Put The Chicken Wings Down And Record Grandma!
From SpeakUP! International Inc. by Ellington Brown
April 6, 2026 · 59 min
About this episode
The episode explores the importance of storytelling and cultural preservation with guest Majella Mark.
Silence can be a muzzle, but it can also be a strategy. We sit down with Majella Mark, cultural strategist, filmmaker, and author of Cats Are Trash, right after she reads a powerful passage on Women in Black and the way quiet protest can cut through a sea of violence. From there, we follow the thread that runs through everything she does: storytelling is not decoration, it is infrastructure. We dig into what cultural preservation looks like in real life for the Black diaspora and the wider A...
People in this episode
Host: Ellington Brown
Guest: Majella Mark
Topics covered
- cultural preservation
- storytelling
- Black diaspora
- quiet protest
- violence
Keywords
- cultural strategist
- filmmaker
- storytelling
- Black diaspora
- quiet protest
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Cats Are Trash, Women in Black
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