In this episode we were joined by Tumi – founder of The Black Dyspraxic. We discuss the interconnections between neurodivergence, race and ableism in modern society. Links https://www.theblackdyspraxic.com/ https://geniuswithin.org https://www.occpsychs.co.uk Summary This podcast series was produced in partnership Genius Within - an organisation dedicated to helping neurodistinct individuals access their inner genius and be at their best at work. Genius Within is both a neurodivergent led and ow...
Feb 04, 2025•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to I Am Well Meditations with Denise Marshall. Denise is an integrative holistic therapist specialising in soul therapies and spiritual nourishments including crystals, sages, and bespoke aroma therapies. E: denise_marshall@hotmail.co.uk @iamwellholistictherapies
Feb 03, 2025•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode we were joined by Aniefiok, a.k.a Neef for a conversation about his latest book, Where We Come From: Rap, Home and Hope in Modern Britain. We talk about Birmingham, South Wales and London through the guise of music, identity, love and friendship. Links: https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571363254-where-we-come-from
Jan 28, 2025•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to I Am Well Meditations with Denise Marshall. I'm an integrative holistic therapist specialising in soul therapies and spiritual nourishments including crystals, sages, and bespoke aroma therapies. Denise is an integrative holistic therapist specialising in soul therapies and spiritual nourishments including crystals, sages, and bespoke aroma therapies. E: denise_marshall@hotmail.co.uk @iamwellholistictherapies...
Jan 27, 2025•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jessica and Chantelle discuss the importance of working in and with community whilst still leaning on the lessons and wisdoms of scholarship and theory. Expect a hopeful conversation about the possibilities of scholar-activism. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/african-feminist-praxis/book281692 Summary In this collaborative podcast series with Sage Publishing we take a closer look at the books currently being published in the Social Science for Social Justice book series. This book series is an ...
Jan 21, 2025•30 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to I Am Well Meditations with Denise Marshall. Denise is an integrative holistic therapist specialising in soul therapies and spiritual nourishments including crystals, sages, and bespoke aroma therapies .E: denise_marshall@hotmail.co.uk @iamwellholistictherapies
Jan 20, 2025•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to issue one of Surviving Society's Healing with Dr Chantelle Jessica Lewis. In this episode I talk about the supplements that have worked well for my overall health and wellbeing. These supplements have helped me with my tiredness, period pain, stress reduction and skin (to name a few!). useful links https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:ddc657ac-73d2-4901-b927-18d19bcfe82c
Jan 16, 2025•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode Harshad talks about his life and career as an educator. We explore our frustrations with the education sector more broadly but lean conversations attuned to the people and places which keep us inspired and motivated to do race equity work. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/whiteness-racial-trauma-and-the-university/book285116 Summary In this collaborative podcast series with Sage Publishing we take a closer look at the books currently being published in the Social Science for Soci...
Jan 14, 2025•30 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to I Am Well Meditations with Denise Marshall. Denise is an integrative holistic therapist specialising in soul therapies and spiritual nourishments including crystals, sages, and bespoke aroma therapies .E: denise_marshall@hotmail.co.uk @iamwellholistictherapies
Jan 13, 2025•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast I am Well Meditations with Denise Marshall is brought to you by Surviving Society Productions Executively Produced by Dr Chantelle Jessica Lewis George Ofori-Addo Denise Marshall Design by Denise Marshall Edited by George Ofori- Addo
Jan 10, 2025•24 sec•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode we hear about Rachells life and career between Puerto Rico, the USA and U.K as they take us on a journey to uncover the every-present existence of eugenics across society. Expect a critical conversation on race, gender and global histories of colonialism. https://group.sagepub.com/social-science-for-social-justice . Summary In this collaborative podcast series with Sage Publishing we take a closer look at the books currently being published in the Social Science for Social Justic...
