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Premium 90: The OG Prefab (w/ special guest Amber Delgado)

This week we have Amber Delgado on to talk about her essay in Scalawag Magazine on the aesthetics of gentrification in Durham, North Carolina. Her essay can be found here: https://www.scalawagmagazine.org/2020/02/durham-nc-gentrification-culture/, her instagram is @CuratedTolerance, and you can submit entries to her zine at curatetolerance@gmail.com.

Premium 90: The OG Prefab (w/ special guest Amber Delgado)

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Watching homes get surrounded and swallowed up by obvious gentry ppl is scary, I feel awful every time I drive around Durm

Lee Korotash-Gullett

Good to see so many locals attracted to this show. I'm in the Eastern part of the state though and mostly find people from around the triangle or West

Lacรกnvict

Hi fellow Adam...you might try re-entering the rss information :)

Fellow Adam, did you get it figured out? I had to re-enter the rss info.

Anybody else having trouble getting the latest episode to show up in the feed in pocket casts for android?

Adam

I thought it sounded just fine, thoughtful. I have a warehouse -looking massive shed of a house going up right across the street from me, in a neighborhood of early 20th century Eastern Shore working class homes. The window placement on this monstrosity seem to have been designed by a toddler. I am renting, thank God.

Erin Kristina

Great interview. I lived in Durham for years and now live in a smaller town in NC. The growth is depressing to see, but is celebrated by most people, which just makes it more depressing.

Simia Canis

I did read it. Very well done. So sorry for the anxiety, I have panic disorder so I know what you are gong through. Thankfully mine does not manifest in public speaking situations. I will try to be more kind.

Mickey Soltys

Yeah having anxiety sucks, Iโ€™m a much better writer than speaker. You should read the Scalawag piece.

I like, love you guys but this episode was like, hard to like listen to as your guest was like overly nervous and like seemed like she couldn't like make like her points without like using the word like like every other like word. It like made it like difficult to like follow.

Mickey Soltys

This was a great interview. Truly!

The brutality of gentrification is rooted in slavery and white supremacy for sure. Take the example of white flight, which happened on the ground 100 plus years after the civil war, and even after civil rights. Whole populations divested from cities and erected temporary suburbs. The property values went with them. Families who stayed had generational wealth and equity cut, loss of businesses, etc while those who could afford to move out basically created an anarchistic breakaway civilization in the form of the exurbs and sprawl. Now 30 years later as those buildings reach their prime the promise of moving out of the city and buying post crash houses is pedaled to the lower classes and they assume the exurb life, only with no savings. And the buildings are already spent. Meanwhile capital assumes the city core it initially abandoned like nothing ever even happened.

Kurtis

TrillbilliesXScalawag ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜

Will N

THANK YOU SO GUYS AGAIN SO SO SO MUCH!!!!! Itโ€™s been an honor, truly. One slight edit I have for the show description, the email is curatedtolerance@gmail.com THANK YOU AGAIN!!!!

"like God damn I found Brooklyn in the south" big daddy Kane, welcome to durham 2005. Its crazy that this lyric still holds weight considering durham has become unaffordable and overrun with hipsters just like brooklyn.

Dubaba

Scalawag is a real special gem, can't wait to listen this ep!

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