• Vanessa Veselka on What the Next American Revolution Might Look Like

    In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

    Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

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    In this episode, Andrew is joined by Vanessa Veselka, the author of Zazen, to tell a story of activism, police violence, and white guilt in a not so distant dystopian America.

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    Vanessa Veselka has been at various times, a teenage runaway, a sex-worker, a musician, a union organizer, and a student of paleontology. Her work appears in GQ, Bitch, The Atlantic, Tin House, Zyzzyva, and Best American Essays.


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