Ep 395 - Zayd Ayers Dohrn, Child of the Underground and Author of DANGEROUS, DIRTY, VIOLENT, AND YOUNG
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Zayd Ayers Dohrn discusses his memoir and the complexities of his upbringing in a radical family.
Zayd Ayers Dohrn is the child of AirGo alums and lifelong radicals Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn (yes, we've interviewed his parents too lol). You may remember him as the creator of the podcast Mother Country Radicals. Born underground, Zayd lived in fugitivity with his parents. All his life, they said his birth marked a clean break with violent revolutionary struggle, but in his new memoir, he discovers that story wasn’t entirely true. We talk about the messiness and murkiness he uncovered as he dug deeper into his story, the contradictions he grew up in, and what it means to openly and honestly interrogate where and who you come from. SHOW NOTES Buy Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground - https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324089315 Listen to Mother Country Radicals - https://crooked.com/podcast-series/mother-country-radicals/ Check out our convo with Bill Ayers - https://airgoradio.com/airgo/2026/2/12/ep-386-bill-ayers-legendary-leftist-and-teacher-for-liberation-returns Listen to our episode with Bernardine Dohrn - https://airgoradio.com/airgo/2023/6/8/ep-322-bernardine-dohrn Follow AirGo - instagram.com/airgoradio…
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