All Talk
12 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -All Talk is a voyeur’s guide to smart friendship. Eavesdrop on two friends making art, decisions and identity. Listen in as we weave the political with the personal, debate, laugh, and guess at what comes next.
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Episodes
On Holding Close, Taste, and Art That Vibrates Us
February 19, 2021 15:00 - 27 minutes - 18.6 MBIn each episode we talk about a variety of books, writing, and art. Below are a few mentioned in this one: Luis Camnitzer's talk at the Lab, Feb 2021 (link) Luster by Raven Leilani (link) "9 Rules for the Woke Birdwatcher" in Orion Magazine (link) "The Braided Essay as Social Justice Action" by Nicole Walker (link) Afterword by Tisa Bryant in Body Forms: Queerness and the Essay (link) Provisions: Poems Held Close in a Time of Crisis edited by Claire Schwartz and Nathan Goldman (link) ...
On the Plant World, Resilience, and Welcoming Our Demons
December 18, 2020 19:00 - 20 minutes - 14.3 MBIn each episode we talk about a variety of books, writing, and art. Below are a few mentioned in this one: Ellie's fall 2020 plant workshops (link) Kale Mays (link) Ani DiFranco's song "Buildings and Bridges" (link) Conversation between Terry Tempest Williams and Ariana Reines (link) Shapes of Native Nonfiction edited by Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton (link) "Beauty & Memory & Abuse & Love" by Bojan Louis (link) Jewish Mourner's Kaddish (link) Tamar Ettun's Lilith project (link...
On Pandemic Social Life, Selfies, and the Beloved
August 05, 2020 16:00 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MBIn each episode we talk about a variety of books, writing, and art. Below are a few mentioned in this one: Ariana Reines' workshops reading Inanna and more (link) The Lonely Letters by Ashon T. Crawley (link) the Song of Songs (link) Go Ahead in the Rain by Hanif Abdurraqib (link) Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (link) Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume (link) Sophie Calle's exhibition "Take Care of Yourself" (link) Information about recent votes on evictions and def...
On Uprooting Racism, Public Protest and Interruption
June 08, 2020 20:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBIn each episode we talk about a variety of books, writing, and art. Below are a few mentioned in this one: Black Lives Matter petition to #DefundThePolice (link) Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde “An Interview: Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich” (First published in Signs, vol. 6, no. 4 in summer of 1981. Edited from three hours of audio tapes recorded on August 30, 1979 in Montague, Massachusetts. Commissioned by Marilyn Hacker, guest editor of Woman Poet: The East.) “The M...
On Reading, Comfort, and the Stories We Tell About the Virus
April 26, 2020 20:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MBIn each episode we talk about a variety of books, writing, and art. Below are a few mentioned in this one: Angst by Hélène Cixous (link) Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed (link) "Astra Taylor: The Case for Economic Disobedience" (link) The Debt Collective (link) "The Fairy-Tale Virus" by Sabrina Orah Mark (link) Questions? Thoughts? Email us: [email protected]. About Us: Ellie Lobovits is a visual artist, educator, writer, and teacher of Jewish plant magic. ellielobovits....
On Resources, Grief, and Mutual Aid In This Time
March 23, 2020 21:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBIn each episode we talk about a variety of books, writing, and art. Below are a few mentioned in this one: Tara Brach's guided meditation "The Blessings of Yes" (link) Tara Brach's teacher Joseph Goldstein (link), whose teachers include Anagarika Sri Munindra, Sri S.N. Goenka, Nani Bala Barua (Dipa Ma), and the Venerable Sayadaw U Pandita. We joke about going "back to basics" with Tara, but it's important to us to note that Tara Brach's work is rooted in Asian Buddhist traditions. Ellie'...
On Plants, Resiliency and the Sacred In-Between
March 15, 2020 21:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBIn each episode we talk about a variety of books, writing, and art. Below are a few mentioned in this one: Espacio Escultorio Sculpture Park (link) El Pedregal Nature Reserve (link) The book The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert (link) "Characteristics of White Supremacy" (link) Jewish Plant Magic retreats (link) Jewish history with garlic (link) Guggel Muggel (link) Dori Midnight’s Facebook inquiry about garlic (link) The book Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Que...
On Beauty, Race, and Visualizing Justice
February 19, 2020 14:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBIn each episode we talk about a variety of books, writing, and art. Below are a few mentioned in this one: The book On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry The website Man Repeller (link) Toward A Hot Jew: Graphic Essays by Miriam Libicki (link) The exhibition “Veiled Meanings: Fashioning Jewish Dress,” at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco (link) The exhibition "Involuntary Archives. On the Theatre of Surveillance" by artist Miguel Fernández de Castro (link) Ellie’s fil...
On Ritual, Accessibility, and the Choice to Have a Child
January 27, 2020 19:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBIn each episode we talk about a variety of books, writing, and art. Below are a few mentioned in this one: The book Motherhood by Sheila Heti Leora’s review of Heti’s book (link) The book No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol The film “To Kid or Not to Kid” (link) The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise by Martín Prechtel The essay “The Mother of All Questions” by Rebecca Solnit (link) The event “Miércoles de SOMA | Turbulencias del siglo XXI” (link) Rabbi Elliot Kukla's wor...
2: On Ritual, Accessibility, and the Choice to Have a Child
January 27, 2020 19:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBIn each episode we talk about a variety of books, writing, and art. Below are a few mentioned in this one: The book Motherhood by Sheila Heti Leora’s review of Heti’s book (link) The book No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol The film “To Kid or Not to Kid” (link) The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise by Martín Prechtel The essay “The Mother of All Questions” by Rebecca Solnit (link) The event “Miércoles de SOMA | Turbulencias del siglo XXI” (link) Rabbi Elliot Kukla's wor...
1: On Breakups, Climate Apocalypse, and Fragments
January 08, 2020 02:00 - 22 minutes - 15.8 MBIn each episode we talk about a variety of books, writing, and art. Below are a few mentioned in this one: The 1965 essay by Joan Didion entitled "Los Angeles Notebook," first published in Slouching Towards Bethlehem Protest led by union workers and tribal leaders against Trump’s support of fracking in Pennsylvania (link) "On Breaking Up," an essay of Leora's published in Speculative Nonfiction (link) Robin Wall Kimmerer and Terry Tempest Williams' 2019 event at the Harvard Divinity Sch...
On Breakups, Climate Apocalypse, and Fragments
January 08, 2020 02:00 - 22 minutes - 15.8 MBIn each episode we talk about a variety of books, writing, and art. Below are a few mentioned in this one: The 1965 essay by Joan Didion entitled "Los Angeles Notebook," first published in Slouching Towards Bethlehem Protest led by union workers and tribal leaders against Trump’s support of fracking in Pennsylvania (link) "On Breaking Up," an essay of Leora's published in Speculative Nonfiction (link) Robin Wall Kimmerer and Terry Tempest Williams' 2019 event at the Harvard Divinity Sch...