The Lift Up

The Lift Up A transatlantic podcast hosted by Tamara Crawford and Vina Orden about books, writing, identity & re

If you were a fan of S1, E6, our episode featuring ’s and ’s , we recommend checking out fiction by , which you ...
25/02/2022

If you were a fan of S1, E6, our episode featuring ’s and ’s , we recommend checking out fiction by , which you can find on our latest curated book list, A New Canon.
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As in the US draws to a close, we are thrilled to feature the work of Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006), award-winning author in a genre long dominated by white male writers. Among her many awards, Butler was the first science fiction author to receive a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, paving the way for Jemisin, who received the grant in 2020. That same year, Butler posthumously made it on The New York Times bestseller list, her work resonating with new generations of readers for the issues she explored ahead of her contemporaries— .

"You got to make your own worlds. You got to write yourself in. Whether you were a part of the greater society or not, you got to write yourself in.”—Octavia E. Butler (on Charlie Rose in 2000)
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Swipe for photos of the author and covers of her books, available on bookshop.org/lists/a-new-canon:
✨Pattern Master
✨Mind of My Mind
✨Wild Seed
✨Clay’s Ark
✨Kindred
✨Dawn
✨Adulthood Rites
✨Imago
✨Parable of the Sower
✨Parable of the Talents

Black history should be read and taught all year round. As in the US draws to a close, The Lift Up takes a look back a...
24/02/2022

Black history should be read and taught all year round. As in the US draws to a close, The Lift Up takes a look back at our most popular episode of Season 1, E6, featuring ’s and ’s :
https://anchor.fm/the-lift-up-pod/episodes/Episode-6---THE-CITY-WE-BECAME--FRIDAY-BLACK-On-the-choices--futures-we-make-ekn2hp/a-a3fcqji
Both authors imagine near futures, hyperreal versions of American society arrived at by the choices we’ve made (or failed to make). This theme, “On the choices & futures we make” resonates even more at a time when we reckon with our collective history and are faced with day-to-day decisions that can either move us backwards or forwards into the future.
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Catch up on this & other past episodes by following/subscribing to The Lift Up on anchor.fm (linktr.ee in bio), Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Breaker, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or RadioPublic. Transcripts are also available on medium.com/the-lift-up-podcast, which include links to things mentioned in the show.

It's sci-fi month on The Lift Up! Hosts Tamara Crawford and Vina Orden discuss The City We Became, the latest novel by award-winning author N. K. Jemisin, and Friday Black, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's debut short story collection. Both writers create hyperreal versions of American society, imagining....

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