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Indigenous in Music with Larry K - Nige B in our Spotlight Interview (R&B) Welcome to Indigenous in Music with Larry K, on this show we welcome Nige B of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band—a rising star in Indigenous hip hop. With five studio albums to his name, his latest project, Reshape // Refashion, delivers a bold and honest look at personal growth and transformation. Nige B is featured in our current issue of the SAY Magazine, read all about him at our place www.indigenousinmusicandarts.org/past-shows/nige-b. Enjoy music from Nige B, Coletta, Rezcoast Grizz, Shon Denay, iskwe, Gladwyn Badger, Mitch Walking Elk, Hataalii, Cary Morin, Martha Redbone, Dubbygotbars, Truent, Melody McArthur, Inez Jasper, Fawn Wood, Mariame, Supaman, Leela Gilday, Gary Small, Patty Davis, Paula Lima, Leonard Sumner, Aysnabee, DJ Bitman, Eadse, Julieta Venegas, Tracy Bone, Sara Kae, Mike Paul Kuekuatsheu, Novalima, Nuxalk Radio, Vince Fontaine and much more. Visit us on our home page to learn about us and our programs at www.indigenousinmusicandarts.org, check into our Two Buffalo Studios and our SAY Magazine Library to find out all about our Artists and Entrepreneurs.
“We need each other, and interdependence is key to survival for human beings,” says Mariame organizer Kaba. In this episode, Mariame and Kelly talk about what their book Let This Radicalize You brings to this moment. They also discuss the fight for reproductive justice, the problem with schadenfreude, and the need to build collective courage. Music: Son Monarcas and Pulsed You can find a transcript and show notes (including links to resources) here: truthout.org/series/movement-memos/ If you would like to support the show, you can donate here: bit.ly/TODonate If you would like to receive Truthout's newsletter, please sign up: bit.ly/TOnewsletter
Aujourd'hui, on débute la série-bonus en collaboration avec Inter-Pares par une femme hors du commun : la grande, la charismatique, la captivante, la rassembleuse, la féministe et visionnaire : Mariamé Ouattara ! Que dire ? L'écouter, c'est tomber en amour ! Lors de son passage dans les Cantons de l'Est, elle nous a tous.tes charmés par son esprit vif, sa présence, et sa vision. Depuis plus d'une trentaine d'années , elle travaille au Burkina Faso et en Afrique de l'Ouest dans la promotion de l'égalité de genre et la promotion des droits des femmes paysannes. Aujourd'hui, elle est experte en Genre et Développement et Spécialiste en Plaidoyer dans le cadre du projet EGALE-AO de l'organisme INTER-PARES. De son enfance à la naissance de ses convictions en passant par les multiples projets qu'elle a accompagnés, Mariamé nous invite dans sa réalité et sa vie, et vous ne risquez pas de vous ennuyer ! Ou plutôt si … à la fin de l'épisode quand ça va être finit ! L'écouter, c'est prendre une grande inspiration à se rassembler, s'organiser, s'intéresser à ce qui se fait ailleurs. Alors, sans plus attendre, écoutons Mariamé !Une collaboration Les Agricoles x Inter-ParesCe balado a été réalisé grâce au soutien financier d'Affaires mondiales Canada.Au mixage : Claudie Fortier St-Pierre Réalisation, graphisme, rédaction, et tout le reste : Les Agricoles Merci à Maude Hélène des Jardins de la Grelinette pour la pergola et les oiseaux !Soutien financier pour cette série-bonus : affaires.mondiales.canada
durée : 00:29:40 - Les Pieds sur terre - par : Sonia Kronlund, Aladine Zaïane - Mariame et Khadija ont porté le voile à l'adolescence. En 2008, elles décident de créer leur propre entreprise pour contourner les discriminations. Ce sera "Hijab & The city", un média féministe et sans tabou. Le succès est au rendez-vous, jusqu'au jour où toutes deux remettent en question le voile. - réalisation : Yaël Mandelbaum
durée : 00:29:40 - Les Pieds sur terre - par : Sonia Kronlund, Aladine Zaïane - Mariame et Khadija ont porté le voile à l'adolescence. En 2008, elles décident de créer leur propre entreprise pour contourner les discriminations. Ce sera "Hijab & The city", un média féministe et sans tabou. Le succès est au rendez-vous, jusqu'au jour où toutes deux remettent en question le voile. - réalisation : Yaël Mandelbaum
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Am 13. August feiert bei den Salzburger Festspielen Offenbachs Oper „Hoffmanns Erzählungen“ Premiere. Mariame Clément gibt damit ihr Regiedebüt in Salzburg.
This is it! We've reached the end of Season 2, and the last episode of 1ME (for now). And who better to close us out than our OG partner in decriminalization and 1ME creator Mariame Kaba. Mariame returns to the show to discuss what she's learned across twenty episodes of the show, the importance of movement-led archival work, how she understands the shifts in our political landscape since 2020, and the importance of the choir. Let's go out in style! SHOW NOTES Book a screening of the 1ME film! Hit us up at contact@respairmedia.com. Peep 1ME - http://millionexperiments.com
This is it! We've reached the end of Season 2, and the last episode of 1ME (for now). And who better to close us out than our OG partner in decriminalization and 1ME creator Mariame Kaba. Mariame returns to the show to discuss what she's learned across twenty episodes of the show, the importance of movement-led archival work, how she understands the shifts in our political landscape since 2020, and the importance of the choir. Let's go out in style! SHOW NOTES Book a screening of the 1ME film! Hit us up at contact@respairmedia.com. Peep 1ME - http://millionexperiments.com
CAMUS CULTURE Le 30 novembre 2023, les élèves de Seconde du lycée Albert Camus (Bois-Colombes) ont enregistré Camus Culture, une émission consacrée à la pièce Une histoire d'amour d'Alexis Michalik jouée au théatre l'Avant Seine. Au programme : - Juliette anime l'émission et présente le sommaire - Juliette et Nicole résument la pièce - Sacha et Alister comparent les bandes annonces de la pièce et de son adaptation cinématographique - Adam, Maxence et Maxime proposent une analyse comparative de l'adaptation cinématographique et théâtrale de la pièce - Anissa et Sélina s'intéressent à la scénographie de la pièce - Zoé, Chloé et Erell présentent plusieurs métiers du théâtre - Alexis, Kyle, Hamza et Hugo donnent des éléments sur l'histoire du droit des personnes LGBTQIA+ - A partir de la pièce, Loane, Maëlys, Sohane et Mariame se demandent si l'on peut tout dire aux enfants - Adam, Marouane et Denis discutent de leurs personnages préférés - Camille LJ interview Camille LP, Clara et Éléonore au sujet des émotions qu'elles ont ressenties pendant la pièce - Loane, Julian et Ismaël discutent de qu'ils ont apprécié dans la pièce Musique : Adèle - When We Were Young Elvis Presley - I can't help falling in love with you Un atelier radio animé par Camille Masson et Andréa Narboni dans le cadre des ateliers d'initiation aux pratiques radiophoniques organisés par Radio Campus Paris, en partenariat avec le théâtre l'Avant Seine.
