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On January 12th Jessica did a live event at Charis Books and more (www.charisbooksandmore.com) in Atlanta, Georgia where she discussed the astrology of 2025 and answered audience questions about relationships, self-care, and how to show up in a quickly changing world. Enjoy this special, live episode of Ghost!

There are new developments in the 2020 Georgia election interference case. The Georgia Court of Appeals has ruled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her office should be removed from the case. WABE politics reporter Sam Gringlas returns to “Closer Look,” to discuss the latest and how the court’s ruling could impact President-elect Donald Trump’s last remaining criminal case. Plus, Charis Books and More is more than a place to buy books. Owners regard it as a third space and a haven that supports “diverse and marginalized voices.” Over the past five decades, the Decatur-based bookstore has remained a community staple for the metro Atlanta area. As the bookstore celebrates its 50th anniversary, “Closer Look” show host Rose Scott talked with Charis owners Sara Luce Look, Angela Gabriel and executive director Errol "E.R." Anderson. The booksellers gave Scott a tour of the bookstore and talked about the successes and challenges they’ve endured while operating the oldest independent feminist bookstore in the South. They also shared details about the bookstore’s diverse collection of books and ongoing efforts to stay connected with the community through programming and the importance of writing the feminist future.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This book party was hosted on May 27, 2023, at Charis Books & More in Decatur, Georgia. It featured esteemed writer Sharon Bridgforth in conversation with ZAMI NOBLA creative director Angela Denise Davis in celebration of bull-jean & dem/dey back.   You can view the YouTube video of this event at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6EcaVl7dxo   The ZNP previous interview of Sharon Bridgforth: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/zaminobla/id/21629876   Bull-jean & dem/dey back is a collection that unites two performance/novels centered on the southern-Black-butch-heroine, bull-jean. The Lambda Literary Award-winning bull-jean stories was first published by RedBone Press in 1998 and follows the journey of love rekindling throughout the lifetimes of bull-dog-jean. After a twenty-two-year hiatus, bull-dog-jean triumphantly returns in bull-jean/we wake. As the Narrator grieves the loss of their elders and seeks healing, they summon bull-jean for guidance. Be sure not to miss this inspiring event!   A 2022 Winner of Yale's Windham Campbell Prize in Drama, Sharon Bridgforth is 2020-2023 Playwrights' Center Core Member, a 2022-2023 McKnight National Fellow and a New Dramatists alumnae. She has received support from The Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, Creative Capital, MAP Fund and the National Performance Network. Her work is featured in Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature, Mouths of Rain an Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought and Feminist Studies Vol 48  Number 1, honoring 40 years of This Bridge Called by Back and But Some of Us Are Brave! Sharon has had the privilege of benefiting from support from the ZAMI NOBLA and Charis Books communities since 1998, when she toured with the RedBone Press edition of the bull-jean stories. In her new book, bull-jean & dem/dey back (53rd State Press) bull-jean returns in two performance/novels - both will be produced as main stage productions at Pillsbury House + Theatre in Minneapolis, MN in 2023. More at: https://www.sharonbridgforth.com  

Guest: Tamara Winfrey-Harris Tamara Winfrey-Harris is a writer, speaker and dedicated champion for all women and girls. She serves as president of Women's Fund of Central Indiana, a special interest fund of Central Indiana Community Foundation that convenes, invests and advocates so all who identify as women or girls in Central Indiana have an equitable opportunity to reach their full potential no matter their place, race or identity.  Tamara is the author of the award-winning The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America (Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2015); Dear Black Girl: Letters From Your Sisters On Stepping Into Your Power (Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2021); and A Black Woman's Guide to Getting Free (Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2024).  Tamara is co-founder of Black Women's Writing Society, a monthly virtual space for Black femme creatives in Indianapolis. She is also a registered yoga teacher and reiki master, who focuses her work on the healing and well-being of her sisters.  Sites and Socials: https://www.tamarawinfreyharris.com/   Other Links for this Episode: Women's Fund of Central Indianna: https://www.womensfund.org/ Rolf Gates Yoga: https://www.rolfgates.com/pages/training/2019-COMMUNITIES%20RIZING-200-hour-vinyasa-yoga-teacher-training/ Bookshops LoudMouth Books https://loudmouthindy.com/ Indy Reads: https://indyreads.org/ Charis Books: https://www.charisbooksandmore.com/ Bookshop.org: https://www.bookshop.org Bluestockings Book Collective: https://bluestockings.com/ Red Emma's: https://redemmas.org/ The Strand: https://www.strandbooks.com/  

