How to Read Like 2 Dope Queens
Phoebe Robinson and Jessica Williams, the stars behind the runaway hit podcast 2 Dope Queens, are everything we’ve been waiting for. Broadcasting live from Brooklyn each week, they feature fellow comedians and friends like Jon Stewart, Ilana Glazer and many, many more. Inspiring in their humor, refreshing in their candor, and captivating in their subject matter — everything from Dad Bods to racial reparations — we can’t get enough of these two.
So how, we asked, can we channel our own inner Dope Queens? First step: read like one, of course! Below are the reading lists of these two rad women.
You Can’t Touch My Hair, Phoebe Robinson
Phoebe’s book, You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain, is about the personal being political, especially when Black in America. Robinson is sharp, witty, and always on point as she skewers cultural bias in the most hilarious way.
Phoebe’s Reading List:
1)Bad Feminist — Roxane Gay
2) Cane — Jean Toomer
3) Why Not Me? — Mindy Kailing
4)The Waste Land & Other Poems — T.S. Eliot
5) Between the World & Me — Ta-Nehisi Coates
6) Invisible Man — Ralph Ellison
7) Collected Stories — Amy Hempel
8) Their Eyes Are Watching God — Zora Neale Hurston
9) Hamilton, the Revolution — Lin-Manuel Miranda & Jeremy McCarter
10) Hamlet — William Shakespeare
11) We Should All Be Feminists — Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
12) One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest—Ken Kesey
Jessica’s Reading List:
1)Harry Potter & The Sorcerer’s Stone — J.K. Rowling
2) Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets — J.K. Rowling
3) Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban — J.K. Rowing
4) Bossypants — Tina Fey
5) Yes, Please — Amy Poehler
6) Y, The Last Man — Brian K. Vaughan
7) Buffy, the Vampire Slayer Omnibus Vol. 1 — Eric Powell & Christopher Golden
8) Buffy, the Vampire Slayer Omnibus Vol. 2 — Christopher Golden
9) Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire — J.K. Rowing
10) Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix — J.K. Rowing
11) Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince — J.K. Rowing
12) Harry Potter & the Deathly Hollows — J.K. Rowing
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