60: Telling Our Stories To Ourselves
Family Ghosts
Sam Dingman
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Producer Veralyn Williams explores the power of subjective storytelling in the aftermath of her experience working on a particularly harrowing episode. Find more of Veralyn’s work at https://www.iamveralyn.com/, learn more about Robin Boylorn here, and Tayari Jones here.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to WALT. |
| 0:02.3 | Oh, bro. |
| 0:06.4 | Homemade radio. |
| 0:08.6 | Hello, ghost family. |
| 0:10.4 | Welcome to Family Ghosts. |
| 0:13.0 | MUSIC |
| 0:21.7 | Back in our first season, we did a story called A Spirit of Vengeance |
| 0:26.3 | with a woman named Joe Chinat. |
| 0:28.8 | In the piece, Jill told the story of her female ancestors |
| 0:33.2 | who banded together to avenge the abuse of the family's patriarch, |
| 0:37.8 | a violent man named Austin Riddick. |
| 0:41.6 | I was so grateful to get to partner with Jill on that story. |
| 0:46.1 | For me, it was a chance to collaborate with a masterful storyteller |
| 0:50.5 | on a story that was by turns harrowing, spooky, and hilarious. |
| 1:02.1 | But for Veriland Williams, one of the producers |
| 1:04.9 | who worked closely with Jill to bring the story to life, |
| 1:08.5 | a spirit of vengeance was much more than that. |
| 1:11.9 | It was a chance to tell a black woman's story |
| 1:14.9 | from a black woman's perspective. |
| 1:17.4 | Veriland is a black woman herself, and Jill's story |
| 1:20.9 | came out the way it did because Veriland fought |
| 1:24.1 | to preserve Jill's subjectivity in the narrative. |
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