Summary
From pirate radio to queering futures, Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures exploring fugitive acts of resistance.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts. I'm Josie Lung. Today's Shortcuts is a beacon in the dark |
| 0:06.3 | for people who are having to resist, people who feel as if they are going against an impossible |
| 0:14.3 | grain. Just know you're not on your own. This is a message directly for you to say, |
| 0:19.9 | keep going, try harder, all will be well. |
| 0:23.2 | And that really does make me seem like a spy. I just mean it in a sort of more general, |
| 0:27.5 | supportive way to good people doing good things. |
| 0:31.4 | This is shortcuts, brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found sound. |
| 0:40.6 | Today, fugitives. |
| 0:47.5 | Are you sure? |
| 0:49.6 | How do you know that's what they meant? |
| 0:51.8 | Can you give an example? |
| 0:54.7 | He didn't stop at just escaping. |
| 0:57.6 | He got his own radio show, so he's really fearless. |
| 1:02.1 | Finding our way to imagine the possibility for the thing we already are. |
| 1:07.2 | That's quiet work. |
| 1:08.9 | You can save man, copy. |
| 1:10.3 | You can save mankind. |
| 1:18.5 | What does it mean to find yourself on the wrong side of the law? |
| 1:26.5 | Suddenly having to escape danger, to flee from arrest, are you evading justice, or are you escaping laws which run counter to it? |
| 1:30.3 | The first dispatch you're going to hear was made by the audio artist and producer Wayland Mackenzie Witter. |
| 1:37.3 | It's a story about a former North Carolina head of the NAACP, Robert F. Williams, |
| 1:46.6 | and how he and his wife, Mabel Williams, |
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