Safiya Sinclair: Rewriting Roots
Everything Happens with Kate Bowler
Everything Happens Studios
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Writer and poet Safiya Sinclair describes her childhood growing up in a Rasta family in Montego Bay, Jamaica. In this live conversation, Kate and Safiya explore what it is like growing up in more fundamental families, with worldviews we didn’t get to pick, and how—through it all—we become ourselves…somehow.
In this conversation, Kate and Safiya discuss:
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The intertwining of personal and national history
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The power of poetry as a means of self-discovery and resistance
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How Safiya broke free from familial and societal expectations
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Tara Westover on navigating complicated families
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Minka Kelly on learning to love your parents for who they are
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| 0:31.1 | Look, I'd consider myself a pretty successful adult woman. |
| 0:34.6 | I've written books, founded two successful nonprofits, and I'm raising two |
| 0:39.0 | incredible kids. But here's the thing. I still wake up wondering, is this it? And if the best |
| 0:46.4 | years are yet to come, when's that going to start? Join me on my so-called midlife, my new podcast with Lemonada Media, where we're building a playbook for navigating midlife, one episode at a time. |
| 1:01.1 | Each week, I'll chat with extraordinary guests who've transformed their midlife crisis into opportunities for growth and newfound purpose. |
| 1:10.8 | At some point, we all ask ourselves, is there more to life? |
| 1:15.7 | I'm here to discover how to thrive in my second act, right alongside you. |
| 1:21.5 | My so-called midlife is out now, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:27.8 | Oh, hello, I'm Kate Bowler, and this is Everything Happens. |
| 1:32.8 | So today I have an extra special treat for you. A few months ago, I was invited to join |
| 1:38.4 | Kwame Alexander, who was a podcast guest, which you will love, he started a writing conference that he was putting on |
| 1:45.2 | at the Chautauqua Institute. Kwame is one of the most insanely creative people that I know, |
| 1:51.0 | so anytime I get to learn from him, with him, in any way, I feel so lucky. During our time at Chautauqua, |
| 1:58.1 | I had the privilege to have the conversation I've wanted to have |
| 2:01.9 | with the absolutely incredible Sophia Sinclair. |
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