Jan 07, 2025•27 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast Social Science for Social Justice is brought to you by Surviving Society Productions. Executively Produced by Dr Chantelle Jessica Lewis George Ofori - Addo Delayna Spencer Heather Estop Design by Evelyn Miller Edited by George Ofori - Addo
Jan 03, 2025•38 sec•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast In the final episode of the series, we hear from artists Jacqui Hilson and Dal Kular, who share their personal and professional journeys to becoming artists. Links: https://www.dwys.co.uk/artists/jacqui-hilson https://www.dwys.co.uk/artists/dal-kular
Dec 31, 2024•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this Christmas BONUS episode Our long suffering executive producer Adders gathers some of his favorite conversations and stories from 2024 Featuring - Jason Arday , Lord John Hendy, Andrew Meyerson, Holly Turner, Cleeshay , Keir Monteith KC, Bev Skeggs , Twayna Mayne, Karl Broome, China Mils, Namir Shabibi, Nancy Doyle Series included - Alternative to Women Hour Beyond the strikes CODE Loco Parentis Material Crimes Spotlight - skinfolk, but not kinfolk...
Dec 25, 2024•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode we hear from artist and filmmaker Eelyn Lee and musician and multidisciplinary artist Otis Mensah . We talk about retracing heritage and identity as people of colour and what it means to artistically reinterpret histories which have been obscured and hidden. Links: https://www.dwys.co.uk/artists/eelyn-lee https://www.dwys.co.uk/artists/otis-mensah...
Dec 24, 2024•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode Désirée Reynolds and Cheryl Bailey talk us through the practical and emotional toll of locating the hidden histories of people of colour in South Yorkshire in the archives. Links: https://www.dwys.co.uk Series summary The Dig Where you Stand Project is a creative arts and archival project based in Sheffield looking to unearth the untold stories of people of colour living, working and putting down roots in South Yorkshire over hundreds of years. This podcast series was produced in...
Dec 17, 2024•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Roxy Legane Director of Kids of colour Joins Chantelle to bring attention to the final hearing of the Manchester 10 USEFUL LINKS www.kidsofcolour.com MORE INFORMATION The Manchester 10 were given permission to appeal, we have been given the FINAL hearing dates, this is the FINAL push within the criminal legal system. The FINAL HEARING will take place over 2 full days on Thursday the 19th and Friday 20th of December, Court 4, at the Royal Courts of Justice in London To our southern community, we ...
Dec 12, 2024•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode Désirée Reynolds takes us around the Dig Where You Stand exhibition. The exhibition presents the rich history of people of colour in South Yorkshire over hundreds of years. Links: https://www.dwys.co.uk Series summary The Dig Where you Stand Project is a creative arts and archival project based in Sheffield looking to unearth the untold stories of people of colour living, working and putting down roots in South Yorkshire over hundreds of years. This podcast series was produced in...
Dec 10, 2024•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this introductory episode we hear from project leads Désirée Reynolds, Alex Rajinder Mason and Cheryl Bailey from the Dig Where You Stand Project unearthing the stories of people of colour in South Yorkshire over hundreds of years. Links: https://www.dwys.co.uk Series summary The Dig Where you Stand Project is a creative arts and archival project based in Sheffield looking to unearth the untold stories of people of colour living, working and putting down roots in South Yorkshire over hundreds...
Dec 03, 2024•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dig where you stand is brought to you by Surviving Society Productions. Executively Produced by Dr Chantelle Jessica Lewis George Ofori - Addo Desiree Reynolds Alex Rajinder Mason Cheryl Bailey Design by Evelyn Miller Edited by George Ofori - Addo
Nov 29, 2024•35 sec•Transcript available on Metacast Twayna is joined by Chantelle to reflect on the series and discuss how important it is to centre the voices of those with lived experience when it comes to the care system. Host: Twayna Mayne is an award-winning writer and stand up comedian. Twayna is the creator of the web series Black People Drinking White Wine and the host of Loco Parentis, a podcast that centres the voices of care experienced adults and adoptees. Both series of Black Woman, Twayna's radio comedy show about being a transracia...
