60 acast.com shado-lite https://shows.acast.com/shado-lite en Shado Mag shado,shado mag, Larissa Kennedy,Zoe Rasbash Shado Mag shado-lite is a brand new @shado.mag podcast hosted by Zoe Rasbash (@zorasbash) and Larissa Kennedy (@larissa_kennedy_). We will be using this podcast to navigate the big issues on your feed, moving from apathy and overwhelm to collective action and hopeful pathways forward. We’re not claiming to be experts in these issues – let’s remove the dichotomy of student versus teacher – but instead we want to take listeners on a collective journey of learning.


Visit shado’s website: shado-mag.com


Podcast artwork: @sayeeda.bacchus


Podcast production and music: @flrs.carla

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]]> shado-lite is a brand new @shado.mag podcast hosted by Zoe Rasbash (@zorasbash) and Larissa Kennedy (@larissa_kennedy_). We will be using this podcast to navigate the big issues on your feed, moving from apathy and overwhelm to collective action and hopeful pathways forward. We’re not claiming to be experts in these issues – let’s remove the dichotomy of student versus teacher – but instead we want to take listeners on a collective journey of learning.


Visit shado’s website: shado-mag.com


Podcast artwork: @sayeeda.bacchus


Podcast production and music: @flrs.carla

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]]> false Shado Mag info+6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05@mg-eu.acast.com 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 shado-lite episodic https://assets.pippa.io/shows/6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05/1688741386167-3cf0e6270fb146300a2c8b962de3ee74.jpeg https://shows.acast.com/shado-lite shado-lite Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Future of Black Feminist Archives with Isabella Kajiwara and Nydia Swaby Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Future of Black Feminist Archives with Isabella Kajiwara and Nydia Swaby Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT 47:18 68e500c7a1a19b453303b309 false https://shado-mag.com 68e500c7a1a19b453303b309 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 amy-ashwood-garvey-and-the-future-of-black-feminist-archives Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Future of Black Feminist Archives with Isabella Kajiwara and Nydia Swaby bonus 3 12 In our final episode of our bookshelf mini-series, Isabella interviews Black feminist artist-researcher, writer and curator, Nydia Swaby. 


While often referred to as the first wife of Marcus Garvey, Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Future of Black Feminist Archives documents Swaby's work to recover Amy's life as a political activist, cultural producer and Pan-Africanist in her own right. In the podcast, she reflects on her expansive journey through Amy's fragmented and dispersed archives, engaging in historical research alongside autoethnographic practice, speculative narrative, and arts-based research methods too. Swaby reflects on the precarity of Black feminist archives and the necessity of preserving these histories through creativity and experimentation.


This episode is part of a mini-series inspired by our latest shado bookshelf season: To Be Loved, Is To Be Remembered: Archiving for Liberation. We explored titles from Lawrence Wishart Books' Radical Black Women collection, curated in collaboration with the Black Cultural Archives to redress erasures of Black British and Black Transnational Feminist Histories. These works shine a light on the lives and activism of Claudia Jones, Gerlin Bean and Amy Ashwood Garvey - three revolutionary figures whose legacies continue to shape global justice movements.


Nydia Swaby's practice engages archives, autoethnography, photography, the moving image, and the imagination to explore the gendered, diasporic and affective dimensions of Black being and becoming. She is also the author of the book Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Future of Black Feminist Archives, which traces her journey in piecing together a biography of Garvey from her fragmented and dispersed archive.

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]]> In our final episode of our bookshelf mini-series, Isabella interviews Black feminist artist-researcher, writer and curator, Nydia Swaby. 


While often referred to as the first wife of Marcus Garvey, Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Future of Black Feminist Archives documents Swaby's work to recover Amy's life as a political activist, cultural producer and Pan-Africanist in her own right. In the podcast, she reflects on her expansive journey through Amy's fragmented and dispersed archives, engaging in historical research alongside autoethnographic practice, speculative narrative, and arts-based research methods too. Swaby reflects on the precarity of Black feminist archives and the necessity of preserving these histories through creativity and experimentation.


This episode is part of a mini-series inspired by our latest shado bookshelf season: To Be Loved, Is To Be Remembered: Archiving for Liberation. We explored titles from Lawrence Wishart Books' Radical Black Women collection, curated in collaboration with the Black Cultural Archives to redress erasures of Black British and Black Transnational Feminist Histories. These works shine a light on the lives and activism of Claudia Jones, Gerlin Bean and Amy Ashwood Garvey - three revolutionary figures whose legacies continue to shape global justice movements.


Nydia Swaby's practice engages archives, autoethnography, photography, the moving image, and the imagination to explore the gendered, diasporic and affective dimensions of Black being and becoming. She is also the author of the book Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Future of Black Feminist Archives, which traces her journey in piecing together a biography of Garvey from her fragmented and dispersed archive.

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]]> Gerlin Bean: Mother of the Movement with Isabella Kajiwara and A.S. Francis Gerlin Bean: Mother of the Movement with Isabella Kajiwara and A.S. Francis Sat, 15 Nov 2025 08:34:51 GMT 38:04 68e4ff90aa65ff9b03914733 false https://shado-mag.com 68e4ff90aa65ff9b03914733 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 gerlin-bean-mother-of-the-movement-with-isabella-kajiwara Gerlin Bean: Mother of the Movement with Isabella Kajiwara and A.S. Francis bonus 3 10 In today's episode, author A.S. Francis is joined by guest host Isabella Kajiwara for a powerful conversation on the life and legacy of Gerlin Bean - otherwise known as "Mother of the Movement." 


Together, they explore Bean's vital contributions to youth work, Black Power politics, gay liberation, and her deeply relational approach to leadership. Bean's efforts in intergenerational organising and transnational activism are also highlighted, while unpacking the challenges of documenting her legacy and the process behind writing her story.


This episode is part of a mini-series inspired by our latest shado bookclub season: To Be Loved, Is To Be Remembered: Archiving for Liberation. We explored titles from Lawrence Wishart Books' Radical Black Women collection, curated in collaboration with the Black Cultural Archives to redress erasures of Black British and Black Transnational Feminist Histories. These works shine a light on the lives and activism of Claudia Jones, Gerlin Bean and Amy Ashwood Garvey - three revolutionary figures whose legacies continue to shape global justice movements.


Amelia Francis is a PhD researcher examining women's involvement in Britain's Black radical organisations during the 1960s-1980s and the development of a Black women's movement. Amelia also works in production at Tate Modern, serves as a consultant to the Young Historians Project, and is co-founder and editor-in-chief of the History MattersJournal. 

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]]> In today's episode, author A.S. Francis is joined by guest host Isabella Kajiwara for a powerful conversation on the life and legacy of Gerlin Bean - otherwise known as "Mother of the Movement." 


Together, they explore Bean's vital contributions to youth work, Black Power politics, gay liberation, and her deeply relational approach to leadership. Bean's efforts in intergenerational organising and transnational activism are also highlighted, while unpacking the challenges of documenting her legacy and the process behind writing her story.


This episode is part of a mini-series inspired by our latest shado bookclub season: To Be Loved, Is To Be Remembered: Archiving for Liberation. We explored titles from Lawrence Wishart Books' Radical Black Women collection, curated in collaboration with the Black Cultural Archives to redress erasures of Black British and Black Transnational Feminist Histories. These works shine a light on the lives and activism of Claudia Jones, Gerlin Bean and Amy Ashwood Garvey - three revolutionary figures whose legacies continue to shape global justice movements.


Amelia Francis is a PhD researcher examining women's involvement in Britain's Black radical organisations during the 1960s-1980s and the development of a Black women's movement. Amelia also works in production at Tate Modern, serves as a consultant to the Young Historians Project, and is co-founder and editor-in-chief of the History MattersJournal. 

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]]> Claudia Jones: A life in exile with Isabella Kajiwara and Lola Olufemi Claudia Jones: A life in exile with Isabella Kajiwara and Lola Olufemi Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT 47:26 68e50169d798804c9e930a53 false 68e50169d798804c9e930a53 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 claudia-jones-a-life-in-exile-with-isabella-kajiwara Claudia Jones: A life in exile with Isabella Kajiwara and Lola Olufemi bonus 3 11 In today's episode, guest host Isabella Kajiwara is joined by black feminist writer and researcher Lola Olufemi in discussion of Claudia Jones: A Life in Exile by Marika Sherwood, the first book to chart her work in the movement for racial justice, focusing on her time in Britain.


They discuss the importance of remembering Claudia Jones as a communist, acknowledging the exile and persecution she faced due to McCarthyism in the U.S. and how her life was shaped by state violence and surveillance. Olufemi highlights Jones' efforts to bring an analysis of gender and race to Communist parties' understandings of exploitation, and how Jones harnessed cultural production as a mode of consciousness-building and resistance. Olufemi and Kajiwara discuss the challenges of sustaining revolutionary work amidst state surveillance and economic precarity, and what it will take for us to build truly inclusive and cross-disciplinary movements.


This episode is part of a mini-series inspired by our latest shado bookclub season: To Be Loved, Is To Be Remembered: Archiving for Liberation. We explored titles from Lawrence Wishart Books' Radical Black Women collection, curated in collaboration with the Black Cultural Archives to redress erasures of Black British and Black Transnational Feminist histories. These works shine a light on the lives and activism of Claudia Jones, Gerlin Bean and Amy Ashwood Garvey - three revolutionary figures whose legacies continue to shape global justice movements.


Lola Olufemi is a black feminist writer, researcher and Associate Lecturer based in the design school at University Arts London. Her work focuses on the utility of the political imagination in the textual and visual cultures of radical social movements, examining the role cultural production plays in materialist resistance and collective conceptualisations of futurity. She is author of Feminism Interrupted: Disrupting Power (Pluto Press, 2020), Experiments in Imagining Otherwise (Hajar Press, 2021), and the forthcoming Against Literature (2026).

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]]> In today's episode, guest host Isabella Kajiwara is joined by black feminist writer and researcher Lola Olufemi in discussion of Claudia Jones: A Life in Exile by Marika Sherwood, the first book to chart her work in the movement for racial justice, focusing on her time in Britain.


