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Hear To Slay, Here To Stay
By Paula Rogo · Updated November 8, 2019
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Hear To Slay, Here To Stay

By Paula Rogo·Updated November 8, 2019
Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom's new podcast is part of a slew of new Black women-led podcasts claiming their space in the ever-growing medium.

As Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom danced onto the ornate stage at Los Angeles’ Ace Hotel earlier this month, the hooting and hollering crowd could barely contain their excitement.

And the two acclaimed writers and feminist icons had a lot to celebrate.

Their podcast Hear To Slay, easily one of the hottest new podcasts of 2019, was about to start its first-ever live show at the Werk It! A Women’s Podcast Festival with a stacked guest lineup that included actress Tichina Arnold.

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We'll be sure to share photos from the live event once we catch our breath (!), but in the meantime…um, can we get into this SLAY?! Our hosts did not come to play a single game last night. 😍👏🏾😫 Thank you Los Angeles for showing up and showing out for our very first live show. ✨ #HearToSlay #Luminary

A post shared by Hear To Slay (@heartoslay) on Oct 4, 2019 at 2:38pm PDT

Described as the “Black feminist podcast of your dreams”—and it doesn’t disappoint—Hear To Slay (Luminary) is a show that explores “the things everyone is talking about, and what they should be talking about,” Gay explains in the trailer. That—plus a whole lot of delicious sass, big laughs, approachable smarts and quick-fire comebacks—gives this podcast the kick you’ll be looking to return to each week. 

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#heartoslay – new episodes of the black feminist podcast of your dreams every Tuesday on @hearluminary Let us gather you! Send us your burning questions for a chance to have them answered in our advice segment. Email in bio.

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Since its launch in April, Hear To Slay guests have included heavy hitters like Gabrielle Union, Stacey Abrams, Audra McDonald, Ava DuVernay, as well as need-to-know great minds like award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson, the Black List CEO Franklin Leonard and Jamaican author and 2015 Man Booker prize winner, Marlon James. 

Although the show sits behind podcasting app Luminary’s $7.99-a-month paywall, it is a welcome addition to an ever-evolving podcasting space. Black women podcasters are working hard to stake their claim in an industry expected to produce more than $1 billion by 2021, according to a 2019 report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PwC. 

Therefore, Black women-hosted shows like Hear To Slay, our own ESSENCE podcast network, Slate’s Thirst Aid Kit, as well as newbies like Demetria Lucas’ Ratchet & Respectable, Stitcher’s Secret Lives of Black Women and Shonda Rhimes’ upcoming Shondaland Audio podcasts, are important voices for podcasting — and for us.

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