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We make a lot of choices, every single day. Some explode, some implode, most we barely remember. Each week on Choice Words, Samantha Bee sits down with people she admires to examine the biggest choices they’ve made in their lives and the ripple effects those decisions have had. What’s a story a journalist took a chance on that changed history? A vote that a politician never should have cast? A song lyric a musician came up with in the shower that made them instantly famous? Sam’s made a lot ...
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My musings on all things Madras or as it is known today, Chennai. I talk about everything - the weather, politics, movies, food, art, lifestyle, and emotions that make me the proud Chennaite that I am!
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A few years ago I was a broke, university dropout, at 18 I built an industry leading social media marketing company, and at 27 I resigned as CEO. At 28 I co-founded Flight Story – a marketing and communications company, and thirdweb - a software platform, making it easy to build web3 applications. I then launched private equity fund, Flight Fund, to accelerate the next generation of European unicorns. During this time I decided to launch 'The Diary Of A CEO' podcast with the simple mission o ...
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Behind The Song

The Drive | Hubbard Radio

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Dig into the lyrics of classic rock songs and the storytellers that created them in "Behind The Song," a podcast of essays by The Drive's Janda Lane. Hear what was happening behind the scenes while some of the most iconic songs in rock history were being written.
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Emotions Make History

The ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800)

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Emotions shape individual, community and national identities. The ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (CHE) uses historical knowledge from Europe, 1100=1800, to understand the long history of emotional behaviours. Based at The University of Western Australia, with additional nodes at the Universities of Adelaide, Melbourne, Queensland and Sydney, CHE investigates how European societies thought, felt and functioned, and how these changes impact life in Australia today. More a ...
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Negotiate Anything

Kwame Christian Esq., M.A.

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"Negotiate Anything" is the #1 negotiation podcast in the world, celebrated with over 10 million downloads, hundreds of 5-star reviews, and a global audience from +180 countries. Negotiation is the ultimate problem solving tool, allowing you to not only get better deals, but to also have better relationships. Our podcast dives deep into the art of negotiation. Hosted by lawyer, bestselling author, and CEO of the American Negotiation Institute , Kwame Christian Esq., M.A., each episode is a t ...
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Carlos Siqueira: Unleashing Potential, Championing Change Welcome to the world of Carlos Siqueira, a relentless force for positive transformation and a beacon of inspiration. As an esteemed author, premier speaker, and strategic mastermind, Carlos is dedicated to empowering individuals and businesses to excel. His podcast, a hub of innovation and insights, is where he shares his wealth of knowledge on wealth strategy, business acceleration, and personal growth. Carlos’s journey in life is fu ...
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The Sense of Place Podcast

The Sense of Place Podcast

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Do you ever go somewhere, and have a strong emotional response to it, such as happiness, nostalgia or fear? Have you ever wondered why we look for meaning in places and develop stories or legends about them over time? Well these behaviours are known as a sense of place. In general, a sense of place describes our relationship with places, expressed through the tangible and intangible aspects of human life: emotions, imagination, sound, touch, smell, and personal experiences. Sense of place ca ...
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Rock'n'roll Roadhouse

The Rock'n'roll Roadhouse

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George and Lisa THE DYNAMIC DUO OF ROCK N ROLL! Welcome to the heart and soul of the Rock n roll Roadhouse - a place where the rhythm never stops, and the music is a way of life. Lisa and George, the vibrant hosts of this weekly radio extravaganza, invite you to join them on an unforgettable journey through the timeless melodies and pulsating beats of rock n roll. ABOUT LISA: Lisa has a passion for great sounds, her love for the genre goes beyond the beats; it's a deep seated appreciation fo ...
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Practical Prayer

Rev. Bill Marchiony, DD & Carol L. Lawrence

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The most effective prayers in virtually every religion and spiritual practice throughout history follow the same pattern. Rev. Bill Marchiony and Carol L. Lawrence talk about the five-step formula for Practical Prayer, and the shift in perspective that can be required to allow our prayers to create real new experiences in our lives. Each weekly episode digs into the topic from a fresh angle, providing insight on the ways that our beliefs, our upbringing, our education and our society come to ...
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Happy Farmily