Nov 26, 2024•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Joining Twayna this week is Karl Broome. Karl is an academic researcher and one of Twayna’s oldest friends. In this episode they talk about their early lives, adverse childhood experiences and how they’ve navigated residual trauma and stress as adults. Host: Twayna Mayne is an award-winning writer and stand up comedian. Twayna is the creator of the web series Black People Drinking White Wine and the host of Loco Parentis, a podcast that centres the voices of care experienced adults and adoptees....
Nov 19, 2024•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Pause is a national charity that works with women who have experienced - or are at the risk of having - more than one child removed from their care. They work with women over a number of months and tailor their support to each individual woman’s needs and their hopes for the future across a variety of areas, from housing to improving relationships with children. In this episode we hear from T and Lillian. T shares her experience of child removal and care proceedings and talks about the work she ...
Nov 12, 2024•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode Twayna is joined by -Rose Regan and Paul Nelson - co-leads of the Care Experience Movement (CXM). CXM is a collective of care experienced people working together to change the system. Rose and Paul explain the organisation’s mission and how they use their own lived experience of the children’s social care system to support the care experienced community and create a better future for all care experienced people in the UK. www.careexperiencedmovement.com Insta:: careexperiencedmov...
Nov 05, 2024•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Loco Parentis is brought to you by Surviving Society Productions. Executively Produced by Dr Chantelle Jessica Lewis George Ofori - Addo Twayna Mayne Design by Evelyn Miller Edited by George Ofori - Addo
Nov 01, 2024•23 sec•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode we are joined by Nancy Doyle, Chief Research Officer at Genius Within and Charlie Eckton who is an independent Business Psychologist at Occ Psychs. We have a broad conversation about UK politics, the far right riots and how we can better connect and understand each other. Links https://geniuswithin.org https://www.occpsychs.co.uk Summary This podcast series was produced in partnership Genius Within - an organisation dedicated to helping neurodistinct individuals access their inne...
Oct 29, 2024•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode we are joined by Nancy Doyle, Chief Research Officer at Genius Within and Charlie Eckton who is an independent Business Psychologist at Occ Psychs. We have a broad conversation about politics, the neurodiversity movement and how we can have more productive conversations about disability. Links https://geniuswithin.org https://www.occpsychs.co.uk Summary This podcast series was produced in partnership Genius Within - an organisation dedicated to helping neurodistinct individuals a...
Oct 21, 2024•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast During a deadly dawn raid by a Kenyan paramilitary squad, an innocent Muslim man, Omar Faraj, was brutally murdered. In the final episode of the series, Namir Shabibi sets out to find those responsible for this extrajudicial killing. The paramilitary squad is, we discover, part of America’s post-9/11 covert War on Terror infrastructure. Following the death squad from Mombasa’s muslim neighbourhoods to the ‘secret’ Recce military complex miles away in rural Ruiru all the way to the CIA’s headquar...
Oct 14, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast Sitting at the edge of the notorious ‘Western Balkan Route,’ Bihac’s Borici Temporary Reception Centre is witness to some of Europe’s worst border violence. Only a few kilometres from the Bosnian-Croatian border that separates the Western Balkans from the European Union, migrants find themselves stuck; arrested, tortured and pushed back over and over again by Croatian police. But within Borici, they also find themselves part of this building’s 75-year history. Borici is a place where communities...
Oct 07, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast When a dam on the Tigris burst in 2018, waters rushed towards Amed, Turkey’s largest predominantly Kurdish city. In its aftermath, the Turkish state claimed there were no casualties. Speaking with environmental justice campaigners and farmers (Samed Uçaman, Doğan Hatun and Zeki Kanay), Eray Çaylı reveals how this claim was based on dodgy accounting. Delving into the depths of this case, he explores Turkey’s long history of using water as a tool of war and treating Kurdistan as a laboratory for r...
Sep 30, 2024•58 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast 
