Season 2 · Episode 244
244. Stop Carrying Other People’s Pain with Chloé Cooper Jones
September 26, 202358m 3s
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Show Notes
Where do you go to escape the pain of reality? Today, author Chloé Cooper Jones shares:
- The survival strategy many of us use to retreat from our lives and how to become more present;
- How she grapples with the world dehumanizing her disabled body;
- Why desire and disgust are so connected – and what they teach us; and
- The thing Chloé wants most – to be seen as inherently whole – and how to get it.
About Chloé:
Chloé Cooper Jones is a professor, journalist, and the author of the memoir Easy Beauty, which was named a best book of 2022 by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, TIME Magazine, and was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Memoir. She was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Feature Writing in 2020. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
TW: @CCooperJones