Hopeful

In this episode I talk to the lovely Alexa Netty, vet student and executive director of SolidariTee, an international charity fighting for long term change in the refugee crisis. SolidariTee: IG: @teesofsolidarity Twitter: @SolidariTeeUK FB: https://www.facebook.com/teesofsolidarity Website: https://www.solidaritee.org.uk Hopeful: IG: @hopefulpodcasts FB: https://www.facebook.com/hopefulpodcasts

*Apologies for the slightly questionable sound quality of this episode - lockdown Zoom recordings are not conducive to happy podcasting* This episode features the incredible Mikaela Loach, an anti-racism and climate justice activist who co-hosts the Yikes podcast. Based in Edinburgh, where she studies medicine, she is passionate about collectively combatting the climate crisis. Mentioned in this episode: The Loveland Foundation: https://thelovelandfoundation.org/loveland-therapy-fund/ STAR Edinburgh: https://www.facebook.com/STAREdUni Mikaela: IG: @mikaelaloach Twitter: @mikaelaloach Hopeful: IG: @hopefulpodcasts FB: https://www.facebook.com/hopefulpodcasts

2020 needed some hope. The second series of Hopeful kicks off with Hannah Gaffey, a recent graduate whose research draws attention to the challenges and triumphs of being a young person seeking asylum in the UK. She is currently volunteering for Mosaik Education, an NGO which assists refugee students in accessing university using guidance programmes, English lessons and peer-to-peer support networks. Hannah: https://instahangaf.com/ IG: @instahangaf Twitter: @HannahGaffey Mosaik: https://mosaik.ngo/ IG @mosaik_education Twitter: @MosaikEducation Hopeful: IG: @hopefulpodcasts FB: https://www.facebook.com/hopefulpodcasts

This month I was joined my four lovely friends - Henry Henderson, Alex Bokhari, Tom McDonald and Rory Quick - to talk about masculinity and the impact of gender from a male perspective. Instagram - @hopefulpodcasts Mentioned in the podcast: Surfers Sauce - @ surferssauce

Cheeky bonus IWD episode! As it is my FAVE day of the year, I decided to share my highlights of this year and thoughts for a hopeful International Women's Day. I hope you are all having the best day - if you need a soundtrack for today, I have created a groovy playlist featuring my go to girl power tunes. Check it out here: https://open.spotify.com/user/1125609262/playlist/4mosdV3kx5SZrhlAMSu79t?si=PifdSS1hQ2yQ1FJauRwErw LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE: All female spacewalk - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nasa-planning-its-first-all-female-spacewalk-180971648/ Period products in hospitals - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/mar/03/period-poverty-free-tampons-hospitals Women in congress - https://www.axios.com/116th-congress-diversity-women-086fce33-2486-469b-ace1-691aef449abe.html Jacinda Arden takes her baby to the UN - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45634444 Gina Martin's upskirting bill - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/gina-martin-got-law-changed-made-upskirting-illegal/ Indian human chain - http://time.com/5491454/620km-human-chain-indian-women-equality/

New year - new format! This year I want to explore different views on a variety of topics, and understand how the media and our experiences affect our points of view. In this episode, I'm joined by Sophie de Salis, Aki Karas, Ed Campbell and Lauren del Fabbro; and we discuss what the word feminism means nowadays, how the media contributes to problems with feminism, and all sorts of other stuff. Instagram - @hopefulpodcasts Mentioned in the podcast: We Were Feminists Once - Andi Zeisler Feminists Don't Wear Pink and Other Lies - curated by Scarlett Curtis Lean In Women in the Workplace study - https://womenintheworkplace.com Insecure - https://www.hbo.com/insecure Fearlessly - https://www.fearlessly.co.uk My article in Fearlessly - https://www.fearlessly.co.uk/community-helped-redefine-self-worth/ Sophie de Salis' podcast - https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/brit-with-a-cap-brit-with-a-cap-BO4hCN1eRcT/

This edition features the fabulous Tiara Ataii, founder and president of Solidaritee, an intiative founded at Cambridge to highlight the refugee crisis and to raise funds for legal aid in Greece. She is incredibly inspirational, and Solidaritee is a cause we should all get behind. Go buy yourself a t-shirt for Christmas! Solidaritee links Website: https://www.solidaritee.org.uk Insta - @teesofsolidarity Twitter - @SolidariTeeUK Hopeful links: Insta - @hopefulpodcasts Twitter - @penneyemma_