Who Has The "Right To A Story?"

Code Switch

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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On this week's Code Switch, we hear from two Palestinian American poets who talk about what it's like to be Palestinian American in the U.S. Fady Joudah and Tariq Luthun say the way their stories are told — or aren't told — has contributed to what they see as an erasure of their identities, and often of their humanity.

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0:35.0	I'm Jean Dembe.
0:37.0	I've been thinking a lot about this quote I read recently.
0:39.0	It's from Ruth Wilson Gilmore.
0:42.0	She's a prison abolitionist. She wants us to imagine a world
0:45.8	where we do the hard work of trying to live alongside each other without thinking
0:49.3	of some people as problems to be solved and then throwing them away when that project becomes too difficult or those people become too inconvenient.
0:58.0	Her quote goes where life is precious, life is precious. Life is precious.
1:04.6	In the context in which I read that quote,
1:06.8	the point that was being made was that violence
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