Welcome to Inheritance from Mother Tongue, an attempt to make sense of what my mother left me. Today's episode is a lightly-edited conversation with Jason Tan de Bibiana from October 4th, 2020. Huge thanks to Jason for the conversation and for teaching me about facilitation, Tristan Paxton ( https://www.instagram.com/tristanpaxton07/ ) for the music, Mike Gagné ( https://www.behance.net/mikegagne ) for the art, and Cody Robertson for the editing and sound. This episode is dedicated to my cousin Laura Fero. Topics: Mix CDs (~2:20) Raptors - Nets (~4:00) Pelicans - COVID (~5:00) Lakers - Heat culture (~7:30) Marc to Barcelona (~11:30) Playing pickup during COVID/park closures (~12:15) Jason's work re: criminal/legal system, mental health, and substance use (~18:15) Secondhand Shad on incarceration (~22:00) Abolition, which has been around for much longer than 50 years and on which I hope to inform myself in an upcoming episode (~23:20) Other forms of justice (~30:00) Next Gen Men ( https://www.nextgenmen.ca/ ) and recognizing the patriarchy (~31:40) Jason's "mother tongue"(~41:00) "Mother tongues" in my family (~48:00) Jason's dad, the polyglot (~52:00) The Henry Moore room at the AGO, designed by Jason's dad (~54:00) Jason's colours & style (~59:00) Jason's genetic inheritance: colour blindness (~1:01:15) Bereavement, trauma, identity & telling personal stories (~1:08:00) Putting the dead in the past tense (~1:13:00) Bringing up the dead in conversation (~1:20:20) Facilitating (~1:22:20) A Next Gen Men circle General principles Your mom jokes, me being a bit of a psychopath (~1:47:30)…