Crystal Wilkinson is the award-winning author of several books including Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks. She was Poet Laureate of Kentucky from 2021 to 2023, and currently teaches creative writing at the University of Kentucky where she is a Bush-Holbrook Endowed Professor. In today's episode, Crystal and Annmarie discuss kitchen ghosts, family recipes – including how biscuits need to “kiss,” and the blessings and self-awareness we find in the stories of our ancestors. Episode Sponsor: Charis Books and More – An independent feminist bookstore. Charis fosters sustainable feminist communities, works for social justice, and encourages the expression of diverse and marginalized voices. When you spend your money or your time at Charis Books and More, you are investing in the radical belief that multi-racial organizing and movement- building centered in a Southern, queer, feminist, anti-racist practice can shift culture and change lives and we appreciate your support. Stop by our Decatur, Georgia store or find us online at charisbooksandmore.com. BEM | books and more – BEM is a bookstore specializing in food literature of the African Diaspora, inspired by a line of dynamic and brilliant Black women who season with love and spin tales with the best of them. Honoring that legacy and those of Black folks and families across time and place is at the heart of what they do. Food opens a door to life, to sustenance, to love, to politics, and BEM | books and more is thrilled to welcome you into their community to explore it all together. Discover more online at bembrooklyn.com or on their Instagram @bembrooklyn. Wild Precious Life listeners receive 10% off their orders at BEM | books and more. Just type in the code WILDPRECIOUSLIFE (all one word) when you check out. Titles Discussed in this Episode: Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks, by Crystal Wilkinson Perfect Black, by Crystal Wilkinson The Birds of Opulence, by Crystal Wilkinson Other conversations with Crystal Wilkinson: PRAISESONG FOR THE KITCHEN GHOSTS: STORIES AND RECIPES FROM FIVE GENERATIONS OF BLACK COUNTRY COOKS PERFECT BLACK: CRYSTAL WILKINSON IN CONVERSATION WITH KIESE LAYMON BREATH BETTER SPENT: LIVING BLACK GIRLHOOD--DAMARIS B. HILL IN CONVERSATION WITH CRYSTAL WILKINSON Follow Crystal Wilkinson: Instagram: @crystalwilki Twitter: @crystalwilki Facebook: @wilkinsoncrystal crystalewilkinson.net Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pen America reports nearly 6,000 books have been banned across the U.S. since 2021. On Thursday night, Charis Books & More is hosting a discussion on "Writing for Kids in an Age of Censorship.” Children's author Laurel Snyder joins “Closer Look” to talk more about the criticism and backlash she's received for her own work, and the ongoing challenges writers face as more books are banned across the U.S. Plus, surveys show a growing amount of tipping fatigue among consumers. While the Pew Research Center found that 72% of U.S. adults believe tipping is expected in more places than five years ago, Bankrate.com reports 66% of people are not happy about it. Drew DeSilver, a senior writer and editor with the Pew Research Center, discusses tipping trends and negative consumer sentiment.Lastly, Rose talks with Emily Chan, the co-owner of JenChan's. Her business recently received blacklash for including a 4% employee health insurance surcharge on their customers' bills. Chan further explains the ongoing challenges small business owners are facing while trying to stay afloat during unsteady economic times.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Stephen Satterfield, chef, and host of “High on the Hog” discusses Season 2 of the popular Netflix series. Plus, Mara Davis stops by with suggestions for “Galentine's Day,” and we hear about the upcoming Audre Lorde Read-A-Thon coming to “Charis Books & More” this Sunday. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place (NYU Press, 2023), author J. T. Roane shows how working-class Black communities cultivated two interdependent modes of insurgent assembly--dark agoras--in twentieth century Philadelphia. He investigates the ways they transposed rural imaginaries about and practices of place as part of their spatial resistances and efforts to contour industrial neighborhoods. In acts that ranged from the mundane acts of refashioning intimate spaces to expressly confrontational and liberatory efforts to transform the city's social and ecological arrangement, these communities challenged the imposition of Progressive and post-Progressive visions for urban order seeking to enclose or displace them. Under the rubric of dark agoras Roane brings together two formulations of collectivity and belonging associated with working-class Black life. While on their surface diametrically opposed, the city's underground--its illicit markets, taverns, pool halls, unlicensed bars, as well as spaces housing illicit sex and informal sites like corners associated with the economically and socially disreputable--constituted a spatial and experiential continuum with the city's set apart--its house meetings, storefronts, temples, and masjid, as well as the extensive spiritually appropriated architectures of the interwar mass movements that included rural land experiments as well as urban housing, hotels, and recreational facilities. Together these sites incubated Black queer urbanism, or dissident visions for urban life challenging dominant urban reform efforts and their modes of producing race, gender, and ultimately the city itself. Roane shows how Black communities built a significant if underappreciated terrain of geographic struggle shaping Philadelphia between the Great Migration and Black Power. This fascinating book will help readers appreciate the importance of Black spatial imaginaries and worldmaking in shaping matters of urban place and politics. This interview was conducted during an event at Charis Books.  Adam McNeil is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place (NYU Press, 2023), author J. T. Roane shows how working-class Black communities cultivated two interdependent modes of insurgent assembly--dark agoras--in twentieth century Philadelphia. He investigates the ways they transposed rural imaginaries about and practices of place as part of their spatial resistances and efforts to contour industrial neighborhoods. In acts that ranged from the mundane acts of refashioning intimate spaces to expressly confrontational and liberatory efforts to transform the city's social and ecological arrangement, these communities challenged the imposition of Progressive and post-Progressive visions for urban order seeking to enclose or displace them. Under the rubric of dark agoras Roane brings together two formulations of collectivity and belonging associated with working-class Black life. While on their surface diametrically opposed, the city's underground--its illicit markets, taverns, pool halls, unlicensed bars, as well as spaces housing illicit sex and informal sites like corners associated with the economically and socially disreputable--constituted a spatial and experiential continuum with the city's set apart--its house meetings, storefronts, temples, and masjid, as well as the extensive spiritually appropriated architectures of the interwar mass movements that included rural land experiments as well as urban housing, hotels, and recreational facilities. Together these sites incubated Black queer urbanism, or dissident visions for urban life challenging dominant urban reform efforts and their modes of producing race, gender, and ultimately the city itself. Roane shows how Black communities built a significant if underappreciated terrain of geographic struggle shaping Philadelphia between the Great Migration and Black Power. This fascinating book will help readers appreciate the importance of Black spatial imaginaries and worldmaking in shaping matters of urban place and politics. This interview was conducted during an event at Charis Books.  Adam McNeil is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

In Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place (NYU Press, 2023), author J. T. Roane shows how working-class Black communities cultivated two interdependent modes of insurgent assembly--dark agoras--in twentieth century Philadelphia. He investigates the ways they transposed rural imaginaries about and practices of place as part of their spatial resistances and efforts to contour industrial neighborhoods. In acts that ranged from the mundane acts of refashioning intimate spaces to expressly confrontational and liberatory efforts to transform the city's social and ecological arrangement, these communities challenged the imposition of Progressive and post-Progressive visions for urban order seeking to enclose or displace them. Under the rubric of dark agoras Roane brings together two formulations of collectivity and belonging associated with working-class Black life. While on their surface diametrically opposed, the city's underground--its illicit markets, taverns, pool halls, unlicensed bars, as well as spaces housing illicit sex and informal sites like corners associated with the economically and socially disreputable--constituted a spatial and experiential continuum with the city's set apart--its house meetings, storefronts, temples, and masjid, as well as the extensive spiritually appropriated architectures of the interwar mass movements that included rural land experiments as well as urban housing, hotels, and recreational facilities. Together these sites incubated Black queer urbanism, or dissident visions for urban life challenging dominant urban reform efforts and their modes of producing race, gender, and ultimately the city itself. Roane shows how Black communities built a significant if underappreciated terrain of geographic struggle shaping Philadelphia between the Great Migration and Black Power. This fascinating book will help readers appreciate the importance of Black spatial imaginaries and worldmaking in shaping matters of urban place and politics. This interview was conducted during an event at Charis Books.  Adam McNeil is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

In Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place (NYU Press, 2023), author J. T. Roane shows how working-class Black communities cultivated two interdependent modes of insurgent assembly--dark agoras--in twentieth century Philadelphia. He investigates the ways they transposed rural imaginaries about and practices of place as part of their spatial resistances and efforts to contour industrial neighborhoods. In acts that ranged from the mundane acts of refashioning intimate spaces to expressly confrontational and liberatory efforts to transform the city's social and ecological arrangement, these communities challenged the imposition of Progressive and post-Progressive visions for urban order seeking to enclose or displace them. Under the rubric of dark agoras Roane brings together two formulations of collectivity and belonging associated with working-class Black life. While on their surface diametrically opposed, the city's underground--its illicit markets, taverns, pool halls, unlicensed bars, as well as spaces housing illicit sex and informal sites like corners associated with the economically and socially disreputable--constituted a spatial and experiential continuum with the city's set apart--its house meetings, storefronts, temples, and masjid, as well as the extensive spiritually appropriated architectures of the interwar mass movements that included rural land experiments as well as urban housing, hotels, and recreational facilities. Together these sites incubated Black queer urbanism, or dissident visions for urban life challenging dominant urban reform efforts and their modes of producing race, gender, and ultimately the city itself. Roane shows how Black communities built a significant if underappreciated terrain of geographic struggle shaping Philadelphia between the Great Migration and Black Power. This fascinating book will help readers appreciate the importance of Black spatial imaginaries and worldmaking in shaping matters of urban place and politics. This interview was conducted during an event at Charis Books.  Adam McNeil is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

In Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place (NYU Press, 2023), author J. T. Roane shows how working-class Black communities cultivated two interdependent modes of insurgent assembly--dark agoras--in twentieth century Philadelphia. He investigates the ways they transposed rural imaginaries about and practices of place as part of their spatial resistances and efforts to contour industrial neighborhoods. In acts that ranged from the mundane acts of refashioning intimate spaces to expressly confrontational and liberatory efforts to transform the city's social and ecological arrangement, these communities challenged the imposition of Progressive and post-Progressive visions for urban order seeking to enclose or displace them. Under the rubric of dark agoras Roane brings together two formulations of collectivity and belonging associated with working-class Black life. While on their surface diametrically opposed, the city's underground--its illicit markets, taverns, pool halls, unlicensed bars, as well as spaces housing illicit sex and informal sites like corners associated with the economically and socially disreputable--constituted a spatial and experiential continuum with the city's set apart--its house meetings, storefronts, temples, and masjid, as well as the extensive spiritually appropriated architectures of the interwar mass movements that included rural land experiments as well as urban housing, hotels, and recreational facilities. Together these sites incubated Black queer urbanism, or dissident visions for urban life challenging dominant urban reform efforts and their modes of producing race, gender, and ultimately the city itself. Roane shows how Black communities built a significant if underappreciated terrain of geographic struggle shaping Philadelphia between the Great Migration and Black Power. This fascinating book will help readers appreciate the importance of Black spatial imaginaries and worldmaking in shaping matters of urban place and politics. This interview was conducted during an event at Charis Books.  Adam McNeil is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/geography

In Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place (NYU Press, 2023), author J. T. Roane shows how working-class Black communities cultivated two interdependent modes of insurgent assembly--dark agoras--in twentieth century Philadelphia. He investigates the ways they transposed rural imaginaries about and practices of place as part of their spatial resistances and efforts to contour industrial neighborhoods. In acts that ranged from the mundane acts of refashioning intimate spaces to expressly confrontational and liberatory efforts to transform the city's social and ecological arrangement, these communities challenged the imposition of Progressive and post-Progressive visions for urban order seeking to enclose or displace them. Under the rubric of dark agoras Roane brings together two formulations of collectivity and belonging associated with working-class Black life. While on their surface diametrically opposed, the city's underground--its illicit markets, taverns, pool halls, unlicensed bars, as well as spaces housing illicit sex and informal sites like corners associated with the economically and socially disreputable--constituted a spatial and experiential continuum with the city's set apart--its house meetings, storefronts, temples, and masjid, as well as the extensive spiritually appropriated architectures of the interwar mass movements that included rural land experiments as well as urban housing, hotels, and recreational facilities. Together these sites incubated Black queer urbanism, or dissident visions for urban life challenging dominant urban reform efforts and their modes of producing race, gender, and ultimately the city itself. Roane shows how Black communities built a significant if underappreciated terrain of geographic struggle shaping Philadelphia between the Great Migration and Black Power. This fascinating book will help readers appreciate the importance of Black spatial imaginaries and worldmaking in shaping matters of urban place and politics. This interview was conducted during an event at Charis Books.  Adam McNeil is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/public-policy

Andrew is part of King's Church Hastings and Bexhill. He is Emerging Generations Director at Living Out and a training and resources consultant for New Ground Churches. He studied theology at Durham University and King's College London. Andrew is the author of Who in Heaven's Name Do You Think You Are? (Charis Books, 2015), People Not Pronouns: Reflections on Transgender Experience (Grove Books, 2021) and Finding Your Best Identity: A Short Christian Introduction to Identity, Sexuality and Gender (IVP, 2022), which is the focus of our conversation. Most of our conversation is focused on understanding the pros and cons of what seems to be an over growing list of sexual and (especially) gender identities, and how we can walk with teens who are wrestling with their sexuality and gender identity. https://thinktheology.co.uk/authors/4708 If you would like to support Theology in the Raw, please visit patreon.com/theologyintheraw for more information!

Put on your comfortable shoes, because today we're talking about our perfect bookish NYC days, and these days are going to guarantee that we get our steps in! Also, naturally, the conversation eventually devolves into the best NYC day, bookish or not, and then: where you should be getting dessert. Chaos! We have all the specific bookstore websites we mentioned included below, but let us know if you're down for a little bookstore crawl with us or from afar, because we really want to do this now. Thank you for listening :) Grab your BATC merch (including the coveted sweatshirt) here: https://www.booksandthecitypod.com/merch. Browse and shop all the books we've discussed on past episodes at https://www.bookshop.org/shop/booksandthecity. Subscribe to our newsletter on our website, and send us an email at booksandthecitypod@gmail.com. Our chaotic NYC picks: Strand Bookstore (Union SQ & Upper West Side) Barnes & Noble Union Square Book Club Bar (East Village) Little City Books (Hoboken) Washington Square Park (good for celeb sightings) Buvette New York (West Village for Timothee sightings) McNally Jackson (SoHo & Seaport locations) Albertine Books (Upper East Side) Serafina (UES) Metropolitan Museum of Art (UES) Central Park (Middle of upper Manhattan) Magnolia Bakery (lots of locations) Levain Bakery (lots of locations) Alabaster Bookshop (that used bookstore we reference a bunch but never say the name of lol, Union Square) Veselkas (East Village? I think?) Sweet Pickle Books (Lower East Side) The Lit. Bar (South Bronx) Community Bookstore (Park Slope) Books Are Magic (Cobble Hill) Greenlight Bookstore (Fort Greene & PLG) Small Things Fintage (Jersey City Heights) The Hair Room (Jersey City) (this is when we really go off the rails) Charis Books (lol Atlanta) Yu & Me Books (Chinatown) Music by EpidemicSound, logo art by @niczollos, all opinions are our own.

My guest this week is Regina N. Bradley, a professor, author, and Southern hip-hop scholar from Albany, GA. We spoke about Honey, I Shrunk The Kids, the new Mortal Kombat movie, her love for all things martial arts, her relationship with the music of OutKast, their position as the blueprint for modern Southern rap, the importance of Southern scholars covering the music and culture of the South, and excerpts from her latest book Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of The Hip-Hop South, available now via UNC Press.Purchase Chronicling Stankonia via Charis Books or AmazonFollow Regina on Instagram and Twitter: @redclayscholarFollow CineMasai on Instagram (@cinemasai), Twitter (@CineMasai_), and Letterboxd (@CineMasai)  Support the show (https://cash.app/$CineMasai)

