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Sunday Feb 28, 2021
The Man in Grey
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Welcome to Inheritance from Mother Tongue, an attempt to make sense of what my mother left me. Today's episode is a lightly-edited conversation with Jason Tan de Bibiana from October 4th, 2020.
Huge thanks to Jason for the conversation and for teaching me about facilitation, Tristan Paxton (https://www.instagram.com/tristanpaxton07/) for the music, Mike Gagné (https://www.behance.net/mikegagne) for the art, and Cody Robertson for the editing and sound.
This episode is dedicated to my cousin Laura Fero.
Topics:
- Mix CDs (~2:20)
- Raptors - Nets (~4:00)
- Pelicans - COVID (~5:00)
- Lakers - Heat culture (~7:30)
- Marc to Barcelona (~11:30)
- Playing pickup during COVID/park closures (~12:15)
- Jason's work re: criminal/legal system, mental health, and substance use (~18:15)
- Secondhand Shad on incarceration (~22:00)
- Abolition, which has been around for much longer than 50 years and on which I hope to inform myself in an upcoming episode (~23:20)
- Other forms of justice (~30:00)
- Next Gen Men (https://www.nextgenmen.ca/) and recognizing the patriarchy (~31:40)
- Jason's "mother tongue"(~41:00)
- "Mother tongues" in my family (~48:00)
- Jason's dad, the polyglot (~52:00)
- The Henry Moore room at the AGO, designed by Jason's dad (~54:00)
- Jason's colours & style (~59:00)
- Jason's genetic inheritance: colour blindness (~1:01:15)
- Bereavement, trauma, identity & telling personal stories (~1:08:00)
- Putting the dead in the past tense (~1:13:00)
- Bringing up the dead in conversation (~1:20:20)
- Facilitating (~1:22:20)
- A Next Gen Men circle
- General principles
- Your mom jokes, me being a bit of a psychopath (~1:47:30)
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