This episode starts off with a review of IDA IN THE MIDDLE by Nora Lester Murad. This book follows Ida, a Palestinian-American girl, as she eats a magic olive that takes her to the life she might have had in her parents’ village near Jerusalem.
In the second segment, Niba sits down with Liz Weinberg. Liz is a science communicator, storyteller, and community builder based in Tovaangar, also known as Los Angeles.
She is the author of UNSETTLING: SURVIVING EXTINCTION TOGETHER*, which reimagines an environmentalism that is queer, anti-racist, feminist, and woven into every aspect of our lives.
*The book includes mentions of: harm to animals, self-harm, homophobia and transphobia, racism, sexism, and stats on mental health and self-harm in queercommunities. Some of these are explicit descriptions and others are general mentions.
Books & Resources Mentioned:
Unsettling by Elizabeth Weinbergh
José Esteban Muñoz – queer theorist mentioned during episode
Ida in the Middle by Nora Lester Murad
Sorry, sorry sorry: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Sorry-Sorry-Sorry/Marjorie-Ingall/9781982163495?ut[%E2%80%A6]isplay_ad&utm_content=&utm_campaign=sorry_sorry_sorry_ad
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This episode was edited by Niba and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.
Original music by @iam.onyxrose
![Happy Native American Heritage Month 📚️
Here are a few titles that we've featured before and have found a home on our shelves:
-Post Colonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
-Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day by Katlin B. Curtice
-White Magic by Elissa Washuta
-Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Futureby Patty Krawec
-Thunder Song: Essays by Sasha taqwéseblu LaPointe
-Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst
What books by indigenous authors are on your shelf right now?
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