They discuss the importance of remembering Claudia Jones as a communist, acknowledging the exile and persecution she faced due to McCarthyism in the U.S. and how her life was shaped by state violence and surveillance. Olufemi highlights Jones' efforts to bring an analysis of gender and race to Communist parties' understandings of exploitation, and how Jones harnessed cultural production as a mode of consciousness-building and resistance. Olufemi and Kajiwara discuss the challenges of sustaining revolutionary work amidst state surveillance and economic precarity, and what it will take for us to build truly inclusive and cross-disciplinary movements.


This episode is part of a mini-series inspired by our latest shado bookclub season: To Be Loved, Is To Be Remembered: Archiving for Liberation. We explored titles from Lawrence Wishart Books' Radical Black Women collection, curated in collaboration with the Black Cultural Archives to redress erasures of Black British and Black Transnational Feminist histories. These works shine a light on the lives and activism of Claudia Jones, Gerlin Bean and Amy Ashwood Garvey - three revolutionary figures whose legacies continue to shape global justice movements.


Lola Olufemi is a black feminist writer, researcher and Associate Lecturer based in the design school at University Arts London. Her work focuses on the utility of the political imagination in the textual and visual cultures of radical social movements, examining the role cultural production plays in materialist resistance and collective conceptualisations of futurity. She is author of Feminism Interrupted: Disrupting Power (Pluto Press, 2020), Experiments in Imagining Otherwise (Hajar Press, 2021), and the forthcoming Against Literature (2026).

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]]> S3 E9: Is Rest Resistance? S3 E9: Is Rest Resistance? Sun, 24 Aug 2025 23:00:00 GMT 42:59 68ab98cce2f63983a7724e96 true https://shado-mag.com 68ab98cce2f63983a7724e96 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 s3-e9-is-rest-resistance S3 E9: Is Rest Resistance? full 3 9 In the last few years, we’ve seen the idea of ‘radical rest’ explode - but is rest always radical? Or has it been coopted by the wellness industry to placate us?


Zoe and Larissa go back to radical rests’ roots in Black Womanist Thought and Crip Theory to understand how we actually tackle the social conditioning of toxic productivity under white supremacist capitalism. What does doing the bare minimum mean? How does resting our body-minds make space for broader economic and societal shifts?


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]]> In the last few years, we’ve seen the idea of ‘radical rest’ explode - but is rest always radical? Or has it been coopted by the wellness industry to placate us?


Zoe and Larissa go back to radical rests’ roots in Black Womanist Thought and Crip Theory to understand how we actually tackle the social conditioning of toxic productivity under white supremacist capitalism. What does doing the bare minimum mean? How does resting our body-minds make space for broader economic and societal shifts?


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]]> S3 Ep8: Free Education in South Africa, shut downs, hunger strike and changing fact S3 Ep8: Free Education in South Africa, shut downs, hunger strike and changing fact Mon, 18 Aug 2025 08:14:10 GMT 32:06 68a2e0d28f019110bc4bc3c5 false https://shado-mag.com 68a2e0d28f019110bc4bc3c5 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 s3-ep8 S3 Ep8: Free Education in South Africa, shut downs, hunger strike and changing fact full 3 8 Since anti-apartheid activism, South Africa has been a beacon for people of conscience across the world to learn from. In this episode, Zoe and Larissa speak with a PhD student, Raees Noorbhai, who is an organiser with 10 years of experience fighting for free education at Wits University.


Trialling a different episode format (feedback welcome!), Zoe and Larissa reflect on some of the learnings from our dialogue with Raees. This chat covers tactics like marches, mass meetings and hunger strikes. Tune in to hear about how all of these have been used in South Africa’s Fees Must Fall movement, and to gain inspiration for the movements you’re a part of. Let us know if you’ve used any of these, or if you’re hoping to now!

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]]> Since anti-apartheid activism, South Africa has been a beacon for people of conscience across the world to learn from. In this episode, Zoe and Larissa speak with a PhD student, Raees Noorbhai, who is an organiser with 10 years of experience fighting for free education at Wits University.


Trialling a different episode format (feedback welcome!), Zoe and Larissa reflect on some of the learnings from our dialogue with Raees. This chat covers tactics like marches, mass meetings and hunger strikes. Tune in to hear about how all of these have been used in South Africa’s Fees Must Fall movement, and to gain inspiration for the movements you’re a part of. Let us know if you’ve used any of these, or if you’re hoping to now!

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]]> S3 Ep7: Debt strike, from local to global S3 Ep7: Debt strike, from local to global Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:28:39 GMT 39:02 688ffeb7eb4229c919048127 true https://shado-mag.com 688ffeb7eb4229c919048127 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 s3-ep7-debt-strike-from-local-to-global S3 Ep7: Debt strike, from local to global full 3 7

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]]> S3 Ep6: Artivism in Action, using the power of art to make a street into a power station S3 Ep6: Artivism in Action, using the power of art to make a street into a power station Wed, 23 Jul 2025 10:10:50 GMT 41:37 6880b52bfd9acfeba4ca2580 false https://shado-mag.com 6880b52bfd9acfeba4ca2580 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 s3-ep6-artivism-in-action-using-the-power-of-art-to-make-a-s S3 Ep6: Artivism in Action, using the power of art to make a street into a power station full 3 6 How do I make my street into a renewable power station? Speaking with Dan Edelstyn from the Power Project, this episode discusses how people power is fuelling renewable power generation on a street in Walthamstow. In Ann Pettifor’s seminal book, The Case for the Green New Deal, she wrote, “every building a power station”. Filmmaker duo Dan and Hilary have rose to the occasion alongside their community. The pair are capturing the process and using their art both to document the journey, and to compel others to action.


Tune into the Power Station film coming out soon here: https://membership.power.film/join-free


References:

The Case for the Green New Deal by Ann Pettifor

https://www.waterstones.com/book/artpolitik/neala-schleuning/9781570272486

Ways of Seeing by John Berger

Stream Dan and Hilary’s previous film, Bank Job


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]]> How do I make my street into a renewable power station? Speaking with Dan Edelstyn from the Power Project, this episode discusses how people power is fuelling renewable power generation on a street in Walthamstow. In Ann Pettifor’s seminal book, The Case for the Green New Deal, she wrote, “every building a power station”. Filmmaker duo Dan and Hilary have rose to the occasion alongside their community. The pair are capturing the process and using their art both to document the journey, and to compel others to action.


Tune into the Power Station film coming out soon here: https://membership.power.film/join-free


References:

The Case for the Green New Deal by Ann Pettifor

https://www.waterstones.com/book/artpolitik/neala-schleuning/9781570272486

Ways of Seeing by John Berger

Stream Dan and Hilary’s previous film, Bank Job


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]]> S3 Ep5: Fare strikes, What if we all just didn’t pay for the bus? S3 Ep5: Fare strikes, What if we all just didn’t pay for the bus? Mon, 14 Jul 2025 08:21:19 GMT 40:08 6874bdffea74e132fba6ede7 true https://shado-mag.com 6874bdffea74e132fba6ede7 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 s3-ep5-fare-strikes-what-if-we-all-just-didnt-pay-for-the-bu S3 Ep5: Fare strikes, What if we all just didn’t pay for the bus? full 3 5 What happens when riders refuse to pay, and do it together? In this episode, we explore the fare strike as a bold social justice tactic, where collective refusal to pay transit fares, or drivers' refusal to collect them, becomes a tool to demand more equitable public services. From Chile to Japan, fare strikes have been used to demand better public transport, job protection and wage increases - but does it always work? Can we just stop paying for the bus to protest privatisation? Or does it require a deeper, more strategic approach.


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]]> What happens when riders refuse to pay, and do it together? In this episode, we explore the fare strike as a bold social justice tactic, where collective refusal to pay transit fares, or drivers' refusal to collect them, becomes a tool to demand more equitable public services. From Chile to Japan, fare strikes have been used to demand better public transport, job protection and wage increases - but does it always work? Can we just stop paying for the bus to protest privatisation? Or does it require a deeper, more strategic approach.


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]]> S3 Ep4: The People’s Media: Shifting the Narrative, Raising Consciousness and Bringing People Into Movements S3 Ep4: The People’s Media: Shifting the Narrative, Raising Consciousness and Bringing People Into Movements Tue, 08 Jul 2025 12:41:26 GMT 55:35 686ae7ef3b5dc9fc22b844b3 true https://shado-mag.com 686ae7ef3b5dc9fc22b844b3 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 s3-ep4-the-peoples-media-shifting-the-narrative-raising-cons S3 Ep4: The People’s Media: Shifting the Narrative, Raising Consciousness and Bringing People Into Movements full 3 4 This week, Zoe and Larissa are in conversation with community organiser, youth worker and educator, Sara Bafo. This episode draws on her extensive experience to consider how we can use the media, the limitations of mainstream channels, and how we build alternatives. They also discuss how to take these decisions collectively with accountability to those we organise alongside.


N.B. this episode was recorded on Thursday 3rd July 2025 so all views expressed are from that date.

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]]> This week, Zoe and Larissa are in conversation with community organiser, youth worker and educator, Sara Bafo. This episode draws on her extensive experience to consider how we can use the media, the limitations of mainstream channels, and how we build alternatives. They also discuss how to take these decisions collectively with accountability to those we organise alongside.


N.B. this episode was recorded on Thursday 3rd July 2025 so all views expressed are from that date.

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]]> S3 Ep3: Reclaiming the commons in the 2020s S3 Ep3: Reclaiming the commons in the 2020s Mon, 30 Jun 2025 12:03:00 GMT 46:38 68627cd6f1f233736946ad1d true https://shado-mag.com 68627cd6f1f233736946ad1d 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 s3-ep3-reclaiming-the-commons-in-the-2020s S3 Ep3: Reclaiming the commons in the 2020s full 3 3

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]]> <![CDATA[S3 Ep2: Serbia's Student Revolution, How to Build Power from the Ground Up]]> Mon, 23 Jun 2025 09:33:22 GMT 55:50 68591f199ac6ed52f1d4a3e5 false https://shado-mag.com 68591f199ac6ed52f1d4a3e5 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 s3-ep2-serbias-student-revolution-how-to-build-power-from-th full 3 2 Serbia's students have sparked the country's largest mass mobilisation in the country's history - and they're not stopping at protests. Zoe and Larissa are joined by Kata from Extinction Rebellion Serbia to break down how radical solidarity between students and workers turned campus anger into nationwide power. From occupied universities to decentralised rural organising, this revolution is writing the figuring out a way of organising that genuinely builds alternative systems while tearing down the old ones.