CAMUS CULTURE Le 30 novembre 2023, les élèves de Seconde du lycée Albert Camus (Bois-Colombes) ont enregistré Camus Culture, une émission consacrée à la pièce Une histoire d'amour d'Alexis Michalik jouée au théatre l'Avant Seine. Au programme : - Juliette anime l'émission et présente le sommaire - Juliette et Nicole résument la pièce - Sacha et Alister comparent les bandes annonces de la pièce et de son adaptation cinématographique - Adam, Maxence et Maxime proposent une analyse comparative de l'adaptation cinématographique et théâtrale de la pièce - Anissa et Sélina s'intéressent à la scénographie de la pièce - Zoé, Chloé et Erell présentent plusieurs métiers du théâtre - Alexis, Kyle, Hamza et Hugo donnent des éléments sur l'histoire du droit des personnes LGBTQIA+ - A partir de la pièce, Loane, Maëlys, Sohane et Mariame se demandent si l'on peut tout dire aux enfants - Adam, Marouane et Denis discutent de leurs personnages préférés - Camille LJ interview Camille LP, Clara et Éléonore au sujet des émotions qu'elles ont ressenties pendant la pièce - Loane, Julian et Ismaël discutent de qu'ils ont apprécié dans la pièce Musique : Adèle - When We Were Young Elvis Presley - I can't help falling in love with you Un atelier radio animé par Camille Masson et Andréa Narboni dans le cadre des ateliers d'initiation aux pratiques radiophoniques organisés par Radio Campus Paris, en partenariat avec le théâtre l'Avant Seine.
Join us for a virtual launch event celebrating the release of Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba. This event took place on May 16, 2023. What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe. Longtime organizers and movement educators Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes examine some of the political lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the convergence of mass protest and mass formations of mutual aid, and consider what this confluence of power can teach us about a future that will require mass acts of care, rescue and defense, in the face of both state violence and environmental disaster. Get a copy of Let This Radicalize You for 30% off here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/... Speakers include Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba, Tony Alvarado Rivera , Ejeris Dixon, Aly Wane and Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator and curator who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. She is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. Mariame is currently a researcher at Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, a project she co-founded with Andrea Ritchie in 2018. Kelly Hayes is the host of Truthout's podcast “Movement Memos” and a contributing writer at Truthout. Kelly's written work can also be found in Teen Vogue, Bustle, Yes! Magazine, Pacific Standard, NBC Think, her blog Transformative Spaces, The Appeal, the anthology The Solidarity Struggle: How People of Color Succeed and Fail At Showing Up For Each Other In the Fight For Freedom and Truthout's anthology on movements against state violence, Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Kelly is also a direct action trainer and a co-founder of the direct action collective Lifted Voices. Watch the live event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSTMC0QhZbg Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks
This is part 2 of our 2 part conversation with Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba on their new book Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care. (Part 1 is available here). In this episode we continue our conversation with Kaba and Hayes on the idea that organizing is not match-making. They each talk about organizing across difference and dealing with some of the contradictions that can come up within struggles around shared objectives. They talk about some of the differences between friends and comrades and the transformation that can happen within the waging of struggle. We discuss about the phrase “hope is a discipline,” what it means and doesn't mean, whether hope is a useful framework for people, and the notion of active hope that weaves through a lot of the book. We also talk about seasonality within organizing, avoiding burn out, and how to deal with increasing visibility and remain responsible to the social movements you're in. Mariame Kaba is currently raising funds for the Online Abortion Resource Squad, if folks are able to support that effort we encourage them to do so. Once again we want to thank Kelly and Mariame for having this conversation with us. You can pick up Let This Radicalize You from Haymarket Books, our friends at Massive Bookshop or your local radical bookstore. We will include a link to the resources mentioned in the episode and a few other items in the show notes. We do want to thank all of the folks who support us on an ongoing basis or for however long they can. And we invite new listeners and those who haven't become patrons yet to do so. You can become a patron of the show for as little as $1 a month or $10.80 per year. We receive no revenue from foundations or advertisers, so it is only through the support of our listeners that we are able to bring you conversations like this on a weekly basis and often more frequently than that. Become a patron of the show at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism Links: Mariame Kaba is currently seeking to raise $50,000 for abortion funds. Support here. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care (resources page). When We Fall Apart (mentioned in the discussion) The Prison Culture Blog Movement Memos Lifted Voices Survived and Punished Our first conversation with Mariame Kaba (2019) Our previous (panel) discussion with Kelly Hayes (2022)
For this conversation we are honored to welcome Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba back to the podcast. This is part 1 of a 2 part conversation on their latest book Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care. For both of these folks, I'm going to read shorter bios today, and then link to more of their work, because for each of them I could easily spend 10 to 15 minutes just talking about their backgrounds. Kelly Hayes is a Menominee author, organizer, movement educator and photographer. She is also the host of Truthout's podcast Movement Memos. Kelly is a co-founder of the direct action collective Lifted Voices and the Chicago Light Brigade. Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator and curator who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. She has founded or co-founded a number of organizations including but not limited to the Chicago Freedom School, Project NIA, We Charge Genocide, and Survived and Punished. She is also the author or co-author of many books and zines including but not limited to No More Police and We Do This 'Til We Free Us. Both of our guests today are known for their extensive organizing around, writing about, and advocacy of prison-industrial-complex abolition and all that entails as a liberatory horizon and arena of radical organizing. Much like this conversation, the book is a radical invitation for folks to organize and take action in big and small ways, but most importantly in collective ways. We really appreciated this book and encourage all of our listeners to get a copy. The book is an excellent resource, it's funny, it's engaging, and no matter where you are coming from I'm sure you will find it useful for your organizing, activism and radical engagement with others. We want to extend our gratitude to Mariame and Kelly for this conversation and part 2 which we will release in a few days, for their organizing and writing and for the many ways that they invite people into abolitionist practice. We will include links to some free companions created for the book as well. These can deepen your study of the book, hopefully collectively, offer reading lists, reading questions and many other really great resources. This episode marks our first episode of June, we released seven episodes in the month of May. That is only possible because of the support of our listeners. We have been experiencing a lot of folks unable to renew pledges lately on the show, which is understandable during harder financial times. We do want to thank all of the folks who support us on an ongoing basis or for however long they can. And we invite new listeners and those who haven't become patrons yet to do so. You can become a patron of the show for as little as $1 a month or $10.80 per year. We receive no revenue from foundations or advertisers so it is only through the support of our listeners that we are able to bring you conversations like this on a weekly basis and often more frequently than that. Become a patron of the show at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism. Links: Mariame Kaba is currently seeking to raise $50,000 for abortion funds. Support here. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care (look to resources heading on middle of page for the free workbook and discussion guide) The Prison Culture Blog Movement Memos Lifted Voices Survived and Punished Our first conversation with Mariame Kaba (2019) Our previous (panel) discussion with Kelly Hayes (2022)
durée : 02:29:34 - Le 7/9.30 - par : Nicolas Demorand, Léa Salamé, Stephanie BOUTONNAT - Nathalie Iannetta, directrice des Sports de Radio France, Leïla Slimani, écrivaine, Mehdi Benatia, consultant beIN Sports, Boris Vallaud, député PS des Landes, et Mariame Tighanimine, autrice de Notre histoire de France (Stock), sont les invités de la matinale.
