Episode 3 features Mailyne K. Briggs and Namitha Rathinappillai with host Anna Shah Hoque. They consider the work of spoken acts of memory and identity, connection to language and community in the diaspora.  

This conversation allows us to lean into stories of creative practices through linguistic projects to connect, claim, and attend to home, self and diaspora. 

Credits:

Season 3 graphic created by Hunter Dewache. Custom intro / outro sounds created by Bucko aka Chris Binkowski. Podcast editing is by Fin-xuan. This season of To Be Continued: Troubling the Archive is generously funded by a Digital Now grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. 

Bios:

Mailyne K. Briggs (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, writer and owner of Kilam Media. She was born in the Visayas but was adopted at age four and raised in what is colonially known as Ottawa, Ontario. She co-founded two arts-based non-profits, A.R.T. In Action (2014) and In Our Tongues Poetry and Arts Series (2019). Mailyne is an environmental and human rights advocate and believes in the power of the arts as therapy. She loves nature, spending time with her child, traveling with her family and resists grind culture by napping a lot. Find her @iammailyne (art) and @mailynekbriggs (film/tv). 

Namitha Rathinappillai (she/they) is a disabled, queer, Tamil-Canadian spoken word poet who entered the poetry community in 2017. She is currently based in Toronto and was the first female and youngest director of Ottawa’s Urban Legends Poetry Collective (ULPC). They are a two-time Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (CFSW) team member with ULPC and published their first chapbook titled ‘Dirty Laundry’ with Battleaxe Press in 2018. In 2019, they won the RBC Youth Ottawa Spirit of the Capital Award for Arts and Culture. You can find more at namitharathinappillai.com.