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]]> Serbia's students have sparked the country's largest mass mobilisation in the country's history - and they're not stopping at protests. Zoe and Larissa are joined by Kata from Extinction Rebellion Serbia to break down how radical solidarity between students and workers turned campus anger into nationwide power. From occupied universities to decentralised rural organising, this revolution is writing the figuring out a way of organising that genuinely builds alternative systems while tearing down the old ones.

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]]> S3 Ep1: Beyond the March, Are Protests Actually Working? S3 Ep1: Beyond the March, Are Protests Actually Working? Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:51:11 GMT 33:01 684ff6b14ed3341b0f381731 false https://shado-mag.com 684ff6b14ed3341b0f381731 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 beyond-the-march-are-protests-actually-working S3 Ep1: Beyond the March, Are Protests Actually Working? full 3 1 Zoe and Larissa are back with Season 3 of Shado-Lite. This season we are focusing on organising tactics from across the world and history that actually work.

First up: the classic protest march. With fascism rising, military-industrial-complex raging, and borders hardening, are we still marching toward change or just marching in place? Time to get strategic about resistance. Let us know your thoughts by DMing us @shado.mag on instagram.



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]]> Zoe and Larissa are back with Season 3 of Shado-Lite. This season we are focusing on organising tactics from across the world and history that actually work.

First up: the classic protest march. With fascism rising, military-industrial-complex raging, and borders hardening, are we still marching toward change or just marching in place? Time to get strategic about resistance. Let us know your thoughts by DMing us @shado.mag on instagram.



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]]> I, Rigoberta Menchú with Isabella Kajiwara I, Rigoberta Menchú with Isabella Kajiwara Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT 28:06 67a886cb3ef0b176ea67655d false https://shado-mag.com 67a886cb3ef0b176ea67655d 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 i-rigoberta-menchu-with-isabella-kajiwara I, Rigoberta Menchú with Isabella Kajiwara full 2 20 Are you interested in learning more about the role of art and cultural production in resistance? Listen to this episode to find out about a book that is for you.


In another guest episode with the inimitable Isabella Kajiwara, we are discussing ‘I, Rigoberta Menchú’, the autobiographical account of Rigoberta Menchú, a Mayan Indigenous K’iche woman. Rigoberta tells the story of her community’s resistance to the Guatemala government in the 1970s and their army-led repression of revolutionary movements. Rigoberta describes the violence and brutality faced by Indigenous Guatemalans during this repression.‘I, Rigoberta Menchú’ is an account that she calls the testimony of her people and this legacy has continued to inspire indigenous peoples in struggle throughout Central America.


This is the final book of the last bookshelf series ‘Literature for Liberation’ which has traversed revolutionary autobiographies, exploring the role of storytelling in political education and movement ecosystems. In this episode, we discuss the threads of shared experience between these accounts – in repression, resistance, community building and worldmaking. From these stories, we learn lessons about how to build the future we are dreaming of.

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]]> Are you interested in learning more about the role of art and cultural production in resistance? Listen to this episode to find out about a book that is for you.


In another guest episode with the inimitable Isabella Kajiwara, we are discussing ‘I, Rigoberta Menchú’, the autobiographical account of Rigoberta Menchú, a Mayan Indigenous K’iche woman. Rigoberta tells the story of her community’s resistance to the Guatemala government in the 1970s and their army-led repression of revolutionary movements. Rigoberta describes the violence and brutality faced by Indigenous Guatemalans during this repression.‘I, Rigoberta Menchú’ is an account that she calls the testimony of her people and this legacy has continued to inspire indigenous peoples in struggle throughout Central America.


This is the final book of the last bookshelf series ‘Literature for Liberation’ which has traversed revolutionary autobiographies, exploring the role of storytelling in political education and movement ecosystems. In this episode, we discuss the threads of shared experience between these accounts – in repression, resistance, community building and worldmaking. From these stories, we learn lessons about how to build the future we are dreaming of.

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]]> The Trinity of Fundamentals with Isabella Kajiwara The Trinity of Fundamentals with Isabella Kajiwara Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:00:51 GMT 44:32 673f8203a04cbcac1fdfa34c false https://shado-mag.com 673f8203a04cbcac1fdfa34c 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 the-trinity-of-fundamentals-with-isabella-kajiwara The Trinity of Fundamentals with Isabella Kajiwara full 2 19 In our previous episode, we spoke about the importance of supporting political prisoners, but how do we better understand their experiences? The Trinity of Fundamentals by former Palestinian political prisoner, Wisam Rafeedie, is a semi-autobiographical account of his nine years in hiding from the occupation, penned from an Israeli prison.


We often hear that each of us has a part to play in the revolution and this book is testament to that. This book is not only revolutionary in content but in how it came to exist through comradeship in the Palestinian resistance, too. In this episode, shado’s Isabella Kajiwara returns as a guest to the pod and talks about the incredible story behind that brought this book into being, and the lessons we can learn from it.


Tune in for this expansive discussion about how we might apply those lessons, and use the book as a tool in our organising — including a reflection on what it means to critically engage with the shortcomings of revolutionaries.


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]]> In our previous episode, we spoke about the importance of supporting political prisoners, but how do we better understand their experiences? The Trinity of Fundamentals by former Palestinian political prisoner, Wisam Rafeedie, is a semi-autobiographical account of his nine years in hiding from the occupation, penned from an Israeli prison.


We often hear that each of us has a part to play in the revolution and this book is testament to that. This book is not only revolutionary in content but in how it came to exist through comradeship in the Palestinian resistance, too. In this episode, shado’s Isabella Kajiwara returns as a guest to the pod and talks about the incredible story behind that brought this book into being, and the lessons we can learn from it.


Tune in for this expansive discussion about how we might apply those lessons, and use the book as a tool in our organising — including a reflection on what it means to critically engage with the shortcomings of revolutionaries.


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]]> Assata: An Autobiography with Isabella Kajiwara Assata: An Autobiography with Isabella Kajiwara Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:00:52 GMT 48:18 67210e4da73223e19b1fd998 false https://shado-mag.com 67210e4da73223e19b1fd998 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 assata-an-autobiography-with-isabella-kajiwara Assata: An Autobiography with Isabella Kajiwara full 2 18 What does it really mean to live a revolutionary life? Assata Shakur’s autobiography offers deeply personal – and candid – reflections on struggle, survival, and liberation. This is why it is such a must-read for organisers across the world.


Led by Isabella Kajiwara, the latest bookshelf season – Literature for Liberation – is exploring seminal autobiographies from revolutionaries across various struggles, inviting readers to reflect on the role of storytelling in our collective political education and movement ecosystems.


Isabella explains that the aim of the season is not to individualise struggle or put people on pedestals, but to study revolutionary lives as a lens through which to understand the wider struggle they are part of. By understanding how Assata Shakur understood political education, resisted carceral repression, and leaned on kinship throughout her organising, we can learn important lessons about what it means for each of us to live a revolutionary life.

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]]> What does it really mean to live a revolutionary life? Assata Shakur’s autobiography offers deeply personal – and candid – reflections on struggle, survival, and liberation. This is why it is such a must-read for organisers across the world.


Led by Isabella Kajiwara, the latest bookshelf season – Literature for Liberation – is exploring seminal autobiographies from revolutionaries across various struggles, inviting readers to reflect on the role of storytelling in our collective political education and movement ecosystems.


Isabella explains that the aim of the season is not to individualise struggle or put people on pedestals, but to study revolutionary lives as a lens through which to understand the wider struggle they are part of. By understanding how Assata Shakur understood political education, resisted carceral repression, and leaned on kinship throughout her organising, we can learn important lessons about what it means for each of us to live a revolutionary life.

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]]> Guest Episode: Storytelling for Indigenous Sovereignty Guest Episode: Storytelling for Indigenous Sovereignty Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:00:12 GMT 34:55 67210d2ab4c51fd56951c9c3 false https://shado-mag.com 67210d2ab4c51fd56951c9c3 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 storytelling-for-indigenous-sovereignty Guest Episode: Storytelling for Indigenous Sovereignty full 2 17 In this episode actress and Quechua storyteller, Nathalie Kelley discusses with contributing SHADO editor Samara Almonte, her journey as an Indigenous storyteller amidst growing-up in diaspora. Nathalie is a graduate of Kiss The Ground's Soil Advocacy program, and on the board of the Fungí Foundation. She is passionate about using her IG platform of 1.6 million followers to highlight the threats against Indigenous communities around the world while elevating Indigenous wisdom and technologies as means of coming back into harmony with our ecosystem. 


Resources:


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]]> In this episode actress and Quechua storyteller, Nathalie Kelley discusses with contributing SHADO editor Samara Almonte, her journey as an Indigenous storyteller amidst growing-up in diaspora. Nathalie is a graduate of Kiss The Ground's Soil Advocacy program, and on the board of the Fungí Foundation. She is passionate about using her IG platform of 1.6 million followers to highlight the threats against Indigenous communities around the world while elevating Indigenous wisdom and technologies as means of coming back into harmony with our ecosystem. 


Resources:


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]]> BP and the infrastructure of Genocide with Energy Embargo for Palestine BP and the infrastructure of Genocide with Energy Embargo for Palestine Sun, 15 Sep 2024 23:00:51 GMT 54:34 66e6ab332e655d1044269739 false https://shado-mag.com 66e6ab332e655d1044269739 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 bp-and-the-infrastructure-of-genocide-with-energy-embargo-fo BP and the infrastructure of Genocide with Energy Embargo for Palestine bonus 2 16 How is our energy system intertwined with the Israeli occupation of Palestine? Mariam and Felix, members of Energy Embargo for Palestine—an anti-imperialist climate collective—join us to explain how the fossil fuel industry sustains the Zionist project.

