Dr. Ebony Toussaint and Tayler Simon host a crossover episode between Ororo Comics Podcast and Liberation is Lit with Cebo Campbell, author of Sky Full of Elephants. We discuss Black Speculative Fiction Month, storytelling, and home within diaspora. Campbell describes writing at his mother’s busy Southern dinner table, his extensive travel to explore Black identity and diaspora, and reveals his upcoming sequel to Sky. You don’t want to miss this rich discussion, including whether red velvet cake beats pound cake and whether Cebo Campbell puts sugar in his grits!
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Timeline
00:00 Crossover Welcome
00:47 Meet Tayler Simon
01:58 Introducing Cebo Campbell
03:35 Birthday Banter
04:27 Sky Full Opening
05:57 Writing With Toni
07:40 Moms Table Process
13:08 Food Talk Debate
15:16 Travel Diaspora Arc
16:50 Part Two Reveal
22:16 Ending Signal Discourse
24:23 Being Meta in America
25:06 Melanin as Light
27:01 Marking Up the Book
27:29 Diaspora Energy and Connection
28:27 Why Mobile Alabama
30:48 Reverse Migration and Home
34:30 Four Books One Slate
35:18 Lightning Round Fun
38:08 Wells Without Water Tease
40:32 Tour and Final Thanks
