Episode 161: Savala Nolan Writes About Race, Gender, and the Body in Essay Collection
My guest is Savala Nolan, author of DON’T LET IT GET YOU DOWN a provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society’s most charged, politicized, and intractably polar spaces—between black and white, rich and poor, thin and fat. She knows what it means to live in the in-between. Descended from a Black and Mexican father and a white mother, Nolan’s mixed-race identity is obvious, for better and worse.
Savala Nolan is a writer, speaker, lawyer, and executive director of the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at the University of California…
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