mentioned in the show between Zakiya Harriss and Brit Bennett: https://libro.fm/audiobooks/5184389278267-quarantine-session-67-zakiya-dalila-harris-brit-bennett

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If you’re returning to the office any time soon and you’re really bummed about it – this week’s guest will make you feel better …. cos it could be so much worse.

Zakiya Dalila Harris is the author of the much-anticipated debut, The Other Black Girl. It’s been touted as Jordan Peele’s Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada and that’s true, there is white conspiracy and awful bosses aplenty, but I’d also suggest more than a little of the paranoid frisson of Rosemary’s Baby and the toe-curling embarrassment of The Office. 

Basically, it’s a big, fun book all about workplace prejudice, micro-aggressions and the thin veneer of equality – but, this being Talking Scared, rest assured it’s more than the sum of those everyday parts. It also goes into some weird and wicked places. 

Zakiya and I talk about her own career as the ‘only black girl in a publishing house’, the way well-meaning comments can do the most damage, and I express my anxiety about asking her ALL the questions about Blackness, like the awkward white guy at the party who insists he’d have voted for a third Obama term.

Oh, and we get into hair care. Something that’s more than a little important in this book … and y’know, in life 

I love this book and insist you all read it.

Enjoy! 

The Other Black Girl is published June 1st by Bloomsbury in the UK and Atria in North America.

Other books discussed in this episode include: 

• All Her Little Secrets (2021), by Wanda M. Morris
• Rosemary’s Baby (1967), by Ira Levin 

The Stephen Graham Jones open letter “from the Indians no longer in the background of a John Wayne movie” can be found HERE. 

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