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Strange Fruit #254: Expanding The Definition Of 'American Boys'
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Length:
42 minutes
Released:
Aug 3, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Soraya Zaman's "American Boys Project" is a photography collection (and upcoming book) featuring portraits of transmasculine people throughout the country. Through it, Soraya hopes to expand our ideas of who trans men and transmasculine people are, and can be.
Soraya joins us this week to tell us more, along with Lazarus Letcher, whose portrait is included in the work.
And poet and choreographer Uwazi Zamani joins us with the story behind his phenomenal spoken-word piece, "Parades."
(Content Note: There is strong language in the poem, which is recited at the link, and also played in its entirety about 29 minutes into our show this week.)
Soraya joins us this week to tell us more, along with Lazarus Letcher, whose portrait is included in the work.
And poet and choreographer Uwazi Zamani joins us with the story behind his phenomenal spoken-word piece, "Parades."
(Content Note: There is strong language in the poem, which is recited at the link, and also played in its entirety about 29 minutes into our show this week.)
Released:
Aug 3, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Strange Fruit #43: Linguistic Reclamation, Weaves in Church, and Louisville Humorist Tracy Clayton: Lately, many mainstream (read: white) media outlets have taken notice of [Black Twitter](http://www.theroot.com/the-chatterati). Often their approach seems almost anthropological. "How did this amazing phenomenon come about? Who are these people and what is their motivation?" But as Dr. Story says on this week's show, "Black people talk about political issues amongst themselves, and they have been for centuries. And they sometimes write about it too." To dissect Black Twitter and the media's response to it, we're joined this week by Tracy Clayton, aka @[BrokeyMcPoverty](https://twitter.com/brokeymcpoverty), who writes [The Root](http://www.theroot.com/)'s [Grapevine blog](http://www.theroot.com/blogs/the%20grapevine) and can also be found at [PostBourgie](http://www.postbourgie.com/). Tracy is one of the funniest voices on our timeline (in our opinion, and you know our opinion is never h by Strange Fruit