The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich: Teaching Materials

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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...

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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...

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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...

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A Conversation with Andrew Ross: The Weather Report: A Journey Through Unsettled Climates

Today I am delighted to speak with Andrew Ross about his new book, The Weather Report: A Journey Through Unsettled Climates. In this study, Ross revisits areas of the world that he has written about before—Palestine, the United Arab Emirates, Phoenix, Arizona, and...

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Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky: Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion

Today I am happy to speak with Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky about their co-edited volume, Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion, which was based on a Sawyer Seminar they convened at UCLA. The essays collected in this book are international in...

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Thea Riofrancos: Confronting Contradiction and Working for the Planet

I am delighted to talk with scholar, journalist, and activist Thea Riofrancos about her new book, Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. She takes us deep into the mining of lithium and the production of lithium batteries, which have been welcomed as a key...

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Fighting Academic Cowardice and Activating Fearlessness: Speaking with Roderick Ferguson

Today I am delighted to talk with Roderick Ferguson about his provocative and much-needed intervention, “An Interruption in Our Cowardice.” Initially driven by his deep disappointment in some Black intellectuals’ compliance and even assistance with reactionary...

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Indigenous Surviving, Thriving, and Love: A Conversation with Julian Brave Noisecat

Today I have the true honor of speaking with journalist, storyteller, historical researcher, and Native American ceremonial dancer Julian Brave Noisecat about his book, We Survived the Night. This highly original book blends many voices and registers, from both...

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Today we speak with Rachel Kuo about her book, Movement Media: In Pursuit of Solidarity, recently published by Oxford University Press. This fascinating study understands political activism through a unique perspective, asking the question, how do the choices...

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Poems by Priscilla Wathington (read on episode with Nick Mirzoeff)

DEAR LANGUAGE OF OPPORTUNITY, You, with your tongue against the backs of teeth. You, of ahhhhhhh, of sssssssss. Let me ask you this: which one of us the drum’s old skin & which the stick? You know why I’m asking. You’ve been bargaining again. Death was...

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