How Do We Get Free?

Welcome back to Sylly, a podcast for the curious and critical. We’re your hosts, Mbiye Kasonga and Tembe Denton-Hurst. In episode 17, we’re thinking about freedom using Gathering Blossoms Under Fire as a primary text. The journals of Alice Walk offer us insight into what it means to be a free woman, and a free Black woman at that. Tembe and I discuss how people misinterpret freedom, confusing it with power and domination. We round out the conversation by discussing books that center liberated women.Books We Talked AboutGathering Blossoms Under Fire by Alice WalkerOn Eating by Alicia KennedyNew Skin by Sarah WangPermanence by Sophie MackintoshThe Pearl by John SteinbeckEast of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Neapolitan Novels Boxed Set by Elena FerranteThey All Fall in Love at the End by Haili BlassingameParable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set by Octavia ButlerMatilda by Roald DahlHeavy by Kiese LaymonSugar by Bernice McFaddenSula by Toni MorrisonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerFat Swim by Emma Copley Eisenberg Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.