How stories about alternate worlds can help us imagine a better future
Channel: The Conversation
Date: 2023-07-31

Original air date - October 6th, 2021

Stories are a powerful tool to resist oppressive situations. They give writers from marginalized communities a way to imagine alternate realities, and to critique the one we live in. In the first episode of Season 2, Vinita speaks to two storytellers who offer up wonderous “otherworlds” for Indigenous and Black people. Selwyn Seyfu Hinds is an L.A.-based screenwriter who wrote for Jordan Peele’s The Twilight Zone and is currently writing the screenplay for Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black. Daniel Heath Justice is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous literature and expressive culture at the University of British Columbia.

Show notes: https://theconversation.com/how-stories-about-alternate-worlds-can-help-us-imagine-a-better-future-dont-call-me-resilient-ep-7-165933 

Lina Nasr El Hag Ali’s related article: Afrofuturism and its possibility of elsewhere: The power of political imagination. https://theconversation.com/afrofuturism-and-its-possibility-of-elsewhere-the-power-of-political-imagination-166002

Full transcript: https://theconversation.com/how-stories-about-alternate-worlds-can-help-us-imagine-a-better-future-dont-call-me-resilient-ep-7-transcript-167520

This season of DCMR features a promo of CBC's Telling Our Twisted Histories podcast as part of a CBC podcast promo switch initiative.