shado-lite
by 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: @sayee
Episodes
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Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Future of Black Feminist Archives with Isabella Kajiwara and Nydia Swaby
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…
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Gerlin Bean: Mother of the Movement with Isabella Kajiwara and A.S. Francis
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,...
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Claudia Jones: A life in exile with Isabella Kajiwara and Lola Olufemi
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…
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S3 E9: Is Rest Resistance?
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…
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S3 Ep8: Free Education in South Africa, shut downs, hunger strike and changing fact
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.…
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S3 Ep7: Debt strike, from local to global
From the peasant revolution in 1300s England to the Debt Collective’s abolishing nearly $200 million in student loans, debt resistance has long been a tool to bring people together. This week, Zoe and Larissa discuss historical wins and how debt abolition is a necessity in our demands for climate...
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S3 Ep6: Artivism in Action, using the power of art to make a street into a power station
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...
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S3 Ep5: Fare strikes, What if we all just didn’t pay for the bus?
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…
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S3 Ep4: The People’s Media: Shifting the Narrative, Raising Consciousness and Bringing People Into Movements
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...
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S3 Ep3: Reclaiming the commons in the 2020s
This week, Zoe and Larissa throw it all the way back to the medieval period to explore the history of the commons and the violent enclosures that helped birth capitalism. What can this forgotten legacy teach us about reclaiming shared resources and reimagining collective power? By revisiting the...
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S3 Ep2: Serbia's Student Revolution, How to Build Power from the Ground Up
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...
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S3 Ep1: Beyond the March, Are Protests Actually Working?
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...
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I, Rigoberta Menchú with Isabella Kajiwara
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…
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The Trinity of Fundamentals with Isabella Kajiwara
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…
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Assata: An Autobiography with Isabella Kajiwara
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 –...
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Guest Episode: Storytelling for Indigenous Sovereignty
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...
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BP and the infrastructure of Genocide with Energy Embargo for Palestine
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...
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The Dispossessed with Isabella Kajiwara
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...
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Begin the World Over with Isabella Kajiwara
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...
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Palestine+100 with Isabella Kajiwara
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...
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Guest Episode: For First Nations Storytelling is Self-determination
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...
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Guest episode: Circular Design for a Just Transition with Samara Almonte and What Design Can Do
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…
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S2 Ep10: Home is many things! What now?
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…
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S2 Ep9: Settler colonialism in historic Palestine, home as a site of resistance
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...
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S2 Ep8: Taking home for all, Landless Workers Movement
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...
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S2 Ep7: Wages for Housework, the home as a workplace
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...
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S2 Ep6: Building home away from home, from the bus to the club
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...
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S2 Ep5: Home on the move, the Right to Roam
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...
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S2 Ep4: Homeland, who benefits when we don’t reconnect?
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...
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S2 Ep3: Beach Access Movements, the island as a home
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...
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S2 Ep2: Tuvalu, the fight to save home
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…
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S2 Ep1: The squat as a home, From Brixton to Brazil
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...
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Guest episode: The Power of Filmmaking as Indigenous Storytellers with Samara Almonte and Rachel Edwardson
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…
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Guest episode: Indigenous storytelling and the power of seeds with Samara Almonte and Diane Wilson
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...
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S1 Ep9: Season 1 wrap - okay, what can we do?
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…
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S1 Ep8: Is Big Tech ruining our dating lives?
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?...
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S1 Ep7: How do we make ourselves and our community ungovernable?
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,...
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S1 Ep6: Why are the police in our schools?
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...
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S1 Ep5: Can an art movement help us solve the world's problems?
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...
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S1 Ep4: What is Apple hiding?
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...
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S1 Ep3: Why is the global industrial food system leaving us hungry?
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’…
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S1 Ep2: Why is health only a human right if you're white?
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...
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S1 Ep1: Is a bit of eco-anxiety a good thing?
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...
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PILOT: Welcome to shado-lite
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
About this show
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: @sayee
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Shado Mag