We're joined by Mariame Kaba, a leading prison and police abolitionist to discuss what it will take to get rid of police once and for all- and what that may look like. Mariame is the founder and director of Project NIA and the co-founder of Interrupting Criminalization. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling We Do This 'Til We Free Us and co-author (with Andrea J. Ritchie) of No More Police (The New Press) and lives in New York City. https://twitter.com/prisonculture http://mariamekaba.com/ https://mariamekaba.com/publications/ https://thenewpress.com/authors/mariame-kaba --- Thanks for watching! Please like, comment, subscribe, and share! --- Listen to the Non Serviam Podcast on your favorite podcast platform! iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and more. If you'd like to see more anarchist and anti-authoritarian interviews, please consider supporting this project financially by becoming a Patreon https://www.patreon.com/nonserviammedia Follow us on Instagram @ nonserviammedia View our full, downloadable catalog online at https://nonserviammedia.com/
Today we welcome Mariame Kaba - activist and author of the book We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice, and her latest, No More Police: A Case for Abolition, which she cowrote with Andrea J. Ritchie. In discussing her lifelong devotion to anti-violence, we learn why Mariame doesn't center herself in the work toward abolition, and why she does not consider herself a writer. She also explains the difference between punishment and consequences and shares some incredible book recommendations.The Stacks Book Club selection for November is Prison By Any Other Name by Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law. We will discuss the book on November 30th with Mariame Kaba.You can find everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' website: https://thestackspodcast.com/2022/11/02/ep-239-mariame-kabaConnect with Mariame: Twitter | WebsiteConnect with The Stacks: Instagram | Twitter | Shop | Patreon | Goodreads | SubscribeSUPPORT THE STACKSJoin The Stacks Pack on PatreonTo support The Stacks and find out more from this week's sponsors, click here.Purchasing books through Bookshop.org or Amazon earns The Stacks a small commission.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Invité de la Rédaction : Ariane Chemin pour son documentaire « La vie devant nous » qui sera diffusé sur Arte le 31 août à 22h45 À propos du film: «La vie devant nous» Diffusé sur Arte le 31 août à 22h45 https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/096290-000-A/la-vie-devant-nous/ À partir d'une enquête d'Ariane Chemin, comment un certain Félix Mora a recruté en masse de jeunes Marocains pour les mines du Nord et de Lorraine. Une autre histoire de la France et de l'immigration, racontée par ses acteurs. "Mora veut, Mora a !" Dans les années 1960 et 1970, Félix Mora sillonne en DS le sud du Maroc en quête de muscles à bas coût pour les mines de la France gaullo-pompidolienne. Dans les vallées du Haut-Atlas, le crieur ou le caïd annonce son arrivée à des cohortes de paysans berbères candidats à l'exil, alignés par numéros des heures durant sous le soleil. Ancien militaire, l'agent recruteur des Houillères du bassin du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais examine et palpe les corps. Lahcen Tighanimine (ainsi rebaptisé du nom de son village), Hammou Chakouk et les autres attendent avec anxiété son verdict : tampon vert sur les torses nus, l'espoir d'argent pour la famille et la fierté ; rouge, le retour au bled et la honte. Mora aurait ainsi recruté plus de 80 000 mineurs pour le Nord et la Lorraine. Après deux jours et trois nuits à fond de cale, dans les entrailles du paquebot Lyautey, le débarquement à Marseille est suivi du transfert, avant la descente dans les galeries de poussière noire, aux côtés d'Italiens, d'Espagnols et de Polonais, mieux payés. À la fermeture des mines dans les années 1980, les "Mora" découvrent les chaînes des usines automobiles Renault et Peugeot, ouvriers d'une France industrielle déclinant au crépuscule des Trente Glorieuses. Vient le temps du regroupement familial, des naissances et des cités qui achève de les convaincre de rester… Le choix d'un destin À sa fille Mariame, sociologue, qui l'interroge sur la violence de la méthode du "négrier des Houillères", Lahcen Tighanimine répond simplement : "T'es pas contente d'être ici ?" Lucides et enjoués, ces retraités racontent sans nostalgie leur épopée industrieuse, loin des arganiers et des palmiers-dattiers de l'Atlas, et le choix d'un destin : "On a pensé à la vie devant nous…" Devenus pères et grands-pères de centaines de milliers de Français, les anciens mineurs, touchants, témoignent avec précision et sans pathos. À rebours des débats identitaires empoisonnés, leur récit, au présent, dessine tout en nuances une histoire de France et de l'immigration méconnue, entre travail, exploitation, dignité, rêves accomplis et mémoire, et montre combien la traversée de la Méditerranée revêt, aujourd'hui comme hier, une dimension mythologique. Réalisation : Frédéric Laffont Pays : France Année : 2021
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Join us for a lively exploration of the concept of "abolitionist safety planning" and supporting survivors from feminists and abolitionists. In situations of domestic violence, survival can become criminalized in unexpected and chilling ways. However, because isolation is a central strategy of abuse, many survivors lack the community and resources needed to find support for both the violence as well as the risks of criminalization. What can concrete support for intimate partner violence survivors look like from a prison abolitionist perspective? What can it look like in practice to support survivors while being acutely aware of both the dangers of abuse and the overwhelming violence of the criminal legal system? Join us for a lively exploration of the concept of "abolitionist safety planning" from feminists and abolitionists, who will share their experiences, challenges, and lessons learned from supporting survivors in situations of active and ongoing violence. Speakers: Mariame Kaba (moderator) is an organizer, educator, curator, and prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. Kaba is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots abolitionist organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. Mariame is currently a researcher at Interrupting Criminalization, a project she co-founded with Andrea Ritchie in 2018. Kaba is the author of We Do This Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice, Missing Daddy, See You Soon and Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators with Shira Hassan. Aracelia Aguilar (she/her) is one of the Empowerment Directors at DeafHope, providing direct services to Deaf DV/SV survivors. DeafHope recognizes the system barriers and institutional oppressions Deaf survivors navigate through to get to safety, and Aracelia's advocacy strongly focuses on putting the survivor at the center of the work. Aracelia has also received training under Sujatha Baliga and Mimi Kim to incorporate Restorative and Transformative Justice into the work of DeafHope. Aracelia provides Teen Dating Violence, Consent & Boundaries, and Sexual Violence presentations for Deaf teens at High Schools all over the Bay Area. Rachel Caidor (she/her) has spent over 25 years providing direct service and organizational support to rape crisis and domestic violence survior support agencies in Chicago. She is a member of Love and Protect and supports the work of the Chicago Community Bond Fund. Shira Hassan (she/her) is the founder, co-creator and principal consultant for Just Practice, a capacity building project for organizations and community members, activists and leaders working at the intersection of transformative justice, harm reduction and collective liberation. She is the former executive director of the Young Women's Empowerment Project, an organizing and grassroots movement building project led by and for young people of color that have current or former experience in the sex trade and street economies. Hyejin Shim (she/her) is a Building Community Power Fellow at Community Justice Exchange. She has over a decade's experience in supporting survivors of domestic and sexual violence, particularly immigrant, refugee, and criminalized survivors of abuse. Hyejin is a co-founder of Survived and Punished, a national organization dedicated to supporting criminalized and incarcerated survivors of gender-based violence. This event is sponsored by Community Justice Exchange, Survived and Punished, Interrupting Criminalization, and Haymarket Books. https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org https://survivedandpunished.org https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/QEVuJuBrj5A Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks
durée : 00:54:26 - Unique en son genre - Mariame Tighanimine, est autrice et doctorante en sociologie au CNRS et au Conservatoire National des arts et métiers. Elle publie "Dévoilons-nous - Manifeste antiraciste et féministe"
Dans cette nouvelle émission Sortez!, on vous parle de difficultés d’apprentissage, un thème encore mal connu. Pourtant, En France, les difficultés de l’ apprentissage concernent environ 6 % à 8 % de la population, soit plus de 4 millions de personnes en France. Dyslexie, dysphasie vous avez déjà sûrement entendu ces mots mais que signifient-ils […] L'article Sortez! – Journée de sensibilisation aux difficultés d’apprentissage, Mariame N’Daw est apparu en premier sur Radio Campus Tours - 99.5 FM.
In this episode of Black Work Talk, Steven Pitts and his co-host, Toussaint Losier, talk with Mariame Kaba. Mariame is one of this country's leading abolitionist thinkers and practitioners. She has founded several projects organizing around abolitionist principles including Project NIA. Many of her writings on abolition are collected in a recent book, “We Do This ‘Til We Free Us”. We talk about Mariame's definition of abolition and what might account for the increased interest in abolition. Later, we move to talk about various abolition campaigns from around the country and close by examining political strategies needed to build a world without various forms of organized state violence.
