A conversation with Lindsey Stewart, who teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Memphis where she writes and publishes on issues of politics, race, sex, and gender in the African American philosophical tradition. She is the author of the book The Politics of Black Joy: Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism, published in late-2021 by Northwestern University Press and which we discuss in this episode. We cover questions of Hurston as philosopher, the place of Black joy in theorizing Black life in an anti-Black world, and how The Politics of Black Joy opens up new horizons of philosophical thinking and the African American intellectual tradition.