After months of investigating BP, they discuss the company's involvement in historical repressive regimes, political maneuvering, pipeline construction, and the swindling of the British public, all in pursuit of controlling Middle Eastern oil.


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]]> How is our energy system intertwined with the Israeli occupation of Palestine? Mariam and Felix, members of Energy Embargo for Palestine—an anti-imperialist climate collective—join us to explain how the fossil fuel industry sustains the Zionist project.

After months of investigating BP, they discuss the company's involvement in historical repressive regimes, political maneuvering, pipeline construction, and the swindling of the British public, all in pursuit of controlling Middle Eastern oil.


References:



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]]> The Dispossessed with Isabella Kajiwara The Dispossessed with Isabella Kajiwara Tue, 13 Aug 2024 08:35:38 GMT 31:10 66bb1add578b70d89d0a9a1d false https://shado-mag.com 66bb1add578b70d89d0a9a1d 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 the-dispossessed-with-isabella-kajiwara The Dispossessed with Isabella Kajiwara bonus 2 15 Do you often feel hopeless? Do you find it hard to imagine a better future for our world? So do we - which is why we’re bringing you this 3 part mini-series: World Building and Re-Imagination: How Fiction Can Free Us


Our bookclub - shado’s bookshelf - ran earlier this year, and was a journey through some of the best science fiction, speculative and political fiction of past and present. How can fiction help us imagine and create different worlds? These kind of questions are more necessary now than ever, in a political moment defined by apathy and fear. 


We need radical and visionary politics of action and creation!  This mini-series we’ll be taking each book and delving into the stories that can help us imagine otherwise, sharing insights from our book club for those who missed it. Our last book in the series, The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin is a titan of science fiction, credited for changing the genre with its brilliant and complex worldbuilding. What would a world without hierarchy really look like in practice, and is it possible?


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]]> Do you often feel hopeless? Do you find it hard to imagine a better future for our world? So do we - which is why we’re bringing you this 3 part mini-series: World Building and Re-Imagination: How Fiction Can Free Us


Our bookclub - shado’s bookshelf - ran earlier this year, and was a journey through some of the best science fiction, speculative and political fiction of past and present. How can fiction help us imagine and create different worlds? These kind of questions are more necessary now than ever, in a political moment defined by apathy and fear. 


We need radical and visionary politics of action and creation!  This mini-series we’ll be taking each book and delving into the stories that can help us imagine otherwise, sharing insights from our book club for those who missed it. Our last book in the series, The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin is a titan of science fiction, credited for changing the genre with its brilliant and complex worldbuilding. What would a world without hierarchy really look like in practice, and is it possible?


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]]> Begin the World Over with Isabella Kajiwara Begin the World Over with Isabella Kajiwara Sun, 04 Aug 2024 23:00:06 GMT 35:42 66afec5b6038d9e0ea3adee5 false https://shado-mag.com 66afec5b6038d9e0ea3adee5 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 begin-the-world-over-with-isabella-kajiwara Begin the World Over with Isabella Kajiwara bonus 2 14 Do you often feel hopeless? Do you find it hard to imagine a better future for our world? So do we - which is why we’re bringing you this 3 part mini-series: World Building and Re-Imagination: How Fiction Can Free Us


Our bookclub - shado’s bookshelf - ran earlier this year, and was a journey through some of the best science fiction, speculative and political fiction of past and present. How can fiction help us imagine and create different worlds? These kind of questions are more necessary now than ever, in a political moment defined by apathy and fear. 


We need radical and visionary politics of action and creation!  This mini-series we’ll be taking each book and delving into the stories that can help us imagine otherwise, sharing insights from our book club for those who missed it. Our second book in the series, Begin the World Over by Kung Li Sun, is a revolutionary counterfactual novel about the US Founders’ greatest fear —that Black and Indigenous people might join forces to undo the newly formed United States of America— coming true.


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]]> Do you often feel hopeless? Do you find it hard to imagine a better future for our world? So do we - which is why we’re bringing you this 3 part mini-series: World Building and Re-Imagination: How Fiction Can Free Us


Our bookclub - shado’s bookshelf - ran earlier this year, and was a journey through some of the best science fiction, speculative and political fiction of past and present. How can fiction help us imagine and create different worlds? These kind of questions are more necessary now than ever, in a political moment defined by apathy and fear. 


We need radical and visionary politics of action and creation!  This mini-series we’ll be taking each book and delving into the stories that can help us imagine otherwise, sharing insights from our book club for those who missed it. Our second book in the series, Begin the World Over by Kung Li Sun, is a revolutionary counterfactual novel about the US Founders’ greatest fear —that Black and Indigenous people might join forces to undo the newly formed United States of America— coming true.


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]]> Palestine+100 with Isabella Kajiwara Palestine+100 with Isabella Kajiwara Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:54:05 GMT 39:12 6697e91ec86d4486beb1feb6 true https://shado-mag.com 6697e91ec86d4486beb1feb6 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 palestine100-with-isabella-kajiwara Palestine+100 with Isabella Kajiwara bonus 2 13 Do you often feel hopeless? Do you find it hard to imagine a better future for our world? So do we - which is why we’re bringing you this 3 part mini-series: World Building and Re-Imagination: How Fiction Can Free Us


Our bookclub - shado’s bookshelf - ran earlier this year, and was a journey through some of the best science fiction, speculative and political fiction of past and present. How can fiction help us imagine and create different worlds? These kind of questions are more necessary now than ever, in a political moment defined by apathy and fear. 


We need radical and visionary politics of action and creation!  This mini-series we’ll be taking each book and delving into the stories that can help us imagine otherwise, sharing insights from our book club for those who missed it. Our first book, Palestine+100, is an anthology which poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in the year 2048 - a century after the tragedies and trauma of what has come to be called the Nakba?


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]]> Do you often feel hopeless? Do you find it hard to imagine a better future for our world? So do we - which is why we’re bringing you this 3 part mini-series: World Building and Re-Imagination: How Fiction Can Free Us


Our bookclub - shado’s bookshelf - ran earlier this year, and was a journey through some of the best science fiction, speculative and political fiction of past and present. How can fiction help us imagine and create different worlds? These kind of questions are more necessary now than ever, in a political moment defined by apathy and fear. 


We need radical and visionary politics of action and creation!  This mini-series we’ll be taking each book and delving into the stories that can help us imagine otherwise, sharing insights from our book club for those who missed it. Our first book, Palestine+100, is an anthology which poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in the year 2048 - a century after the tragedies and trauma of what has come to be called the Nakba?


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]]> Guest Episode: For First Nations Storytelling is Self-determination Guest Episode: For First Nations Storytelling is Self-determination Fri, 05 Jul 2024 10:28:28 GMT 42:12 6685371904b201dd342f0030 false https://shado-mag.com 6685371904b201dd342f0030 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 guest-episode-for-first-nations-storytelling-is-self-determi Guest Episode: For First Nations Storytelling is Self-determination full 2 12 Contributing SHADO editor Samara Almonte is back to discuss the power of storytelling through a First Nations worldview with distinguished professor Larissa Behrendt AO. Larissa has a legal background with a strong track record in the areas of Indigenous law, policy, creative arts, education and research. She is a Native Title holder and member of the Yuwaalaraay (yuwalarai) Euahlayi Aboriginal Corporation and is also a member of the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council. Larissa is also an award-winning author, filmmaker and host of Speaking Out on ABC Radio. In this episode, Larissa shares about her upbringing as an Aboriginal woman and how storytelling has been a practice for cultural preservation, healing and advocacy for her. 


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]]> Contributing SHADO editor Samara Almonte is back to discuss the power of storytelling through a First Nations worldview with distinguished professor Larissa Behrendt AO. Larissa has a legal background with a strong track record in the areas of Indigenous law, policy, creative arts, education and research. She is a Native Title holder and member of the Yuwaalaraay (yuwalarai) Euahlayi Aboriginal Corporation and is also a member of the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council. Larissa is also an award-winning author, filmmaker and host of Speaking Out on ABC Radio. In this episode, Larissa shares about her upbringing as an Aboriginal woman and how storytelling has been a practice for cultural preservation, healing and advocacy for her. 


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]]> Guest episode: Circular Design for a Just Transition with Samara Almonte and What Design Can Do Guest episode: Circular Design for a Just Transition with Samara Almonte and What Design Can Do Tue, 21 May 2024 23:00:00 GMT 37:00 664d1cf5ef9f8200122f2ce2 false https://shado-mag.com 664d1cf5ef9f8200122f2ce2 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 guest-episode-circular-design-for-a-just-transition-with-sam Guest episode: Circular Design for a Just Transition with Samara Almonte and What Design Can Do bonus 2 11 In this episode, contributing shado editor Samara Almonte is back to connect with Natasha Berting, a designer and writer from Bali, Indonesia and the communications editor for What Design Can Do (WDCD). WDCD is an international organisation that seeks to accelerate the transition to a sustainable, fair and just society using the power of design. Samara and Natasha discuss how WDCD works to address system issues at large, for example through circularity, as a way to address the climate crisis. But where does the concept of circularity come from and who should benefit from it? 


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]]> In this episode, contributing shado editor Samara Almonte is back to connect with Natasha Berting, a designer and writer from Bali, Indonesia and the communications editor for What Design Can Do (WDCD). WDCD is an international organisation that seeks to accelerate the transition to a sustainable, fair and just society using the power of design. Samara and Natasha discuss how WDCD works to address system issues at large, for example through circularity, as a way to address the climate crisis. But where does the concept of circularity come from and who should benefit from it? 


To learn more about circularity, visit the following resources: 



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]]> S2 Ep10: Home is many things! What now? S2 Ep10: Home is many things! What now? Tue, 16 Apr 2024 11:40:39 GMT 44:05 661e63b7daf4c300176da5ed true https://shado-mag.com 661e63b7daf4c300176da5ed 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 s2-ep10-home-is-many-things-what-now S2 Ep10: Home is many things! What now? full 2 10 We always come back to how everyone deserves a right to home: somewhere safe and dignified to live. And over this season, shado-lite has traversed histories and geographies to understand how people have and still are fighting for that basic right: from Indigenous communities reclaiming their land, to the fight for Caribbean communities to access their beaches, to squatters in Brixton housing the homeless in unused buildings. 