Dans cet épisode, je vous parle de comment j'ai pris conscience de ma féminité pour mieux vivre mes relations. Avant, je ne savais qui j'étais et je me suis perdue littéralement dans mes rapports avec les autres. Cette expérience m'a beaucoup brisé mais j'ai réussi à me relever grâce à l'amour. J'espère de tout coeur qu'à l'écoute de ces quelques minutes, tu pourras aussi trouver la force et le courage de te relever. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lavoixdesrelations/message
Je suis maman d'un jeune adolescent qui va avoir 14 ans dans quelques mois. Lorsque j'ai commencé à sortir avec son père j'avais 22 ans et plein de rêves de couple en mode « Hélène et les garçons » ou bien les histoires des clips américains. Or la réalité à laquelle j'ai été confronté, n'était pas du tout celle-ci. Totalement immature émotionnellement et sans comprendre les enjeux d'une vie de couple avec tout ce que cela implique en termes de concessions, d'intimité sexuelle, de don de soi, de sacrifice, de pardon et de solitude, j'ai vécu l'un des plus gros échecs relationnels de ma vie à l'époque. Avec le père de mon fils, nous avons partagé une vie commune pendant environ 5 ans. Elle s'est soldée par une rupture extrêmement douloureuse, tant pour lui que pour moi. J'avais à l'époque 28 ans et j'étais déjà remplie de honte, de remord et de culpabilité. Je me suis relevée grâce à l'amour et aujourd'hui je vous partage mon histoire. Accrochez-vous et que votre coeur reçoive de l'espoir et de l'amour. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lavoixdesrelations/message
Bonjour à toutes et tous, je m'appelle Mariame de « la voix des relations » je vous souhaite la bienvenue dans la rubrique de l'amour. Au cours de mes différentes expériences de vie qu'elles soient personnelles ou professionnelles, j'ai appris que l'amour est avant tout une intention qui nous demande de grandir en intelligence émotionnelle et relationnelle. Vous aurez donc compris que je suis sensible à l'amour avec un grand A. Je vais vous parler des faces cachées de l'amour. L'amour est un sentiment désintéressé qui nait du don de soi, c'est se donner à partir du cœur. Il est donc qu'elle que soit la relation : amicale, amoureuse, familiale vitale d'aimer et c'est donc l'essence même de toute relation. Il est donc important de parler d'amour dans ce qui est de vrai et de Christ. Il est le moteur et le carburant de toutes relations saines. L'amour guéri et restaure les vies. J'ai travaillé pendant plusieurs années dans la lutte contre le VIH/SIDA, où j'ai eu l'occasion dans mon métier d'assistante de service social d'accompagner des personnes victimes de violences et agressions sexuelles. Je peux donc vous affirmer que pour avoir écouté ces parcours de vies et les atrocités subies sans le don de l'amour que nous sommes il est quasi impossible pour les personnes ayant ce type de parcours, de pouvoir retrouver le goût à la vie. Je vous invite à écouter un partage extraordinaire. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lavoixdesrelations/message
Wir lernen heute über die wichtige Arbeit von Forward for Women und die Arbeit gegen ritualisierte Gewalt
Mariame Sy, Lecturer in African Languages and the Director of the African Language Program at Columbia University, discusses the history of African language teaching in the United States and identifies opportunities for innovation in the language classroom. #muñëlënté
A Study and Struggle critical conversation about what it means for abolition to be intersectional. Study and Struggle organizes against criminalization and incarceration in Mississippi through mutual aid, political education, and community building. We provide a bilingual Spanish and English curriculum with discussion questions and reading materials, as well as financial support, to over 100 participants in radical study groups inside and outside prisons in Mississippi. These groups correspond with groups from across the country through our pen pal program. We regularly come together for online conversations hosted by Haymarket Books. The curriculum, built by a combination of currently- and formerly-incarcerated people, scholars, and community organizers, centers around the interrelationship between prison abolition and immigrant justice, with a particular attention to freedom struggles in Mississippi and the U.S. South. For our Fall 2021 four month curriculum, we have borrowed and augmented Ruth Wilson Gilmore's argument that “abolition is about presence, not absence. It has to be green, and in order to be green, it has to be red (anti-capitalist), and in order to be red, it has to be international," having added “intersectional” as a fourth analytical category that we hope moves us beyond “single-issue” organizing. Study and Struggle provides a bilingual curriculum to all our imprisoned comrades in Mississippi with the support of our friends at 1977 Books and makes it fully available online for other study groups to use as they see fit. Our Critical Conversations webinar series, hosted by Haymarket Books, will cover the themes for the upcoming month. Haymarket Books is an independent, radical, non-profit publisher. For more on Study and Struggle: https://www.studyandstruggle.com/ ---------------------------------------------------- Our first webinar theme covers "intersectionality" and will be a conversation about what it means for abolition to be intersectional and how abolition demands a reimagination of relationships, accountability, and what it means to be in community and to care for one another. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of commissary and mutual aid for our incarcerated participants. ---------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator and curator who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. She is the author of We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice. She is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. Mariame is currently a researcher at Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, a project she co-founded with Andrea Ritchie in 2018. She co-authored the guidebook Lifting As They Climbed and published a children's book titled Missing Daddy about the impacts of incarceration on children and families. Kaba is the recipient of the Cultural Freedom Prize from Lannan Foundation. Moni Cosby is a Chicago activist, mother, grandmother, writer and abolitionist who was incarcerated by the state of Illinois for 20 years. She has dedicated her life to ending all forms of violence that Black, Indigenous and People of Color, particularly women, encounter daily. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/eIVOxim1qS8 Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks
Ohhhh Emmmm Geeee! The 21/22 Sydney FC kits have been unveiled much to the delight of us and the supporters of this great club. Slick, fresh, sophisticated new jerseys and especially a very sexy third violet plum alternate kit (drool!). Jono and Sean dissect it all with the King and Queen of Sydney FC kits a.k.a Mariame and Julian. We also chat around the grounds, some APL news and the final couple of pieces to our W-League squad. Enjoy.
Ohhhh Emmmm Geeee! The 21/22 Sydney FC kits have been unveiled much to the delight of us and the supporters of this great club. Slick, fresh, sophisticated new jerseys and especially a very sexy third violet plum alternate kit (drool!). Jono and Sean dissect it all with the King and Queen of Sydney FC kits a.k.a Mariame and Julian. We also chat around the grounds, some APL news and the final couple of pieces to our W-League squad. Enjoy.
