The Collective live today, on @kqbhla 101.5 fm from 3-4pm PST and kqbhla.com with Désirée Zamorano.
We chat about magical realism, coping through trauma, servitude, expanding the meaning of hope and community.
Désirée Zamorano:
Los Angeles native Désirée Zamorano is the author of the groundbreaking, historical fiction novel Dispossessed and the recently republished novel, The Amado Women. An award-winning writer, her work is an exploration of where cultures collide and connect. This June the University of Nevada will publish Amarisa’s Cooking Pot: Tales of Life and All Its Wonders, a collection of her stories. A selection of her work can be found in Alta, The Kenyon Review Online and Akashic’s South Central Noir. “Caperucita Roja,” originally published in Chicana/Latina Studies, was chosen as a distinguished short story in Best of American Mystery and Suspense. She is the Senior Fiction Editor of Silk Road Journal.
Listen in on The Collective for poetry, plays, art and more, this Sunday on KQBH LA 3-4pm PST, on 101.5fm in Los Angeles area and world wide on kqbhla.com.
Mission Statement/Overview:
The Collective focuses on everyday people to share the stories of those who do work for our communities and inspire love, connection, and empowerment. It is about those who bring us together to care for the impoverished, those with disabilities, immigrants, disadvantaged youth, and the planet. It is a space for conversation and an exchange of ideas with those who work to spread communal love in a collective effort to bring us all together as One.
We are all apart of the collective. It is not a special group or community out of anyone’s reach. The trees, the earth, the plants, the insects, the animals, and humans are all apart of the collective. We each have something to give to the world and our communities around us. It’s in knowing how to care for the ones we love, the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. It is all self-care. Community care is self-care. And together we are more than community, we are like the stars singing in the sky. We are music and our voices are the hum of the universe. Because we are of the earth and things of stars, and so is every thing on this earth.
