Molly Crabapple on drawing at Gitmo trials & why a photo will never defeat white supremacy

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🗓️ 25 November 2015

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode we talk to artist and journalist Molly Crabapple about her memoirs Drawing Blood which drops TODAY! DECEMBER 1! Molly has reported and created art from Guantanamo Bay military tribunals, to Occupy Wall Street, to Iraq's Domiz camp for Syrian refugees, to Luzerne County PA courthouses. She talks to the Katie Halper Show about being an Arroz Con Matzoh Ball (a Puerto-Rican Jew), the influence of her artist mother and Marxist Latin American studies professor father, getting food poisoning in Morocco, why talent isn't enough, what the liberal media is getting wrong about Syrian refugees, and why dash cams and "photos will never defeat white supremacy."

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Katie Halper show. I'm your host Katie Halper.
0:09.4	It's been a while guys.... hi everyone high listeners
0:14.5	i've missed you have you missed me
0:17.7	i'm gonna take that silence as yes
0:19.9	reggie it's great to see you
0:21.6	how many it's been it's great to see you. How many weeks has it been?
0:23.0	It's been, actually, wow, it's been three weeks.
0:27.0	Wow, it's been the seven hours and three weeks.
0:31.0	Really, the Rent song?
0:32.0	The Rent, no, the Rent song? The Rent?
0:33.0	The Rent? No, the Chaneet O'Connor.
0:34.0	It's been seven hours and since deep days.
0:41.0	She took your love away.
0:44.0	Oh, oh, the name of the famous.
0:47.0	Oh, nothing compares to you.
0:48.0	Okay, all right.
0:49.0	I go out every night,
0:52.0	I'll sleep all day.
0:57.0	Gave unfortunately is not here but he sends his regards he's going back to Washington DC
1:05.6	To celebrate Thanksgiving the very problematic holiday that is Thanksgiving
1:11.2	We'll have to talk about that on another episode because there's just too much to go into for this one. But Reggie what are you doing for Thanksgiving? I'm actually going to be working on Thanksgiving. Yeah my gosh. Yeah, unfortunately.
1:23.0	So Thanksgiving for me will be, you know, continuing to speak truth to power by pressing buttons.
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