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In Our Words: MN BIPOC Writers is a series highlighting Minnesota’s Black, Indigenous and people of color writers, thinkers and activists, hosted by Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura. In conversations with authors across genre, region, and career, we explore these writers’ lasting legacy and emerging work, and how they’ve bent the arc of justice in both our state and across the country.
Hosts: Carolyn Holbrook & David Mura
Producers: Autumn Haeg, Britt Aamodt, Deanna StandingCloud, Faaya Adem, Jamad Jama, Julie Censullo, and Ngoc Bui
Early editorial support: Thuba Nguyen
Original theme music: TaliaKnight
Original graphics: SpiritFolk
Hosts Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura close out season 1 by talking about what the future of literacy looks like in an age of AI. Plus, the importance
of learning and creating within sites of community. [Read Transcript…]
Hosts Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura discuss demographic shifts in Minnesota and how they have overlapped with local BIPOC writers and artists’ work. [Read Transcript...]
Carl Gawboy discusses his book, Fur Trade Nation: An Ojibwe’s Graphic
History, his own family’s history of trapping, and how Ojibwe technology
shaped Minnesota. [Read Transcript...]
Rebecca Nichloson talks about the Black legacy of theater, her play, “Mara
Queen of the World,” and how being an artist is akin to a life-long marriage. [Read Transcript...]
Crown Shepherd shares the story behind her first children’s book, Black Boy,
Black Boy, her journey of self-publishing, and how literature can address
racism. [Read Transcript...]