When self-consciousness and social-consciousness collide
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May 31, 2022
Stuck Between Hating and Loving My Body
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.
May 24, 2022
Stuck on Grieving Everyone, Everything, All of the Time
Damon gets inside of grief, with Hanif Abdurraqib and Imani Perry, and tries to understand what it does when it’s inside of us.
May 17, 2022
Stuck On Getting It Right When We’re Wrong
Damon unpacks what it means to be truly accountable, publicly and privately, with Marc Lamont Hill and Kara Brown.
May 10, 2022
Stuck on What I Think I’m Supposed to Say (According to Twitter)
Damon unpacks the gap between our ideal political selves and our actual selves with Jamilah Lemieux and Shamira Ibrahim.
May 3, 2022
Stuck on “What’s Good?” (Cause I Don’t Really Want to Know)
Damon talks to Kiese Laymon and Dr. Joy Harden-Bradford about why we all need therapy.
April 26, 2022
Stuck Online. (No, Seriously. Stuck and Can’t Leave)
Damon explores whether our personas online and in person are collapsing into each other with Jemele Hill, Jenee Desmond Harris, and Joel Anderson.
April 19, 2022
Stuck on All the Shiny Sh*t I Want to Buy
Damon unpacks the whiplash of new money with Samantha Irby and Mehrsa Baradaran.
April 12, 2022
Stuck on the Pew (Cause I Fell Asleep)
Damon explores his (unconvincing) performance of Christianity with Roy Wood Jr. and Dr. Brittney Cooper.
April 5, 2022
Stuck on Blacking While Black
Damon examines the idea of performing Blackness around other Black people with Lauren Michele Jackson and Terence Nance.
March 29, 2022
Stuck on Whooping Some Ass (in My Head)
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.
March 22, 2022
Stuck on “One Minute Man”
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.
Stuck on Sh*t My Dad Did
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.
March 14, 2022
Welcome to Stuck
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.
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