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Media Diversified
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Foregrounding voices of colour
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The Activist - Forged in the Fires of Junglism
Sukant Chandan was born into a family of leading anti-colonial resistors in Kenya and India. He has been committed to the anti-colonial grassroots since 1994, when at the age of 16 he organised an anti-racist police patrol watch at Eid celebrations on Southall Broadway. He is also a committed...
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Fascism in England and How to Defeat It
Hosted by Samantha Asumadu with Mike Morgan Chardine Taylor-Stone Marcus Daniel, Afroze Zaidi-Jivraj Rajesh Thind, Pritpal Sahota and Jonathan Portes Calling out the overt bias we see in reporting is just one form of resistance that consumers can take. Saeida Rouass shares five tropes to be aware...
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The Forde Report
"The Forde Report is a damning document which highlights a deeply toxic and unpleasant culture in the Labour Party that allows racism from senior officials to go unchallenged." - Taj Ali Taj Ali our host was joined by broadcasters and writers and journalists Perry Blankson, Ayaz Rafik, Hamza Ali...
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I Wore a Raspberry Beret
He cussed the music industry. He played me Pussy Control and Gold from his then-unreleased album. He suddenly slapped my thigh and said: ‘I know you!’ and then told me about our wrap party moment: completely without prompting: ‘Girl, your face!’ This episode is also available as a blog post:...
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Understanding Disability: Like me, you are different. Like you, I am equal
Though in academia, various models of disability are discussed and contested, and I personally think each disabled person should have the freedom to label or not label themselves how they choose, one thing is clear: the medical model for all is deeply flawed, particularly when you consider the...
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The Information War
Sam interviews Matt Potter about the Ukraine War This has been an information war You’ve shown an intense interest in Ukraine over the past few days as have many other, reporters, correspondents, politicians and hackers. What is your new book about and what has it got to do with Ukraine or…
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In 2022 Why Do We Still Show Such Loyalty To Royalty?
Excerpt from Shane Thomas’ 2015 article Why Do We Show Such Loyalty To Royalty? This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mediadiversified.org/2022/06/05/in-2022-why-do-we-still-show-such-loyalty-to-royalty/
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“Some People Are Gaysian – Get Over It!”
Last year, I participated in a project whose aim was to explore the issues surrounding people who identify as LGBT amongst South Asian communities in the UK. The interviewer asked the following three questions: 1) Why are LGBT South Asians still “hidden”? 2) Why aren’t there any visible role…
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Bad enough MPs are gaslighting us about food poverty, will the trolls please just stop?
In October 2020 former barrister and legal skills lecturer Snigdha Nag wrote a viral twitter thread imploring the internet to “stop quoting pasta prices”. In 2022 as we are submerged in a ‘Cost of Living Crisis’ and food poverty is a reality for millions the government’s response is to gaslight…
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True Victims of Domestic Abuse Don’t Have Teeth
True victims of domestic abuse don’t have teeth like her, did you see her teeth shitty evil teeth narc teeth bitch teeth This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mediadiversified.org/2022/05/29/true-victims-of-domestic-abuse-dont-have-teeth/
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Nationalism and racial classification in Hong Kong
Fatima Qureshi speaks to Ansah Malik, a civil rights activist about how she, a fifth-generation Hong Konger resists the city’s nihilistic attitude towards racism Twenty-one years after the British colonial administration handed Hong Kong over to a one-country-two-systems policy under China,...
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Does the BBC’s ‘due impartiality’ need to include extremist figures?
Ravi Ghosh asks if impartiality and balance are good enough reasons for the BBC’s platforming of extreme views @ravi_ghosh With unmatched resources across television, radio, and digital, the BBC is the most powerful Public Service Broadcaster (PSB) in the UK. Ofcom is clear about the role and…
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The Weeknd’s lyrics are the tip of a queerphobic iceberg
The Weeknd’s new hit “Lost In The Fire” unfortunately contains queerphobic lyrics, in 2019. Shivani Dave writes how a seemingly throwaway line reinforces a violent reality for many queer and trans women. This episode is also available as a blog post:...
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A beginner’s guide to freelance writing
Taj Ali’s guide to freelance writing for those who have no idea where to start This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mediadiversified.org/2022/05/25/a-beginners-guide-to-freelance-writing/
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Let’s say goodbye to respectability, and welcome assertiveness (Part 2)
Beth Collier shares psychotherapeutic perspectives on the harm of Respectability and why it’s time to welcome a new era of Assertiveness Assertiveness is about self–respectability. Rather than acting and speaking in a way that others find respectable. It is unapologetic, not trying to appeal or...
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Let’s say goodbye to respectability, and welcome assertiveness (Part 1)
Beth Collier shares psychotherapeutic perspectives on the harm of Respectability and why it’s time to welcome a new era of Assertiveness In 2016 Beyonce gave an era defining Superbowl performance that thrilled and stunned in equal measure. Referencing the Black Panther movement and declaring her...
