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August 28, 2020 80 mins

In the previous episode, Lisa D. Gray, the founder and curator of Our Voices Our Stories SF, joined me to interrogate the publishing industry’s white gaze. In today’s episode, we discuss how we can protest the industry, and other institutions, and how we can gain power and find power in our everyday lives to dismantle and rebuild the world anew, even when under the yoke of systems of oppression like racism.

We ended the first part of our conversation in the last episode on how poets are the soul of our societies, and that fascist regimes tend to come for the poets first because they are the truth-tellers. Here’s the second part of our conversation, where we discuss how our existence is resistance, and how sharing our personal stories in a variety of ways are forms of strike, are forms of individual and collective protest.

Consider this our protest against the publishing industry’s white gaze.

This 2-part conversation is part of our Deconstructing Dominant Cultures Series. In this long-form discussion we aim to disrupt the publishing industry’s ‘old white boys’ club, and to center, elevate, and amplify Black and other People of Color writers, especially women.

As we try to impact equity in publishing and writing, one critical thing we can all do is buy and read books written by Black and other people of color. Read this editorial by Lisa D. Gray for her critique of the publishing industry and her book recommendations.

The Nasiona Podcast amplifies the voices and experiences of the marginalized, undervalued, overlooked, silenced, and forgotten, as well as gives you a glimpse into Othered worlds. Hosted, edited, and produced by Julián Esteban Torres López. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram: @JE_Torres_Lopez

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Original music for The Nasiona Podcast was produced by the Grammy Award-winning team of Joe Sparkman and Marcus Allen, aka The Heavyweights.

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