# moderated (podcasts) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover moderated. Page: Feed: --- ## [Out of the Blue, I Found You](https://baybookfest.libsyn.com/out-of-the-blue-i-found-you) _2026-08-17 · Bay Area Book Festival Podcast_ The funny and heartfelt stories of this panel honor the chosen family who show up at the most unexpected, but perhaps most necessary, moments in our lives. Woodworking by Emily St. James follows a trans high school teacher from a small town in South Dakota who befriends the only other trans woman she knows: her seventeen-year-old student, the high school's resident political dissident and Only… ## [Behind the Scenes of Audiobook Production](https://baybookfest.libsyn.com/behind-the-scenes-of-audiobook-production) _2026-08-14 · Bay Area Book Festival Podcast_ The sonic experts of this panel will pull back the curtains for listeners wondering what it takes to create an audiobook. Ray Archie , Founder of Notes to the Soul and Chief Audio Connoisseur of Brooklyn Sound Lab, has an extensive career in audio storytelling through audiobook narration, theatrical sound design, and musical innovation. Also with a background in music is Abigail Reno , an actor,… ## [Preserving Ancestral Knowledge as BIPOC Writers](https://baybookfest.libsyn.com/preserving-ancestral-knowledge-as-bipoc-writers) _2026-08-14 · Bay Area Book Festival Podcast_ Our workshop will start with a panel discussion, comprised of BIPOC writers who are part of the Rooted & Written program, on how we integrate our histories into our work. This session will blend conversation and craft on how we listen to, record, and honor ancestral knowledge on the page, without flattening it for mainstream expectations. Then we'll talk about writing. Using guided prompts,… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/baybookfest/Preserving_Ancestral_Knowledge_as_BIPOC_Writers_half.mp3?dest-id=587999) ## [Kaleidoscopic Convergence with 2025 NCBA Fiction Finalists](https://baybookfest.libsyn.com/kaleidoscopic-convergence-with-2025-ncba-fiction-finalists) _2026-08-13 · Bay Area Book Festival Podcast_ It can take just one brief touchpoint to forever bend the directions of our diverging paths, as the 2025 NCBA Fiction Finalists reveal. In R.O. Kwon 's Exhibit, young photographer Jin Han meets an alluring, injured world-class ballerina at a party in San Francisco, which unleashes a complex exploration of ambition, desire, and a familial curse spoken aloud. Sometimes, convergence occurs in the… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/baybookfest/Kaleidoscopic_Convergence_with_2025_NCBA_Fiction_Finalists.mp3?dest-id=587999) ## [Indicator Lights: Fine Tuning the Past to Drive Your Story into the Future](https://baybookfest.libsyn.com/indicator-lights-fine-tuning-the-past-to-drive-your-story-into-the-future) _2026-08-13 · Bay Area Book Festival Podcast_ The past and the future are linked, nowhere more so than in story. In this session, we will play on the tightrope between past and present, exploring how nailing the details of the past in a story builds a foundation for future worlds, allowing you to believably take the reader anywhere. We will also investigate the empowering role of the narrator, who often speaks from the future of the story.… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/baybookfest/Indicator_Lights-_Fine_Tuning_the_Past_to_Drive_Your_Story_into_the_Future-.mp3?dest-id=587999) ## [Unfinished Atlas: Begining When the World has Ended](https://baybookfest.libsyn.com/unfinished-atlas-begining-when-the-world-has-ended) _2026-08-12 · Bay Area Book Festival Podcast_ Unfinished Atlas: Beginning When the World Has Ended , four poets gather at the shifting edge between collapse and creation. Deema Shehabi writes with luminous attention to exile, memory, and the fragile architectures of home, tracing how language carries both loss and possibility. Daniel Summerhill's work carries the pulse of music, rhythmic and urgent. It explores justice, history, and the… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/baybookfest/Unfinished_Atlas-_Begining_When_the_World_has_Ended.mp3?dest-id=587999) ## [Out of the Darkness: Translators and Editors Shine Light on a New Treasure Trove of Swedish Literature](https://baybookfest.libsyn.com/out-of-the-darkness-translators-and-editors-shine-light-on-a-new-treasure-trove-of-swedish-literature) _2026-08-12 · Bay Area Book Festival Podcast_ Out of the Darkness is an exciting new anthology of classic Swedish literature which brings many stories to an English-reading audience for the very first time. Vendela Vida and David Katznelson , co-editors of the collection, and translators Victoria Häggblom and Amanda Doxtater