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The Henceforward

by Tkaronto CIRCLE Lab

The Henceforward is a podcast that considers relationships between Indigenous Peoples and Black Peoples on Turtle Island. Through this podcast series, we take an open and honest look at how these relationships can go beyond what has been constructed through settler colonialism and antiblackness, we investigate what our mutual obligations and possibilities for contingent collaboration are, and much much more.

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Episodes

  1. Episode 30 - Youth Dreaming and Designing Relations to Lands and Waters

    In this episode, youth researchers (ages 14 to 18) and graduate facilitators from the afterschool land education program, Youth Dreaming and Designing Relations to Lands and Waters, reflect on climate justice and Land relations, focusing on the impacts of colonization, urbanization, and...

  2. Episode 29 – Black-Indigenous Identity in Canada

    In this episode, Kayla Webber and Paige Grant interview Denise Baldwin, from Ontario, to discuss her experiences of being a Black-Indigenous woman in Canada. The conversation considers the ways that Black-Indigenous and/or Afro-Indigenous identities have, and continue to be, invisbilized in…

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  3. Episode 28 – "I don't know if a city… can be liveable": An Interview with Nasma Ahmed

    This episode was originally recorded in February 2019. However, it is especially relevant during the COVID-19 virus, given the increasing use of online platforms, and amidst conversations about life following the pandemic. In this episode, Sefanit interviews Nasma Ahmed, the founder of Digital...

  4. Episode 27 – Defenders of the Water School: An Interview with Alayna Eagle Shield

    This episode was originally recorded in October 2018. It remains relevant today, amidst the COVID-19 virus, as we are imagining life following the pandemic. In this episode, Jennifer Sylvester and Jade Nixon interview Alayna Eagle Shield, creator of the Mní Wičhóni Nakíčižiŋ Owáyawa (Defenders of...

  5. Episode 26 – Meditating on the Elsewhere

    In November 2017, Indigenous and Black community members, scholars, and activists gathered at the University of Toronto to discuss getting elsewhere. In the spirit of The Henceforward, the elsewhere is lived and created today, as well as a realm of unknown possibilities. Members of the gathering...

  6. Episode 25 – Gentrification in Toronto

    In this episode, Chris Ramsaroop, Greer Babazon and Nisha Toomey discuss Toronto's rapid gentrification. We visit the kitchen table to unpack what communities are most impacted by gentrification; explore how gentrification has been, and continues to be, justified by (settler colonial) logics of...

  7. Episode 24 – Multiculturalism: A Performative Distraction

    In this episode, Carey DeMichelis & Bea Jolley delve into the Canadian rhetoric of multiculturalism. The Kitchen Table discusses what multicultural discourses miss and mask. And we are joined by Tiffany King, Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia in Women's, Gender and Sexuality…

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  8. Episode 23 – "How Can I Talk About This Violence Without Being Violent?": An Interview with Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński & Naomi Rincón Gallardo

    In this episode, Sefanit Habtom and Sigrid Roman interview Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński and Naomi Rincón Gallardo, creators of the Formaldehyde Trip and Unearthing. In Conversation, respectively. Naomi and Belinda generously share their artistic decision-making processes, how they see art as…

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  9. Episode 22 – Migrant Labour, White Settler Anxiety, and No Returns

    This episode explores the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program in Canada by considering the modes of surveillance, exploitation, denial and violence embedded in the program. Nisha Toomey and Chris Ramsaroop demystify false histories of Canadian innocence and the white settler anxieties entrenched...

  10. Episode 21 – Hazelburn

    In a deliberate attempt to un-forget erased histories, this snack episode considers a housing co-op in Toronto's downtown core. The name of the street, the co-op, and the land where it's situated, trace a relationship between settler colonialism, slavery, and antiblackness.

  11. Episode 20 – Self-care, Smudging, and Penguins

    In this episode, various voices consider self-care in the work of the henceforward. There is a discussion of self-care collectively vs. individually, Elder Jacqui Lavalley generously explains smudging, and dark sousveillance* is offered as a form of self-care. *Dark sousveillance counters and...

  12. Episode 19 – Policing Black Lives: An Interview with Robyn Maynard

    In this episode, Danielle Cantave and Sefanit Habtom interview Robyn Maynard, author of the new book Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. In her book, Maynard narrates little known - or entirely unknown - stories of Blackness in Canada and the continued...

  13. Episode 18 – Safety For Who?

    In this episode, Simone Weir, Kate Curtis, and Jessamyn Polson feature extended interviews with Gita Madan and Tanya Aberman about the safety of Toronto schools for Black and undocumented youth. The central question of the episode is when we talk about safety, whose safety are we talking about?...

  14. Episode 17 – Futurities With Alicia Elliot

    In this episode, Erin Soros interviews writer, Alicia Elliott. Alicia discusses writing in the "messy zone" without answers, her reasons for writing creative non-fiction, and much more. How do Black and Indigenous people now imagine alternative futurities, and what approaches do they find most...