Azure Farm , Annette Thurmon, Jared Thurmon

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There is one thing that brings us the most joy in life - great relationships. But if our relationships are unhealthy - life doesn’t have much joy. We have a passion for healthy relationships and getting the most out of life. We record new episodes each week in our barn here at Azure Farm, surrounded by our Farmily of chickens, donkeys, alpacas, goats, and more. In each episode, we dig into a recent story inspired by the farm, family or fun, and use these experiences as inspiration to make re ...
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Welcome to Becoming Trauma Informed- The podcast where Dr. Lee and TLC bring you expert advice and strategies to understand what trauma is, how it affects our daily lives, and what we can do about it! Dr. Lee is a DNP-prepared adult nurse practitioner a clinical trauma professional. She is an expert in helping people understand how past painful experiences affect their bodies & brains- and how to change their future for the better! T. Lee Cordell, aka TLC, is Dr. Lee's co-host and partner (i ...
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Hi, I'm Jeffrey and I am a Feldenkrais Method and Kinēsa practitioner. Feldenkrais and Kinesa are somatic practices that focus primarily on helping people become aware of the invisible, habitual choices they make. What we don't know we're doing is where the gold is. Through experimentation, you can find new and better choices. We use movement as the primary vehicle for exploration. But why movement? People are numb and disconnected from their bodies. Movement is connected with and influences ...
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Film and TV professionals talk about the ups and downs of navigating Hollywood and how they've worked to stay relationally and spiritually healthy in a demanding industry. Hosted by filmmaker and author Allen Wolf.
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Ujima Spirit

Tica Taylor

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This podcast is providing information to correct the misinformation from the media about a range of topics: domestic violence, relationships, racism, history, health, wealth, spiritually and metaphysics. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ujimaspirit/support
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Impostrix Podcast

Whitney Knox Lee

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Impostrix Podcast validates (smart, talented AF, and often over-qualified) professionals of color who navigate imposter syndrome and racial toxicity in their careers. Through personal anecdotes, historical facts, and scientific data, Civil Rights Attorney and Racial Equity Consultant Whitney Knox Lee and special guests explore how race and racism impact their careers, their personal lives, and their joy. Fear not, this show is about pushing through anyway! So here, we share accessible langua ...
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Have you ever felt out of control, like life was unmanageable, overwhelming, confusing or on the wrong path? After leaving study during a degree in psychology and giving up my career opportunities in the NZ Army and fitness industry, in 2017, I was convicted and sentenced to two years in prison for the most significant sports steroid case in New Zealand history. This was a profound and formative experience enabling me to look back on my life, bringing awareness to some of the negative habits ...
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Your Point My View Podcast is a conversational platform where every viewpoint matters. It’s not a judgement of whose right or wrong. We may ask why someone feels a certain way on a particular subject or, their viewpoint may raise an eyebrow or two, but most times, it’s out of fun because much of our conversation stems from points of views that can’t be debated so we have no choice but to make it an enjoyable, relaxed atmosphere. You're going to look forward to Monday afternoons at 3 PM to se ...
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Games Now! Podcast

Annakaisa Kultima

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Games Now! is an open lecture series on game industry trends run by Aalto University. Since 2013, the lecture series has been inviting game industry experts from all over the world to share their insights on what is current in games right now. In the second season of the "Games Now!" Podcast, we introduce our "Further Questions" series. In these episodes, we revisit the lectures of the academic year, diving deeper into topics with questions submitted by our students.
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Welcome to Science Sessions, the PNAS podcast program. Listen to brief conversations with cutting-edge researchers, Academy members, and policymakers as they discuss topics relevant to today's scientific community. Learn the behind-the-scenes story of work published in PNAS, plus a broad range of scientific news about discoveries that affect the world around us.
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Wonderfully Made

