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All Episodes

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda — 72 episodes

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"They Took the Land, Then Blamed the Climate" | The Battle for Laikipia

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Dangerous & Divine | How the Bible Becomes a Tool of Power

3

Where Are All the Black Women Composers? | Sound, Storytelling & Hidden Histories

4

"I Was a Walking Illegal Human" | Growing Up Between Botswana & South Africa

5

They Didn’t Just Escape. They Planned It. | The Underground Railroad & Black Resistance

6

Why Do We Protect Powerful Men? | Academia, Algorithms & Sexual Violence

7

Daddy's Girl, Different Worlds | A Mixed-Race Daughter's Story (Tamanda's Story)

8

“When I Called, They Never Answered” | Fathers, Faith & Disappointment

9

Whose Equality? | Reform, DEI and the Post-BLM Backlash

10

Hard to Reach or Easy to Ignore? | The Truth About Community Research, Anger & Power

11

The Dark Side of Activism: Why Our Safe Spaces Turn Toxic

12

Policed by Design: Why Your Neighbourhood Feels Like a Prison

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WTF Happened to Body Positivity? | The Rise of the Ozempic Aesthetic

14

92% of England’s Land is Inaccessible | Are You As Free As You Think?

15

95% of Doctors Who Died Were Black | Why Was This Not a National Scandal?

16

The Future of Rigour & Flow: Seasonal Shifts and Personal Reflections

17

Podcasting Is Easy… Until You Try It | Learnings From One Year of Rigour & Flow

18

Can You Trust Podcasts? | Power, Women & the Manosphere

19

Is Marriage Sex Work? | Power, Morality & the Myth of Respectability

20

Would You Want to Live in a Matriarchy? | Power, Authority & The Crisis of Imagination

21

Was I the Toxic Friend? | Adult Friendship & Accountability

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When Your Best Friend Resents You | Adult Friendship & Jealousy

23

Silence and Shame: Sexual Violence and the Institutions that Protect It

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Why Do Institutions Protect Perpetrators Over Survivors? | Whistleblowing & Power

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Whitewashed Lecture Halls | African Knowledges and the Limits of the Western Higher Education

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Black Kids, White Classrooms: Black History Erasure, Colonial Control & Britain’s Education System

27

“I’m Done Performing Productivity!” | Burnout, Worth & Walking Away

28

Snatched! | Behind the Scenes on RuPaul’s Drag Race Companion Podcast

29

She Love Bombed the F*ck Out of Me: The Unapologetically Black Podcast on Friendship

30

What a Gold Medal Meant for Black Britain: Tessa Sanderson’s Legacy

31

Why We Love Reality TV: Unguilty Pleasures with Liv Little & Scarlett Curtis

32

Why Are Mixed Race People Always Asked to Pick a Side?

33

Healing, boundaries and borders: Mental health, money lending and Black queer travel stories

34

Pentecostalism & Zionism: Faith, Conditioning & the Politics of Palestine

35

‘Divorce is like death’: Leaving, grieving and finding yourself

36

Lost Black Boys: Education, The Red Pill & Incel Culture

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Could You Work With Your Partner? | Love, Labour & The Business of Us

38

Super Rich Africans | The Soft Life & Hard Truths of Class

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Bad Gals Get The Corner Office | Millie Odhiambo, Black Wildlife Filmmaking & Class Difference

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How a Fake African Agony Aunt Shaped a Generation: The Men Behind “Dear Dolly”

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The Land Is Still Not Ours | Colonial Legacies, Reparations & Climate Crisis

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Confronting FGM in Britain: “A Lifetime Sentence” | Feedwarmer 4

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Undocumented & Working in London: A Hidden Struggle | Feedwarmer 3

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What Links Queer DV, Raising Boys & Anti-Immigrant Anger?

45

Sickle Cell, Queer Faith & Black Britishness - Through Your Voices

46

From Tyler Henry to Satanic Panic: Guilty Pleasures in the Afterlife & Beyond

47

Too Fat for Europe, Too Skinny for Africa? The Beauty Standards That Trap Us

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Are We Ever Really Grown? Generations, Adulthood & the Lie of Turning 40

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Are Mixed Race People “Properly Black”?

50

Who does the algorithm think you are?

51

Black, Queer, Free: What UK Black Pride Gave Us!

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How Do You Raise a Boy When You Don’t Trust Men?

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Notes From the Margins: From Sickle Cell to Save the Children to the Word ‘Queer

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From Paper Rounds to Pitch Decks | Childhood Dreams, Big Hustles & the Investment Dilemma

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BONUS: What Happens When the Archive Doesn’t Include You?

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Why Don’t We Talk About Abuse in Queer Relationships?

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Season 2 Begins Here | Rigour & Flow - Abuse, Silence, and Survival

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Bonus Drop: Sunday School for Misfits & the Power of Tentative Christianity

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Bonus Drop: When Strategy Meets Soul | Shani Gonzales & The Pursuit Playbook

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Notes From the Margins: Unfinished Business | Revisiting Queer Faith, Black Sperm & The Crip Walk

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Unmuted & Unscripted | Our First Live with the Rigour & Flow Family

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Out of Time | Colonial Clocks, Capitalist Deadlines and the Fight to Move Differently

63

Hot Combs, Hallelujahs & Hair Trauma | The Politics of Black Hair in Salons, Schools & Scripture

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Black & British: A Complicated Inheritance | Migration, Class, and the Messy Truth of Identity

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When Faith, Culture and Mental Health Collide | Our Mothers, Their Beliefs, and the System

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Notes From the Margins: Young, Famous & African, Yellowstone, and the Strange Art of Sharing Your Life Online

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Talking Money, Marriage and Meaning: When Money Scripts Clash in Relationships

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What It Costs to Have a Baby: Fertility, Fibroids & the Fight for Queer Parenthood

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Notes From the Margins: What Call the Midwife, HillmanTok, and Tommy Robinson Reveal About Power

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From the Page to the Screen - Why Black Thought Is Still ‘Too Much’ for White Institutions

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Can You Be African, Christian and Gay? Who Gets to Decide?

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Welcome to Rigour and Flow