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For our Leo season episode, host Elly Higgins discusses novelist, essayist, and civil rights activist James Baldwin! Born 100 years ago, Baldwin’s writing on race and sexuality feels as contemporary today as when it was published. Baldwin exemplified his Leo Sun through his capacity to shine light on his own experiences.

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James Baldwin’s Chart: https://www.astro-seek.com/birth-chart/james-baldwin-horoscope

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/open-letter-born-again/

https://faculty.gordonstate.edu/lsanders-senu/Everybody's%20Protest%20Novel%20by%20James%20Baldwin.pdf

http://www.richardgoldsteinonline.com/uploads/2/5/3/2/25321994/richardgoldstein-jamesbaldwininterview.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjGzpVTrOEw (“love has never been a popular movement” and “what have I escaped?”)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yzguQXiI6E (“a great many of my co-citizens…”)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjeF55kB2Rg (“Are you still in despair?”)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PkxmcDY5Jw (“homosexual is not a noun”)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jXwWCyMJyc&t=16s (Paris was very important to me)