WonderfullyMade

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Step into your God-given identity, know your value and live the life you were made for. Join author, speaker, and life coach Allie Marie Smith for inspiring conversations with women of faith about mental health, body image, wellness, relationships, intentional living, and so much more. Receive practical wisdom and encouragement to help you thrive and live a wholehearted life of freedom and purpose. Our culture constantly bombards us with lies and pressure to be more, do more, and hustle for ...
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How to: Fitness

Michael Ulloa and Kate Lyman

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What's the history behind MLMs? How is technology changing our fitness? How have beauty standards evolved over the past few decades? Veterans of the fitness industry, Michael Ulloa and Kate Lyman, bring you a brand new podcast that's all about about busting common fitness and nutrition myths, helping you separate fact from fiction, and providing you with practical, evidence-based information in a wellness space overrun with misinformation.
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PUAN podcast features ideas and thoughts about issues that concern the public. Conversations are brief and entail translation of complex social idea or theory into intelligible language. It is hosted by Dr. Antonio De Lauri, Research Professor at Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Norway and Saumya Pandey, doctoral researcher at CMI.
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Natural health, how that relates to mindset, and conversations on spirituality, holistic health, herbalism, mental health, and self healing. If you need solutions to digestive health, sleep, sustainable energy, natural skincare, self love, and self care, this podcast is your new favorite resource. Your host is Emily Ciosek, a health coach certified in Ayurveda, an ancient indian herbal science. Emily has had a rough health history, but healed herself by building strategies to break unhealthy ...
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Dog trainer and biologist Ferdie Yau (MA, CPDT-KA) talks about treating difficult behavior cases and interviews the leading experts in the animal training world. The podcast is intended to show pet caretakers how to embrace science, kindness, and compassion to help their pets like dogs, cats, and other companion animals with challenging behavior issues. Listeners will learn how the team at Behavior Vets inspires people to dive deeper into the animal's experience to help them thrive, while al ...
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Two sex addicts in long-term successful recovery are ALSO world-class mental health professionals who specialize in porn and sex addiction recovery. Drawing on 40 years of combined personal and professional experience, Mark and Steve get RAW and REAL about HOW to overcome addiction, heal betrayal trauma and save your marriage. If you're struggling with addiction—we get it. Recovery is hard. We've been there. We'll help you take the fight to your addiction like never before. If you're married ...
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"The Potterverse: A Harry Potter Podcast with Mary & Blake" is an engaging and immersive journey into the enchanting world of Harry Potter. As the executive producers of this original podcast series, Mary and Blake bring their deep love and commitment to preserving the magic of J.K. Rowling's iconic books to the forefront. This is a SPOILER PODCAST. If you are spoiler free, this podcast is not for you. This podcast series is a captivating journey that takes you deep into the mesmerizing wiza ...
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Ancestry and AI: Genealogical Roots Reborn and Historical Echoes Rediscovered. "Dispatches from the Disputed Texas Territories," another exciting branch of ancestral narratives from FamilyTreeSagas.com, offers a vivid exploration into our families' past, encapsulating the essence of our ancestors' experiences through a series of innovative narrative formats. This collection is an endeavor to breathe life into the tales of those who came before us, presenting their stories through a variety o ...
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What if you could hang out with an experienced employment lawyer who has represented businesses in disputes with employees, ask them about everyday business decisions that involve employees (hiring, firing, demotions, paying salaries, medical leave); then take an insight or two to help make sure you are following employment laws? Hosted by Karly Wannos, Esq. - employment lawyer and the founder of The Wannos Law Firm - The Employment Experience is an educational tool for business owners and H ...
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Pierre's Panic Room

Comedian Pierre Edwards (Official)

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A hilarious look at pop culture and funny interviews with a "nothing to lose" veteran comedian Follow @ComicPierre & @PierresPanicRoom on Social Media Subscribe on Youtube! Search Pierre's Panic Room Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pierrespanicroom/support
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Conscious Style Podcast

