Stuck with Damon Young

Damon talks to Jay Ellis and Robert Jones Jr. about our bodies, and why men are so reluctant to admit to experiencing body shame.

Damon gets inside of grief, with Hanif Abdurraqib and Imani Perry, and tries to understand what it does when it’s inside of us.

Damon unpacks what it means to be truly accountable, publicly and privately, with Marc Lamont Hill and Kara Brown.

Damon unpacks the gap between our ideal political selves and our actual selves with Jamilah Lemieux and Shamira Ibrahim.

Damon talks to Kiese Laymon and Dr. Joy Harden-Bradford about why we all need therapy.

Damon explores whether our personas online and in person are collapsing into each other with Jemele Hill, Jenee Desmond Harris, and Joel Anderson.

Damon unpacks the whiplash of new money with Samantha Irby and Mehrsa Baradaran.

Damon explores his (unconvincing) performance of Christianity with Roy Wood Jr. and Dr. Brittney Cooper.

Damon examines the idea of performing Blackness around other Black people with Lauren Michele Jackson and Terence Nance.

Damon explains why he wants all the smoke – specifically, why he needs to know if he’s capable of smoke – with Darnell Moore and Hannah Giorgis.

Damon is joined by Saida Grundy and Jason Reynolds to deconstruct all the weird, awkward and terrifying intraracial anxieties we have about cis-hetero sex.

Damon talks to Nikole Hannah-Jones (and then his real actual dad) about all of the racial and economic factors impacting where he decides to send his kids to school.

Award-winning author Damon Young is joined by the brightest and Blackest writers, comedians, and critics he knows to explore the hilarious and hideous absurdity of our behavior – and how race, gender, and class converge to make everything messy AF.