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The Colour of Madness ‘The mental health system is not designed with us in mind’
Kiri Kankhwende talks to the editors of a groundbreaking new anthology about BAME mental health @madomasi “Shame is so powerful. You need a whole community to tackle it.” When I sit down to talk with the editors of the newly published anthology The Colour of Madness: Exploring BAME Mental Health…
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‘Mrs Bibi Syndrome’, the medical stereotype undermining elderly Asian women
Dr Harun Khan discusses persistent racist, sexist and classist stereotypes amongst some doctors @xoharun Speaking about racism in healthcare, as a South Asian doctor, feels odd. On the whole, we hold such a strong, visible presence in the NHS that hospitals are, arguably, a Purell-smelling...
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Life in the Rohingya refugee camps
Karen Williams writes about a month in the Rohingya refugee camps Nearly a million Rohingya refugees are currently housed in refugee camps in Bangladesh after fleeing violence in Burma/Myanmar. The UN has called the violence ethnic cleansing, with the Burma/Myanmar army accused of committing...
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How British were the Caribbean soldiers of the First World War?
During Black History Month, Samuel Ali challenges the idea that African and Caribbean soldiers served to support British troops, not as British troops in WW1 @museumpoetry The narrative that African and Caribbean peoples served in support of but not as British soldiers, during WW1, was…
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‘Time exists only in white’: deconstructing the history of Brazilian nationhood
Danny Dubner introduces a sound essay, Pindorama, named after for the Tupi-Guarani tribe designated to the area we now call Brazil and how a the ‘discovery of a country’ narrative masks the invasion of a thriving culture On February 2018, Brazilian president Michel Temer declared a federal…
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Melanie Phillips wants to “destroy” the “Muslim world”
The idea of free speech is being deployed as a fig-leaf for privileged white commentators to justify the abuse of their ‘legal’ right to demonise people of colour writes Nafeez Ahmed Do people of colour, do Muslims, do migrants, do minorities, do people on the sharp end of racism, discrimination...
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Britain’s young imams: rebels, feminists, YouTubers, traditionalists
A new photography essay by Shyamantha Asokan explores Britain’s new generation of imams – young Muslims who are breaking with traditions, setting up gender-equal mosques, counselling their congregations on how to deal with Islamophobia, preaching via YouTube, and more. Shyamantha Asokan, the...
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Three times a widow in Afghanistan
Hizbullah Khan in Kabul relates the harrowing story of a woman who has been widowed three times by war in Afghanistan and what it means for her life now. Sitting in her first marital room, looking down at a picture from her childhood, an anguished Marzia Umeed* remembers her happy life before...
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In developing countries, climate change is destroying our communities first
Growing up without running water in Kabanana Compound, a community on the outskirts of Zambia’s capital, Beatrice Phiri discusses how she got to see first-hand the dramatic effects of climate change. Much of my life has revolved around the pursuit of water. Living in my community was challenging...
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Political class factionalism and the right-wing takeover of the Republican Party
In a fascinating essay, Ronald Kuykendall discusses the “right wing wave”, and how it relates to white identity politics, the history of factions in the two-party system in in the USA, and the backlash to the Obama presidency It is obvious and undeniable that in the United States the Republican...
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WWF, human rights abuses and the need to decolonise conservation
Recent allegations of human rights abuses by the WWF not only betray a colonial attitude to conservation abroad but also reflects attitudes to people of colour in conservation worldwide, writes Beth Collier Featured image: A Baka woman fishes in the forest near Lobéké National Park, Cameroon –…
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How we study music: navigating the whitewash
Dr Hannah Marie Robbins discusses how the teaching of music can be white-washed, and how teachers and researchers can disrupt the all too familiar narratives This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mediadiversified.org/2018/11/23/how-we-study-music-navigating-the-whitewash/
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Why I’m no longer talking to… well, anyone… about religion
Inspired by Reni Eddo Lodge and her best selling book Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Mariya bint Rehan has decided to channel that same energy for conversations about religion Content Note: discussion of Islamophobia and link to an Islamophobic YouTube video in this…
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The minimising of the sexual assault of Black boys
LeRon Barton discusses the sexual abuse of Black boys and how their sexual assault or rape is often seen as a “rite of passage” instead of a discussion about victimhood and support CONTENT NOTE: This article includes frank discussion of sexual assault from the very beginning. Stock photo used. If...
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A never-ending affair – India, Pakistan and Kashmir
Following recent tensions between India and Pakistan, forthright opinions were expressed on both sides, by nationals and across the diaspora. But as Neha Maqsood writes, one thing was forgotten: the status of Kashmir. This episode is also available as a blog post:...
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Women vs The State - Hard Talk: When the State is the Perpetrator
Panel discussion with Gail Hadfield Grainger whose partner was unlawfully murdered in an extra judicial killing by Greater Manchester Police, Mags McNally, her law partner, their client Zayna and journalist Samantha Asumadu. Discussing travesties of justice, including Indeterminate Sentences for...