will discuss the selection and translation process and highlight the work of these authors in particular: Hjalmar… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/baybookfest/Out_of_the_Darkness-_Translators_and_Editors_Shine_Light_on_a_New_Treasure_Trove_of_Swedish_Literature-.mp3?dest-id=587999) ## [Conjuring & Conjugating: Siguanabes in Future Tense](https://baybookfest.libsyn.com/conjuring-conjugating-siguanabes-in-future-tense) _2026-08-11 · Bay Area Book Festival Podcast_ In Conjuring & Conjugating: Siguanabas in Future Tense , four community-engaged writers of the Central American Diaspora discuss Indigenous mythologies as vessels for embodiment and transformation. Navigating legacies of violence, they reclaim the right to name themselves—writing into futures beyond the erasure of the colonial gaze. Taking the figure of La Siguanaba as both provocation and portal,… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/baybookfest/Conjuring__Conjugating-_Siguanabes_in_Future_Tense.mp3?dest-id=587999) ## [Brevity: Souls of Short Stories](https://baybookfest.libsyn.com/brevity-souls-of-short-stories) _2026-08-11 · Bay Area Book Festival Podcast_ Short stories are the swift vehicles of the written word that leave lasting impressions on both passengers and bystanders alike. This panel features writers who have experimented with the form in various ways to create unique short story collections that highlight broader issues. With genre-bending fiction, Jude Berman blends social impact fiction and activist fiction in Shot: A Dictionary of the… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/baybookfest/Brevity-_Souls_of_Short_Stories.mp3?dest-id=587999) ## [Unsung Heroines: Visionary Women of the Bay Area](https://baybookfest.libsyn.com/unsung-heroines-visionary-women-of-the-bay-area) _2026-08-10 · Bay Area Book Festival Podcast_ In 2018, only 12% of San Francisco's street names, statues, parks, and public art honored women, but not because they didn't exist. How many notable women who deserve public recognition have been written out of the history of our region? Drawn from award-winning journalist Rae Alexandra 's KQED Arts & Culture series "Rebel Girls From Bay Area History," Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/baybookfest/Unsung_Heroines-_Visionary_Women_of_the_Bay_Area.mp3?dest-id=587999) ## [Ultra-Quiet Business Mini (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/tCbLpJfwysv3) _2026-08-10 · **Sponsored**_ Compact business mini, ultra-quiet for focused work. ## [Techno-Policing & Civic Control - with Sonja Peteranderl and Matthias Monroy](https://disruptionlab.libsyn.com/techno-policing-civic-control-with-sonja-peteranderl-and-matthias-monroy) _2025-12-19 · Disruption Network Lab_ Upcoming Conference: 'Exposing Crimes is not a Crime: The Real-World Consequences of WikiLeaks', March 19–22 2025, Berlin - follow us for tickets and news! This episode: Techno-Policing & Civic Control With: Sonja Peteranderl (Investigative Journalist, Founder of BuzzingCities Lab, DE) and Matthias Monroy (Journalist, Activist, Expert on Civil Rights, Policing, and Security Technologies, DE). This… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/disruptionlab/Technopolicing_Podcast_96kbps.mp3?dest-id=1971815) ## [Illiberal Realities: Understanding Propaganda and the Orbanisation of Europe](https://disruptionlab.libsyn.com/illiberal-realities-understanding-propaganda-and-the-orbanisation-of-europe) _2025-04-23 · Disruption Network Lab_ Upcoming Conference: Shadows of Illiberalism , June 13–15 2025, Berlin This episode: Illiberal Realities: Understanding Propaganda and the Orbanisation of Europe With: Péter Adamik and Sára Szedlár (Freie Ungarische Botschaft, HU/DE). Two activists from the Berlin-based Hungarian expat organisation Freie Ungarische Botschaft (Free Hungarian Embassy) will give an overview of how Viktor Orbán's… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/disruptionlab/Illiberal_Realities_Podcast_96kbps.mp3?dest-id=1971815) ## [Marwa Fatafta on AI & Warfare in Gaza](https://disruptionlab.libsyn.com/marwa-fatafta-on-ai-warfare-in-gaza) _2024-11-19 · Disruption Network Lab_ How can we ensure the dystopian tech-enabled violence we are witnessing in Gaza is neither normalized nor harnessed in future armed conflicts? Marwa Fatafta discusses the technologies used by Israel in Gaza and the role of tech companies. Marwa leads Access Now's policy and advocacy work on digital rights in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Read more at https://dnlb.org/perfectstorm… [Listen](https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/disruptionlab/Marwa_Fatafta_-_The_Perfect_Storm_-_Podcast.mp3?dest-id=1971815)