Elizabeth Joy, Stella Hertantyo

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What will it really take to create a more sustainable and equitable future for fashion? Each week, hosts Elizabeth Joy and Stella Hertantyo interview fashion changemakers — from labor activists to slow fashion entrepreneurs — to explore this very question. Hear about topics like greenwashing, garment worker rights, consumer psychology, secondhand fashion, making the most of your closet, and more. For more, visit consciouslifeandstyle.com and follow @consciousstyle on Instagram.
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With the understanding that ABPsi cannot grow without the continued engagement and support from student voices, the SC board has begun producing our own podcast, Rooted. In 20 to 30 minute segments, students are encouraged to highlight their struggles, successes, and passions as they pertain to African/Black Psychology. Our podcasts endeavor to focus on the spiritual, professional, and emotional dimensions of the student experience and empower members to become involved in spreading ABPsi’s ...
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In the third episode of our "Further Questions" series on the Games Now! Podcast, we explore the insights of Heidi Rautalahti, a postdoctoral researcher from Aalto University. In November 2023, Heidi delivered a presentation on the emotional labor involved in developing the game Runo. She discussed the complexities of designing a game rooted in ric…
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Are you ready to elevate your life and career through the power of negotiation? Join us in celebrating the official launch of Negotiate Anything Premium! This isn't just an upgrade—it's a transformation. Dive into a treasure trove of bonus content, enjoy ad-free listening, and access a comprehensive resource for mastering negotiation. What's in it …
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Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Francine Banner is a fascinating cultural diagnosis that identifies our obsession with complicity as a symptom of a deeply divided society. The questions surrounding what it means to be legally complicit are the same ones we may ask ourselves…
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Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution (Verso, 2020), Breanne Fahs has curated a comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos from the nineteenth century to today. Fahs collected over seventy-five manifestos from around the world, calling on feminists to act, be defiant and show their rage. This thought-provoking and timely collect…
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In Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign that Broke the Confederacy (Simon & Schuster, 2019), Donald L. Miller explains in great detail how Grant ultimately succeeded in taking the city and turning the tide of the war in favor of the Union. Miller begins his tale with events in Cairo and leads the reader through all the important events that lead to success …
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Yanagawa Seigan (1789–1858) and his wife Kōran (1804–79) were two of the great poets of nineteenth-century Japan. They practiced the art of traditional Sinitic poetry—works written in literary Sinitic, or classical Chinese, a language of enduring importance far beyond China’s borders. Together, they led itinerant lives, traveling around Japan teach…
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Black women undertook an energetic and unprecedented engagement with internationalism from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. In many cases, their work reflected a complex effort to merge internationalism with issues of women's rights and with feminist concerns. To Turn the Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism (U Illinois Press…
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You could fill a large library with books about JFK’s assassination. We’ve even touched on the subject here. The topic of the transfer of power from JFK to LBJ, however, has been neglected. I was under the impression that after JFK was pronounced dead, LBJ took an oath and that was that. As Steve Gillon points out in his terrific new The Kennedy As…
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The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space--an object of imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory dreams. The roots of these contestations lie in the different ways the Gulf has been defined as a region, both by those who live there and those beyond its shore. Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle E…
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The struggle against neoliberal order has gained momentum over the last five decades – to the point that economic elites have not only adapted to the Left's critiques but incorporated them for capitalist expansion. Venture funds expose their ties to slavery and pledge to invest in racial equity. Banks pitch microloans as a path to indigenous self-d…
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In an unsettling time in American history, the outbreak of right-wing violence is among the most disturbing developments. In recent years, attacks originating from the far right of American politics have targeted religious and ethnic minorities, with a series of antigovernment militants, religious extremists, and lone-wolf mass shooters inspired by…
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Send us a Text Message. The Plan gets deeper to captivate Vikraman. Meanwhile the heartbroken Vikraman is in Jain in his own chola Kingdom. Support the Show. Support this show by your generous contributions at www.buymeacoffee.com/madraspodcast.com also visit our online store www.studiokrishnaa.com to buy Ponniyinselvan related gift items ! Your su…
