• Permit Yourself To Love

  • Feb 18 2025
  • Length: 50 mins
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Permit Yourself To Love

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  • If James Baldwin and Toni Morrison had a literary baby, it would be Robert Jones Jr. He stops by the class to discuss what he learned about love from writing his debut novel, The Prophets. The New York Times Bestselling book shares the romance and love between two enslaved same-gender loving men on a plantation in the American South and a parallel story of Kosii and Elewa, who live and love in a place farther than the past on the African continent.

    Robert discusses the importance of permitting yourself to love and interrogating the pleasure in bigotry. He also discusses the importance of witnessing, writing, and harnessing our superpowers. The episode celebrates caring and compassionate adults who invest in us, open windows, and expose us to mirrors so that we can explore who we are in this world we didn’t ask to be born into.

    Witness Substack: https://robertjonesjr.substack.com/ Jordan Neely

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Jordan_Neely

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