A reading of “Little Girls,” Nikita Gale’s essay on Tina Turner, Phil Spector, and the prospect of Black performers being heard without being controlled. This bonus episode follows Gale’s conversation about Turner—and how the music industry determines whose voices are amplified and whose are silenced—in episode 6. The essay, published by Triple Canopy last year, is read by Kaneza Schaal.

Omniaudience: “Little Girls,” by Nikita Gale

Medium Rotation features artists, writers, musicians, and scholars probing the conditions and countering the received ideas of our time (and other times), along with Triple Canopy editors. Each season is animated by the concerns of an issue of the magazine. The first season, Omniaudience, asks how we understand ourselves and others through listening—and what the obstacles to listening reveal about our society.

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Omniaudience: “Little Girls,” by Nikita Gale

Omniaudience: “Little Girls,” by Nikita Gale