The Lift Up Podcast

A transatlantic podcast hosted by Tamara Crawford and Vina Orden @hyffeinated about books, writing, identity & representation.

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These books by Butler are available on https://t.co/UPeqoHzA0Y:
✨Pattern Master
✨Mind of My Mind
✨Wild Seed
✨Clay’s Ark
✨Kindred
✨Dawn
✨Adulthood Rites
✨Imago
✨Parable of the Sower
✨Parable of the Talents
#blacklit #blacksciencefiction #fiction #speculativefiction

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If you loved S1, E6, our #speculativefiction episode featuring #NKJemisin’s #TheCityWeBecame and #NanaKwameAdjeiBrenyah’s #FridayBlack, we recommend checking out #OctaviaButler's fiction, which you can find on our latest curated book list, A New Canon https://t.co/UPeqoHzA0Y.

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In 2020, Butler posthumously made it on The NY Times bestseller list, her work resonating with new readers for the issues she explored ahead of her contemporaries—#climatechange #climatejustice #racialjustice #Afrofuturism #genderequality #economicjustice #mutualaid.

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Subscribe to The Lift Up on Anchor, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Breaker, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or RadioPublic. Transcripts are available on https://t.co/mn8NbmzNuU. Check out our book lists on https://t.co/CUk2J2DhAW. #decolonizeyourbookshelf #diversespines

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Black history should be read & taught year-round. As US #BlackHistoryMonth draws to a close, we look back at our most popular episode of Season 1, featuring #NKJemisin’s #TheCityWeBecame & #NanaKwameAdjeiBrenyah’s #FridayBlack https://t.co/GZFbfohp57

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Both authors imagine near futures, hyperreal versions of American society arrived at by the choices we’ve made (or failed to make), which resonates at a time when we reckon with our history & are faced with daily choices that can move us backwards or forwards into the future.

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✨#Lighthead by #TerranceHayes
✨#Citizen An American Lyric by #ClaudiaRankine
✨#TheLastThing by #PatrickRosal
✨#DontCallUsDead by #DanezSmith
✨#Afterland by #MaiDerVang

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A new year means a new #bookstack at #TheLiftUp! Need help building yours? Check out our curated book lists, including #Poetry for Our Times https://t.co/xrdKYbU5it
#readmorepoetry #diversespines #decolonizeyourbookshelf

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If you're a fan of S2.E3 on the theme American beauty | American violence, featuring #poets #OceanVuong & #JerichoBrown, here are recs for what to pick up next:
✨#IfTheyComeForUs by #FatimahAsghar
✨#DMZColony by #DonMeeChoi
✨#PostcolonialLovePoem by #NatalieDiaz ...

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💎I guess reading Baldwin—and publishing Bibliolepsy now, in our time—makes me want to go back and think of that phenomenological thing: to articulate the fascinating layers of how a brown child reads in the Western world.💎

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"My novel is set in that time when Filipinos kicked out their dictator in 1986. Maybe it’s not ironic but predictable that the novel comes out in the U.S. now, when the dictator’s zombie family is making its comeback."

Our interview with @GinaApostol! https://t.co/cosvcBOfGf

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Subscribe to The Lift Up on Anchor, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Breaker, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or RadioPublic. Transcripts are available on https://t.co/mn8NbmzNuU. #SupportLocal & purchase books featured on the show or our book lists on https://t.co/CUk2J2DhAW.

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Catch up on past episodes while The Lift Up's on hiatus! Today, we spotlight S2, E3, featuring #OceanVuong's #NightSkyWithExitWounds & #JerichoBrown’s #TheTradition. We’re excited for Vuong’s 2nd poetry collection #TimeIsAMother, coming out in April! https://t.co/AKvsIUMYnR

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"I mention courage, admission, confession, and the complexities of love in a nation that will not love back because it cannot love Black because these are the themes and concerns I knew I could handle in my own work only after reading the work of Claude McKay."—Jericho Brown

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If you're a fan of #KaliFajardoAnstine’s #SabrinaAndCorina, featured on S2, E8, may we recommend:
✨#WomanHolleringCreek and Other Stories by #SandraCisneros
✨ #PostcolonialLovePoem Poems by #NatalieDiaz
✨ #HeartBerries A Memoir by #TereseMarieMailhot

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A new year means a new #bookstack at #TheLiftUp! Need help building yours? Check out our curated book lists on https://t.co/CUk2J2DhAW, including “Discover Books by Native Authors” & “Discover Books by Mexican Authors.”

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Congratulations @GinaApostol on the US publication of your debut novel #Bibliolepsy from us bibliomanes on #TheLiftUp! We can't wait to dig in to this book and book talk!

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Subscribe to The Lift Up on Anchor, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Breaker, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or RadioPublic. Transcripts are available on https://t.co/mn8NbmzNuU. #SupportLocal & our podcast by purchasing books featured on the show from https://t.co/CUk2J2DhAW.

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Happy New Year from The Lift Up! Catch up on past episodes while we’re on hiatus. Today, we spotlight S2, E8, featuring @KaliMaFaja's #shortstories #SabrinaAndCorina. https://t.co/XipeHFSfqt We’re excited for #WomanOfLight, coming out in June & on “most anticipated” book lists!