Inspired Amarha Spence’s use of her ‘Grandads house’ to guide her work on building life-affirming infrastructures for her community and beyond, Zoe and Larissa are asking how expanding our concept of homes can build healthier and happier movements and imagine warm, kind and fair futures. 


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]]> We always come back to how everyone deserves a right to home: somewhere safe and dignified to live. And over this season, shado-lite has traversed histories and geographies to understand how people have and still are fighting for that basic right: from Indigenous communities reclaiming their land, to the fight for Caribbean communities to access their beaches, to squatters in Brixton housing the homeless in unused buildings. 


Inspired Amarha Spence’s use of her ‘Grandads house’ to guide her work on building life-affirming infrastructures for her community and beyond, Zoe and Larissa are asking how expanding our concept of homes can build healthier and happier movements and imagine warm, kind and fair futures. 


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]]> S2 Ep9: Settler colonialism in historic Palestine, home as a site of resistance S2 Ep9: Settler colonialism in historic Palestine, home as a site of resistance Fri, 05 Apr 2024 12:14:10 GMT 54:52 660fe554f35eef00178cb380 true https://shado-mag.com 660fe554f35eef00178cb380 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 s2-ep9-settler-colonialism-in-historic-palestine-home-as-a-s S2 Ep9: Settler colonialism in historic Palestine, home as a site of resistance full 2 9 On this week’s episode we are joined by Sarona Bedwan, on behalf of Makan, a Palestinian-led transformative education organisation that strengthens voices for Palestinian rights. Continuing on our series centred on the concept of home, this time we’re talking about how Israeli settler colonialism not only violently displaces Palestinian people from their homeland but commits psychological and ecological violence in efforts to sever the connection Palestinians have to land that they, and their ancestors, have cultivated and lived in relationship with for generations. Amid the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, it is more important than ever that we are deepening our knowledge of how settler colonialism operates, the resistance of Palestinians themselves, and how this can inform our action in solidarity with the Palestinian people. FREE FREE PALESTINE!


References:


Makan - https://www.makan.org.uk/


“Prisoners are the Compass of Our Struggle”: why the release of Palestinian prisoners is central to our liberation - https://shado-mag.com/opinion/prisoners-release-palestine-israel-war/


The environmental cost of Western greed in Palestine and the Democratic Republic of Congo


How the British Museum’s partnership with BP has shown the world its allegiance to imperialism at any cost


Other shado articles on Palestine - https://shado-mag.com/discover/palestine/


Explainer TikTok: No such thing as an ‘innocent settler’


Dar Jacir 


Jumana Manna


APN, the Arab League for the Protection of Nature


Vivien Sansour


Mazin Qumsiyeh


Muna Dajani






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]]> On this week’s episode we are joined by Sarona Bedwan, on behalf of Makan, a Palestinian-led transformative education organisation that strengthens voices for Palestinian rights. Continuing on our series centred on the concept of home, this time we’re talking about how Israeli settler colonialism not only violently displaces Palestinian people from their homeland but commits psychological and ecological violence in efforts to sever the connection Palestinians have to land that they, and their ancestors, have cultivated and lived in relationship with for generations. Amid the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, it is more important than ever that we are deepening our knowledge of how settler colonialism operates, the resistance of Palestinians themselves, and how this can inform our action in solidarity with the Palestinian people. FREE FREE PALESTINE!


References:


Makan - https://www.makan.org.uk/


“Prisoners are the Compass of Our Struggle”: why the release of Palestinian prisoners is central to our liberation - https://shado-mag.com/opinion/prisoners-release-palestine-israel-war/


The environmental cost of Western greed in Palestine and the Democratic Republic of Congo


How the British Museum’s partnership with BP has shown the world its allegiance to imperialism at any cost


Other shado articles on Palestine - https://shado-mag.com/discover/palestine/


Explainer TikTok: No such thing as an ‘innocent settler’


Dar Jacir 


Jumana Manna


APN, the Arab League for the Protection of Nature


Vivien Sansour


Mazin Qumsiyeh


Muna Dajani






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]]> S2 Ep8: Taking home for all, Landless Workers Movement S2 Ep8: Taking home for all, Landless Workers Movement Tue, 19 Mar 2024 21:40:12 GMT 54:54 65fa03ad1c46ed0017d52a61 false https://shado-mag.com 65fa03ad1c46ed0017d52a61 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 s2-ep8-taking-home-for-all-landless-workers-movement S2 Ep8: Taking home for all, Landless Workers Movement full 2 8 We’re talking about the importance of home this season, and it’s crucial we understand the impact of homeless and landless peoples on the world. This week we’re sitting down with Dandara, representing the MST or Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement - one of the largest peoples movement in Latin America, celebrating 40 years of action.


Since 1984, the movement has lead more than 2,500 land occupations with 370000 families that are today settled on 7.5 million hectares of land they won as a result. The impact on Brazilian land and agrarian policy is unparalleled - and we have to ask Dandara, what can the rest of the world learn?


References:


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]]> We’re talking about the importance of home this season, and it’s crucial we understand the impact of homeless and landless peoples on the world. This week we’re sitting down with Dandara, representing the MST or Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement - one of the largest peoples movement in Latin America, celebrating 40 years of action.


Since 1984, the movement has lead more than 2,500 land occupations with 370000 families that are today settled on 7.5 million hectares of land they won as a result. The impact on Brazilian land and agrarian policy is unparalleled - and we have to ask Dandara, what can the rest of the world learn?


References:


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]]> S2 Ep7: Wages for Housework, the home as a workplace S2 Ep7: Wages for Housework, the home as a workplace Mon, 04 Mar 2024 00:00:17 GMT 42:36 65e50b2096c151001846a0a9 true https://shado-mag.com/ 65e50b2096c151001846a0a9 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 s2-ep7-wages-for-housework-the-home-as-a-workplace S2 Ep7: Wages for Housework, the home as a workplace full 2 7 Okay but run it all back - for years feminists have asked us to understand the home as a place of work, as a place where labour is enacted for free everyday. The Wages for Housework movement launched in 1972 united women across geographies and lived experience with the idea that housework is not ‘innately womens work’ nor an ‘act of love’, but labour which capitalism depends on to thrive and therefore deserves a wage. Women deserve to get paid for all the invisible work that the world needs to function: cleaning, cooking, having sex and raising the workforce. 


This week, Zoe and Larissa are returning to this foundational feminist movement to ask: should we still be fighting for this? How far have we come in 50 years?


Resources:


  • Selin Çağatay (she/her/hers) (2023) “If women stop, the world stops”: forging transnational solidarities with the International Women’s Strike, International Feminist Journal of Politics
  • How the Caribbean influenced domestic work and the ‘international parliament of labour’
  • Amelia Horgan, 2021. Creeping and Ameliorative Accounts of "Work". Theory & Event
  • "Wages for housework means wages against heterosexuality": On the Archives of Black Women for Wages for Housework and Wages Due Lesbians Beth Capper, Arlen Austin

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]]> Okay but run it all back - for years feminists have asked us to understand the home as a place of work, as a place where labour is enacted for free everyday. The Wages for Housework movement launched in 1972 united women across geographies and lived experience with the idea that housework is not ‘innately womens work’ nor an ‘act of love’, but labour which capitalism depends on to thrive and therefore deserves a wage. Women deserve to get paid for all the invisible work that the world needs to function: cleaning, cooking, having sex and raising the workforce. 


This week, Zoe and Larissa are returning to this foundational feminist movement to ask: should we still be fighting for this? How far have we come in 50 years?


Resources:


  • Selin Çağatay (she/her/hers) (2023) “If women stop, the world stops”: forging transnational solidarities with the International Women’s Strike, International Feminist Journal of Politics
  • How the Caribbean influenced domestic work and the ‘international parliament of labour’
  • Amelia Horgan, 2021. Creeping and Ameliorative Accounts of "Work". Theory & Event
  • "Wages for housework means wages against heterosexuality": On the Archives of Black Women for Wages for Housework and Wages Due Lesbians Beth Capper, Arlen Austin

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]]> S2 Ep6: Building home away from home, from the bus to the club S2 Ep6: Building home away from home, from the bus to the club Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:00:09 GMT 42:46 65dcaccd8be4210016944533 false https://shado-mag.com 65dcaccd8be4210016944533 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 s2-ep6-building-home-away-from-home-from-the-bus-to-the-club S2 Ep6: Building home away from home, from the bus to the club full 2 6 Can the club be a home? This week, Leticia Sánchez Garris joins the podcast to chat about her work creating cultural events and club nights for the African diaspora in Buenos Aires. Leticia founded Afro-hunting in 2017, a cultural movement which brings together and makes visible the beating heart of music, art and culture lead by and for those of afro-descent.


How does coming together to experience joy help us build solidarity to get through the hard times? How has culture made the afro-histories of Buenos Aires visible?


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]]> Can the club be a home? This week, Leticia Sánchez Garris joins the podcast to chat about her work creating cultural events and club nights for the African diaspora in Buenos Aires. Leticia founded Afro-hunting in 2017, a cultural movement which brings together and makes visible the beating heart of music, art and culture lead by and for those of afro-descent.


How does coming together to experience joy help us build solidarity to get through the hard times? How has culture made the afro-histories of Buenos Aires visible?


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]]> S2 Ep5: Home on the move, the Right to Roam S2 Ep5: Home on the move, the Right to Roam Tue, 20 Feb 2024 17:36:29 GMT 46:26 65d480548c285e001693f7bd false https://shado-mag.com 65d480548c285e001693f7bd 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 s2-ep5-home-on-the-move-the-right-to-roam S2 Ep5: Home on the move, the Right to Roam full 2 5 As far back as we can go, communities have been on the move - migrating due to seasons, changing environments, cultures. Yet since 1500s in the UK, the state has clamped down on mobile communities, creating laws specifically to expel Gypsy, Roma and Traveller groups or force them to assimilate to static ways of living. 


In this episode Larissa and Zoe get heated about the importance of the Right to Roam for all of us, how living on the move is resistance and ask WHY is the state so scared of mobile communities??? Digressions include whether the #VanLife girlies will join the revolution. 


