So what exactly constitutes black storytelling in the first place.
And that's one thing we don't have to figure out. I am Katie Mitchell. I am a bookseller, and I am a book writer. I'm writing a book about black bookstores in the United States. I am a reality TV watcher. I am a memoir reader. I am a player hater. I am a step counter like a pedometer.
Girlie speaking of you, are an auntie and Auntie scout steps exactly. And I am basically all of the things that Katie did not say just now. I'm the opposite of everything. I am an aunty in real life and a proverbial aunty as well.
Yeah, don't try to be cute.
I'm not. First of all, don't be all oppositional with me here. I'm just saying that Katie and I are often very unlike and somehow I'm still very implatonic love and have been for the last two decades. I am Eve's Jeffcoach. I am a writer. I'm a podcaster. I am a lover of black things. I'm a lover of consuming art in general, in all its forms.
We created on Theme because we wanted to have a space where black stories and black storytelling was the default, and we didn't have to wait till a special time of the year or a tragedy to highlight the stories in the lies and lived experiences of black folks. On Theme, it's all about black storytelling in all its forms, books, songs, movies, plays, diary, entries, all of that.
Okay. I like to think about On Theme as a compendium. I also like to think of On Theme as a place where we can celebrate black stories and we can add to the archive, so it can be this place that kind of holds the past, the present, in the future at the same time the past because we're talking about our history and all of these works that are from the past and people that are from the past.
It's also in the present because we are in this moment talking about how these works reflect our lives, how they relate to us, and we're thinking in real time. A lot of the time, we are celebrating this current moment and honoring it. And we're also in the future because we're talking about works that will and have been
affecting and inspiring works that come after them. On on Theme, we will be talking about magicians, we will be talking about the history of blackface and how that evolved over time. We will also be talking about advice columns that black people did, and the rest you'll have to find out about by listening to the show. A Teasa listen to on theme on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.