MAMP Podcast Ep # 46: How to Be a Revolutionary Writer

On episode 46 of the podcast, I want to encourage everyone to pick up their pens and fight. Yes, become a revolutionary writer. We can all put pen to paper and write for our lives. You don’t need permission to write. You don’t need fancy tools or equipment. You simply must write.

You can write newspaper articles, blog posts, poems and manifestos. You can  write novels, comic books, biographies and letters to your congressperson. You can write pamphlets, plays, memoirs and letters to your younger self. You can write text books and guide books and an entire magazine if you’re up for it. You can write song lyrics, movie screenplays, and letters to your racist uncle.  

Join me as I share how revolutionary writers are born and stick around to hear from three extraordinary revolutionary writers – Tracey Lewis-Giggets, Kenrya Rankin and Zetta Elliott –  who are all busy creating revolutionary works right now.

By the end of the show, I hope everyone is inspired to write!

About Our Revolutionary Writer Guests

Kenrya Rankin

Kenrya Rankin can be found at Kenrya.com and @Kenrya on Twitter and Instagram. Her new book is Anti-Racism: Powerful Voices, Inspiring Ideas. Her last book was How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance. And her forthcoming book, Complex Saviors, explores the ways racism kills Black women—and the ways they save themselves. Hear more from Kenrya on her podcast, The Turn On. Kenrya was guest on the MAMP podcast talking about how we fight white supremacy on episode 40.

Zetta Elliott

For more information about Zetta Elliott, visit her website Zetta Elliott.com. You can also hear Zetta speak more about her career and philosophy about writing for young people on episode #6 of the MAMP podcast. Her two latest books are both poetry collections for young people, Say Her Name and A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart. Follow Zetta on social media on Facebook and Twitter @ZettaElliott.

You can learn more about Tracey at New Season Books and Media. You can read one of Tracey’s latest essays on Black joy as resistance in the Washington Post. And follow her on social @tmlgwriter on IG and Facebook and @tmleiws on Twitter. Tracey also has a podcast,  Heart Talk Podcast where she has conversations that meet at the intersection of art, storytelling and healing.