Skein Podcasts: Thinking Aloud, Thinking Together
Thinking Aloud, Thinking Together is a new series of live and recorded conversations amplifying voices that have been silenced in Irish cultural life. It gives space to artists, writers and thinkers who offer radical new perspectives on existing narratives. It will provide a space to discuss points of connection and concern in contemporary culture. The conversations will explore topics such as identity, relationships, shame, exclusion and reversing the impact of erasure from history and culture, focusing on experiences that are not often explored in Irish culture and history. This work will enhance the visibility of underrepresented voices and stories, offering fresh perspectives to a wider audience.
Skein Podcasts: Thinking Aloud, Thinking Together
Episode Four - In the Half Light: Voices from Black Ireland
In this conversation, we hear from an Irish woman who grew up as a mixed-race child in a country that insisted on a story of itself as white.
These kind of experiences rarely made it into the reports on the state's institutions. Her story illuminates what it meant to navigate childhood in such an atmosphere.