writing

32 podcasts

16.05.2025

92 MIN

English

Son[i]a #428
Zarina Muhammad/The White Pube

In this podcast, we speak with Zarina Muhammad, who walks us through The White Pube’s collaborative process and projects to date. We delve into Zarina’s diasporic identity and the politics of assimilation, as well as polyvocal narratives and fiction as critique. We explore the embodied experience of writing their first book, Poor Artists, and ask why a bingo card can sometimes say more than a press release

09.05.2025

117 MIN

Spanish

Son[i]a #427
Nancy Garín

Conversation: Ricardo Cárdenas and Anna Ramos. Script: Ricardo Cárdenas. Sound production: Albert Tarrats. Voice over: Valeria Brugnoli.

10.04.2025

107 MIN

Spanish

Son[i]a #425
Vivian Abenshushan

In this podcast, Mexican writer and editor Vivian Abenshushan talks us through a personal repertoire of textual practices, literary artefacts, collective devices, and commons methodologies that seek to contaminate the hegemonic literary space. Experimental practices and assemblages that become communal spaces, making room for other politics of language that are more sensitive, situated, and welcoming of complexity. In these spaces, digression, home stories, sheets of paper, quotes, plagiarism, open source, parties, malaise, and international networks become political acts and mechanisms of resistance.

05.03.2025

0 MIN

Spanish

Son[i]a #422
Tania Safura Adam

In this podcast, researcher, writer and curator Tania Safura Adam takes us inside her research processes and strategies to revive the individual and collective memories of blackness in Spain: an urgent and tenacious writing operation based on fragments that are often scattered and disjointed. The public dissemination of these silenced and ignored narratives has the power to make us feel uncomfortable, and in this discomfort lies the potential for transformation. We also talk about gaps in the archive, about potential archives, and about what it means to take responsibility for this. And on a more personal note, about what motherhood and child rearing in the diaspora means for her and for many other women.

18.02.2025

93 MIN

English

Son[i]a #421
Mabel O. WIlson

In this podcast, we start by asking architect, curator and researcher Mabel O. Wilson to talk about her personal, educational, and professional development, in response to a lack or silencing of critical thought. We then discuss ideas of land, property, and possession, and also—based on the context of her recent trip to the West Bank—colonial encounters, spatial aspects of enclosures, and degrees of containment. Mabel reminds younger generations of the importance of using architecture not just as a means to build and design, but also to gather, observe, and build relations, to understand history from a different perspective, and to survive within the current socio-political climate, without giving in to despair.

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