Reproductive justice is an important part of the healthcare conversation and is often stigmatized as being solely about abortion. While abortion is important, reproductive justice encompasses all decisions a person makes about their body. Yemi Miller-Tonnet (she/her) is a Black Queer Femme liberation strategist, abortion advocate, and reproductive justice organizer. Yemi is currently the Local Campaign Coordinator for AMPLIFY-GA. She has a background in intimate partner violence advocacy as a former Legal Advocate with Partnership Against Domestic Violence and Yemi also worked as a bookseller for Charis Books and More, the south’s oldest independently owned feminist bookstore. Yemi began her career in abortion advocacy as a front desk associate at Summit Medical Associates, an abortion clinic in Atlanta, GA. Yemi began her interest in liberation work as a Comparative Women’s Studies major at Spelman College where she concentrated in Black Women’s Activism. Also, Yemi works as a full-spectrum doula supporting marginalized folks through their reproductive journeys.Twitter: @yemisicombahee

Are Christians transphobic? Why are churches not inclusive? How do Christians view gender? We're talking with Andrew Bunt about gender, what the bible says about it and why the church is still good news for those who are trans. Andrew is part of the leadership team at King's Church Hastings and Bexhill and is also a speaker and writer with Living Out. He studied theology at Durham University and King's College London, specialising in biblical studies and biblical languages. He loves helping people to understand and apply the Bible and loves wrestling with big cultural issues. He is the author of 'Who in Heaven's Name Do You Think You Are?' (Charis Books, 2014). He regularly contributes for www.livingout.org and his story can be found here: https://www.livingout.org/resources/podcasts/1/meet-the-authors-1-andrew-bunt #gender #inclusion #christianity --- About the channel --- Dan and Phil are mates who like talking apologetics, philosophy, ethics and theology. They interview Christians who are evangelists, authors, scientists, apologists, comedians or simply interested in talking about big topics. In the future, we're looking to interview people from other faiths and atheists in a non-confrontational format. We put all interviews on a podcast. We aim to update the podcast every other week: https://criticalwitness.uk/podcast If long form interviews aren't your thing and you just want short, digestible videos, subscribe for our #shortconvos from our longer conversations that come out occasionally when we can. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Insta and let us know what you think of the conversations. Find: @CritWitnessUK Finally we're looking to feature other writings on our website. If you write on the topics above get in touch! https://criticalwitness.uk/blog Want more content? Support what we do on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/criticalwitness

Lydia & Tay discuss episode 3 of Netflix’s Bridgerton, “The Art of the Swoon.”The female gaze is here to stay! Daphne meets a prince and we take a firm stand against drinking milk straight from the jug, trudging endlessly through puddles, and stealing roses from vases... and a firm stand in favor of Simon in general. Swooning gets a closer look, as does Simon’s spoon moment and how the episode functions as an adaptation.Next week, we take on episode 4, “An Affair of Honor.”What we’re watching & reading:“Sylvie’s Love” on Prime (2020) with Tessa Thompson, Nnamdi Asomugha, Eva Longoria, Aja Naomi King, Jemima Kirke, Tone Bell and Regé-Jean PageAlyssa Cole, When No One Is Watching (2020)Olivia Dade, Spoiler Alert (2020)Support independent bookstores! Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis, MN https://www.moonpalacebooks.com/ Charis Books & More in Atlanta, GA https://www.charisbooksandmore.com/Also mentioned:This hilarious video by Josh Pray: https://m.facebook.com/joshpraycomedy/videos/202734014856450/?refsrc=https%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2Fwatch%2F&_rdr Harry Potter and the Half-Blood PrinceA Cinderella Story: Once Upon a SongRomancing the StoneThe American PresidentGray’s AnatomyThe Bechdel TestStar WarsGame of ThronesHamiltonThe Young VictoriaThanks for listening! You can find us on Instagram and Facebook @callingcardspod, on Twitter @CardsCalling, on our website, http://callingcards.wixsite.com/callingcardspod, or by emailing us at callingcardspod@gmail.com. Theme music by PASTACAT, @pastacatmusic on Instagram.

