Let's Talk Memoir
Episode 201 ft. Gaar Adams
Gaar Adams joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about living amongst and depicting queer and migrant communities in the Gulf states, falling in love with Arabic literature and translation, the undeniable parallels between queerness and migration, exploring subversive acts, capturing ourselves in less than flattering ways, combating self-censorship, concern with how loved ones might perceive us, protecting our memory, calibrating interiority, writing into periods of discomfort, the importance of chosen families, transcribing and organizing vast amounts of material and interviews, allowing for a multiplicity of voices, intentional interrogation of stories that aren’t being told, and his new book Guest Privileges: Queer Lives and Finding Home in the Middle East.
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Episode 242 ft. Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez
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Episode 241 ft. Dr. Craig Yorke
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