Learn more about the writers, artists, and projects discussed in this episode:

• Michael Patrick MacDonald and his compelling stories about growing up in Southie in the 70s
• Krzysztof Wodicko’s 1998 projection on the Bunker Hill Monument
• Yellowstone Revealed, a series of public art projects organized by Mountain Time Arts and sited within Yellowstone between June 2022 and May 2023, coinciding with and responding to Yellowstone Park’s 150th anniversary

 

Think more about swimming and activism:

Check out The Harlem Honeys & Bears, a senior-citizen synchronized swimming team, The Swim Safely Partnership, launched by former Boston Mayor Kim Janey, and Ebony Rosemond’s Black Kids Swim in Maryland, including a webinar series “The Goree Project” connecting swimmers in Maryland and the Washington DC area with Goree Island in Dakar, Senegal.

 

Dive into artist projects centering on water and segregation:

• Victoria Prizzia’s POOL: A Social History of Segregation
• Joyce Scott’s project at Druid Hill Park Pool #2 in Baltimore
• Danielle Abrams and Mary Ellen Strom’s exhibition Rights Along the Shore, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, April 22-May 28, 2022

Get Outside:
Kelly Outdoor Ice Skating rink in Jamaica Plain, MA.

Listen to More Podcasts:

• Jacobin’s People’s History Podcast, E.5, about South Boston’s Carson Beach and segregation
• Luminary’s Fiasco Podcast, Season 3 on Desegregation and Carson Beach
• Rialto Report–Golden Age of Adult Film
• TriPod: New Orleans at 300, series on the history of New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina

 

Recommended Reading:
Donna Haraway, Staying With the Trouble