Permission to Be Uncomfortable (w/ Terry McMillan)

The Roxane Gay Agenda

25-01-2022 • 31 mins

Novelist Terry McMillan set the table for so many Black creative women working today. She tells Roxane about how she became a writer without knowing she was one, and how she continues to write narratives that so many Black women identify with.


Mentions:

●     Roxane’s Story “North Country” is in her book Difficult Women: https://roxanegay.com/books/difficult-women/

●     Terry McMillan’s Website: https://www.terrymcmillan.com/

●     New York Times article, The Joys (and Challenges) of Sex after 70: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/12/magazine/sex-old-age.html


Credits: Curtis Fox is the producer. Yessenia Moreno is the intern. Production help from Kaitlyn Adams. Theme music by Taka Yasuzawa and Alex Sugiura.

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