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The Student to Activist Pipeline and Its Flaws
Trauma-informed yoga guide, Taimour Ahmed stresses the importance of retaining our physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing as activists, proposing that we need as many healers as we do fighters and people can be both This episode is also available as a blog post:...
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Labour’s local election lies and the sham of democracy
Exasperated socialist Simon Vessey has had enough of Labour’s local election campaign lies and the resulting sham of democracy where entire communities of working class and marginalised people have no chance at true representation via the major parties This episode is also available as a blog…
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The Fire Now: anti-racist scholarship in times of explicit racial violence
Azeezat Johnson introduces a new co-edited volume which looks at the implicit and explicit racism in our so-called post-racial states This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mediadiversified.org/2018/11/14/introducing-the-fire-now/
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How language makes and unmakes our world: French language policies in Algeria
in a two part essay, Barâa Arar discusses the impact of French Language policies in Algeria, how it impacts not only language but a whole culture, and how to overcome. Part One This episode is also available as a blog post:...
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How language makes and unmakes our world: French language policies in Algeria, storytelling, and post-colonial recovery – Part 2
in a two part essay, Barâa Arar discusses the impact of French Language policies in Algeria, how it impacts not only language but a whole culture, and how to overcome. This episode is also available as a blog post:...
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Black women as agents of change: reclaiming our narratives, voices and memory
For so long, Black women’s stories and memory have often been ignored, erased, and neglected in and out of academia. However as Jaimee A. Swift writes, 2018 showed itself to be a year of reclamation of Black women’s narratives, agency and memory. This episode is also available as a blog post:...
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How to decolonise the university
The Rhodes Must Fall campaign at the university of Cape Town ignited a worldwide discussion about decolonising universities and other further education institutions. Now, a new book Decolonising the University brings together resources to help academics and students to resist. Talia Dundoo talks…
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Decolonial Fantasy Lands
A lifetime of being othered due to skin colour, race, religion, takes a toll on the psyche; instilling shame, inferiority, and self-loathing. This can lead people of colour, including film-makers, writers, and other artists to seek purer, more beautiful alternative worlds. However as Kavita…
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Does Black music need to “get its house in order?”
A new event aims to get to the heart of music scholarship and how ever-evolving genres of Black music are researched, engaged with, and social significance discussed This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mediadiversified.org/2019/03/11/does-black-music-need-to-get-its-house-in-order/
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White feminists’ views on Shamima Begum are a failure for all young women of colour
Reaction to the news of Shamima Begum’s loss of her son are still lacking in humanity and empathy, even from white feminists, and as Shaista Aziz writes, that has a real impact on young women of colour This episode is also available as a blog post:...
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Femonationalism: White saviour feminism in Afghanistan
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mediadiversified.org/2019/03/21/femonationalism-white-saviour-feminism-in-afghanistan/
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The Tory’s Economic Model Kills the Most Vulnerable
Samantha Asumadu taking cue from an investigation by Tortoise Media urges us on International Workers Memorial Day to commemorate those who died because of the economic model that brutally oppresses the working class This episode is also available as a blog post:...
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Bend It Like Beckham, Blair and Trade Unionism
Assessing Bend It Like Beckham in the social and political context of Blairism, Sacha Ismail considers the Gate Gourmet industrial dispute at Heathrow and union bureaucracies’ longstanding failure to fight for workers, particularly black, brown and migrant workers This episode is also available…
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Chasing James Baldwin in Switzerland
Matthew Wilson, a Bajan now living In Switzerland retraces some of James Baldwin’s steps 70 years after him, in the town of Leukerbad. Leukerbad is the place that inspired ‘Stranger in the Village’ and where Baldwin completed ‘Go Tell It on the Mountain’. Drawing from Teju Cole’s 2014 essay…
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Black British histories didn’t start in 1948
Anti-Black racism and the hostile environment have a long history. For Tré Ventour Griffiths, the interwar years of 1919-1938 deserve more recognition in how we understand British history. This episode is also available as a blog post:...
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Ramadan in Yemen
Journalist Abdullah Ali interviews Yeminis on how social initiatives contributing to the alleviation of the suffering of Yemenis during Ramadan This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mediadiversified.org/2022/04/19/ramadan-in-yemen/
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Poetic Resistance to the language of “Civilised” Citizenship
TLanguage has long been used to destroy, control and denigrate the ways of knowing and being of those subject to colonialism and racism. In this piece, poet and activist lisa luxx traces these colonial roots, as well as the inventive linguistic creolisations of imposed languages that poets have...
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What will they do with state power?
Exasperated socialist Simon Vessey explains how the Labour right repeatedly exploit and embolden right wing narratives to achieve their internal party goals This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mediadiversified.org/2022/03/30/what-will-they-do-with-state-power/
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