This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined once again by grassroots organizer and abolitionist Mariame Kaba, known best as @prisonculture on Twitter. Mariame, whose work focuses primarily on dismantling the prison industrial complex, is also the founder of Project NIA, an advocacy group focused on ending youth incarceration, and co-founded a number of other organizations including the Chicago Taskforce on Violence against Girls and Young Women. Mariame describes the impact that mutual aid has had during the pandemic, and how mutual aid functions as an act of solidarity, especially during times of crisis when communities are left without resources. We also discuss her new, New York Times bestselling book "We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing And Transforming Justice" and the abolitionist principles that help guide her work. The crew also examines the emotional satisfaction and fallout behind high profile cases like those of Bill Cosby and Derek Chauvin, and why retribution and revenge are not the same as justice. You can follow Mariame on Twitter @prisonculture. For more details on the mutual aid toolkit make sure to visit The Big Door Brigade. If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, subscribe on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on iTunes. We can't do this show without your support!!!
durée : 00:28:52 - Les Pieds sur terre - par : Sonia Kronlund, Aladine Zaïane - Mariame et Khadija ont porté le voile à l'adolescence. En 2008, elles décident de créer leur propre entreprise pour contourner les discriminations. Ce sera "Hijab & The city", un media féministe et sans tabou. Le succès est au rendez-vous, jusqu'au jour où toutes deux remettent en question le voile. - réalisation : Yaël Mandelbaum
durée : 00:28:52 - Les Pieds sur terre - par : Sonia Kronlund, Aladine Zaïane - Mariame et Khadija ont porté le voile à l'adolescence. En 2008, elles décident de créer leur propre entreprise pour contourner les discriminations. Ce sera "Hijab & The city", un media féministe et sans tabou. Le succès est au rendez-vous, jusqu'au jour où toutes deux remettent en question le voile. - réalisation : Yaël Mandelbaum
Sortir de la précarité des femmes au passé compliqué. Luca, bénévole et fondateur de l’association « La cantine des femmes battantes » créée en 2019 a rassemblé Maïté, Fatou, Aminata et Mariame autour de leur cuisine. Ces quatre femmes originaires d'Afrique de l’Ouest, proposent tous les week-ends des repas à emporter. Rencontre avec ces quatre fantastiques de la cuisine qui tiennent bon la barre malgré la crise sanitaire. Soutenez nous : RadioParleur.net/don
This week, the boys are joined by the one and only Mariame Choucair (IG - @cahillexpress) who joins us to preview the season, round up the socials, review the ACL. Mariame then joins us for an insightful and fascinating chat. One not to be missed!
This week, the boys are joined by the one and only Mariame Choucair (IG - @cahillexpress) who joins us to preview the season, round up the socials, review the ACL. Mariame then joins us for an insightful and fascinating chat. One not to be missed!
The Abolition Suite is a series of AirGo episodes exploring the concepts and practices of policing and prison abolition with the thought leaders who have been pushing an abolitionist future forward for decades. The Abolitionist Suite is presented in support of the #DefundCPD campaign and the Black Abolitionist Network. Volume 2 of the series is with abolitionist organizer, community builder, and mentor Mariame Kaba. A 3-time AirGo Alum, Mariame talks through what we all need to remember in this time of uprising, how we can unweave the police from our hearts and minds, and much more. SHOW NOTES: Read Mariame's recent NY Times Op-Ed "Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police": https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abolish-defund-police.html Explore her workbook Fumbling Towards Repair: https://www.akpress.org/fumbling-towards-repair.html Other abolitionist projects mentioned by Mariame: Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective: https://batjc.wordpress.com/ Anti Police-Terror Police Project: https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/ CAT 911: https://cat-911.org/ The Northwest Network: https://www.nwnetwork.org/ Paola Rojas: https://sfonline.barnard.edu/navigating-neoliberalism-in-the-academy-nonprofits-and-beyond/paula-rojas-are-the-cops-in-our-heads-and-hearts/ Prison by Any Other Name: https://thenewpress.com/books/prison-by-any-other-name Liat Ben-Moshe: https://www.liatbenmoshe.com/ Eddie Ellis: https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/451/the-run-on-sentence DefundCPD Campaign: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-on-to-demand-defunding-of-the-chicago-police-department Recorded 7/1/2020
Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by longtime guest host and prison-industrial complex abolitionist extraordinaire Mariame Kaba, pseudonymously known as @prisonculture. Mariame is the founder and director of Project NIA, an advocacy group focused on ending youth incarceration, and has co-founded a number of other organizations including Survived & Punished and the Chicago Taskforce on Violence against Girls and Young Women. Mariame shares her insight into the current momentum behind abolitionist demands in the wake of the protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd, which she recently wrote about in a New York Times op-ed. Mariame and Kumars take stock of what the latest wave of Black Lives Matter protests have achieved thus far as well as state and corporate attempts at co-optation, assessing the sea change in discourse on policing in the United States and the criteria by which we should judge the various police reforms being proposed at all levels of government. Mariame rounds out the discussion with a reminder of the need for organizers not to lose focus on pandemic relief and other community support work, touching on her own involvement in getting Mutual Aid Projects 4 Youth off the ground. Follow Mariame on Twitter @prisonculture, and learn how you can support young organizers or apply for a grant yourself at map4youth.com. If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, subscribe on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts. We can't do this show without your support!!!
In the past couple of weeks, we’ve seen tremendous movement to defund the police and move into communities and economies of care across the country. This is long, long, overdue, yet we notice some real resistance from those who are just beginning to get involved with this work when it comes to imagining a world without the police. However, at this point, can any of us look to the world and feel confident that the police care about us? This week we’re re-releasing our episode with Mariame Kaba on Moving Past Punishment. Mariame joins us for an expansive conversation on Transformative Justice, community accountability, criminalization of survivors, and freedom on the horizon. We invite you to take a listen to this episode this week as a resource to feel empowered to further conversations on abolition, the movement to defund the police, and the violent and oppressive history of policing against our Black, Indigenous, and brown relatives, as well as to hopefully find the organizations in your community that have been doing this work since the beginning. Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator and curator who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. She is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. She has co-founded multiple organizations and projects over the years including We Charge Genocide, the Chicago Freedom School, the Chicago Taskforce on Violence against Girls and Young Women, Love and Protect and most recently Survived and Punished. Music by Wyclef Jean, Jason Marsalis and Irvin Mayfield. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references and action points.
It's been a week. Amid uprisings and violent police suppression, we turn to Mariame Kaba. Mariame is a longtime police and prison abolitionist, educator, and organizer who has been doing the day-in, day-out work of activism and opposing state-sponsored violence since the early 2000s. If you've been wondering: what's police abolition? what's prison abolition? why not simply reform or defund police departments? how do I commit myself to racial justice? what does a post-police future look like? is there room for hope? ...this episode is for you.
Quand elle portait le voile Mariame Tighanimine a connu l'intolérance des islamophobes comme des extrémistes religieux. Depuis, enseignante à Sciences Po, elle se bat contre les préjugés.
