So Freshwater, So Clean (feat. Divya Balan) | Episode 8

Fly on the Wallin with Amber and Ben

The Sci-Fi Sigh Podcast

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5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Akwaeke Emezi had their novel debut two years ago and was shortlisted for the transphobic Women’s Prize. Akwaeke, in powerful protest, decided to renege their newest novel, The Death of Vivek Oji, from the award. Take that Adele. We celebrate this incredible author and their debut novel Freshwater, a story about gods, Igbo spirituality and blood sacrifice. We are joined by our neighbor, Divya. Because neighbors read together. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/05/akwaeke-emezi-shuns-womens-prize-request-for-details-of-sex-as-defined-by-law https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/writer-and-artist-akwaeke-emezi-gender-transition-and-ogbanje.html https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/15/freshwater-akwaeke-emezi-book-review-nigeria

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sci-Fi Sci, a podcast about black science fiction and fantasy and staying
0:07.9	on the same page in our marriage, baby, baby.
0:11.1	I'm one of your co-hosts, Amber Wallen.
0:15.1	I'm Ben, and today we're in for a treat.
0:18.9	Ben, who's here to join us today?
0:20.6	We have our neighbor, I'm very excited, and the story of this is that we're just kicking
0:26.1	it on a back porch one day, and I was explaining the book we were reading, and Dave here was
0:32.4	like, holy shit, I'm reading the exact same book, and I got really excited, so we decided
0:39.2	to have you come and give another perspective, because honestly, I think Amber was tired
0:44.5	of hearing me.
0:45.8	I mean, every day, right?
0:47.6	Hi everyone, I'm Divya, I am Ben and Amber's neighbor.
0:52.6	By random happenstance, I had this book lying around, and I'd been meaning to read it.
0:58.6	I'm a writer, and love sci-fi, love reading of all kinds, really.
1:04.3	So I kind of jumped at the opportunity to be here and to talk about some stuff with
1:11.3	you all.
1:12.3	Yes!
1:13.3	I'm not going to go into the book just yet, but what a book to read with your neighbor.
1:18.1	That's true.
1:19.1	It's like a very dark, triggering book, and I was like 50 pages in a text, and I was
1:24.4	like, I didn't know that this was what we were going to get to, are you ready to talk
1:30.2	about that with us?
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