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In this captivating episode of "Negotiate Anything," host Kwame Christian sits down with renowned mediator and arbitrator Winter Wheeler to explore the complexities of human emotions and perspectives in negotiations. Winter Wheeler shares her insights on the significance of cultural knowledge, genuine empathy, and the emotional challenges that aris…
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The names of Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse are often readily recognized among many Americans. Yet the longer, dynamic history of the Lakota - a history from which these three famous figures were created - remains largely untold. In Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (Yale, 2019), historian Pekka Hämäläinen, author of The C…
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Original and deeply researched, The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York: A Cultural, Economic, and Demographic History, 1700-1827 (Cambridge University Press, 2024) provides a new interpretation of Dutch American slavery which challenges many of the traditional assumptions about slavery in New York. With an emphasis on demography and economics,…
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Operating on the premise that our failure to recognize our interconnected relationship to the rest of the cosmos is the origin of planetary peril, Ecological Solidarities: Mobilizing Faith and Justice for an Entangled World (Penn State University Press, 2019) presents academic, activist, and artistic perspectives on how to inspire reflection and mo…
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In Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy (Simon & Schuster, 2019), Matt Stoller explains how authoritarianism and populism have returned to American politics for the first time in eighty years, as the outcome of the 2016 election shook our faith in democratic institutions. It has brought to the fore dangerous forces that ma…
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In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of its own, inheritor of many of Rome's features,…
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Approaching translations of Tolkien's works as stories in their own right, Reading Tolkien in Chinese: Religion, Fantasy and Translation (Bloomsbury, 2024) reads multiple Chinese translations of Tolkien's writing to uncover the new and unique perspectives that enrich the meaning of the original texts. Exploring translations of The Lord of the Rings…
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In the late fifth century, a girl whose name has been forgotten by history was born at the edge of the Chinese empire. By the time of her death, she had transformed herself into Empress Dowager Ling, one of the most powerful politicians of her age and one of the first of many Buddhist women to wield incredible influence in dynastic East Asia. In th…
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An influential eighth-century Buddhist text, Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra, or Guide to the Practices of Awakening, how to become a supremely virtuous person, a bodhisattva who desires to end the suffering of all sentient beings. Stephen Harris’s Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path: Śāntideva on Virtue and Well-Being (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024)…
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What do universal rights to public goods like education mean when codified as individual, private choices? Is the “problem” of school choice actually not about better choices for all but, rather, about the competition and exclusion that choice engenders—guaranteeing a system of winners and losers? Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioni…
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In Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) historian Frances Tanzer traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German annexation through the early 1960s. The book reveals continuity in Vienna's cultural history across this period and a framework for interpreting Viennese c…
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Bryan Cranston as Michael Desiato in YOUR HONOR. Photo credit: Andrew Cooper/SHOWTIME. After running for two seasons on Showtime, Your Honor has become a big winner on Netflix, getting more streaming minutes than any other content on the service in its streaming debut last month. Not only has this drawn new attention to the show, it’s also opened u…
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This week, host Jorden Guth continues his conversation with Dr. Floyd Toole, exploring the origins of the Athena project at Canada’s NRC, the reasons for and details of his move to Harman International, some of the most misunderstood aspects of his research, the origins of his legendary book Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of …
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In this engaging episode of "Negotiate Anything," host Kwame Christian, Esq., M.A., sits down with Stephanie Hanna, attorney and founder of The Other 85, to discuss leveraging negotiation skills for effective networking and relationship building. Stephanie shares her journey and insights into the critical soft skills that make up "the other 85%" of…
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Inequality is America's biggest problem. Unions are the single strongest tool that working people have to fix it. Organized labor has been in decline for decades. Yet it sits today at a moment of enormous opportunity. In the wake of the pandemic, a highly visible wave of strikes and new organizing campaigns have driven the popularity of unions to h…
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Videogames have always depicted representations of American culture, but how exactly they feed back into this culture is less obvious. Advocating an action-based understanding of both videogames and culture, this book delineates how aspects of American culture are reproduced transnationally through popular open-world videogames. Playing American: O…