ÉPIDÉMIE DE CORONAVIRUS : LES REDIFFUSIONS DE RCF - Dans le contexte d'épidémie de coronavirus, les équipes RCF se mobilisent pour vous informer, vous accompagner et permettre à tous de rester en communion par la prière. Durant cette période de confinement, RCF vous propose de réentendre des émissions pour vous évader et vous aérer. > En savoir plus Son histoire tord le cou aux déterminismes. Mariame Tighanimine la raconte dans son autobiographie, "Différente comme tout le monde" (éd. Le Passeur). Née dans une famille d'ouvriers issus de l'immigration, elle a fait ses étudies en banlieue, en "ZEP", mais a réussi le concours de Sciences Po, où elle enseigne aujourd'hui. Porter ou ne pas porter le voile Décider à l'âge de 25 ans de ne plus porter le voile. Quand on le fait depuis qu'on a 11 ans, ce n'est pas rien. Mais Mariame Tighanimine a fait du chemin, "ça ne me correspondait plus", dit-elle. Du même coup elle a coupé ses cheveux, très court - dans la rue on la prend pour Cristina Córdula. Le voile, les musulmanes qui le portent le font pour des raisons différentes, coquetterie, pudeur, pour se protéger, parce qu'elles pensent que c'est une obligation religieuse... "J'en ai rencontré très peu qui le portaient parce qu'elles étaient forcées." Mariame Tighanimine tord le cou aux idées reçues. Avec sa sœur elle a lancé en 2008 le webzine féminin "Hijab and the City", pour donner la parole aux femmes musulmanes. Quand elle a commencé à porter le voile, à l'âge de 11 ans, Mariame Tighanimine l'a fait parce qu'elle avait reçu "une éducation religieuse". Sa mère, ses sœurs et ses voisines le portaient. C'était un peu aussi, elle l'admet et n'en est "pas fière", par provocation. "J'ai foncé droit dans le piège dans lequel on a voulu me faire tomber." Elle a fait les frais de ce qui est perçu comme un outil de provocation ou de distinction. "J'ai tellement reçu d'agressions dans les transports en commun parce que je portais le voile." L'intolérance de tous les côtés, des islamophobes comme des extrémistes religieux qui lui reprochaient son pantalon trop près du corps. De la discrimination... "Si j'avais écrit ce livre il y a quelques années, il aurait été plein de colère et d'aigreur." Mariame Tighanimine cumule depuis l'enfance les discriminations liées à la question éthnique, aux origines maghrébines, à l'apparence musulmane, au fait d'être une femme, et surtout d'être "une fille de prolo" comme elle le répète. "Des différences qui sont des richesse mais surtout des tares", dit-elle en riant. Son histoire resemble pourtant à celle de milliers d'autres. Ses parents, un couple berbère venu du Maroc dans les années 60 pour travailler à la mine puis chez Renault, installé dans une barre d'immeuble, ont élevé six enfants. Bien qu'illettrés, ils les ont tous poussés à étudier. Mariame Tighanimine envie "la manière dont ils vivent avec beauoup de sérénité leur religion, leur foi". Dans la discrétion et la pudeur, sans militantisme. ... à la Transmission Pour qui a connu les discriminations - et tout ce qui va avec, la frustration, la colère, le manque de confiance en soi - et a appris à se battre, transmettre a du sens. Depuis 2016, Mariame Tighanimine enseigne le business à Sciences Po. Ce qu'elle apprend aux jeunes : "On a tous une place dans cette société il faut la trouver, ici ou ailleurs." Résolument optimiste, elle les encourage à entreprendre, ce qui reste l'un des meilleurs moyens de s'intégrer dans un pays comme le nôtre. "Je n'ai pas vécu la guerre ni des choses dramatiques", dit-elle. Mais depuis qu'elle a publié son histoire, elle a reçu de nombreux témoignages de personnes qui subissent d'une façon ou d'une autre le fait d'être "différent". Entretien réalisé en février 2018
In Episode 13, I was able to converse with Mariame Sylla the owner of Marimad Luxury Spa & Marimadskinrx | She is an amazing Esthetician turned Entrepreneur. It was such a pleasure having her on Dope Chick With Ambition! Podcast. If you have a passion for skincare or just want to hear some motivational dopeness! This episode is for you! Super proud of her and all her success thus far!! Don't forget to Download, leave a review and subscribe! Oh and please be sure to share the episodes xo Candi Hussle
Aujourd'hui, c'est Mariame qui partage son expérience de la continuité pédagogique avec beaucoup de recul et d'authenticité. Un garçon en maternelle et l'autre en CE1, elle nous raconte comment ça se passe chez elle. Mon compte Instagram : https://instagram.com/mestrucsdeprof?igshid=1ocj6bp7bfzg
Dr. Mariame Kounta is a Director of Nursing at Pathlight, a nonprofit organization that serves people with disabilities. She grew up in Senegal before studying in the US. She has a Doctor of Nursing Practice from UMass Amherst, a B.S. in Computer Science from Western New England University, and an Associate Degree in Nursing from Holyoke Community College. While studying computer science and working as a direct support professional, she discovered her true calling through her work as a direct support professional and returned to school to further advance her career and give back to her community.
If we want a just and humane world, we must create one in which apparatuses of oppression are no longer considered reasonable. This week on For The Wild, we are joined by Mariame Kaba for an expansive conversation on Transformative Justice, community accountability, criminalization of survivors, and freedom on the horizon. Mariame addresses punishment as an issue of directionality while reminding us why it is vital to have the prison abolition movement in conversation with the movement for climate and environmental justice. When we engage with these issues and shape our actions out of a commitment to removing violence at its core, we are working to transform our world beyond recognition into something teeming with possibility, beauty, and life. Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator and curator who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. She is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. She has co-founded multiple organizations and projects over the years including We Charge Genocide, the Chicago Freedom School, the Chicago Taskforce on Violence against Girls and Young Women, Love and Protect and most recently Survived and Punished. As a Researcher in Residence at the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW), Mariame Kaba works with Andrea J. Ritchie, fellow Researcher in Residence, on a new Social Justice Institute (SJI) initiative, Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action. Mariame is on the advisory boards of the Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, Critical Resistance and the Chicago Community Bond Fund. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications including The Nation Magazine, The Guardian, The Washington Post, In These Times, Teen Vogue, The New Inquiry and more. She runs Prison Culture blog. Mariame’s work has been recognized with several honors and awards. Music by Wyclef Jean, Jason Marsalis and Irvin Mayfield
This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined once again by the show's resident organizer, Mariame Kaba, and first-time-guest Dean Spade, Associate Professor at Seattle University School of Law. Mariame, known best as @prisonculture on Twitter, is an abolitionist whose work focuses primarily on dismantling the prison industrial complex. She's the founder of Project NIA, an advocacy group focused on ending youth incarceration. She's also co-founded a number of other organizations including the Chicago Taskforce on Violence against Girls and Young Women. Dean not only teaches law but founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a non-profit law collective. Mariame and Dean guide listeners through the world of mutual aid: from what this organizing theory means to how mutual aid projects are being applied in everyday life in order to disrupt violent, carceral institutions and inspire community building. Mariame explains what differentiates mutual aid from charity work, and why helping to lift one another up through struggle is a powerful act of solidarity and self-determination. Dean, who helped develop the mutual aid toolbox, gives us examples of how this project gives organizers a guide on forming community support projects that touch on issues like legal aid, childcare collectives, mental health support, cop watches, and so much more. The crew also discusses the organizing framework on abolitionist principles released this week, designed to lessen the scope and power of the prosecuting office and change the ways in which our communities respond to criminality and crisis. You can follow Mariame on Twitter @prisonculture and Dean @deanspade. For more details on the mutual aid toolkit make sure to visit The Big Door Brigade. If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, subscribe on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on iTunes. We can't do this show without your support!!!
Welcome to indigenous in Music! This week Larry welcomes into our Spotlight from Shelby North Carolina, singer, songwriter and flute player Mr. Chris Ferree. He has just released his 7th album “Chris Ferree & Medicine Crow.” You can find out all about Chris and hear his music on the web at at chrisferee.com. Enjoy music from Chris Ferree, Ed Koban, Jamie Coon, Laura Niquay, Eagle & Hawk, Soda Stereo, STOIK, Aleah Belle, Thievery Corporation, Tara Williamson, Jasmine Netsena, Leah Shenandoah, Blackhawk Walters, Marcia Chum, Nortec Collective, Dj Bitman, The Mavericks, Cody Coyote, Artson, Quese Imc, Once A Tree, Lagan Statts, Mimi O’Bonsawin, Mariame, Supaman, Thievery Corporation, Tchutchu, MIOS, Aterciopelados, B-Side Players, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Crystal Shawanda. Visit us on our website IndigenousinMusic.com for a free issue of the SAY Magazine, featuring our guests, we also have underwriting opportunities available. Indigenous in Music, a non-profit, section 501(c)(3).
