“People in the Lithuanian queer movement are the real heroes. If you don’t support them, don’t support me” – says hiphop artist and activist Silvana Imam.
With her hit documentary Silvana: Wake Me Up When You’re Awake, Sweden’s Artist of the Year brought her “lesbian revolution” to the Lithuanian mainstream. But would people listen if she had stayed in Plungė, a small town in Lithuania, where she grew up with a Lithuanian mother and a Syrian father?
We met Silvana and her mother Lilija at Vilnius Film Festival „Kino Pavasaris“.
Further reading:
Swedish Rapper Silvana Imam is the Nation’s ‘Nonsense Warrior’ by Mathias Rosenzweig, PopCrush
Aš nebijau nieko. Lithuanian interview with Silvana Imam by Karolis Vyšniauskas after the first Silvana's show in Lithuania, 2016, DELFI
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Recorded by Kata Bitowt
Original music by Martynas Gailius
The studio sound was recorded at Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania.
This episode is supported by Lithuanian Council for Culture.
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