Pio Abad
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490 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jun
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His understanding of grief as a productive force is really inspiring.
Yeah, and I think the peril that we've always faced, you know, living with parents, you know, who were brave enough to choose that route.
But, you know, there are moments when I was a kid where I thought my dad would be thrown into jail or... I mean, he was before you were born.
He was before me.
But there were also moments in, I think it was like...
early 2000s when they were involved in trying to append another corrupt presidency where I thought everyone, you know, they had their passports ready because I thought everyone had to flee.
And you kind of normalize these things because you have to, but actually, you know, it's really not.
You know, how old was I?
Like 20.
We were involved in like street protests that led to the overthrow of a really corrupt president.
Like, you know, these things that you live with that you think are normal, but actually they're not.
And it's great to have these writers who are kind of companions in upheaval and who can articulate things that you cannot.
One more is because I've been rereading him quite a lot recently is Teju Cole's
I think the drawings have kind of almost ended up being these like bibliographies to my life.
I wondered about that, yeah.
And the way he kind of, you know, the simple act of walking across, say, New York, kind of opens up these kind of layered histories.
I think it's really magical how fiction can do that.
And I think one thing can do something that the other cannot.
You know, I think that's why, like, it's funny, when the Turner Prize show was on, there was kind of, I think, because some critics just, you know, live to hate on the Turner Prize.
But there was a bit of annoyance that, like, my labels were very long because I wrote them myself.
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