Please note: the full Writer's Locke Season Two, Episode Ten will not be released in audio format. Instead, the link to the full episode transcription can be found [here].
Featuring: Further discussion of the guests' nuzlocke runs, both current, former, and regretted high school efforts; advice for writing transgender characters; when not to add race politics to your story; racial diversity is not like a box of chocolates, but we love when our pudding speaks Spanish; whether White Fragility makes a good first date gift; going away on a steam ship; and more!
Also, be aware that this episode includes discussion of residential schools and the murder of Native American/First Nations children, from roughly 24:00 to 25:30. If this subject is distressing to you, please skip this part.
A full transcript of this bonus discussion has been prepared for your convenience and can be found [here].
Books recommended in this episode:
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
- Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
- Johnny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
- The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
- Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese
- Passing by Nella Larsen
- The Boat People by Sharon Bala
- We Had a Little Real Estate Problem by Kliph Nesteroff
- Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
- The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline [and all her other books]