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The Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life and the Importance of Belonging–A Conversation with Helen Whybrow
Today it gives me special pleasure to speak with Helen Whybrow about her book, The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life. Besides being a detailed account of the day to day, season by season life on her farm, where she and her family raise sheep, build a broad...
The Imperative to Support the People of Venezuela: A Vitally Important Conversation with Anderson Bean, Simón Rodríguez, and Emiliano Terán
Starting in the autumn of 2025, the US began attacking small civilian boats in or near Venezuelan waters, summarily executing over 126 people. January, 2026 began with it kidnapping Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, and bringing them to the US. This...
Talking with Yuri Herrera About Season of the Swamp, Palestine, ICE, and Fighting for a Better World
Today I am deeply honored to speak with novelist, essayist, and scholar Yuri Herrera about his new novel, Season of the Swamp, which is a deeply researched and dazzlingly imagined account of Benito Juarez’s time spent in exile in New Orleans. We talk about what that...
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Speaking Out of Place is dedicated to highlighting voices confronting systems of colonial, carceral, economic, heteropatriarchal, racial, and ecological violence; and to building relations and conversations to advance justice and liberation across intertwined struggles, including through politics, culture, and art.
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