{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthe-freedom-takes.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Finside-literary-prize-2025-astrid-roemer-Md8yf8Y_","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Inside Literary Prize 2025: Astrid Roemer","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/ac6133f3-8afa-4ecd-a499-1677ca2d77d9/427e8e9a-4742-4f9a-a23c-e93b3f4a622a/freedom-20takes-203000-c3-973000-2025-06-19.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/b3687339-70cb-454a-a358-7a0ecb606d40\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Inside Literary Prize 2025: Astrid Roemer\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"In today’s episode, Astrid Roemer sits down with Allie Salazar Gonzalez, Development Manager at Freedom Reads, and Dempsey, Resident Creative Writer at Freedom Reads. Following a reading from her novel On a Woman’s Madness, first released in 1982 and translated from Dutch by Lucy Scott, Roemer talks about feminism and the power of her words. On a Woman’s Madness was shortlisted for the 2025 Inside Literary Prize, the first major US literary prize awarded exclusively by incarcerated judges. The novel follows Noenka, a Black, queer, woman in Suriname as she seeks freedom from an abusive marriage. Through relationships with Ramses, her male lover, and an older woman named Gabrielle, Noenka explores her deepest desires and liberates herself from societal expectations of women."}