Jun 30, 2020
Coldwater, OH, has seven stoplights, by Nico Schwieterman's last count.
In this podcast, Nico, who opened and owns Fleet Wood in the Tenderloin, shares stories of growing up in the small town of Coldwater. Her dad ran a shop where, as a kid, she helped him print shirts. She was your fairly typical teenager, and ended up...
Jun 21, 2020
One of Uncle Damien Posey's favorite things to tell people is that he's "not a role model, he's a real model."
We checked in with our Season 2, Episode 38 storyteller last week to see how he's doing and how he's feeling about the current uprising for racial justice.
In this special podcast, Damien shares some of his own...
Jun 18, 2020
In this special episode, S2E49 storyteller Chloe Jackman shares her perspectives on race and the current uprising for racial justice. The daughter of a Black man and a white woman, she was often made to feel "not Black enough." But over time, she was able to defy those norms and embrace the entirety of her identity.
One...
Jun 17, 2020
Thea Matthews is a powerful
poet.
In this podcast, Thea picks up where she left off in Part 1, talking about the early
days of her writing and performing poetry. She helped established
the Black Student Union at City College and later went to UC
Berkeley, commuting the whole time from her home in The City.
Later in...
Jun 16, 2020
Poet, activist, and scholar Thea Matthews grew up in the Excelsior, which to this day is still a largely ungentrified, working-class neighborhood in San Francisco.
In this podcast, Thea talks about growing up as a Black/Mexican/Indigenous kid with a single mom in San Francisco in the 1990s. Most of her childhood...