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Ratchet Academics (with Dr. Christopher Emdin)

Pod Save the People

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Gale Jones - A New Book, Soout Partweabout a Hundred Pages

I didn't not know about gale jones. I knew about the her most famous book, corehidora. But for me, this brought up a whole set of questions around self definition. She rejected the characterizations of her that people were writing about. Her response and reaction to other black writers who weren't cool with the fact that she didn't neatly tie up the story or make her characters remorseful. i found real power in her assertions, or her prospective on motherhood.

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