The Unsettled Feeling of Twitter

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i find twitter just so painful you know i made the mistake of scrolling through twitter just before we had our conversation and i was on my laptop. I'm trying to find ways to kind of set up these you know these boundaries in my life because i'm really concerned about how i'm being formed as a public presence on these apps, he says. He went and got a a dumb phone shortly after starting a black liturgy as i got rid of my smartphone. "It's been so wonderful and so healing for me to not be carrying around the noise of the world with me all day long"

Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.

This week Katherine chats to writer and poet Cole Arthur Riley, author of This Here Flesh and creator of Black Liturgies.

Unable to speak up as a child, Cole talks about how she learned to find her voice amid a family of gifted talkers and storytellers. Cole describes her father and grandmother as inspirational figures who nevertheless were marked by the generational trauma experienced by so many African Americans. But from this emerges Cole’s own, unique spiritual account of the world, overseen by a God who lives in our hurting, imperfect bodies, and who sees us as we are.

Cole is one of the most lyrical, perceptive and moving writers of her generation, at once cerebral and earthly, and always rooted in the body. We talk about Cole’s hair turning grey as a child, her wise grandmother and inspirational father, and the moments when she came to realise that both of them needed her care.

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