BlindianProject

BlindianProject•www.blindian-project.com

The BlindianProject is a collective of dreamers, healers, visionaries, and thought-leaders. We aim to inspire the Global Majority through creative storytelling and placemaking to live unapologetically and authentically. To date, our work has been featured in international publications such as The BBC World News, The Lily (Washington Post), Psychology Today, The Times of India, BBC Asian Network, and many others.

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Episodes

Hopes & Dreams: My Girlfriend Was Sent Back to India. I Just Want to Know She's Alright.

In July 2020, a gentleman named Peri contacted us on Facebook. He'd heard of the BlindianProject from friends and wanted to share his story about his girlfriend Priya, who was coerced to return to India to support family members who were supposedly ill. Peri knew something was foul from everything that happened before her trip. Despite warning Priya not to go, she believed her family, and Peri hasn't seen her physically since. After speaking with Karma Nirvana, the Forced Marriage Unit, and othe...

Aug 17, 2023•37 min

Hopes & Dreams: Culture As a Superpower & Raising Mixed Children. In Conversation With Dr. Jennifer Noble PhD

Dr Jennifer Noble (IG: @drjennpsych) is an African American/Sri Lankan, Clinical psychologist from the California School of Professional Psychology. She has two speciality areas – children and adolescents/teens and multicultural community clinical psychology. Dr Jennifer is also an Assistant Professor at Pasadena City College in the Psychology Department, where she teaches courses such as Human Sexuality, Psychology of the African American and Developmental Psychology: In this conversation, we d...

Aug 16, 2023•35 min

Hopes & Dreams: Evelyn Mensah On Resisting Systemic Racism in The NHS

BlindianProject.TV presents: Hopes & Dreams, a conversational series with dreamers, innovators, activists, entrepreneurs, and everyday visionaries of the Global Majority, to showcase, strengthen and liberate. This episode features Dr. Evelyn Mensah: Ophthalmology Clinical Lead, WRES Expert, and the first EDI Chair for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. Following the 75th anniversary of the National Health Service, we'll speak with Evelyn about her career, resisting systemic racism within...

Aug 14, 2023•49 min

How Social Media is Enabling The Transformation of Black x Brown On-Screen Representations

Join us for a conversation on Black British and British Asian on-screen representation. Sponsored by: Birmingham City University // Diaspore Screen Media Network — Exploring Black British and British Asian Cinema & TV. We also share the backstory of the BlindianProject and how social media allowed us to dodge gatekeepers, aunties, and uncles to become the "Home of Black x Brown Culture."

Aug 13, 2023•29 min

Hopes & Dreams: Saket Soni on forced labor post Hurricane Katrina

BlindianProject presents: Hopes & Dreams, a conversational series with dreamers, innovators, activists, entrepreneurs, and every day visionaries of the Global Majority, with the aim to showcase, strengthen and liberate. This episode features Saket Soni, author and founder of Resilience Force. In 2006, following Hurricane Katrina, Saket Soni uncovered "one of the largest cases of forced labor in modern U.S. history," involving several hundred Indian men promised careers and green cards. The G...

Jun 18, 2023•54 min

Refuge Worldwide Breakfast Show With Jumoke Adeyanju

The BlindianProject appeared on Refuge Worldwide Breakfast Show with Jumoke Adeyanju as part of our 2023 Black History Month activations in Berlin. Listen in and find out what on earth inspired us to head to Germany

Feb 22, 2023•51 min•Season 2Ep. 1

Unlearning antiBlackness In South Asian Communities

The #BlindianProject podcast is brought to you by the #BlindianProject and hosted by Jonah Batambuze and co-hosts Nimal Jude and Arion Lawrence. It's a show that uses love to redefine relationships between Black x South Asian communities. In episode 3, we sit down with Indian-Canadian journalist Dhruva Balram , to discuss antiBlackness within the South Asian community. Balram is culture writer well-known for publishing a series of articles on the subject. His work has been featured in, GQ, NPR, ...

Apr 29, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 3

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