Marla & Jess wrote a book, The Ultimate Guide to Foreplay & Seduction! They're having a virtual launch party to celebrate: Wednesday, June 24th at 7pm EST. Register to attend for free!  In this week's episode, Jess and Marla chat about their book launch as well as: Marla's thoughts on BLM Pleasure as resistance Sex Down South What makes us seductive How we entice our lovers How we manage rejection They work their way through one of the Lovers' Inquiries in the book and encourage you to consider these questions/discussions prompts too: What is the most seductive thing about you? What have other people told you about your sex appeal? What do they say turns them on when it comes to your personality, behaviour or appearance? What makes you anti-seductive? Would you like to change anything about your behaviour or approach? What do people find curious about you? How do you entice others to be curious about you? Do you consider yourself open-minded? Is there anything you would like to work on when it comes to keeping an open mind? How do you handle rejection? How did you respond the last time you faced rejection (not limited to sex)? Do you want to adjust the way you think or behave moving forward? Do you tend to take things personally? What might you do differently in the future? Do you find that you are present and mindful when you spend time with your lover(s) or on your own? What helps you to stay in the moment? What detracts you from being mindful and present? And a special thanks to our sponsors: Good for Her, Naughty in N'Awlins, Charis Books & More, We-Vibe, Womanizer, Macton Housing Group & Astroglide!       If you've got questions or topic suggestions for the podcast, submit them here. As well, you can now record your messages for us! Please record your message/question in a quiet room and use your phone's headphones with a built-in mic if possible. And be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Podbean, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music & Stitcher! Rough Transcript: This is a computer-generated rough transcript, so please excuse any typos. This podcast is an informational conversation and is not a substitute for medical, health or other professional advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the services of an appropriate professional should you have individual questions or concerns. The Ultimate Guide to Seduction & Foreplay: An Exercise for Singles and Couples 00:00:05 - 00:05:07 You're listening to the sacs with Dr. Jess podcast sacks and relationship advice. You can use tonight. Hey Welcome to the sex with Dr Jazz podcast Jess Riley here without my regular co-pilot, brandon wear, but just as fabulous I won't say better because Brennan might listen to this this podcast, but just as fabulous I have with me today via distance Marla Renee Stewart of fabulous professional sexologists, intimacy, relationships, sex, coach, speaker, and author, and she is the CO founder of sex down South which we'll talk about, but also the CO author of our most recent book, the ultimate guide to seduction and four play. MARLA thanks so much for chatting with me. Yes thank you so much for having me here. It makes cited to be here again. Incited to talk to you and you and I have been on a ton of podcasts promoting our book, but we haven't really sat down together and talked about it. No No, we've sat down and talked about other things. Yes met many things as of late, so I mean I should ask how you're doing right now. I know there's a lot of stuff going on in the world, a lot of heavy emotions being processed and oftentimes I think people want a separate sex as this mechanical or light or purely pleasure base topic from the political, but sexuality is highly political. Yeah? It's so interesting because you know. This is my life's work and I always believed that the personal is political.

Marla & Jess wrote a book, The Ultimate Guide to Foreplay & Seduction! They’re having a virtual launch party to celebrate: Wednesday, June 24th at 7pm EST. Register to attend for free!  In this week’s episode, Jess and Marla chat about their book launch as well as: Marla’s thoughts on BLM Pleasure as resistance Sex Down South What makes us seductive How we entice our lovers How we manage rejection They work their way through one of the Lovers’ Inquiries in the book and encourage you to consider these questions/discussions prompts too: What is the most seductive thing about you? What have other people told you about your sex appeal? What do they say turns them on when it comes to your personality, behaviour or appearance? What makes you anti-seductive? Would you like to change anything about your behaviour or approach? What do people find curious about you? How do you entice others to be curious about you? Do you consider yourself open-minded? Is there anything you would like to work on when it comes to keeping an open mind? How do you handle rejection? How did you respond the last time you faced rejection (not limited to sex)? Do you want to adjust the way you think or behave moving forward? Do you tend to take things personally? What might you do differently in the future? Do you find that you are present and mindful when you spend time with your lover(s) or on your own? What helps you to stay in the moment? What detracts you from being mindful and present? And a special thanks to our sponsors: Good for Her, Naughty in N'Awlins, Charis Books & More, We-Vibe, Womanizer, Macton Housing Group & Astroglide!

