The youtube video “kiese Laymon,’Heavy: an American memoir’’’ is a video documentation of a book meet up. In this meet up Laymon reads the chapter of his book titled contractions. This chapter discusses topics such as how race affected a relationship and family dynamic, abuse as a copping mechanism because of racial abuse.Once the out loud read is finished the audience proceeds to ask Laymon various questions. These questions led Laymon to respond to matters such as vulnerability, practices, and the difference between presence and love. This source helps me understand why the memoir is titled heavy. Based on one of the questions Laymons states that the title heavy js because wants to feel heavier with hard conversations he is having. I know this source is reliable because of authority, all the video was not published by Laymon, the video is a documentation of an interview of Laymon about his memoir Heavy.

Laymon, K. (2018, December 19). Kiese Laymon, “HEAVY: An American MEMOIR”. YouTube. Retrieved September 14, 2021, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw2k_60xb-c&t=253s.