... paradise

Blake loves traveling and books. What a nice cliché. Born to talk, he gives us some insight into his idea of home and the twisted privilege that comes with growing up in a paradisiacal Australia. As he is a writer and poet, this episode is a thoughtful one with a lot of lyrical name-dropping or citing (as writers call it). What you will not hear are most of the loaded pauses he takes before expressing his thoughts. That would make the episode too long. Whether he is creating an epic moment with them, or he is struggling to find the right words, we will never know, but anyway it is a nice brain to listen to and a perspective that was missing in this podcast. His perspective as a white cis male person leads him to a different answer to my question than my interviewees before.

Enjoy and let your ears swim in his deep voice.

recorded 15.01.2020

... at least two places. 

In the second part of the conversation, Carmen gives some spontations pep talks and i reflect on my reaction to mirco aggressions. The topics are:

... at least two places. 

With Carmen, I talked about the randomness of being born in one country and automatically belonging there as well as how we all can choose where we are from. But we didn’t stop there. Carmen, whom I met at the BLM protest in Lisbon, has not only a radical empathetic approach to racist comments, she also advocates against colorism. The whole conversation was longer than two hours and I needed to cut out a lot. But feeling inspired by her words, I can not keep them for me alone. For that reason, there are two parts of this episode for your curios ears to absorb. Hmm, Lekker lekker.

In this part of the conversation, we are sober. My usual questions are roughly answered but the juicy stuff is said in between.