Season 3, Episode 2: Capital T Truth

World War Z / Speculative Oral History with Kae Bara Kratcha

Nino discusses a 2006 postapocalyptic artifact from the US’s “war on terror”–World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie Wars, and talks with oral historian and librarian Kae Bara Kratcha about what it means to be a speculative oral historian, and why oral history is such a meaningful tool for recording–and imagining–queer history.

Find more of Kae’s work at their podcast feed, Subjunctive Mood Transmissions:

⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4O6MWjBArrJ5iDzoBPmf0n⁠

⁠https://bodyhomemaker.ohmaexhibits.org/⁠

Bodyhome Maker is a companion project to the amazing podcast Working 2050, you can find all it’s episodes on any podcast app.

For the real oral history projects we talked about, visit the NYC Trans Oral History Project to listen to trans New Yorkers narrate their lives: ⁠https://nyctransoralhistory.org/⁠

and find the Queens memory project here: ⁠https://queensmemory.org/⁠