We speak with a panel of distinguished individuals about Afrofuturism in films and the re-making of Blackness, gender, and identity. Later Poor News Network explores America’s war on disenfranchised communities. Featured speakers/guests: Osa Tyimba, Ras Ceylon, Kwadro Deterville, Selena Wilson
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As the Mythic is suffusing incarnational actuality, Caroline welcomes the return of Sophie Strand, author of “The Flowering Wand – re-wilding the Sacred Masculine.” “Put down the sword, and pick up the wand!” for on-going Solstice Magic. Sophie Strand is a poet, writer who syncretizes her vast Sagittarian Inquiry, collages, spiralling forth, like her beloved … Continued
Helen Benedict, co-author (with Eyad Awwadawnon) of “Map of Hope and Sorrow: Stories of Refugees Trapped in Greece,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Helen Benedict is the author of seven novels and five books of non-fiction. Her latest book, “Map of Hope and Sorrow,” co-written by Eyad Awwadawnon, a Syrian refugee who was planning to get a law degree in Damascus, is partly an oral history of refugees coming to Greece after escaping from their home countries, and partly a look at the refugee camps of Greece. Also: Review of “Little Shop of Horrors” at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley.
Kathryn Joyce on the far right and its internal battles and Edward Ongweso Jr on tech, AI, and Luddism
The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.
Guest: Bart D. Ehrman is a Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of several books including Misquoting Jesus, How Jesus Became God, and his latest, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World.
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We talk with Treva B. Lindsey about violence against Black women and girls, and the reverberation of this violence on every facet of our social and community fabrics. That’s the focus of her new book America Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and The Struggle for Justice (University of California Press). Treva is a Professor of Women’s, … Continued
On today’s show: 0:08 – Javier Puente (@puentevaldivia), Chair of Latin American and Latiné Studies at Smith College, and author of The Rural State, about sociopolitical conflict in the Peruvian Andes. He joins us from Lima to discuss the latest on the Peru protests. 0:45 – Mark Woodall, physics graduate student at UC Merced and … Continued
