Sirens and Black Voices w/ Bethany C. Morrow
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
We’re joined this week to talk with author Bethany C. Morrow about her novels, using “speculative” fiction to tell the truth, how Black sisterhood is lifesaving, and decentralizing fantasy and mythology.
A Song Below Water spoilers from 54:33 to 57:02.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of racism, violence against women, doxing, inciting violence, white supremacy, ableism, self-harm, transphobia, QAnon, doctors/medical treatment, medical racism, death, homelessness, imprisonment/the prison industrial complex, stereotypes, respectability politics, and slavery.
Guest
Bethany C Morrow is an Indie Bestselling author who writes for adult and young adult audiences, in genres ranging from speculative literary to contemporary fantasy to historical. She is author of the novels MEM and A SONG BELOW WATER, and editor/contributor to the young adult anthology TAKE THE MIC, which was the 2020 ILA Social Justice in Literature award winner. Her work has been chosen as Indies Introduce and Indie Next picks, and featured in The LA Times, Forbes, Bustle, Buzzfeed, and more. She is included on USA TODAY’s list of 100 Black novelists and fiction writers you should read. Her upcoming releases include A CHORUS RISES (June 2021), SO MANY BEGINNINGS: A Little Women Remix (September 2021), and CHERISH FARRAH (2022).
Housekeeping
- Recommendation: This week, Julia recommends the podcast Hey Riddle Riddle.
- Books: Check out our previous book recommendations, guests’ books, and more at spiritspodcast.com/books
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. I'm Julia. Amanda is on a well-deserved vacation right now. And this is episode 234, Sirens and Black Voices with Bethany C. Morrow. You might remember that I recommended Bethany C. Morrow's novel A Song Below Water last year, |
| 0:21.0 | and I am so excited that we get to talk to her about the mythology of her world |
| 0:25.3 | and how it reflects the world that we live in. |
| 0:27.8 | But before we get to that, we got to be grateful for the people in our world that make our podcast |
| 0:32.2 | reality, our patrons. |
| 0:34.0 | So thank you to our supporting producer-level patrons, Alicia, Brian, Deborah, Hannah, Jane, Jessica Kinzer, Jessica Stewart, Justin Keegan, Nieselkins, Liz, Megan Linger, Megan Moon, Phil Fresh, Polly, Captain Jonathan Malachi Cosmos, Sarah, Scott, and Zazi, as well as our legend level patrons, Audra, Chimera, or |
| 0:57.1 | Change, Clara, Drew, Jack Marie, Jay-Bay-Bay, Key, Lada, Morgan, Necrow royalty, Taylor, and |
| 1:04.1 | BME up Scotty. |
| 1:05.3 | I am incredibly grateful to all of these people who help us get to do our dream job, because |
| 1:10.6 | making this podcast for you |
| 1:12.1 | really is my dream job. I'm also really grateful for my recommendation this week, which is the |
| 1:17.5 | podcast, Hey Riddle Riddle. You know when sometimes your brain just doesn't want to work real well |
| 1:22.7 | and you kind of keep revisiting something that makes you happy and makes you laugh over and over and over again, |
| 1:28.4 | no matter how many times you listen to it. That's me with Hey Riddle Riddle. Gosh, it's so funny. It is a |
| 1:32.8 | improvisational podcast that is also about solving riddles, but also so much more. And it brings me |
| 1:38.8 | such joy. And if you like our podcast or any of the podcast that are a part of Multitude, and would like to |
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| 2:13.8 | enjoy Spirits episode 234, Sirens and Black Voices with Bethany C. Morrow. |
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