Race/Remix

In Episode 6, Reid Gómez describes how she can “make the story speak” by criss-crossing the boundaries between languages, embracing various linguistic structures and vocabularies simultaneously. Her writing moves away from oppositional colonial frameworks and toward a more fluid poetics of relation. This allows each of us to perceive one another as related rather than separated. (Link in bio)

Dr. Gómez is a writer and scholar from San Francisco, CA. She currently is an assistant professor at the University of Arizona. Her latest writing project, The Web of Differing Versions: Where Africa Ends and America Begins, engages with Silko studies, Indigenous studies and Critical Black studies.

Full quote:
“I cannot tell you what anything means because your job is to make meaning of it. What I can tell you is every detail. I can make the story speak. And then I have to know what story is needed to speak to this moment. I got it! I get the story. I tell you the story. That’s my power, connecting what story speaks to this moment.  What story do I need? I tell the story and all the details. Now you’re the one that’s got to make meaning of it. And so I need to keep all the details. Because what is meaningful to you may not be meaningful to the person that needs the story the next time.” - Reid Gómez

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