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All Episodes

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda — 59 episodes

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

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

3

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

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

Was I the Toxic Friend? | Adult Friendship & Accountability

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When Your Best Friend Resents You | Adult Friendship & Jealousy

10

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

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

12

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

13

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

14

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

15

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

16

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

17

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

18

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

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

20

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

21

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

22

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

23

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

24

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

25

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

27

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

31

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

32

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

33

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

34

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

35

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

36

Are Mixed Race People “Properly Black”?

37

Who does the algorithm think you are?

38

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

48

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

50

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