Woohoo!
Way back when I recorded an essay for the radio. Remember that? It’s since been produced and published. Grab it on iTunes, Wyoming Public Media, or your local NPR member station.
Oh my! I’ve been waiting for this since February of 2016. When I received the email this morning that it had been completed I almost didn’t open it for fear of hearing my own voice. Of course, that’s silly. I’m so glad I did. So much has changed since I sent a query from chilly London to windswept Wyoming to see if they’d have me on the Wyoming Public Media Spoken Words program. When I went in to record an essay about her, my grandma was still living in her own house at the age of 90. Since then we’ve helped her move into assisted living. When I first went in to record, I was just launching a journey to independently discover who I was as a creative media maker. Since then, I’ve learned much more about that part of myself and feel confident in it. Of course, both of these situations will continue to evolve, not unlike what I describe in this piece, and this podcast captures a perfect snapshot of where my family and I were at that very moment, one tile in a mosaic I’m piecing together.
Many thanks to the team at Wyoming Public Radio & Media, especially production director Micah Schweizer for thoughtful conversation on third culture and mixed race experiences, and producer Annie Osburne for making sense of it and putting it all together. Thanks to GrubWriters and Jennifer Mattson for initially giving me an outlet to play with essay, including this one. Thanks to Gakko for the media-making and identity formation love. Thanks to CSU APACC for the community and Silk Knots support. Thanks to the East Bay Donut Club for the community and nudge to keep writing — this story and others.
P.S. Still building out the Silk Knots archive. Record or write something here.
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