A Conspiracy of Lemurs

Surviving Racism in a Global Pandemic: Being Black or Brown in America during the Coronavirus

February 23, 2021 Jaynie Royal Season 2 Episode 2
A Conspiracy of Lemurs
Surviving Racism in a Global Pandemic: Being Black or Brown in America during the Coronavirus
Show Notes

Alicia Mosley and Ella deCastro Baron, contributors to the upcoming release (Her)oics: Women’s Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Pandemic, and Joanell Serra, coeditor of (Her)oics, (Pact Press, March 2021) will discuss their contributed stories: “Mosley’s Mothering while Black during the Pandemic” and deCastro Baron’s “Bahala Na.”  In conversation with Pam and Jaynie, they will  consider the impact culture and race had on their communities’ experience of the pandemic. Ella deCastro Baron is a second generation Filipinx American professor and author living in San Diego, California. Alicia Mosley is a poet and fiction writer, a mother of four, and a community educator. She earned her MEd in Curriculum Development and MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Riverside 

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