Mariame Maiga of the West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development Discusses how her organization highlights gender in development and food security projects. Read our favorite highlights of this episode as you listen HERE. While you’re listening, subscribe, rate, and review the show; it would mean the world to us to have your feedback. You can listen to “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg” wherever you consume your podcasts. Apple Podcasts Stitcher Google Play Spotify Become a Food Tank member for exclusive benefits: join HERE! Follow Food Tank on Social Media: Twitter Facebook Instagram LinkedIn Youtube
On the last episode of Season 2, Josie and Clint discuss prison abolition with Mariame Kaba, one of the leading activists and organizers in the fight against America’s criminal legal system and a contributing editor for The Appeal. Mariame discusses her own journey into this work, provides perspective on the leaders in this space, and helps us reimagine what the future of this system could look like. Mariame’s way of thinking about this system, and the vision of possibilities she provides, is an excellent send-off to our second season. For links to resources visit theappeal.org
On the twelfth episode of The Activist Files, Senior Legal Worker Leah Todd talks with educator, organizer, and director of Project NIA Mariame Kaba and journalist, author, and organizer Victoria Law about their work on issues of violence, incarceration, gender, criminalization, and transformative justice. Mariame and Victoria share the personal experiences that brought them to their social justice work. They discuss the cycles of violence created by carceral solutions to social problems, and talk about the growing phenomenon of mass criminalization, including how the term allows us to think beyond just the impacts of incarceration and see ways that surveillance and punishment affect people's lives even outside of prison walls. In a comment that may remind Activist Files listeners of our last episode, Victoria and Mariame discuss the ways that prisons and carceral solutions have "stripped away our imagination," providing a one-size-fits-all response to harm that often causes more harm without providing resolution, safety, or healing. This episode highlights the importance of thinking in new ways about healing and providing accountability for harm, which is explored in Mariame's project transformharm.org. Episode 12 of The Activist Files is vital listening for anyone interested in how to go beyond punishing harm, to healing from, being accountable for, and preventing it. Victoria Law - https://victorialaw.net Tenacious zine (editor) http://resistancebehindbars.org/node/19 Books Through Bars NYC (co-founder) https://booksthroughbarsnyc.org Resistance Behind Bars (author) http://resistancebehindbars.org - 2009 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) award Don't Leave Your Friends Behind (co-author) https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=502 Freelance journalist - major articles at https://victorialaw.net/writings/ Mariame Kaba - http://mariamekaba.com Project NIA (founder and director) http://project-nia.org Survived and Punished (co-founder) https://survivedandpunished.org Transform Harm (creator) https://transformharm.org Prison Culture blog (writer) http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/ Lifting as They Climbed (co-author) http://liftingastheyclimbed.zibbet.com/lifting-as-they-climbed-mapping-a-history-black-women-on-chicago-s-south-side Missing Daddy (author) https://www.missingdaddy.net Chicago Freedom School (co-founder) http://chicagofreedomschool.org We Charge Genocide (co-founder) http://wechargegenocide.org Chicago Community Bail Fund (co-founding advisory board member) https://chicagobond.org Barnard Center for Research on Women (Researcher-in-Residence) http://bcrw.barnard.edu/fe
Unfortunately, our interview for this week fell through at the last minute, but we didn't want to leave you all without content! We dug deep into the Delete Your Account vault and pulled a clip from one of our favorite interviews, with one of our all-time favorite guests, Mariame Kaba. This clip was from Episode 27, recorded shortly after Trump's election, and we comment on how many of the points Mariame made then, particularly around the concept of left unity, are just as salient today. We also discuss how far the political discourse and balance of power has shifted, from then to now. Follow Mariame on twitter @prisonculture. If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, subscribe on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on iTunes. We can't do this show without your support!!!
Welcome to Indigenous in Music with Larry K. This week, Larry welcomes back from James Bay, Ontario, Mr. Adrian Sutherland, lead singer of Midnight Shine. Find out all about Midnight Shine and hear their latest album “High Road” on the web at midnightshineonline.com. Also music from Midnight Shine, Spirit Cry, Jace Martin, Gloria Estefan, Centavrvs, Blake Francis, Brandon Arnold, Banda Black Rio, Kinky, Martha Redbone, Matt Comeau, Dj Farrapo, Delirious & Alex, Carsen Gray, Mariame, Supaman, Dustin Harders Prairie Soul, Levi Platero, Freightrain, DJ Krayzkree, YANIS, Moenia, El Hijo De La, Gabriel Ayala, Gato Barbieri, Federico Aubele, Jessica Hernandez, Juan Luis Guerra, Crystal Shawanda and much much more. Visit us on our website, and leave us a comment, underwriting opportunities available also. IndigenousinMusic.com
This week we’re very excited to bring you a conversation with Mariame Kaba. Mariame is an organizer, educator and curator. Her work focuses on ending violence, dismantling the prison industrial complex, transformative justice and supporting youth leadership development. After over 20 years of living and organizing in Chicago, she moved back to her hometown of New York City in May 2016. In this episode we talk to Mariame about where her interest in US Communist Party came from and talk about some of the figures, cases, positions and formations within and around CPUSA that have historical significance for her and that drew Black women into party membership particularly in the first half of the 20th century before McCarthyism really took hold. In particular Mariame talks about the CPUSA’s many examples of mass participatory defense work. We also talk about her work around clemency with FreeThemNY. We talk a little bit about Survived and Punished and Mariame’s interest in undermining the ways that the prison industrial complex violently enforces gender We end by taking a little time talking about what it means to call a protest “direct action,” and discussing recent discourses in the mainstream around “civility” in relation to protests deemed too provocative by the political class. About our guest: Mariame Kaba is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. Prior to starting NIA, she worked as a program officer for education and youth development at the Steans Family Foundation where I focused on grantmaking and program evaluation. She co-founded multiple organizations and projects over the years including the Chicago Freedom School, the Chicago Taskforce on Violence against Girls and Young Women, the Chicago Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander and the Rogers Park Young Women’s Action Team (YWAT) among others. She has also served on numerous nonprofit boards. She has extensive experience working on issues of racial justice, gender justice, transformative/restorative justice and multiple forms of violence. She has been active in the anti-violence against women and girls movement since 1989. Her experience includes coordinating emergency shelter services at Sanctuary for Families in New York City, serving as the co-chair of the Women of Color Committee at the Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women’s Network, working as the prevention and education manager at Friends of Battered Women and their Children (now called Between Friends), serving on the founding advisory board of the Women and Girls Collective Action Network (WGCAN), and being a member of Incite! Women of Color Against Violence. She co-founded and currently organizes with the Survived and Punished collective and is a founding member of the Just Practice Collaborative. She served as a member of the editorial board of Violence Against Women: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal from January 2003 to December 2008. She is the co-editor (along with Michelle VanNatta) of a special issue of the journal about teen girls’ experiences of and resistance to violence published in December 2007. She has written and co-authored reports, articles, essays, curricula, zines, and more. She is currently an active board member of the Black Scholar. She runs the blog Prison Culture. In 2018, she co-authored the guidebook “Lifting As They Climbed” and published a children’s book titled “Missing Daddy.” She was a member and co-founder of We Charge Genocide, an inter-generational effort which documented police brutality and violence in Chicago and sent youth organizers to Geneva, Switzerland to present their report to the United Nations Committee Against Torture. She is an advisory board member of Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, a group (along with Project NIA and WCG) that worked to get the Chicago City Council to pass a reparations law providing restitution to the victims of Jon Burge, a police commander who tortured more than 200 criminal suspects, most of them black men, from the 1970s through the early 1990s. She is a founding advisory board member of the Chicago Community Bond Fund. The CCBF pays bond for people charged with crimes in Cook County, Illinois. Through a revolving fund, CCBF supports individuals whose communities cannot afford to pay the bonds themselves and who have been impacted by structural violence. She is also a member of Critical Resistance’s community advisory board. Critical Resistance’s vision is the creation of genuinely healthy, stable communities that respond to harm without relying on imprisonment and punishment. She was a 2016-2017 Soros Justice Fellow where she extended and expanded my work to end the criminalization of survivors of violence. Currently she is a researcher in residence on Race, Gender, Sexuality and Criminalization at the Social Justice Institute of the Barnard Center for Research on Women through September 2020. She is co-leading a new initiative called Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action with Andrea J. Ritchie. Combining participatory research, data analysis, and systemic advocacy, Andrea and Mariame will work in partnership with local campaigns to identify primary pathways, policing practices, charges, and points of intervention to address the growing criminalization and incarceration of women and LGBTQ people of color for public order, survival, drug, child welfare and self-defense related offenses. Research will be disseminated in accessible formats for use by organizers, advocates, policymakers, media makers, and philanthropic partners working to interrupt criminalization at the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality. This initiative will also host convenings of researchers, organizers, advocates, policymakers, and philanthropic partners on key topics relating to violence and criminalization, and support partners in developing and implementing campaigns designed to interrupt criminalization of women, girls, trans and GNC people of color. She has a long history in the fields of education and youth development, having taught high school and college students in New York and Chicago. She has taught sociology and Black studies courses at Northeastern Illinois University, Northwestern University, and Columbia University. She has developed and facilitated many workshops and presented at events. She was a founding board member of the Education for Liberation Network. She studied sociology at McGill University, City College of New York, and Northwestern University. She has received several honors and awards for my work over the years. She am occasionally available to consult on various topics.
