Nerdette’s Finest: Roxane Gay
Nerdette is turning FIVE! And we’re celebrating our birthday by showcasing delightful interviews, like this one with author Roxane Gay.
Nerdette is turning FIVE! And we’re celebrating our birthday by showcasing delightful interviews, like this one with author Roxane Gay.
“If you don’t ask for help you end up making the mistakes that I think are more problematic in the long run,” Bonney tells Nerdette.
We brought the siblings on Nerdette to talk about self-care in the freelance economy, but instead they started unpacking their relationship.
“You’re in space,” astronaut Megan McArthur told Nerdette podcast. “You don’t want to go to bed. You want to look out the windows.”
“I literally will say to myself out loud in the mirror, like, ‘You got this, bitch,’” Schumer says. Power Up is a new project from Nerdette.
We all have the same number of hours in a day. So how do inspiring people set themselves up for success in an exhausting world?
Jason Katims, the brains behind ‘Friday Night Lights’ and other high school TV dramas, explains why adolescence makes such good TV.
The ‘Children of Blood and Bone’ author says she was motivated in part by racist online comments made about ‘The Hunger Games’ films.
Scientists are working on a gene therapy specifically for WBEZ’s Greta Johnsen. The implications are reminiscent of science fiction.
Smith says her new HBO special, ‘Notes From The Field,’ aims to illustrate the school-to-prison pipeline that minority students often face.