Episode notes
Listen to playwright, professor, and Black American Daaimah Mubashshir, MFA from Columbia University — born in Alabama, raised in Texas, resided in New York during the Covid-19 pandemic — share about working from home during the pandemic, participating in a survey of Black people’s experiences working in theater, and experiencing racism when waiting in the very long lines to grocery shop in New York City.
On working-from-home during the pandemic:
“…It was beautiful. I got to work at home… I did a lot of walking. I took up hiking. I did a lot of resting. Um, I did a lot of reading and a lot of meditating. And it was really, really beautiful… I think that this is political… Black bodies resting.. and I found it… it was a really abundant time for me to collect my thoughts… Without all the death, I ...
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