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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...
“The Best Social Movements and the Worst Governments”: A Conversation on American Politics with Liza Featherstone and Doug Henwood
Today on Speaking Out of Place I am joined by two of my favorite guests—Liza Featherstone and Doug...
Hunger Striking for Palestine: Three Organizers Share Stories and Strategies
The academic year has just ended, but student activists for Palestinian liberation are already...
World-Making, Life-Giving, and Indigenous Internationalism: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and the Theory of Water
Today on Speaking Out of Place I talk with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson about her new book, Theory...
The Journey Toward Everything for Everyone: A Conversation with M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi
Today I talk with M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi about their dazzling and challenging book,...
‘Genius’ Entrepreneurs, Technofacists, and Phobic Misogynists: A Conversation with Becca Lewis
Worries about the so-called “pussification of Silicon Valley” are not at all new. Becca Lewis’...
The Gaza Tribunal: Creating an Archive Against Genocide
This episode of Speaking Out of Place is being recorded on May 15, 2025, the 77th anniversary of...