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 wo...
Jan 30, 2024•38 min•Season 2Ep. 2
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 Lond...
Jan 22, 2024•46 min•Season 2Ep. 1
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 maki...
Oct 22, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 11
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, ...
Oct 16, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 10
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? References: Free Black University - https://www.freeblackuni.com/ Black Earth: Resistance Anti Racism and the Envi...
Oct 01, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 9
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 ...
Sep 24, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 8
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 p...
Sep 17, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 7
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, Zo...
Aug 07, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 6
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 ...
Jul 31, 2023•48 min•Season 1Ep. 5
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...
Jul 23, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 4
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 consu...
Jul 17, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 3
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 bib...
Jul 09, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 2
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 th...
Jul 02, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 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. shado-mag.com Image credits: @sayeeda.bacchus Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 19, 2023•9 min•Season 1Ep. 1
