In the first of our two-part series, Jennifer Richmond and Winkfield Twyman, Jr. talk with Brent Hamachek about his book Dissidently Speaking. As self-proclaimed Dissidents in their own book, Letters in Black and White, Jen and Wink were excited to hear from Brent on how he defines “dissidently speaking.” We discuss the power of language, including changing the statement “it is” to the question “is it,” the danger of false axioms, our addiction to confrontation, the need for discernment and defining terms in our communication, especially in our use of social media, how we are good at labeling but bad at describing, the declination of codependence and the importance of exchanging left and right labels with a simple question – how much freedom are we willing to give up? Join us next week as we go deeper into labels, slogan words and dogma.
Podcast Resources:
Dissidently Speaking, Brent Hamacheck
Letters in Black and White, Jennifer Richmond & Winkfield Twyman, Jr.
Black Enterprise, Or, How I Became Black, Winkfield Twyman, Jr.
The Dartmouth Scar Experiment, Winkfield Twyman, Jr.
The Alternative Reading Guide for the 1619 Project Essays, Jennifer Richmond & Winkfield, Twyman, Jr.
Understanding and Embracing the Role of the 21st Century American Dissident, Brent Hamachek
AP African-American Studies is Still Radical, National Review, Stanley Kurtz
ILV presents the first in a series of panel discussions on Queer Liberalism, cohosted by our partner organization, the online magazine Queer Majority. QM’s Editor-in-Chief Rio Veradonir will moderate. Each discussion will feature a panel of prominent and emerging thinkers with relevant experience and expertise. The goal of the series is to recenter queer discourse on liberalism, by critiquing anti-liberal trends in the movement and modeling a more moderate, reformist approach. After each discussion, there will be a live Q&A.
August panelists include Wilfred Reilly, Iona Italia, Phil Illy, Jimmy Bangash and Ben Appel.
Dissidently Speaking with Brent Hamacheck, Part I