Episode

When The Personal is Political

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Against the Grain: The Farm Aid Podcast
Published
Sep 3, 2025
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1729
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Summary

In this penultimate episode of Against the Grain's series on Artists and Activism, we get personal - as in "the personal is political." We talk to Waylon Payne, Allison Russell and Hunter Park (who performs as She Returns from War) about how their personal lives (and, really, all of our personal lives) are political and politicized, even if we're not the ones framing them that way. For Waylon, Allison and Hunter, "the personal is political" has led each to seek their own "chosen family"...