The Importance of Memory in Oral History

This week on Common Shapes podcast, I’m sharing the mic with my friend Tamara Santibañez for a conversation about oral histories, tattooing, freelancing, and art as activism.

Tamara is an interdisciplinary artist and oral historian living and working in Brooklyn. Their work is rooted in storytelling and the visual language of identity construction, exploring subcultural semiotics and the meanings we make from bodily adornment.

Tune in to hear us discuss—

• Tamara’s studio practice
• Oral histories & oral traditions
• Tattooing as liberation work
• How to balance many projects as a freelancer
• Making time for movement work
• Coalitions & political responsibility
• The different feelings/functions/forms of Instagram vs Substack

Links—

• Visit Tamara’s website
• Follow Tamara on Instagram
• Subscribe to Tamara’s Substack
• Get Tamara’s book, Could This Be Magic? Tattooing as Liberation Work
• Get the Creative Ideation Portal
• Sign up for my weekly newsletter
• Find all these links & more at codycookparrott.com/commonshapes

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