public speaking
Adom Getachew
In this podcast, political theorist Adom Getachew walks us through the histories of Garveyism, the dynamism of music and political speech, an inward-facing politics of self-transformation, and what decoloniality might mean beyond the mere insertion or inclusion of voices into structures that ultimately re-center existing forms of power. From Garveyite schools of “educating allocution” to the broadcast traditions of anticolonial movements, she explores how power travels not only through institutions and treaties, but through sound—through the ways communities cultivate a collective voice when paper is too costly, borders too rigid, and histories too fractured. Her reflections remind us that political transformation is always collaborative, always practiced in relation, and shaped by those who find ways to speak even when they are not handed a stage.
Santiago Mostyn
In this podcast, researcher, curator and artist Santiago Mostyn moves through the conceptual meaning of the jungle and the Caribbean as both real and symbolic territories; through autobiography suspended between the micro and the macrocosmic; through the island of Grenada, Black political struggles, early childhood trauma and recurring dreams. We also discuss the close relationship between music and politics through the history of Radio Free Grenada, the multi-directional movements of diaspora, and the long 1970s in the Caribbean — from student movements to radical forms of Black political engagement.