44: The Unresolvable Tension of Overlapping Identities, with Tomiwa Owolade

DECEMBER 21, 2021

EPISODE NOTES

We all possess multiple identities. You are both a brother and a son. A daughter and a mother. Chinese, and American, and Asian. Gay, and Polyamorous. The combinations are nearly endless. And these identities are not always in parallel. They do not necessarily exist in harmony with one another. Sometimes - often - there is tension. Writer Tomiwa Owolade explores the conflicting and even discomforting intersections of identity, and the importance of embracing that tension.

What Does It Mean to Be Black?, by Tomiwa Owolade

Please Stop Imposing American Views about Race on Us, by Tomiwa Owolade

Queen Mary Alumni Profile: Tomiwa Owolade

Boudica

Ira Aldridge

Seesaw, by Timothy Ogene

Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time, by Teju Cole

Windrush Generation: Who Are They and Why Are They Facing Problems? - BBC

The Chicken Connoisseur - YouTube

Being John Malkovich

Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life, by Karen and Barbara Fields

We Are All Madame Bovary, by Tomiwa Owolade

Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything, by David Bellos

Tomiwa's Twitter: @tomowolade

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