Escape Pod 967: Code Switching (Part 2 of 4)

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🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Code Switching (Part 2 of 4) By Malon Edwards (...Continued from Part 1) [JEAN-MICHEL] ONE HUNDRED PERCENT PERFORMANCE OUTPUT JEAN-MICHEL FEAT. KINSLEY CHASE Lòske jounalis sa yo gade m— Hold up. Let me say that again. I'll wait. Y'all go grab y'alls paper an' pen. When these Stater journos look at me, they don't juss see a Black boy. Nah, they also see a bio-electric, battery-operated toy, part of a Stanford Sutton Industries ploy to bring fat cat football alums joy. (Wit money. Anpil, anpil lajan.) An' that pisses them off. So they gon' keep rushin' off an' bustin' off these queries at a machine-gun pace in my face while smirkin' at my Haitian Creole vocabulary, pretendin' they can only understand me, barely, 'cause my accent is too thick an' scary. Pakont—but on the flip side—them Chicago reporters gon' give me the benefit of the doubt (that's right) when they write they stories witout bias tonight. They embrace a sovereign state that thrives on a black market sparked by innovation an' encouraged by a Haitian who planned a nation for secession from a State of Imperfection, then made Chicago the greatest an' said to hell wit those Stater racists. Like the ones in front of me now.

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0:24.9	The EscapeBod, episode 627, Code Switching, Part 2 by Malin Edwards. Hello and welcome to Escape Pod, your weekly science fiction podcast. I'm Valerie Valdez, your host for this episode.
1:21.2	Our story this week is part two of code switching by Malin Edwards. It originally appeared in If Wishes Were Obfuscation Codes and other stories in September
1:31.6	2023 and will be presented in four parts.
1:38.0	Born and raised on the south side of Chicago, Malin Edwards now lives in the Greater Toronto
1:44.5	area, where he was lured by his beautiful Canadian wife.
1:48.9	Many of his short stories are set in an alt-Chicago feature and feature people of color.
1:54.5	He is an Emper Award and Sunburst Award finalist.
1:58.2	His short story collection, if wishes were obfuscation codes and other stories,
2:02.6	was published by Fireside Press in the fall of 2023. Our narrators this week are Dominic
2:09.8	Rabrum, CSC Cooney, and Lorice White. Dominic Rabrum is an award-winning Haitian-American
2:16.8	multimedia artist and voice actor specializing in short action.
2:20.3	He's also directing a computer game set during the Haitian Revolution, featuring telepaths.
2:26.3	Discover more at Domrabram.com.
2:29.3	C.S.E. Cooney is a two-time World Fantasy Award-winning author for her novel, St. Death's Daughter,
2:37.6	and for her collection, Bones, Swans, Stories.
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