Gabrielle Bellot's guest appearances

Gabrielle Bellot

Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

How It Is

Cecile Richards

Rebecca Traister

Eve Rodsky

Nora McInerny

Lena Waithe

Maria Menounos

Gabrielle Union

Glennon Doyle

Phoebe Robinson

Jameela Jamil

Shantell Martin

Cristela Alonzo

Abby Wambach

Krista Tippett

Ellen Pao

OwlTail

Writer and editor Gabrielle Bellot joins Crafting with Ursula to discuss the power of names and naming across Le Guin’s work. From the very beginning, with Ged in Earthsea, a boy-wizard who is named in three very different ways, names have contained both power and an elusive mysterious quality for Le Guin. The ways names can both honor, connect, and reflect something true, or reduce, dismiss, and cause harm speak to deep questions about both language and identity. These are topics Bellot explores in her own writing, both about others—from Edward Gorey to Neil Gaiman, James Baldwin to J.K. Rowling—as well as about her own identity as a multiracial transgender writer from the Commonwealth of Dominica. We take Le Guin’s interest in class, gender, and race down to the level of the sentence and look at the many different ways she has explored names and naming across novels and stories as a means within language to both address the world and listen to it, to both hear the world and speak a new world into being. Today’s episode of Crafting with Ursula might be most in conversation with the first episode of the series with Becky Chambers, on creating aliens and alien cultures. For one, we return again to explore the world of The Left Hand of Darkness, but we also return to vital questions, as writers, and simply as people, around the importance of how we describe “the other,” “the stranger,” the person or being who we feel is not like ourselves, and what that description, what the names and words we choose, say about us. If you enjoy today’s conversation, and Crafting with Ursula more generally, consider joining the community of listener-supporters. You can check out all the many potential benefits of doing so at the show’s Patreon page.  Finally here is the Bookshop for today’s episode.     The post Crafting with Ursula : Gabrielle Bellot on The Power of Names &amp; Naming appeared first on Tin House.

Writer and editor Gabrielle Bellot joins Crafting with Ursula to discuss the power of names and naming across Le Guin’s work. From the very beginning, with Ged in Earthsea, a boy-wizard who is named in three very different ways, names have contained both power and an elusive mysterious quality for Le Guin. The ways names can both honor, connect, and reflect something true, or reduce, dismiss, and cause harm speak to deep questions about both language and identity. These are topics Bellot explores in her own writing, both about others—from Edward Gorey to Neil Gaiman, James Baldwin to J.K. Rowling—as well as about her own identity as a multiracial transgender writer from the Commonwealth of Dominica. We take Le Guin’s interest in class, gender, and race down to the level of the sentence and look at the many different ways she has explored names and naming across novels and stories as a means within language to both address the world and listen to it, to both hear the world and speak a new world into being. Today’s episode of Crafting with Ursula might be most in conversation with <a href="https://tinhouse.com/podcast/crafting-with-ursula-becky-chambers-creating-aliens-alien-cultures/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the first episode</a> of the series with Becky Chambers, on creating aliens and alien cultures. For one, we return again to explore the world of The Left Hand of Darkness, but we also return to vital questions, as writers, and simply as people, around the importance of how we describe “the other,” “the stranger,” the person or being who we feel is not like ourselves, and what that description, what the names and words we choose, say about us. If you enjoy today’s conversation, and Crafting with Ursula more generally, consider joining the community of listener-supporters. You can check out all the many potential benefits of doing so at the show’s <a href="http://patreon.com/betweenthecovers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon page</a>.  Finally here is the <a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/books-for-gabrielle-bellot-crafting-with-ursula-conversation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bookshop</a> for today’s episode. The post <a href="https://tinhouse.com/podcast/crafting-with-ursula-gabrielle-bellot-on-the-power-of-names-naming/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Crafting with Ursula : Gabrielle Bellot on The Power of Names &amp; Naming</a> appeared first on <a href="https://tinhouse.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tin House</a>.

Crafting with Ursula : Gabrielle Bellot on The Power of Names & Naming

Monica Ramirez

Molly Schiot

Who is allowed to speak? Who gets to be heard? In this episode we’re talking about how we find our voices and speak out. Mónica Ramírez, Alianza Nacional de Campesinas co-founder, makes sure female farmworkers’ voices are heard in the #MeToo conversation; writer Gabrielle Bellot explains why speaking out isn’t always easy; and filmmaker Molly Schiot tells us about an amazing group of women athletes who used their voices for change. We also hear from Executive Producer Reese Witherspoon who shares how she found her voice at 40, and host Diane Guerrero discusses how she found the courage to tell her story, and the power that emerged from being honest.We want to hear YOUR story. Find us @hellosunshine on Instagram and Twitter and hello-sunshine.com. #HowItIsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Who is allowed to speak? Who gets to be heard? In this episode we’re talking about how we find our voices and speak out. Mónica Ramírez, Alianza Nacional de Campesinas co-founder, makes sure female farmworkers’ voices are heard in the #MeToo conversation; writer Gabrielle Bellot explains why speaking out isn’t always easy; and filmmaker Molly Schiot tells us about an amazing group of women athletes who used their voices for change. We also hear from Executive Producer Reese Witherspoon who shares how she found her voice at 40, and host Diane Guerrero discusses how she found the courage to tell her story, and the power that emerged from being honest. We want to hear YOUR story. Find us @hellosunshine on Instagram and Twitter and <a href="http://hello-sunshine.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">hello-sunshine.com</a>. #HowItIs See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

Our Voices, with Monica Ramirez, Gabrielle Bellot, and Molly Schiot