Roxane Gay on “Stand Your Ground: A Black Feminist Reckoning with America’s Gun Problem”

Unlocking Us with Brené Brown

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Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Self-improvement

4.6 • 24.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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I talk with one of my favorite cultural critics, Roxane Gay, about her long-form essay on Black gun ownership. We discuss how the gun industry frames women as victims in waiting and the importance of dismantling the trope of the “good man with a gun." We also delve into the societal cost of our resisting, rejecting, and resenting nuance and the importance of holding the tension of competing ideas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone I'm Brine Brown and this is unlocking S.
0:02.4	Welcome back to our new eight part series that I'm calling on my heart and mind. The series started with
0:14.1	my conversation with Valerie Corps on the power of revolutionary love and being a
0:18.9	sage warrior. This is just like goodness in a book. This is a book about hope and action and love. The next
0:26.4	podcast on my heart and mine, where Sarah Lewis actually lives full time at this point was a conversation with Dr.
0:33.9	Sarah Lewis on her stunning new book The Unseen Truth.
0:36.7	That just rearranges everything you thought.
0:41.5	Everything you never thought was true, but you couldn't
0:44.7	figure out how we got here. Now we know. I'll also be talking coming up in the future with
0:50.0	Dr. Mary Claire Haver on menopause, and I'm going to talk to Ashley and Barrett, my sisters
0:54.1	on grief, love, and unexpected joy, kind of what our journey has been with my mom's dementia
0:59.9	and then my mom dying on Christmas of last year.
1:03.0	So it's a personal podcast series,
1:06.9	really focusing on what I'm thinking about,
1:10.4	what I'm feeling right now. In today's episode I am talking with one of my very favorite
1:18.3	cultural critics, Roxanne Gay. I love her work. I just see myself in so much that she writes and sometimes she pisses
1:26.5	me off and sometimes she encourages me to, you know, snuggle in for a warm hug.
1:31.3	Is a little bit of hugging a lot of God I'm so mad.
1:36.2	She wrote an incredible long-form essay called Stand Your Ground, a Black Feminist Reckoning
1:41.6	with America's gun problem.
1:44.0	I will put a link to the long-form essay on the podcast page
1:48.0	on Renee Brown.com so you can find it.
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