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Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Lidia Yuknavitch

3/16/20261 hr 21 min

Lidia Yuknavitch is the bestselling author of The Chronology of Water, Reading the Waves, and The Big M, and a writer whose work blurs genre to explore themes of memory, embodiment, grief, and transformation. She joins to discuss her childhood, her early life as a competitive swimmer, the film adaptation of The Chronology of Water directed by Kristen Stewart, and how storytelling can reshape the narratives we carry.

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Clips

Showing 10 of 12
Where Are Their Bodies?
When A Monster Forgets
Prize Letter, Underwear, Vodka
Plateau Or Freedom?
Writing Out Of The Woe
Censor The Body, Silence Speech
Ambition, Reimagined
Ancestry Of Rage
Thrown Into The Lake
Epic Of Self-Destruction

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Lidia Yuknavitch· Guest0:01

    I'm a good swimmer, and I mean that both in actual water and in the waters of art and writing.

  2. Debbie Millman· Host0:07

    Mm-hmm.

  3. Lidia Yuknavitch· Guest0:08

    And that means I can help other people, and that's a reason to stick around.

  4. Debbie Millman· Host0:12

    [upbeat music] From the TED Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Millman. On Design Matters, Debbie talks with some of the most creative people in the world about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on. On this episode, a conversation with writer and artist Lidia Yuknavitch about trauma, writing, sex, and the centrality of one's body.

  5. Lidia Yuknavitch· Guest0:41

    To speak the body is an act of saving one's own life, I think.

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  7. Speaker 31:20

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