References:


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]]> As far back as we can go, communities have been on the move - migrating due to seasons, changing environments, cultures. Yet since 1500s in the UK, the state has clamped down on mobile communities, creating laws specifically to expel Gypsy, Roma and Traveller groups or force them to assimilate to static ways of living. 


In this episode Larissa and Zoe get heated about the importance of the Right to Roam for all of us, how living on the move is resistance and ask WHY is the state so scared of mobile communities??? Digressions include whether the #VanLife girlies will join the revolution. 


References:


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]]> S2 Ep4: Homeland, who benefits when we don’t reconnect? S2 Ep4: Homeland, who benefits when we don’t reconnect? Mon, 12 Feb 2024 00:00:33 GMT 51:28 65c930152f12a60016f96ef1 false https://shado-mag.com 65c930152f12a60016f96ef1 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 s2-ep4-homeland-who-benefits-when-we-dont-reconnect S2 Ep4: Homeland, who benefits when we don’t reconnect? full 2 4 This week Shado-lite hosts the incredible Samara Almonte, fellow shado-editor, storyteller, organiser, urban planner and creative director of Raíces Verdes podcast. Intended to be a chat on how language informs relationship to land and environment, the discussion spirals into navigating our own spiritual homecomings, Indigenous futurisms and how we can all uplift the fight for Indigenous communities self-determination and landback. 


Tune in to hear Larissa and Zoe processing Samara’s wisdom in real time: how do we reconnect meaningfully with the earth? And who benefits when we don’t?


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]]> This week Shado-lite hosts the incredible Samara Almonte, fellow shado-editor, storyteller, organiser, urban planner and creative director of Raíces Verdes podcast. Intended to be a chat on how language informs relationship to land and environment, the discussion spirals into navigating our own spiritual homecomings, Indigenous futurisms and how we can all uplift the fight for Indigenous communities self-determination and landback. 


Tune in to hear Larissa and Zoe processing Samara’s wisdom in real time: how do we reconnect meaningfully with the earth? And who benefits when we don’t?


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]]> S2 Ep3: Beach Access Movements, the island as a home S2 Ep3: Beach Access Movements, the island as a home Mon, 05 Feb 2024 14:51:39 GMT 41:14 65c0f5fb4674f50016689017 true https://shado-mag.com 65c0f5fb4674f50016689017 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 s2-ep3-beach-access-movements-the-island-as-a-home S2 Ep3: Beach Access Movements, the island as a home full 2 3 Community organisers resisting environmental colonisation in Jamaica are fighting for legal beach access and environmental personhood for beaches. Co-hosts Zoe and Larissa explore the Jamaica Beach Birthright Environmental Movement and similar campaigns in Barbados, Mexico and beyond, that have sought to reclaim beaches. This episode is a love letter to all those resisting the commodification of beaches, challenging neocolonial tourism, fighting for workers’ rights and environmental protections on beaches. Have a listen to get inspired by community-led campaigns that connect the dots between beach access, colonialism, race and class!



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]]> Community organisers resisting environmental colonisation in Jamaica are fighting for legal beach access and environmental personhood for beaches. Co-hosts Zoe and Larissa explore the Jamaica Beach Birthright Environmental Movement and similar campaigns in Barbados, Mexico and beyond, that have sought to reclaim beaches. This episode is a love letter to all those resisting the commodification of beaches, challenging neocolonial tourism, fighting for workers’ rights and environmental protections on beaches. Have a listen to get inspired by community-led campaigns that connect the dots between beach access, colonialism, race and class!



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]]> S2 Ep2: Tuvalu, the fight to save home S2 Ep2: Tuvalu, the fight to save home Tue, 30 Jan 2024 20:11:13 GMT 37:44 65b909687c4d650017dac412 false https://shado-mag.com 65b909687c4d650017dac412 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 the-island-as-a-home-the-fight-for-climate-justice S2 Ep2: Tuvalu, the fight to save home full 2 2 From Tuvalu to Saint Vincent, from South Pacific to the Caribbean, small islands on the frontlines of climate change are demanding climate justice. Those that call these islands home are fighting hard to protect their community and cultures from climate disaster.


Kato Ewekia, leader of Save Tuvalu and the first youth Tuvaluan delegate to participate in the United Nations Conference of the Parties, joins Zoe and Larissa to share how his island home is changing, what Tuvalu want the rest of the world to understand and why you shouldn’t wear flip flops when visiting Glasgow in November. Tune in for a curiously hopeful episode and instructions for living our lives more generously.


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]]> From Tuvalu to Saint Vincent, from South Pacific to the Caribbean, small islands on the frontlines of climate change are demanding climate justice. Those that call these islands home are fighting hard to protect their community and cultures from climate disaster.


Kato Ewekia, leader of Save Tuvalu and the first youth Tuvaluan delegate to participate in the United Nations Conference of the Parties, joins Zoe and Larissa to share how his island home is changing, what Tuvalu want the rest of the world to understand and why you shouldn’t wear flip flops when visiting Glasgow in November. Tune in for a curiously hopeful episode and instructions for living our lives more generously.


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]]> S2 Ep1: The squat as a home, From Brixton to Brazil S2 Ep1: The squat as a home, From Brixton to Brazil Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:00:21 GMT 46:01 65a41f43c181320016aad2ee true https://shado-mag.com 65a41f43c181320016aad2ee 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 the-squat-as-a-home-from-brixton-to-brazil S1 Ep2: The squat as a home, From Brixton to Brazil full 2 1 Last season, the need for housing justice - in all its forms - came up so much that we’ve dedicated an entire season to it. From migrant communities building home away from home, to indigenous communities defending their homes, the concept of home has so much to teach us.


To kick us off, co-hosts Zoe and Larissa are talking squatting: and where better to start than Olive Morris, the Brixton Black Women’s Group, the Brixton Black Panthers and an occupied launderette in Brixton? (It's a South London massive!!) But our conversation took us from South of the Thames to the Rozbrat squat in Poland and the multiple interconnected squats of the #RightsToTheCity movement in Brazil. Can we look to the squat as a place of ‘collective worldmaking’?


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]]> Last season, the need for housing justice - in all its forms - came up so much that we’ve dedicated an entire season to it. From migrant communities building home away from home, to indigenous communities defending their homes, the concept of home has so much to teach us.


To kick us off, co-hosts Zoe and Larissa are talking squatting: and where better to start than Olive Morris, the Brixton Black Women’s Group, the Brixton Black Panthers and an occupied launderette in Brixton? (It's a South London massive!!) But our conversation took us from South of the Thames to the Rozbrat squat in Poland and the multiple interconnected squats of the #RightsToTheCity movement in Brazil. Can we look to the squat as a place of ‘collective worldmaking’?


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]]> Guest episode: The Power of Filmmaking as Indigenous Storytellers with Samara Almonte and Rachel Edwardson Guest episode: The Power of Filmmaking as Indigenous Storytellers with Samara Almonte and Rachel Edwardson Sun, 22 Oct 2023 23:00:14 GMT 56:00 65358b31e134fd00127263f2 false https://shado-mag.com/ 65358b31e134fd00127263f2 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 guest-episode-the-power-of-filmmaking-as-indigenous-storytel Guest episode: The Power of Filmmaking as Indigenous Storytellers with Samara Almonte and Rachel Edwardson bonus 1 11 In this episode, contributing SHADO writers, Samara Almonte and  Rachel Edwardson discuss the importance of indigenous storytelling in filmmaking as a tool for cultural preservation and revitalization. Rachel Edwardson is an Iñupiaq/Norwegian/Sami social justice filmmaker and educator from Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska. She is a Producer and Impact Producer on the film In My Blood It Runs directed in collaboration by Maya Newell and produced with Sophie Hyde and Larissa Bahrendt. Alongside film making Rachel has been honored to work in education reform with communities across Alaska and Australia. She works closely with her husband and Human Rights lawyer/filmmaker and educator, David S Vadiveloo, across Australia and Alaska.

Samara Almonte is part of the Michoacán diaspora, raised between the lakes and tierra caliente regions of Michoacán, Mexico and occupied Coast Salish territory or the Pacific Northwest. She identifies as a P’urhepecha descendant on a journey of reconnecting with her ancestors. Samara is the director of Raíces Verdes (Green Roots), a multimedia platform dedicated to archiving and sharing the experiences of Black, Indigenous, People of Color across diasporic experiences reconnecting with their “green roots”.

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]]> In this episode, contributing SHADO writers, Samara Almonte and  Rachel Edwardson discuss the importance of indigenous storytelling in filmmaking as a tool for cultural preservation and revitalization. Rachel Edwardson is an Iñupiaq/Norwegian/Sami social justice filmmaker and educator from Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska. She is a Producer and Impact Producer on the film In My Blood It Runs directed in collaboration by Maya Newell and produced with Sophie Hyde and Larissa Bahrendt. Alongside film making Rachel has been honored to work in education reform with communities across Alaska and Australia. She works closely with her husband and Human Rights lawyer/filmmaker and educator, David S Vadiveloo, across Australia and Alaska.

Samara Almonte is part of the Michoacán diaspora, raised between the lakes and tierra caliente regions of Michoacán, Mexico and occupied Coast Salish territory or the Pacific Northwest. She identifies as a P’urhepecha descendant on a journey of reconnecting with her ancestors. Samara is the director of Raíces Verdes (Green Roots), a multimedia platform dedicated to archiving and sharing the experiences of Black, Indigenous, People of Color across diasporic experiences reconnecting with their “green roots”.

Resources


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]]> Guest episode: Indigenous storytelling and the power of seeds with Samara Almonte and Diane Wilson Guest episode: Indigenous storytelling and the power of seeds with Samara Almonte and Diane Wilson Mon, 16 Oct 2023 07:36:24 GMT 47:16 65232224731c270011502dab false https://shado-mag.com 65232224731c270011502dab 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 diane-wilson Guest episode: Indigenous storytelling and the power of seeds with Samara Almonte and Diane Wilson bonus 1 10 In this episode, Samara Almonte, a contributing editor for SHADO, discusses the power of intergenerational healing and Indigenous stewardship with The Seed Keeper author, Diane Wilson. Diane Wilson is a Dakota writer and educator, who has published four award-winning books as well as essays in numerous publications. Wilson’s novel, The Seed Keeper, received the 2022 Minnesota Book Award for Fiction. Wilson is the former Executive Director for Dream of Wild Health, an Indigenous non-profit farm, and the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance, a national coalition of tribes and organizations working to create sovereign food systems for Native people. Wilson is a Mdewakanton descendant, enrolled on the Rosebud Reservation.


