Literary Friction - Resistance with Salena Godden

Literary Friction

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4.9 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump is going to be the next president of the next United States, and we are despairing. But we’re also preparing: this worldwide trend towards the normalisation of misogyny, racism, xenophobia and blatant disregard for truth demands action. What can we do? And what can books do? This show is about resistance, and we are joined by the perfect guest: Salena Godden, poet, author, essayist, performer, once described as ‘everything the Daily Mail is terrified of’. She recently contributed to The Good Immigrant, a collection of writing about what it means to be black, asian and minority ethnic in Britain today, and stopped by O's kitchen for some wine, poetry, and real talk. Vive la revolution!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Literary Fricion on NTS. I'm Carrie Friciction on NTS.
0:24.5	I'm Carrie Plitt here as always with my co-host Octavia Bright.
0:27.8	Hi, Octavia.
0:28.7	Hi, Carrie.
0:29.9	So Donald Trump is going to be the next president of the United States.
0:35.0	Yeah, I don't think about it.
0:36.7	Yeah, I don't. I it. Yeah, I don't.
0:37.9	I feel like I've read every opinion piece and heard every possible podcast there is to say about
0:43.9	this.
0:44.2	So we're going to move on from analyzing Trump's win.
0:47.6	The potato.
0:48.5	But we are despairing.
0:50.8	However, we are also preparing the normalization of his bonkers brand of misogyny, racism, xenophobia, and blatant disregard for truth demands action.
1:03.1	What can we do and what can books do?
1:06.3	Today's show is about resistance, and we have the perfect guest to help us with our fight.
1:11.6	Octavia, can you introduce her please?
1:13.6	Sure thing, babe.
1:14.6	Today we've got the wonderful Selena Gordon with us in my kitchen, which is great.
1:19.6	She's a British poet, performer and author living in London and she's written a wonderful memoir called Springfield Road,
1:26.6	published by Unbound, who also published The Good Immigrant,
1:29.9	which includes one of Selena's essays which we're going to be talking about today.
1:34.4	And then she has also written and performs poetry and does all kinds of amazing stand-up and musical stuff.
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