Patricia Kullberg

Patricia Kullberg speaks with Luisa Martinez about growing up undocumented in Florida and the deprivation and shame entailed in living as an impoverished Latina without papers. She relates how encountering the ideas of socialism offered her a new perspective on how imper... Read more

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz argues that migrants to the US, largely from the global south, are Americanized in ways that obscure the settler-colonialism that this country was founded on and that we have yet to reckon with. Our Well Read Red, Patricia Kullberg reads excerpts fro... Read more

Movie Moles Laurie Mercier and Frann Michel discuss the 1983 film El Norte. Directed and co-written by Gregory Nava, El Norte is an award winning, independent epic US film, notable for centering the experiences of two indigenous Mayan migrants from Guatemala as they move... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments on immigration: Growing up Undocumented: Patricia Kullberg speaks with Luisa Martinez about growing up undocumented in Florida and the deprivation and shame entailed in living... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which is a re-broadcast of a show from Against the Grain. Our world is replete with problems, calling out for repair and change. Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have solutions at the ready – tech fixes and innovation... Read more

Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which is a re-broadcast from Against the Grain. Black parents worry about racism’s impact on their children. Jennifer C. Nash is interested in both the nature of racialized anxiety and the way it’s rendered visible t... Read more

The Palestine Exception, a Portland-based documentary film directed by PSU faculty Jan Haaken and Jennifer Ruth, will screen at Cinema 21 on Jan. 26. As students across the country organize protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, decades-long taboos in academia around cri... Read more

Our Well-Read Red, Patricia Kullberg, reads excerpts from an article by Michael Harriot in which he argues that the real Martin Luther King Jr. made White people uncomfortable and intended to do so. And if MLK were not white-washed, White folks wouldn’t like him today. T... Read more

Joe Birdsong is a man perpetually out of place. He’s at once too Black and not Black enough. His skin is too dark and his hair too kinky. But he is also teased for talking like a White man. He’s at once color blind and acutely aware of color in a way that penetrates to h... Read more

  Public domain image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martin_Luther_King,_Jr_.svg Patricia Kullberg hosts this Martin Luther King Day episode of the Old Mole, featuring the following segments: Whites Would Not Like the Real MLK: Our Well-Read Red, Patricia Kull... Read more