  15. Episode 16 – Water Ways and Ways to the Water

    In this episode, Jessamyn Polson, Kate Curtis, and Greer Brabazon linger with water and all of its rushing meaning. Including an extended interview with Dr. Karyn Recollet, this episode considers ways to find ourselves back in love and in good relation to the water. Other contributors include...

  16. Episode 15 – More Than A Bookstore, A Meeting Place with Itah Sadu

    Season 2 begins with an interview by Jade Nixon and Cornel Grey with Itah Sadu, founder and owner of A Different Booklist. A Different Booklist is an independent bookstore and cultural centre in Tkaronto that specializes in books from the African and Caribbean diaspora. Itah generously outlines…

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  17. Episode 14 – "It's Not About You": An Interview with Kyle Mays

    In this episode, Marie Laing, Rebecca Beaulne-Stuebing, Sandi Wemigwase, and Sefanit Habtom sit with Kyle Mays to discuss his work as a Black-American Saginaw Anishinaabe scholar and hip-hop enthusiast. He discusses what draws him to the work he is currently doing, how hip-hop is used to…

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  18. Episode 13 – A Conversation Between Eve Tuck & Rinaldo Walcott

    This episode features the full discussion between Eve Tuck and Rinaldo Walcott that took place at the Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education Conference at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education on September 30, 2016. Snippets from this exchange were featured in Episode 10,...

  19. Episode 12 – The Start Of The Future Now

    In this snack episode, Melissa Wilson and Lynn Ly provide an overview of the work that the Henceforward podcast sets out to do.

  20. Episode 11 – Podcards From The Edge

    In this snack episode, Rahma Hilowle, Christy Guthrie, and Fizza Mir deliver "podcards" (podcast/postcards) that reflect on time and place. Presented as short letters, the contributors take us to Black Creek, an Art History Museum, and on a commute along Highway 407 to consider the often untold...

  21. Episode 10 – Writing Into The Henceforward

    In this episode, we have collected snippets from the discussions that took place at the Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education Conference, a one day conference for writers and aspiring writers hosted by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. The...

  22. Episode 9 – Whose Land Interrupted

    In this snack episode, Jen Brailsford, Alicia Cameron, and Karima Kinlock disrupt a game show entitled "Whose land is it anyways?" because of the settler colonial and antiblack narratives it perpetuates. Instead, they offer reflections upon what land is and means to Indigenous and Black peoples...

  23. Episode 8 – The Books Episode: Settler Colonialism, Blackness & Land

    In this episode, Melissa Wilson and Lynn Ly offer an overview of texts that explore settler colonialism, blackness, and land. This episode hopes to make terms more approachable and accessible by connecting them to current examples. Traveling through history, the present, and into the future, this...

  24. Episode 7 – "I don't want to ask you an f-ed up question," with Rinaldo Walcott

    In this "snack" episode (a shorter episode released between full-length episodes) Rinaldo Walcott and Eve Tuck discuss the dilemmas of posing generous and productive questions between Black people and Indigenous people. Walcott reflects on the long practices within whiteness to frame questions in...

  25. Episode 6 – Movement Building Beyond the Moment: On Getting Free Together in #StandingRock and #FreedomSquare with Kelly Hayes

    The Henceforward Episode 6: Movement Building Beyond the Moment: On Getting Free Together in #StandingRock and #FreedomSquare with Kelly Hayes. In this episode, Stephanie Latty, Sefanit Habtom, and Rebecca Beaulne-Stuebing interview Kelly Hayes, a cofounder of the Chicago Light Brigade and the...

  26. Episode 5 – Back To The Henceforward

    In this episode, Faith Juma and Hunter Knight take you on a journey to the future! And also the past. And also the present. All of them are part of the future because of our nifty TTC delorean, a time-space compression device that formerly happened to be a subway car in Toronto. Featuring special...

  27. Episode 4 – Red and Black DNA, Blood, Kinship and Organizing with Kim Tallbear

    In this episode, Eve Tuck interviews Kim Tallbear, a scholar who focuses on Indigeneity and technoscience as part of the Faculty of Native Studies at University of Alberta. Tallbear is a member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate in South Dakota and is also a descendant of the Cheyenne and Arapaho...

  28. Episode 2 – Reconciliation?

    Reconciliation? This episode explores the challenge and question of reconciliation on the lands now known as Canada. Hosted by Meg Bertasson (Ininiw iskwew) and Rebecca Be aulne-Stuebing (Weesawkoday Anishinabe), conversations with Indigenous and Bla ck community members are woven in to a...

  29. Episode 1 – Give It Back

    Give It Back! What are reparations? Who deserves them? Is it a viable project? In today's episode, we explore the dynamic and, often times, controversial debate around reparations in Canada. We feature a number of important conversations and people including members of local indigenous…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

The Henceforward is a podcast that considers relationships between Indigenous Peoples and Black Peoples on Turtle Island. Through this podcast series, we take an open and honest look at how these relationships can go beyond what has been constructed through settler colonialism and antiblackness, we investigate what our mutual obligations and possibilities for contingent collaboration are, and much much more.

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Tkaronto CIRCLE Lab

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