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Project Censored

I have a new interview up, this one is with Eleanor Goldfield for Project Censored (my part starts about 8 mins in—though if you have the time it’s worth listening from the beginning):

In the first segment, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with author Nicola Griffith to talk about her recent book release, She is Here. Nicola digs into her work on understanding history as stories, not hard, immovable facts, and that history depends on who tells it. She discusses writing history as an embodied experience, extracting ourselves from binaries and embracing nuance, how the lack of disabled perspectives in literature shapes our ableism, and more.

This is the online version. There’ll be video and transcripts up in the next few days, and it will air on terrestrial radio stations throughout the week. And of course available wherever you get your podcasts. [EDIT TO ADD: And here’s the video.]

It’s been a while since I’ve done such an overtly political interview. I mean, yes, everything is political; the personal is political—and certainly some of my essays directly address culture and politics—but it was very interesting looking at fiction I wrote a long time ago through a political lens tuned to today. So maybe worth a listen. If you do, let me know what you think.

Project Censored

I have a new interview up, this one is with Eleanor Goldfield for Project Censored (my part starts about 8 mins in—though if you have the time it’s worth listening from the beginning):

In the first segment, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with author Nicola Griffith to talk about her recent book release, She is Here. Nicola digs into her work on understanding history as stories, not hard, immovable facts, and that history depends on who tells it. She discusses writing history as an embodied experience, extracting ourselves from binaries and embracing nuance, how the lack of disabled perspectives in literature shapes our ableism, and more.

This is the online version. There’ll be video and transcripts up in the next few days, and it will air on terrestrial radio stations throughout the week. And of course available wherever you get your podcasts. [EDIT TO ADD: And here’s the video.]

It’s been a while since I’ve done such an overtly political interview. I mean, yes, everything is political; the personal is political—and certainly some of my essays directly address culture and politics—but it was very interesting looking at fiction I wrote a long time ago through a political lens tuned to today. So maybe worth a listen. If you do, let me know what you think.