82: When the personal, political and historical collide — in our bodies

In this interview, Savala Nolan, executive director of Berkeley's social justice center, talks about the "deeply corporeal nature" of her new memoir, Don't Let It Get You Down. "The body is where it all happens," she says. "It's where we experience life. It’s where we experience the world — the joys and the frictions. It’s where we experience the categories and the divisions in the world. They’re very often about our bodies and how other people see our bodies. And so, I think that our bodies become, over time, the site of so much knowledge and epiphany and humor and insight and also lies — we all probably believe lies about our bodies."

Listen to the episode and read the transcript on UC Berkeley News: https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/08/06/berkeley-voices-podcast-savala-nolan-new-book

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