My guest this week is writer, activist, and community organizer Clarissa Brooks. We spoke about their love of Gossip Girl, third-person narration, the work of Toni Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston, seeing Grave of The Fireflies in high school, how their work as an organizer influences their work as a writer, the legacy of Odd Future, DaBaby’s public image, and a handful of pieces they’ve written for outlets from Dead End Hip-Hop and DJBooth to Nylon and The Cut, among others.

Read a handful of Clarissa's work via Contently.

Read about how World War II affected the Japanese animation industry here.

Follow Clarissa on Twitter (@ClarissaMBrooks) and Instagram (@chloeesuxx)

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