This Hispanic Heritage Month, we ask the question, how does one define Latino identity? And are there certain contexts when “latinx” is a more appropriate term? We explore these questions, and more, with our callers and with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Héctor Tobar, whose new book, Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of ‘Latino’ is a Kirkus Prize finalist. Today marks the series finale of the groundbreaking FX series “Reservation Dogs,” which focused on a group of indigenous teenagers living in Oklahoma. Writer, director, and executive producer Sterlin Harjo joins us to discuss the finale, and the show as a whole. The music of American-Venezuelan singer-songwriter Devendra Banhart tends to attract epithets like “cosmic,” “ambient,” and “gentle.” His new album, Flying Wig, delivers on those fortes, while leaning away from Banhart’s folk roots with synth production from Welsh musician Cate Le Bon. Banhart joins us for a Listening Party. Banhart will perform at Webster Hall on October 11 and Asbury Lanes on October 13.This Sunday, Brooklyn venue Baby’s All Right will host “A Benefit For Ukraine,” a concert with proceeds going to the relief organizations Kind Deeds, which provides prosthetics for wounded Ukrainians soldiers, and Razom, which aids displaced Ukrainians. The concert will feature performances from actor Michael Imperioli’s band ZOPA and rock band Loose Buttons, led by Ukrainian-American singer Eric Nizgretsky. Nizgretsky and Imperioli join us to preview the benefit.On October 1, the group A is for Abortion will hold its annual gala to raise both money and awareness for reproductive rights. We’ll speak to its founders, actors Martha Plimpton and Kellie Overbey about the event and the group’s mission in light of legal challenges to abortions and the overturn of Roe vs Wade.
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