When the rules we live by start to feel like walls, it's worth asking who built them. Today, Rebecca takes us into an ordinary moment of unraveling - a computer that wouldn't cooperate - and the cascade of self-imposed questioning and expectations that came with it. Join us this week as we explore legitimacy traps - the quiet, exhausting work of proving our worth through rules and structures of our design. What becomes possible when we remember that every rule has an author - and that in many instances - we still hold the pen?

Host: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu

Original Music: Mapumba Cilombo

Producers: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo

Creative Directors: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo

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To learn more about Mapumba and his work as a producer, sound engineer and musician, visit his website at mapumbamusic.com. ⁠⁠⁠

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