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S1E27 Complaint Activism, Killjoy Feminism, and the Power of NO! Featuring Sara Ahmed
“Complaints often get us to the politics of how the institution works. And that's how I've tried to see it - as a lens into the institution.” Writer, scholar and activist Sara Ahmed learned the harsh…
S1E26 Love, Freedom, Feminism, and Keeping Dalit Life Intact: Featuring Nikhil Pandhi
A story about love can “unspool the complexities of caste,” says Nikhil Pandhi, the editor of Love in the Time of Caste: A Dalit-feminist Anthology of Love Stories published by Zubaan Books, an indie…
S1E25 Queer, Palestinian and Decolonial: Featuring Tareq Baconi
“I had always placed my queer identity and my Palestinian identity in different buckets,” admits writer Tareq Baconi. This changed when he began writing his memoir, Fire in Every Direction, a…
S1E24 The Ballot as Battleground: Featuring Anjali Enjeti
Today, in the United States, the right to vote is more precarious and more contested than ever. “I have had front row seats to voter suppression,” writer, poll worker, activist and Georgia resident…
S1E23 Is Satire Dead? Featuring Gado
“Satire is dead. Long live satire,” Tanzanian political cartoonist Gado declares, laughing, as we sit down to discuss the role of satire, humor and cartoons in modern public discourse. Godfrey…
S1E22 ICE, A Bipartisan Tale of Border Imperialism: Featuring Harsha Walia
“Border regimes are some of the most normalized forms of violence,” writer and activist Harsha Walia says, because even the most progressive people “really struggle with the idea of abolishing the…
S1E21 Venezuela and the Long View: Featuring Geo Maher
“This is a brutal sanctions regime.” Writer, political scientist and educator Geo Maher emphatically reminds us about Venezuela. A bipartisan strategy that began with Barack Obama and got much worse…
S1E20 Palestinian Recipes Against Erasure: Featuring Lama Obeid
Ramallah-based culture writer Lama Obeid finds that the genocide has brought about a paradigm shift - not only in the realms of cookery, cookbooks and recipes, but also in the very food that…
S1E19 Poetry, Protest and Palestine: Featuring Ammiel Alcalay
In more than two dozen books spanning Iraq, Bosnia, Palestine and Vietnam, poet, translator and scholar Ammiel Alcalay has crystallized a piercing critique of American imperialism. He illustrates a…
S1E18 Documenting Sudanese Food as an Act of Resistance: Featuring Omer Al Tijani
“Food is politics,” Omer Al Tijani declares. “The documenting of cuisine and culture is an act of resistance against the ongoing oppression that we have been experiencing in Sudan.” In a country…
S1E17 Undoing Empire, One Story at a Time: Featuring Sunny Singh
Writer, scholar, and educator Sunny Singh explains that everything she does “centers around finding ways to undo empire.” The world we have inherited is “an ongoing colonial project” and thus “the…
S1E16 The Marginalization and Policing of Muslims in Kenya: Featuring Samar Al Bulushi
Kenya’s Muslim population has “long experienced political and economic marginalization” says Samar Al-Bulushi, anthropologist and author of War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, United States and the War…
S1E15 Palestine and the Racist Fiction of a Two-State Solution: Featuring Haidar Eid
“I spent the first two months of the genocide in Gaza,” writer, professor and activist Haidar Eid explains. “In Gaza itself, I was displaced three times.” After being evacuated in December 2023, Eid…
S1E14 Palestine, Black & African Solidarities, and the Perils of Online Activism: Featuring Sisonke Msimang
Sisonke Msimang is clear that she is, first and foremost, an African.“Despite the fact that Africa is not a country, I experience myself, I feel myself, to be African,” she tells me. Sisonke was born…
S1E13 Will Everyone Have Always Been Against This? Featuring Omar El Akkad
On October 25th, 2023, writer Omar El Akkad wrote a tweet about Palestine: “One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone…
S1E12 Black Muslim Refugee Resistance to US Militarism and Policing: Featuring Maxamed Abumaye
“I have been writing this book almost my whole life,” Maxamed Abumaye admits when asked about the motivation behind his recently published Black Muslim Refugee: Militarism, Policing, and Somali…
S1E11 Discerning Censorship and Rejecting Silence for Palestine: Featuring Anna Badkhen
If you’re being censored or policed, “you learn to recognize the signals your body sends you,” writer Anna Badkhen explains. A few months ago, Anna had turned down an invitation to participate in PEN…
S1E10 On the Rise and Fall of Statues: Featuring Rahul Rao
Whether its legacy figures like Cecil Rhodes, Mahatma Gandhi and B.R Ambedkar, or various military men or aggressive phallic sculptures, statues are the public’s direct and unavoidable encounter with…
S1E9 Frantz Fanon Stands for Revolutionary Love, Not Violence: Featuring Hassane Mezine
Frantz Fanon, the Martinican psychiatrist, prolific scholar, and active participant in the Algerian war of independence against France would have been 100 years old this year. He wrote about a wide…
S1E8 Frantz Fanon at 100: Featuring Olivier Fanon [In French]
Podcast was recorded in French. English subtitles are available in the YouTube video included below. Frantz Fanon, psychiatrist, scholar and revolutionary, would have turned 100 years old this year…
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