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Nancy

Natalie Diaz Talks Love and Basketball

Nancy

WNYC Studios

Gay, Documentary, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Lgtbq, Lesbian, Relationships, Asian, Politics, Conversations, Storytelling, Health & Fitness, Homosexuality

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

2018 MacArthur Genius winner Natalie Diaz talks about going from a professional basketball player to a poet, and how her love of language helped her embrace her queerness.

Natalie Diaz is a poet, essayist, and linguist. She teaches at the Arizona State University Creative Writing MFA program.

— You can find 10 Things That Scare Me wherever you listen to podcasts.

Music in this episode by Jeremy Bloom and Isaac Jones. Theme by Alexander Overington.

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0:00.0

Kathy. Yes. Will you tell me one of your deepest darkest fears? No

0:07.4

That's embarrassing. Okay, okay. Here's what we're gonna do on the count of three

0:12.1

Let's just both say a fear out loud. Okay, ready? One two three. I live in constant fear that I'm letting you down

0:19.7

And that you will be disappointed in me. I think that's something to do with my parents, but I can't be sure

0:25.0

Also birds wow look at us

0:30.4

From WNYC studios you're listening to Nancy with your host Tobin Lowe and Kathy too

0:45.2

So Kath yes, there is another WNYC podcast out there that I super love because it's kind of unlike anything out there

0:54.3

Is it ten things that scare me?

0:58.0

In fact it is because I also love that show isn't it great? Yeah first of all

1:02.5

Super bite-sized it's around five minutes long and in each episode you hear about one person's fears number one

1:10.5

Dear number two thinking too much about things that scare me

1:16.4

Number three underwater wiffle balls some fears are funny some are more serious

1:21.9

Having my special needs son be able to hire good attendants the man

1:26.2

I once on the subway eating a full tub of cream cheese

1:29.7

Like just out of the tub and you got to hear a little bit about the why I think dear are really pretty

1:36.6

But they just have these tiny little like mouse brains. We're always doing the same mistakes

1:42.4

That's what I think like I think we go from Salem which trials to McCarthyism to the the anti-AIDS stuff in the 80s

1:48.5

That I live through to this now and I just am like we just I just I'm waiting for Nazi Germany again

1:55.8

So the reason we're bringing up ten things today is because we recently listened to an episode

2:00.7

We loved it's with Natalie Diaz who is a queer Mojave poet former professional basketball player and a 2018 MacArthur genius

2:09.5

So today we're gonna play Natalie's episode of ten things that scare me and then Kathy you're gonna sit down and have a conversation with her

2:18.5

Number one I'm afraid of like there's a certain hour that comes in the evening because I have anxiety

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