doctor is a professor at ufc san francisco s collaborative research group. inventing new standards and reproductive, health a professor at advancing new standards of reproductive health. the author of no real choice, how culture and politics matter for reproductive autonomy. robbyn marty is the operations west alabama woman. center also the author of the new handbook for a post-roe america. i will discuss the latest on the debt ceiling standoff with democratic senator, chris coons of delaware. he says that defaulting would have a quote, catastrophic effect on the country and must be taken off the table. another hour of velshi begins right now. good morning, it s saturday may 20th, as the old saying goes, if i don t succeed, stop following the republican playbook. you would think that after just one bat election cycle, the gop would have regrouped and reassess its shortcomings so it could rebound. but it s been nearly seven years since the republicans last truly significan
been a little while since we featured those two books on the velshi banned book club, so i will remind you, all boys aren t blue, is a more comprised of a series of personal essays following johnson s life from childhood to adulthood. both a celebration and a hard look at the realities of what it means to be black and queer in america. out of darkness is fiction, with an historical backdrop. a story of first love between a black boy in a mexican american girl. out of darkness explores scenes of family dynamics, racism, abuse and sexual assault. the books are very different. riding styles, authors, genres. yet, both books grapple with the shattering realities of sexual assault, the searing pain of racism, the complicated feelings of discovering who you love, targeted again and again and again for their equally stark looks at these painfully real topics. our model here at the velshi banned book club s reading as resistance. opening the pages of johnson and perez his books, studying the w
books grapple with race in america. but it is more than. that they disrupt and challenge, conflicted the comfortable worldview of the person who is reading it. that is the point of a book. reading books like a deer marlin, all boys aren t blue, and white fragility is uncomfortable. it is supposed to be. that, itself, is the point. the best change comes when we are made to feel uncomfortable, and then cause to examine the cause of that very discomfort. i m thrilled to be joined. i m joined by rob deangelo. she is spent decades working in critical analysis unwitnessed adiz, leading training seminars on the subject. she s currently an associate professor of education at the university of washington. she, is of course, best known for her new york times bestseller which spent 155 weeks on the bestseller list. robin, thank you, welcome. thanks for being with us today. we are privileged to talk to you. thank you for having me.