Sarah Lewis
UNSPOKEN
Miles Adcox and Ruthie Lindsey
4.8 • 789 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Unspoken, Ruthie and Miles traveled to NYC to have a great conversation with Sarah Lewis. Hearing how Sarah has overcome loss and how it has shaped who she is and where she is in life is truly inspiring and perspective shifting. Sarah is an assistant professor of history of art and architecture and African and African American studies at Harvard University and is the author of The Rise, a book about failure and creativity. She has also held curatorial positions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Tate Modern, London.
Sarah’s influence and impact is powerful and lasting, particularly, in sparking a national conversation with “Vision & Justice”—the landmark issue of Aperture dedicated to photography of the black experience that explores, with eloquent reach, “what humanity looks like.”
Learn more about the powerful work Sarah is a part of here.
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| 0:00.0 | And what I've basically found is this. |
| 0:07.8 | We leverage time differently when we're in true alignment with our purpose and with our joy. |
| 0:18.1 | So we all have the same amount of hours in the day as Beyonce, they say, right? |
| 0:25.4 | But, and if we do, the question is then how do you leverage that time? |
| 0:29.9 | And I find that I can create within 60 seconds far more than I think that I can if I'm doing it with joy and with purpose, right? |
| 0:39.3 | Not with the annoyance, the frustration that comes in when you're trying to manage too many things coming at you. |
| 0:43.9 | So that's created, knowing that has created a set of rituals and practices that keep me in a state of flow. |
| 0:57.6 | Hey, guys. is that keep me in a state of flow. Hey guys, I'm Miles. |
| 0:59.2 | And I'm Ruthie. |
| 1:00.2 | And welcome to the unspoken podcast, where we believe that saying the unsaid may be the hardest, |
| 1:05.7 | but one of the most important things we can ever do. |
| 1:07.9 | Yes, our authentic self is the best gift that we have to offer this world. |
| 1:12.6 | But sadly, we live in this culture that tells us that we should hide it. |
| 1:16.1 | So we would love for you to join us and listen along. |
| 1:19.3 | And we hope that you might find connection and healing and the courage that no important words go unspoken. |
| 1:25.6 | Make up fake love. |
| 1:27.1 | Make them all out. Come on someone, take off your nice. It's nice to me. |
| 1:39.5 | Today on the podcast, we have Sarah Lewis. Sarah is an assistant professor of history of art and architecture and African American |
| 1:47.9 | studies at Harvard University. |
| 1:50.3 | Her scholarship on race, art, and culture has been published in academic journals as well |
| 1:55.4 | as the New Yorker, the New York Times, and Art Forum. |
| 1:59.7 | Lewis was the guest editor of the Vision and Justice issue of Aperture, |
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