Not Right Now

This week, Quinn and Claire are joined by L'Oreal Thompson Payton, a bestselling author, award-winning journalist, yoga teacher, mom to a four-year-old junior bookseller, and the founder of Zora's Place, a Black-owned independent bookstore in Evanston, Illinois. She is also, somehow, simultaneously writing a memoir about infertility while going through IVF again. We don't know how she does it either.
We discuss: what it takes to run a brick-and-mortar bookstore (especially when you have a four-year-old who thinks she's the manager), the books we're hiding from our kids, IVF and the stuff nobody tells you about secondary infertility, and how to keep leafy greens fresh longer.
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Check out books and events at zorasplace.com or on Instagram @zorasplace.
Order books from the Zora's Place Bookshop storefront https://bookshop.org/shop/zorasplace
Read L'Oreal's books Amanda Gorman: Poet And Activist and Stop Waiting For Perfect
L'Oreal's memoir, Infertile Black Girl, is forthcoming from Beacon Press

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This week, Quinn and Claire are joined by Garrett Bucks, a writer, organizer, recovering white do-gooder, and parent based in Milwaukee. Garrett runs The Barnraisers Project, writes The White Pages newsletter, and is the author of the memoir The Right Kind of White. He also has a son who is very mad that his sister thinks they live in a suburb.
The gang gets into why your son talks differently to his sister than to his friends, kids not knowing what the Epstein files are, growing up in rural Montana, how to get work done in between school drop off and soccer practice, and why protests are important AND performative AND boring and worth doing anyway, and how to actually get your kids to come.
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Find Garrett's work at garretbucks.com
Subscribe to The White Pages at thewhitepages.net
Check out The Barnraisers Project at barnraisersproject.org
Read Garrett's memoir, The Right Kind of White https://bookshop.org/a/8952/9781982197209
Join The Interdependence Relay at jointherelay.org

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This week, Quinn and Claire talk about first crushes, school dances, bloody noses, and other horrors of middle school before getting into why youth sports are dying across the US, especially because coaches make no money while dealing with our asshole kids, so yes, they do deserve a Target gift card at the very least.
Also discussed: sleeping (badly), mandatory attendance policies, the art of letting your kid navigate social terrors on their own timeline, and more.
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Check out graphic novels by Riana Telgemeier https://bookshop.org/beta-search?keywords=raina+telgemeir
Quinn's coach to parents letter template https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g0KBcrxDoVyFqpR_bSiEsdZSxmUktCVVkSt8a7yI3aw/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0

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This week, writer Emily Gould joins Quinn and Claire to discuss her obsession with Heated Rivalry (it's about hockey, primarily), the aging cliff at 44, ruining everything you used to find fun by professionalizing it, and parenting the kid that's exactly like you.
Also discussed: food parties, advice columns, Julia Roberts, and the Kinsey Scale.
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Read Emily's "Lure of Divorce" article https://www.thecut.com/article/marriage-divorce-should-i-leave-my-husband-emily-gould.html

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This week, we have Meghan Keane Graham and Mark Graham on the show to chat about their podcast, Back In My Day, where they watch movies from when they were 12 and force their kids (ages 12 and 9) to discuss them. We discuss: movies that don't hold up, what to do when your kids hate a movie that was very formative for you, when to introduce your kids to John Hughes movies, springing on your kids that they have to do skating lessons (at bedtime, perfect), and how Billy Madison peeing his pants is actually great parenting advice.
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