Thursday Jun 30, 2022
3. Memory’s Impact on the Present (Radhika Hettiarachchi, Ana Edwards)
The past–history, remembrance, and memory–doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It continues to affect each of us in the present in so many ways. In this episode, Radhika Hettiarachchiand Ana Edwards discuss historical memory and reclaiming spaces–both physical and figurative. Radhika discusses her work collecting personal narratives of mothers from Sri Lanka about the conflict and Ana makes connections to her work reclaiming and preserving Richmond’s African Burial Ground. Transcript: tinyurl.com/tjamerica3 or sitesofconscience.org