Samara Almonte is part of the Michoacán diaspora, raised between the lakes and tierra caliente regions of Michoacán, Mexico and occupied Coast Salish territory or the Pacific Northwest. She identifies as a P’urhepecha descendant on a journey of reconnecting with her ancestors. Samara is the director of Raíces Verdes (Green Roots), a multimedia platform dedicated to archiving and sharing the experiences of Black, Indigenous, People of Color across diasporic experiences reconnecting with their “green roots”.


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]]> In this episode, Samara Almonte, a contributing editor for SHADO, discusses the power of intergenerational healing and Indigenous stewardship with The Seed Keeper author, Diane Wilson. Diane Wilson is a Dakota writer and educator, who has published four award-winning books as well as essays in numerous publications. Wilson’s novel, The Seed Keeper, received the 2022 Minnesota Book Award for Fiction. Wilson is the former Executive Director for Dream of Wild Health, an Indigenous non-profit farm, and the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance, a national coalition of tribes and organizations working to create sovereign food systems for Native people. Wilson is a Mdewakanton descendant, enrolled on the Rosebud Reservation.


Samara Almonte is part of the Michoacán diaspora, raised between the lakes and tierra caliente regions of Michoacán, Mexico and occupied Coast Salish territory or the Pacific Northwest. She identifies as a P’urhepecha descendant on a journey of reconnecting with her ancestors. Samara is the director of Raíces Verdes (Green Roots), a multimedia platform dedicated to archiving and sharing the experiences of Black, Indigenous, People of Color across diasporic experiences reconnecting with their “green roots”.


Resources:


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]]> S1 Ep9: Season 1 wrap - okay, what can we do? S1 Ep9: Season 1 wrap - okay, what can we do? Sun, 01 Oct 2023 23:00:39 GMT 29:42 6519df60d1a6f90011d15389 false https://shado-mag.com 6519df60d1a6f90011d15389 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 season-1-wrap-okay-what-can-we-do S1 Ep9: Season 1 wrap - okay, what can we do? full 1 9 This season has discussed A LOT of stuff - from unpicking climate anxiety to the issues of carceral feminism. So Larissa and Zoe sit down to map out the connections between all of these issues. How are these systems connected and what might be the leverage points for change? When the scale of these issues can be super overwhelming, what are actions we can take to resist and rebuild?


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]]> This season has discussed A LOT of stuff - from unpicking climate anxiety to the issues of carceral feminism. So Larissa and Zoe sit down to map out the connections between all of these issues. How are these systems connected and what might be the leverage points for change? When the scale of these issues can be super overwhelming, what are actions we can take to resist and rebuild?


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]]> S1 Ep8: Is Big Tech ruining our dating lives? S1 Ep8: Is Big Tech ruining our dating lives? Sun, 24 Sep 2023 23:00:01 GMT 56:16 650707f1cb582e001174d4b1 false https://shado-mag.com 650707f1cb582e001174d4b1 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 is-big-tech-ruining-our-dating-lives S1 Ep8: Is Big Tech ruining our dating lives? full 1 8 Warning: this is an unbelievably straight episode. This week the girls are tackling ‘the apps’: are they making love and dating harder, or are they simply reflecting already broken society? How far can we blame big tech for the state of dating right now? And can we even be bothered to resist it?


Zoe and Larissa talk dating horror stories, politics of desirability and why straight mens dating profiles really are just for other men. Tune in for two 5’11 queens who cannot make up their mind on how we might change modern dating to be less BLEUGHJ… 


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]]> Warning: this is an unbelievably straight episode. This week the girls are tackling ‘the apps’: are they making love and dating harder, or are they simply reflecting already broken society? How far can we blame big tech for the state of dating right now? And can we even be bothered to resist it?


Zoe and Larissa talk dating horror stories, politics of desirability and why straight mens dating profiles really are just for other men. Tune in for two 5’11 queens who cannot make up their mind on how we might change modern dating to be less BLEUGHJ… 


References:










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]]> S1 Ep7: How do we make ourselves and our community ungovernable? S1 Ep7: How do we make ourselves and our community ungovernable? Sun, 17 Sep 2023 23:00:16 GMT 54:41 6507063eccb2760011087fc7 true https://shado-mag.com 6507063eccb2760011087fc7 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 how-do-we-make-ourselves-and-our-community-ungovernable S1 Ep7: How do we make ourselves and our community ungovernable? full 1 7 We know that many feminisms do not truly resist oppression in all its forms [insert TERFs and boss babes here] Another group of feminists flopping on the ‘radical reimagination’ front are carceral feminists.


Our guest this time, abolitionist revolutionary, author and lecturer Dr Aviah Sarah Day, describes the term carceral feminism as “a critique about a particular branch of the feminist movement”. With Aviah’s knowledge and experience in the movement, we get into why investing in policing and punitive responses to gendered violence will not save us!


Somehow the tech failed us on the recording of this episode (boo, hiss!) so we lost the second half of our chat with Aviah. Co-hosts Zoe and Larissa have wrapped up the chat by reflecting on some of the parts of the conversation that we lost.


In the episode, we discuss some examples of gendered and sexual violence, including r*pe, so if you’d like to skip that part of the conversation, hit pause at 32:14 and resume at 32:44. Masses of love and solidarity to any survivors listening.


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]]> We know that many feminisms do not truly resist oppression in all its forms [insert TERFs and boss babes here] Another group of feminists flopping on the ‘radical reimagination’ front are carceral feminists.


Our guest this time, abolitionist revolutionary, author and lecturer Dr Aviah Sarah Day, describes the term carceral feminism as “a critique about a particular branch of the feminist movement”. With Aviah’s knowledge and experience in the movement, we get into why investing in policing and punitive responses to gendered violence will not save us!


Somehow the tech failed us on the recording of this episode (boo, hiss!) so we lost the second half of our chat with Aviah. Co-hosts Zoe and Larissa have wrapped up the chat by reflecting on some of the parts of the conversation that we lost.


In the episode, we discuss some examples of gendered and sexual violence, including r*pe, so if you’d like to skip that part of the conversation, hit pause at 32:14 and resume at 32:44. Masses of love and solidarity to any survivors listening.


Resources:







Actions:



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]]> S1 Ep6: Why are the police in our schools? S1 Ep6: Why are the police in our schools? Mon, 07 Aug 2023 07:48:58 GMT 1:06:20 64d0a1ea90d002001187bdd9 false https://shado-mag.com/ 64d0a1ea90d002001187bdd9 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 why-are-the-police-in-our-schools S1 Ep6: Why are the police in our schools? full 1 6 FOIs conducted by the Runnymede Trust reveal that there are almost 1000 police officer operating in UK schools, and there are plans to hire more. Children and young people are being robbed of their childhoods through criminalisation and surveillance in schools.


Why do the police appoint “Safer Schools Officers” when we know that police make marginalised children unsafe? Why are surveillance technologies being rolled out in schools? Why is community concern about all of this ignored? Co-hosts, Zoe and Larissa, ask all these questions and more on this week’s episode. Have a listen to learn more about the issues we’re facing and the orgs on the ground that give us hope!


References:


  • The Runnymede Trust (2023) Over-policed and Under-protected Report


  • No More Exclusions (2021) School Exclusions During the Pandemic: Why we need a Moratorium



  • Safeguarding, Surveillance and Control: School Policy and Practice Responses to the Prevent Duty and the ‘war on terror’ in the U.K. Necla Acik, Jo Deakin and Bob Hindle 2018


  • Curating Risk, Selling Safety? Fear of Crime, Responsibilisation and the Surveillance School Economy Emmeline Taylor



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]]> FOIs conducted by the Runnymede Trust reveal that there are almost 1000 police officer operating in UK schools, and there are plans to hire more. Children and young people are being robbed of their childhoods through criminalisation and surveillance in schools.


Why do the police appoint “Safer Schools Officers” when we know that police make marginalised children unsafe? Why are surveillance technologies being rolled out in schools? Why is community concern about all of this ignored? Co-hosts, Zoe and Larissa, ask all these questions and more on this week’s episode. Have a listen to learn more about the issues we’re facing and the orgs on the ground that give us hope!


References:


  • The Runnymede Trust (2023) Over-policed and Under-protected Report


  • No More Exclusions (2021) School Exclusions During the Pandemic: Why we need a Moratorium



  • Safeguarding, Surveillance and Control: School Policy and Practice Responses to the Prevent Duty and the ‘war on terror’ in the U.K. Necla Acik, Jo Deakin and Bob Hindle 2018


  • Curating Risk, Selling Safety? Fear of Crime, Responsibilisation and the Surveillance School Economy Emmeline Taylor



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]]> <![CDATA[S1 Ep5: Can an art movement help us solve the world's problems?]]> Mon, 31 Jul 2023 07:30:37 GMT 48:07 64c7631ec501f6001168bcad false https://shado-mag.com/ 64c7631ec501f6001168bcad 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 can-an-art-movement-help-us-solve-the-worlds-problems full 1 5 Have you ever felt hopeless? Like everything is too complicated? Society is too hard to change?


Then maybe you need a bit of Solarpunk in your life, an art aesthetic / literary genre / political movement, proposing a radical different way of living and being. 


In this episode, co-host Zoe fangirls over Andrew Sage, an artist, YouTuber and organiser on solarpunk and leftist politics. Andrew deftly diagnoses our inability to radically change society is rooted in that we don’t know what alternative we are proposing. Solarpunk provides a vision for us to work towards, and values to build sustainable and successful movements for change.


In the words of Toni Cade Bambara, “the role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.”


