Update on Liberating Libraries July 2020
A quick note on where things are at with Liberating Libraries. You can find all our past episodes and writings at liberatinglibraries.org.
Liberating Libraries
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Welcome to Liberating Libraries, a podcast project presented by the Conspiracy of Equality. In this show, we talk about the fiction we’re reading and how it is informing, poking at, inspiring, or enabling our social justice work. We don’t delve deep ‘into the text’, but we use the work of our faves (like Octavia Butler, Marlon James, Zadie Smith, Ursula le Guin, Isabelle Allende…) to work through ideas and imagine the worlds that could be.
Survivors Elsewhere
Tash Aw's We, The Survivors (2019) is all about exploitation and the toll of development on workers. Vladamir Lorchenkov's The Good Life Elsewhere (20...
A Return to Octavia Butler
We're back in 2020 with a look at one of the authors who inspired this whole project: Octavia Butler. In this brand new episode we return to and build...
2019 Year in Review
Ever wonder what it's like to hear us talk about books we DIDN'T like? Best and worst reads off our shelf in 2019, and some discussion of plans for up...
Fighting Fascism with Fiction
How should we feel and share our feelings in times of rising fascism? In this episode we tackle this question by looking at stories about life in Germ...
Zadie Smith and Neoliberal Friendship (REPOST)
A short repost of an episode from last year. Zadie Smith is one of our favourite authors, so we had to cut this one down A LOT! Here we're talking abo...
Land Epics and Great Transformations
We've been excited about this one for a while! An episode looking at two epic tales of dispossession, transformation, and the development of contempor...
Mohsin Hamid and Writing the Moment (REPOST)
An episode we recorded in 2018, but remains as timely as ever. Looking at Mohsin Hamid's books The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Exit West to talk abou...
Marlon James On Violence (REPOST)
A repost of one of our first episodes looking at A History of Seven Killings and The Book of Night Women by Marlon James. CONTENT WARNING: contains de...
Scarborough Takes On Can-Lit
In this episode we look at Scarborough (2017) by Catherine Hernandez and Brother (2017) by David Chariandy, two powerful novels that bring voice to a ...