Roberto Lovato, Doug Henderson and T. K. Rex discuss scarlet macaws, breaking down structural inequality in publishing, and Rooted & Written—the first tuition-free professional conference for Writers of Color in the United States.

Stuff we talked about in the episode:

• Applying to Rooted & Written
• Cristina Rivera Garza
• Malcolm Harris Palo Alto 
• Roberto’s book Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas 
• The Prince of Evolution (book about Peter Kropotkin) by Lee Alan Dugatkin
• Mutual Aid, A Factor of Evolution by Pëtr Kropotkin
• Viet Nguyen
• Ta-Nahisi Coates
• Chaco Canyon
• Susan Ito
• Jesus Sierra
• Aditi Malhotra
• UNLV MFA