Check out Andrews YouTube here YouTube.com/Andrewism & Patreon here patreon.com/saintdrew


References:






  • Tools for Conviviality (1973) Ivan Illich


Solaprpunk reading list:


  • Walk Away (2017) Cory Doctorow


  • The Dispossessed (1974) Ursula K. Le Guin


  • A Psalm for the Wild-Build (2021) Becky Chambers


  • Ecotopia (1975) Ernest Callenbach



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]]> Have you ever felt hopeless? Like everything is too complicated? Society is too hard to change?


Then maybe you need a bit of Solarpunk in your life, an art aesthetic / literary genre / political movement, proposing a radical different way of living and being. 


In this episode, co-host Zoe fangirls over Andrew Sage, an artist, YouTuber and organiser on solarpunk and leftist politics. Andrew deftly diagnoses our inability to radically change society is rooted in that we don’t know what alternative we are proposing. Solarpunk provides a vision for us to work towards, and values to build sustainable and successful movements for change.


In the words of Toni Cade Bambara, “the role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.”


Check out Andrews YouTube here YouTube.com/Andrewism & Patreon here patreon.com/saintdrew


References:






  • Tools for Conviviality (1973) Ivan Illich


Solaprpunk reading list:


  • Walk Away (2017) Cory Doctorow


  • The Dispossessed (1974) Ursula K. Le Guin


  • A Psalm for the Wild-Build (2021) Becky Chambers


  • Ecotopia (1975) Ernest Callenbach



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]]> S1 Ep4: What is Apple hiding? S1 Ep4: What is Apple hiding? Sun, 23 Jul 2023 23:00:23 GMT 44:36 64bd911bc960b70011201b49 true https://shado-mag.com/ 64bd911bc960b70011201b49 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 what-is-apple-hiding S1 Ep4: What is Apple hiding? full 1 4 Hello, we are scared of Big Tech and iPhones are cursed! 


This ep the girls are getting into the dark side of Apple: how was it able grow so exponentially in the noughties? 


We spin out into history of Chinese labour policy and emerging fin-tech in Africa, and the incredibly hard to pronounce ‘algorithmic colonialism’. The girls struggle to get their head around these massive supply chains that produce the little computers we’re all so addicted to. Tech girlies we need your advice, how do we bring down silicone valley? Or at least make them less evil??


References:


  • Proletarian China: A Century of Chinese Labour The Foxconn Suicide Express, (2022) Jenny Chan


  • Foxconned labour as the dark side of the information age: Working conditions at Apple’s contract manufacturers in China. Communication, Capitalism & Critique, (2013) Sandoval, Marisol. (2013)


  • Tech firms failing to address forced labour in supply chains (2010) Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Computer Weekly


  • Apple supplier Lens Technology accused of using forced labour in China (2021) Reed Albergotti, Washington Post


  • USA: Apple agrees to human rights and labour policy audit following investor pressure (2023) Aislinn Murphy, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre


  • Tech giants’ pivot out of China can usher in a human rights reset (2023) Michael Caster, Al Jazeera




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]]> Hello, we are scared of Big Tech and iPhones are cursed! 


This ep the girls are getting into the dark side of Apple: how was it able grow so exponentially in the noughties? 


We spin out into history of Chinese labour policy and emerging fin-tech in Africa, and the incredibly hard to pronounce ‘algorithmic colonialism’. The girls struggle to get their head around these massive supply chains that produce the little computers we’re all so addicted to. Tech girlies we need your advice, how do we bring down silicone valley? Or at least make them less evil??


References:


  • Proletarian China: A Century of Chinese Labour The Foxconn Suicide Express, (2022) Jenny Chan


  • Foxconned labour as the dark side of the information age: Working conditions at Apple’s contract manufacturers in China. Communication, Capitalism & Critique, (2013) Sandoval, Marisol. (2013)


  • Tech firms failing to address forced labour in supply chains (2010) Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Computer Weekly


  • Apple supplier Lens Technology accused of using forced labour in China (2021) Reed Albergotti, Washington Post


  • USA: Apple agrees to human rights and labour policy audit following investor pressure (2023) Aislinn Murphy, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre


  • Tech giants’ pivot out of China can usher in a human rights reset (2023) Michael Caster, Al Jazeera




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]]> S1 Ep3: Why is the global industrial food system leaving us hungry? S1 Ep3: Why is the global industrial food system leaving us hungry? Mon, 17 Jul 2023 15:47:25 GMT 50:12 64b5628d59542d00111df280 false https://shado-mag.com/ 64b5628d59542d00111df280 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 why-is-the-global-industrial-food-system-leaving-us-hungry S1 Ep3: Why is the global industrial food system leaving us hungry? full 1 3 Why is the global industrial food system leaving us hungry?


Description:

In this episode, Larissa joins Justin Sardo, a member of the collective A Growing Culture, to talk about the food sovereignty movement. Three years on from the outbursts of solidarity we saw with the Indian Farmers’ Movement, we need to sustain our solidarity with farmers, foresters, landworkers, peasant-led and indigenous-led land and food rights campaigns. The dominant food system separates us into food producers or consumers, and takes power away from us all. Take a listen to hear all the mic drop moments from Justin, to hear us drag capitalism (again!) and to learn about movements on the ground in The Philippines, Brazil, the US, the UK and beyond.


Resources:


  • shado’s article series in collaboration with A Growing Culture which spotlights the work being done by Land Defenders around the world : Land Defenders 






Article recommendations: 




Podcast: Farmerama | Podcast on Spotify


Organisations: 








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]]> Why is the global industrial food system leaving us hungry?


Description:

In this episode, Larissa joins Justin Sardo, a member of the collective A Growing Culture, to talk about the food sovereignty movement. Three years on from the outbursts of solidarity we saw with the Indian Farmers’ Movement, we need to sustain our solidarity with farmers, foresters, landworkers, peasant-led and indigenous-led land and food rights campaigns. The dominant food system separates us into food producers or consumers, and takes power away from us all. Take a listen to hear all the mic drop moments from Justin, to hear us drag capitalism (again!) and to learn about movements on the ground in The Philippines, Brazil, the US, the UK and beyond.


Resources:


  • shado’s article series in collaboration with A Growing Culture which spotlights the work being done by Land Defenders around the world : Land Defenders 






Article recommendations: 




Podcast: Farmerama | Podcast on Spotify


Organisations: 








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]]> <![CDATA[S1 Ep2: Why is health only a human right if you're white?]]> Sun, 09 Jul 2023 23:00:55 GMT 1:05:54 64aa81c976dc8800114ad93f true https://shado-mag.com/ 64aa81c976dc8800114ad93f 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 why-is-health-only-a-human-right-if-youre-white full 1 2 This is a really heavy episode, but I swear we find a place of hope at the end. 


Coming out of the pandemic, we saw how ethnic minority groups across the western world were being impacted at much higher rates and levels of severity than white people. Larissa and Zoe wanted to look at why this happened, how did we get here and how do we build a health system which works for everyone, not just middle-class white people. The gals cover the history of medical racism (spoiler: weaponisation of the bible) and the people on the ground building something better (spoiler: they're incred).


Trigger warning: racist violence, medical violence, enslavement.


References:








Action - endorse the charter: The People’s Charter for Health - https://phmovement.org/the-peoples-charter-for-health

Action - follow: Health for a Green New Deal - https://twitter.com/Health4GND

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]]> This is a really heavy episode, but I swear we find a place of hope at the end. 


Coming out of the pandemic, we saw how ethnic minority groups across the western world were being impacted at much higher rates and levels of severity than white people. Larissa and Zoe wanted to look at why this happened, how did we get here and how do we build a health system which works for everyone, not just middle-class white people. The gals cover the history of medical racism (spoiler: weaponisation of the bible) and the people on the ground building something better (spoiler: they're incred).


Trigger warning: racist violence, medical violence, enslavement.


References:








Action - endorse the charter: The People’s Charter for Health - https://phmovement.org/the-peoples-charter-for-health

Action - follow: Health for a Green New Deal - https://twitter.com/Health4GND

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]]> S1 Ep1: Is a bit of eco-anxiety a good thing? S1 Ep1: Is a bit of eco-anxiety a good thing? Sun, 02 Jul 2023 23:00:18 GMT 50:07 64a02a45b58ff50011788ace false https://shado-mag.com 64a02a45b58ff50011788ace 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 is-a-bit-of-eco-anxiety-a-good-thing S1 Ep1: Is a bit of eco-anxiety a good thing? full 1 1 Of a survey of 10,000 children across 10 countries, 75% said they believe the future is frightening. Across the world, anxiety about the climate crisis is no longer a fringe issue. But historically, anxiety has served to alert humans to danger, to help us know when to act. Is eco-anxiety fuel for us to act on the climate crisis? 


Co-host Zoe sits down with Tori Tsui, climate justice and mental health campaigner and author of new book It's Not Just You, to ask: is a bit of eco-anxiety is a good thing? Tori says: think bigger. 


Let us know your thoughts, feelings, critiques and resource reccs shadolitepodcast@gmail.com.


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]]> Of a survey of 10,000 children across 10 countries, 75% said they believe the future is frightening. Across the world, anxiety about the climate crisis is no longer a fringe issue. But historically, anxiety has served to alert humans to danger, to help us know when to act. Is eco-anxiety fuel for us to act on the climate crisis? 


Co-host Zoe sits down with Tori Tsui, climate justice and mental health campaigner and author of new book It's Not Just You, to ask: is a bit of eco-anxiety is a good thing? Tori says: think bigger. 


Let us know your thoughts, feelings, critiques and resource reccs shadolitepodcast@gmail.com.


References:





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]]> PILOT: Welcome to shado-lite PILOT: Welcome to shado-lite Mon, 19 Jun 2023 10:03:34 GMT 8:38 649027f7919a030011ee6a14 false https://shado-mag.com 649027f7919a030011ee6a14 6490270cd1a1e100117e8f05 welcome-to-shado-lite PILOT: Welcome to shado-lite full 1 1 Join our hosts Larissa and Zoe as they introduce themselves and what to expect from podcast ahead of the first episode launch on 3rd July.   


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]]> Join our hosts Larissa and Zoe as they introduce themselves and what to expect from podcast ahead of the first episode launch on 3rd July.   


shado-mag.com


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