In this episode of Audio QT, Karma Chávez talks with Dr. Cameron Awkward-Rich about his reflections on the lessons of 2020, the relationship between art and social movement, the importance of Black trans life, and what trans people have to teach all of us about how to get free. 

Cameron Awkward-Rich is the author of Sympathetic Little Monster (Ricochet Editions, 2016), which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and Dispatch, which Persea Books published last year. He is a Cave Canem fellow and a poetry editor for Muzzle Magazine. Cameron earned his PhD from Stanford University's program in Modern Thought & Literature, and he is an assistant professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Karma Chávez is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at UT.

Follow:

Cameron: @cawkward_rich

Karma: @queermigrations

Resources:

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/06/11/i-wish-i-knew-how-it-would-feel-to-be-free/

https://www.cawkwardrich.com/

This episode of Audio QT was recorded by Miki Lin and was mixed and mastered by Oscar Kitmanyen.