{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"\u201cUndoing the censorship that was stuck in me\u201d \u2013 A conversation with Achiro Olwoch, writer, playwright, filmmaker from Northern Uganda","description":"Free to Think speaks with Achiro P. Olwoch, an award-winning writer, playwright, and filmmaker from Northern Uganda, and current scholar-at-risk and Weiss International Fellow at Barnard College in New York City. Achiro describes her recent play \u2018The Survival,\u2019 the impact of anti-LGBTQ+ laws in Uganda, and how living in New York has made her a \u201cbolder artist.\u201d She also offers advice to fellow artists-in-exile: \u201cIt takes time. Allow yourself to learn, allow yourself to make mistakes, allow yourself to mourn, allow yourself to grow.\u201d  This episode is guest hosted by Leona Binz, a Program Officer on Scholars at Risk\u2019s Protection team, who has worked closely with Achiro since 2022 through SAR\u2019s Practitioners at-Risk program.  Watch Achiro\u2019s play \u2018The Survival\u2019 at the Criminal Queerness Festival at the Perelman Performing Arts Center in New York this June 2024. ","author_name":"Free to Think Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/scholarsatrisk.org\/podcast","html":"