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In this week's episode, David and Modya speak with Rebecca Schliser, a core faculty member at the Institute for Jewish Spirituality and rabbinical student at Aleph, The Alliance for Jewish Renewal. They explore the middah of silence through the stories in parsha Balak and see how a donkey may be more in tune with the Divine than a human by employin…
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Kendra Sullivan's latest book of poetry, Reps (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2024), cycles through a series of operational exercises that gradually enable her to narrate an attempted escape from the trappings of narrativity—plot, character, chronology, and the promise of a probable future issuing forth from a stable past. From deep within a narrowly constr…
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In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Pei-hua Huang. Dr Pei-hua Huang’s work lies where bioethics and political philosophy intersect. She is interested in the interaction of social issues and medical technologies. She has a special interest in philosophical issues raised by human and moral enhancement technologies and the treatment of morally relevant…
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This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. At CARGC, we produce and promote critical, interdisciplinary, and multimodal research on global media a…
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“Stories of archives are always stories of phantoms, of the death or disappearance or erasure of something, the preservation of what remains, and its possible reappearance—feared by some, desired by others,” writes Thomas Keenan. Archiving the Commons: Looking Through the Lens of bak.ma (DPR Barcelona, June 2024) is about those stories and much mor…
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Part of a formidable publishing industry, cheap yet eye-catching graphic narratives consistently charmed early modern Japanese readers for around two hundred years. These booklets were called kusazōshi (“grass books”). Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan: The World of Kusazōshi (Brill, 2024) is the first English-language publication of its k…
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Why did José de León Toral kill Álvaro Obregón, leader of the Mexican Revolution? So far, historians have characterized the motivations of the young Catholic militant as the fruit of fanaticism. Robert Weis's book For Christ and Country: Militant Catholic Youth in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (Cambridge UP, 2019) offers new insights on how diverse sec…
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For over thirty years, modern Italy was plagued by ransom kidnappings perpetrated by bandits and organised crime syndicates. Nearly 700 men, women, and children were abducted from across the country between the late 1960s and the late 1990s, held hostage by members of the Sardinian banditry, Cosa Nostra, and the ’Ndrangheta. Subjected to harsh capt…
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In this moment, world-renowned philosopher and thinker Alain De Botton discusses how communication can lead to a better sex life. Alain says sex is like a mirror to the relationship as a whole. If something is wrong with a couples sex life, it’s usually a symptom of a wider problem. He says that a first step towards a more fulfilling sex life is re…
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Surprisingly little is known about Scottish experiences of the Second World War. Scottish Society in the Second World War (Edinburgh University Press, 2023) by Dr. Michelle Moffat addresses this oversight by providing a pioneering account of society and culture in wartime Scotland. While significantly illuminating a pivotal episode in Scottish hist…
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In this insightful episode of "Negotiate Anything," host Kwame Christian sits down with Michelle Fleming, the general counsel for Bell Techlogix, to dive deep into the nuances of negotiation from the perspective of an experienced legal professional. Michelle shares her invaluable experiences, emphasizing the importance of diversity of thought, inte…
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The development of Christian scriptures did not terminate once, for example, following Irenaeus and other influential patristic figures, the four gospels that would later be located at the front of the church’s New Testament were accepted by most churches and transmitted together in the same codex. Instead, erudite Christian readers employed new an…
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In this episode of Radio ReOrient we return to the literary theme of this season, to explore the work of Laury Silvers. Laury is the author of many successful book series set in the past and present of the Islamicate, including her Sufi Mysteries Quartet set in 10th Century Baghdad. In this interview she tells Saeed Khan and Salman Sayyid about her…
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Today’s book is: Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit (U Chicago Press, 2024), by Dr. Robin Bernstein, which tells the story of a teenager named William Freeman. Convicted of a horse theft he insisted he did not commit, he was sentenced to five years of hard labor in Auburn’s new prison. Uniting incarcerat…
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John Kuligowski is a Nonfiction Assistant Editor at Prairie Schooner and also currently a PhD student in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He worked as an assistant editor for volumes 392 and 394 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography and has published in a number of venues both online and in print. Zainab Omaki is likewise a Nonficti…
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