2019 Provocations
On the first night of the 2019 Third Coast Conference, all 800+ attendees gathered for a series of short, provocative talks.
On the first night of the 2019 Third Coast Conference, all 800+ attendees gathered for a series of short, provocative talks.
2019 Late Night Provocations were curated, produced and hosted by Emily Kennedy & Maya Goldberg-Safir. Additional editorial support from Third Coast staff.
To view the visuals associated with the following provocations, click here.
- "Be Trans, Do Radio: A Provocation for the Cis (Cis means you're not trans)" by Cassius Adair & Tuck Woodstock
- "Just Say It: Your Thing is Bad" by Martine Powers
- "Ike's Rapid-Fire Bias Check" by Ike Sriskandarajah
- "When You Are Very Stuck" by Tom Howell
- "You Are Not a Rig and Stories Are Not Oil" by Jenny Casas & Erisa Apantaku
- "We're All Losing" by Liza Yeager
- "This Happened" by Janey Williams
- Audio Benediction by James Kim
Mixed by Neroli Price.
Featuring
Cassius Adair (@cassius_a) is an audio producer and media scholar from Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Tuck Woodstock (@tuckwoodstock) is a queer journalist, audio producer, and inclusivity educator based in Portland, Oregon. During the 2019 Late Night Provocations, Tuck spoke on how trans-affirming storytelling can make all of our stories — not just those explicitly about trans people — more accurate, more inclusive, and frankly more interesting.
Martine Powers (Mar-TEEN powers) is the senior host of “Post Reports,” The Washington Post's flagship daily news podcast.
Ike Sriskandarajah (@RadioIke) is an Emmy award-winning radio producer and reporter at Reveal from The Center For Investigative Reporting. As a speaker at the 2019 Late Night Provocations, Ike will give tips to keep bias out of your questions and your copy.
Tom Howell (@_TomHowell) makes documentaries for CBC Radio's Ideas and The Doc Project , and is a series regular on the comedy news quiz, Because News. As a speaker at the 2019 Late Night Provocations, Tom will introduce you to the mind-blowing concept of 'docu-musical.'
Jenny Casas (@jnnsmn) (she/her) is a reporter on WNYC's podcast, The Stakes. As a speaker at the 2019 Late Night Provocations, Jenny will be joined by colleague & friend Erisa Apantaku for a short talk about the possibilities of making story-telling more generative and less extractive.
Erisa (she/her) is a Black/biracial, queer audio producer and educator from the lands of the Three Fires Confederacy of the Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi First Nations (Chicagoland).
Liza Yeager (She/Her) is a radio producer and writer.
Janey Williams is the creator of the podcast This Happened, and has also produced for Scene On Radio and UnFictional. As a speaker at the 2019 Late Night Provocations, Janey will talk about how, while interviewing friends about their reactions to her sexual assault, she discovered an underlying blind spot in her friends, by extrapolation, in her society, and, shockingly, in herself.
James Kim (@TooManyJames_s) (he/him) is the creator of the fiction podcast MOONFACE. At 2019 Late Night Provocations, James delivered the final provocation, known to Third Coast as the benediction.