Chatting with E.R. about Charis Books moving from Little Five Points to Agnes Scott and how Sara Rachele likes to make her music here and in NYC.

Guest: Elizabeth Anderson Writer and Executive Director of Charis Circle, Elizabeth Anderson, talks about books, writing, and Charis Books and More. Host: Amanda Plumb

Intro   Hi and welcome to Books Between - a podcast for teachers, parents, librarians, and anyone who wants to connect middle grade kids between 8-12 to books they’ll love.  I’m your host, Corrina Allen - a teacher, a mom, and just back from a trip to our local greenhouse to pick out flowers for our window boxes. I always feel like summer is finally around the corner when I look out and see geraniums and petunias.   This is Episode #25 and it’s early!  I had the opportunity to chat with Laurel Snyder about her new novel Orphan Island and so many other things - the need for more upper middle grade books, indie book stores, what she’s been reading lately. It was supposed to last for 30 minutes but, well, we got talking, and it was a great conversation and rather than chop it way down and pair it with some book talks or other information for a more traditional show, I thought I’d just give you an episode of all Laurel Snyder.   So here it is.   Laurel Snyder - Interview Outline   Orphan Island is released May 30th and I am really excited for that because now I will have MORE people to talk to about this story! I’m wondering, what plans do you have for the Orphan Island publication day and having published several other middle grade novels and picture books - do you have certain traditions or routines on days that books are released?     What is Orphan Island about?   I saw your Nerdy Book Club post explaining why you decided to leave the ending rather open and keep some mysteries unsolved. It made me wonder…. Have you had the grownups clamoring for a sequel?     When you were first drafting this novel - did the backstory, the “rules of the island” ever change or did you know right away how it was all laid out?       One of the parts of Orphan Island that particularly resonated with me as a parent and teacher was that tension between being protective and giving children the freedom to make mistakes. As parent, is that something you’ve struggled with yourself?   If you were to live on the island, what would be your favorite thing? And what would be the thing you found most challenging?     One of the goals of this podcast is to share ideas about how to help kids find (and eventually learn to discover themselves) books that they’ll love.   You mentioned before that you see a need for more really good upper middle grade books...     You’ve mentioned that you are are teaching creative writing this spring in the MFA program at Hamline University. I’ve heard so many people say that you never really know something until you have to teach it to someone else. How has your writing changed as a result of your teaching?   I have noticed in my conversations with authors and educators and parents a feeling in the past six months that we are living through a critical time in our nation and therefore they feel a shift in their writing or teaching or parenting. Have you felt that way yourself?       Your Reading Life   You have been an advocate of small independent bookstores. And I’m sad to say that we no longer have one in Syracuse. What are your favorite indie bookstores?   What have you been reading lately that you’ve liked?       Closing   Okay - that wraps up our show this week. If you have an idea about a guest we should have or a topic we should cover, I would love to hear from you. You can email me at booksbetween@gmail.com or message me on Twitter/Instagram at the handle @Books_Between.   Thank you so much for joining me this week. You can find an outline of interviews and a full transcript of all the other parts of our shows along with all of our previous episodes at AlltheWonders.com.   And, if you are liking the show, please help others find us too by telling a friend, sharing on social media, or leaving a rating on iTunes or Stitcher.   Thanks again and see you soon!  Bye!     Charis Books - http://www.charisbooksandmore.com Little Shop of Stories - http://littleshopofstories.com   A Capella Books - https://www.acappellabooks.com   The Ivy Bookshop - http://www.theivybookshop.com The Bird in HAnd  - https://birdinhandcharlesvillage.com   The Children’s Bookstore - http://www.thecbstore.com   The Red Canoe - http://redcanoecafe.virb.com   Avid Bookshop - http://www.avidbookshop.com/welcome   Prairie Lights Book Store - http://www.prairielights.com   The Canning Season   York - Laura Ruby   Rebel Souls   https://nerdybookclub.wordpress.com/2017/05/24/what-i-was-thinking-about-by-laurel-snyder/     http://laurelsnyder.com