Worthy Cause
The Worthy Cause Podcast is an all-new podcast from the Arena, hosted by Columbia-based creative Preach Jacobs.
The Worthy Cause Podcast takes you beyond the headlines of people, politics, and culture, and explores the intersection of all three.
Join Worthy Cause for two episodes each week featuring the best and brightest South Carolina has to offer.
The Worthy Cause Podcast takes you beyond the headlines of people, politics, and culture, and explores the intersection of all three.
Join Worthy Cause for two episodes each week featuring the best and brightest South Carolina has to offer.
Worthy Cause
Episode 22 with Tayler Simon
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The Arena
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Season 1
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Episode 22
Preach Jacobs interviews Tayler Simon, the founder of Liberation is Lit, a bookstore that focuses on liberating through literature. They discuss the pushback on literature in the education sector in South Carolina and the efforts to ban books.
Tayler explains that extreme right-wing conservatives in positions of power are behind these book bans, driven by organizations like Moms for Liberty. They also discuss the power of storytelling and how literature can be used as a form of protest and to build connections and empathy.