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Further Afield

References and recommendations from this issue’s contributors

From Axel Kacoutié and
Tej Adeleye:

From Jess Shane:

  • READ: Curated Stories | Sujatha Fernandes
    Sujatha Fernandes describes a rise in storytelling, how certain narratives and tropes undermine deeper contexts of inequality, and how we can reclaim storytelling to create transformative change.

From Alma Simba:

  • LISTEN: the sun here is the sun there | Alma Simba : An experimental soundscape navigating grief, history, and information around ancestral remains from Tanzania stored at the University of Göttingen in Germany. 

From Adrian Wood:

  • READ: A little guidebook for home listening
    A home guide to the laws of acoustics and how to listen around the neighborhood by Ruth Anderson, Sam Auinger, David Behrman, katrinem, Annea Lockwood, Bruce Odland and Liz Phillips

  • LISTEN: Wading Between Two Titans
    Host Adrian Wood looks at the history of race and housing in a time of sea-level rise in coastal Norfolk, Virginia

From Sarah Esocoff, Jazmine (JT) Green and Cass Adair:

  • LISTEN: Battle Rap - Sounds Gay
    In this raw and revealing episode, host Sarah Escocoff dives headfirst into the battle rap arena where two women rappers share some controversial opinions.

  • LISTEN: The Nod | Gimlet 
    Hosts Brittany Luse and Eric Eddings explore the beautiful and complicated dimensions of Black life and culture.

  • LISTEN: CCM - Sounds Gay 
    Queer Christian musicians unravel how Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) dominated the music charts and pushed evangelical values. 

  • LISTEN: Melanie Speaks - Sounds Gay
    The Sounds Gay team introduces Melanie, who helped a generation of trans women find their voices.

  • LISTEN: The Pit - Sounds Gay
    The Sounds Gay team jumps into the Pit – a place where trans people of all ages smash together, literally.

  • LISTEN: Sandy Stone - Sounds Gay
    From sound engineering with Jimi Hendrix and Van Morrison to mixing albums in spite of transphobic backlash, Sandy Stone has lived many lives. In this episode, Host Sarah Esocoff spends four days with the hilarious and big-thinking Sandy.

  • LISTEN: Filipemo - Sounds Gay
    Two friends birth an emo song together, one that becomes an intricate portrait of gender dysphoria and Filpinx identity.

Jas Rault & T.L. Cowan interrogate lesbian processing and the intellectual work we consent to.

From Laura Ubaté and
Josephine Karianjahi:

  • Las Raras’ new season Te Busco
    My favorite all-time indie podcast in Spanish. It’s about people or stories that challenge the status quo. It’s made by a Chilean journalist-sound designer duo. Every episode is pure magic.  - Laura

  • Cuir
    A narrative podcast about real stories of the LGBTQ+ community. Made by Spooked’s producer Erick Yanez and the team of Esto no es radio. Indie and Mexican. I recommend the episode “Princesa de la noche.” - Laura

  • The Mystery of the Itata
    A Duolingo Podcast mini-series. It’s bilingual, it’s a documentary and it has some episodes that recreate in fiction the events that happened in 1922 when a ship sank in Chile. What I love about the series is that it was made by an international team, and yes, it’s for Spanish-language learners.  - Laura

  • Cecilia, la desaparecida que llama
    In the year of the election of a right-wing president, this new documentary series tells the story of a woman who disappeared in the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1977. Created by a documentarian who was making docs before “podcast” was even a word: Francisco Godinez. - Laura

  • No need to say goodbye by Axel Kacoutié
    I really enjoyed it and found it a very nostalgic and thought-provoking reflection on friendship. - Josephine

  • The Republic podcast about the roots of Nigerian political consciousness around a pivotal date in Nigerian history: June 12th. - Josephine

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