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Madame Speaker Says is the podcast for women of colour ready to own the mic, drop that book and get paid like a legend.
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Fighting Autocracy with Arundhati Roy - BONUS Episode - 2020 replay
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Our 2020 Conversation with Arundhati Roy
Think love is just sentiment? Think again. Arundhati Roy—author, activist, truth-teller extraordinaire—breaks down how love becomes revolution, how tenderness transforms into resistance, and why the most radical act might just be refusing to harden your heart in a brutal world.
This was our 2020 keynote for "Love as a Kind of Cure's Freedom Festival, hosted with my partner in crime Cleyvis Natera. This conversation was recorded when the world felt upside down and we needed Roy's fierce wisdom more than ever.
You'll hear Roy's unfiltered thoughts on writing as resistance, the politics of storytelling, and why love might be the most subversive force we have. This isn't your typical literary interview—this is a masterclass in using your voice when the stakes couldn't be higher.
From the Man Booker Prize winner who gave us, "The God of Small Things" and has never stopped fighting: here is love as a kind of cure.
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