Ep. 129 The Myth of Strength with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Karla Corneji Villavicencio is the author of The Stacks Book Club selection for September, The Undocumented Americans. On today's episode we get a deeper (and spoiler free) look at the book, and why Karla felt compelled to tell these stories now. We also discuss the audience Karla had in mind while writing, her ideal writing setup, and why discribing women of color as "strong" is a form of erasure.
The Stacks book club selection for September is The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villvavicencio, we will discuss the book with Lupita Aquino on September 30th.
You can find links to everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks website: https://thestackspodcast.com/2020/09/02/ep-127-lupita-aquino/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your host Tracy Thomas. The Stack September Book Club pick is the undocumented |
| 0:16.0 | Americans and our guest today is the author of that book, Carla Cornejo v Viescenio. |
| 0:21.3 | Don't worry there are no spoilers on the episode. It's just a conversation |
| 0:25.8 | to get you excited to read the book and a dive deeper into the process of how it came to be. |
| 0:31.3 | As a reminder, everything we discuss on today's show can be found in the |
| 0:34.6 | link in the show notes. You've heard me say this week in and week out but I could not |
| 0:38.7 | make this show if it weren't for the Stax Pack. Those are the people who |
| 0:42.1 | contribute monthly on Patreon and earn perks like |
| 0:44.9 | shoutouts on the show and our virtual book club. If you want to be a part of this awesome community, |
| 0:49.7 | please head to Patreon.com com slash the Stacks. |
| 0:53.7 | This week I am saying an extra big thank you to |
| 0:57.2 | Amy Davies, Yolanda Enoch, Miller Cassidy, |
| 1:00.8 | Jenny, Elena Aguilar, Mona Pritchard, Margaret Thornton, |
| 1:05.0 | Melli Hooker, Terry Ham, Carol Walker, Bradford Philen, |
| 1:11.0 | Lauren, and Christine Zang. Thank you all so so much. All right, let's dive in. |
| 1:22.2 | All right, everybody, I am so excited today. We are here with our September Book Club author, the author of the Unddocumented Americans, Carla Cornejo, via Viscensio. Carla, welcome to the staff. Accumet that you're here. We're going to talk about your book, |
| 1:42.9 | just for people at home listening, |
| 1:44.2 | because we are doing a deep dive into this book |
| 1:47.0 | at the end of the month, and I know you're all reading along. |
| 1:49.4 | There's going to be no spoilers today. |
| 1:51.5 | We're just kind of going to talk about the book a little bit more and give you more context so that you know you have something to look forward to in two weeks when we talk about the book with Lopita. |
| 2:01.0 | So, Carla, in about 30 seconds or so, can you kind of just tell us about the book? |
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