Big Freedia and Jonathan Lykes on Bringing Joy and Movement to Activism
The Takeaway
English - February 23, 2022 17:00 - 20.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsDaily News News Politics news politics radio national takeaway wnyc Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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For the next piece of The Takeaway's ongoing series Black.Queer.Rising, we're shaking things up with the Queen of Bounce, Big Freedia, who joined the show to talk about how activism, identity, and movement come together in her work. Also joining for the conversation is artist and activist Jonathan Lykes who recently collaborated with Freedia on the song “Ella Baker Shaker,” for his compilation album The Black Joy Experience volume 2: Comrade.