On this on this show, Larry welcomes in our Spotlight, from Toronto, Canada, lead singer and original band member of Joyslam, Mr. Rob Martan will be here to tell us about the new release of his 5th album “DILLIGAFF, find them on the web at joyslam.com Join Larry K, from the Ho Chunk Nation as he mixes up 2 hours of Indigenous sounds with music from Joyslam, The Johnnys, CHANCES, Twin Flames, Ozomatli, Ana Tijoux, Locos Por Juana, Dj Bitman, Stolen Identity, Crystal Shawanda, The Gary Sappier Blues Band, Pure Fe, Sun Shadows, Molotov, Julian Taylor Band, Blackfoot, Paul LeROCQ, Jesse Baez, Babasonicos, Annie Sama, Black Bear, MIOS, Glass Tiger, Carsen Gray, Mariame, Celeigh Cardinal, Nuna, Bomba Estereo and much much more.
3CR Breakfast 6 September 2018with Em and ScheherazadeAcknowledgement of CountryYesterday was Indigenous Women's Day so we dedicated the first half hour to Indigenous women in song.Facial Recognition Surveillance Scheme: Lizzie O'Shea is a human rights lawyer and board member of Digital Rights Watch. She has a book being published next year on technology, history and politics. a board member at Digital Rights Watch. She joins us today to discuss the risks of the government's proposed facial recognition surveillance scheme (including racial profiling, targeting young people and jeopardising rights of protest.)Germaine Greer action tonite: Iris Lee (3CR's Queering The Air) is a white trans femme living on Bunurong and Wurundjeri country, joining us to talk about an action tonight protesting the launch on Germaine Greer's new book, On Rape, in Melbourne tonight.Pacific Islands Forum: Ronny Kareni is a West Papuan advocate on West Papua's right to self-determination. His family are part of large exodus of Papuan refugees to PNG in early 1980s. Until today, many West Papuans refugees live on Manus. Ronny joins us today to discuss the Pacific Islands Forum that has been underway this week. (Ronny is a regualr commentator on 3CR's Voice of West Papua and a previous 3CR Current Affairs Coordinator:))Anti GMO: Jonathon R Latham is co-founder and Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project and the Editor of Independent Science News. Dr Latham is also the Director of the Poison Papers project which publicises documents of the chemical industry and its regulators. Dr. Latham holds a Masters degree in Crop Genetics and a PhD in Virology. He has published scientific papers in disciplines as diverse as plant ecology, plant virology, genetics and genetic engineering.During the program we played the following SONGS (not included in podcast due to licensing agreement) Wave by Kaylah Truth - Wave feat. Nagra Beats Kaylah Truth is a Meerooni woman and hiphop artist of the Gurang nation and also connected with the Ngugi people of Queensland’s Quandamooka areaStill Here by JB the First Lady is an Indigenous hip-hop and spoken word artist, emcee, beat-boxer, activist, cultural dancer, and youth educator from the Nuxalk and Onondaga nations.Agua by Lido Pimienta, a Colombian singer and producer based in Toronto An Anthem to water Native (Feat. Supaman) by Mariame, Cree (First Nations) artistTamazight by Malika Zarra, Gnawa/Moroccan Jazz fusion artist
Ihre Mutter kommt aus dem Iran, aufgewachsen ist sie in Frankreich und als Regisseurin unterwegs ist sie überall. Für das Staatstheater Nürnberg hat Mariame Clément nun Monteverdis "Il Ritorno d'Ulisse" inszeniert. Ein Gespräch über Regiekonzepte, den Begriff Heimat und die Rolle der Frau in der Oper.
If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, subscribe on our Patreon page for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on iTunes. We can't do this show without your support!!! This week, Roqayah and Kumars welcome Mariame Kaba back on the show. Mariame is a brilliant organizer whose work focuses primarily on dismantling the prison industrial complex. She's the founder of Project NIA, an advocacy group focused on ending youth incarceration. She's also co-founded a number of other organizations including the Chicago Taskforce on Violence against Girls and Young Women. You'll know her from Twitter as @prisonculture. Mariame joins us to discuss her efforts on behalf of survivors of domestic and gender-based violence who have been criminalized and incarcerated for defending themselves against their abuser. Mariame shares her experiences and lessons learned from the successful campaigns to free Bresha Meadows and Marissa Alexander, two high-profile criminalized survivors of domestic violence. Mariame contrasts the treatment of Bresha and Marissa with other prominent examples to demonstrate that self-defense is only available to certain people, and certainly not black women. We talk about the impossible situation that domestic violence survivors are put in when the system fails them and then punishes them for doing what was necessary to survive. Mariame also discusses the work of Survived and Punished, an organizing collective she co-founded that emerged from several campaigns to free individual criminalized survivors. We learn about the efforts of the Survived and Punished NYC branch to push New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to commute the sentences of all criminalized domestic violence survivors in the state, a unilateral power he has and chooses not to exercise. We discuss the value, even in isolation, of clemency campaigns for individual survivors, while also highlighting the important role of these individual campaigns in building a mass movement to win systemic changes. Check out the Survived and Punished toolkit to learn more about how to organize a defense campaign for criminalized survivors of violence where you live. A transcript for this episode will be provided upon request. Please send an email to deleteuracct @ gmail to get a copy sent to you when it is completed.
In Episode 9, we talk inclusion riders, the importance of pronouns, and how all of us can better support folks from marginalized communities. If there’s one thing we’re sure of, it’s that we’ve got to stick together—and that means supporting and centering the voices of folks with less opportunity and privilege than us. In this episode, we talk with designer and educator Stevie Thuy Anh Nguyen about how listening, and finding community, can help us do just that. They also share how parenting shaped their career path, what it was like to come out at work, and why they see allyship as something we practice, not something we have. Listen up. > If I show up at work as myself, then I’m in a state of being in my greatest power. And I think if you can find a workplace where they want you to be there in your greatest power, then like, yeah, show up. This is how you do it. > > —Stevie Thuy Anh Nguyen, designer and educator Here’s what we get into—and of course, there’s a full transcript, too. Show notes If you didn’t catch the Oscars, don’t worry—we start the show by filling you in on our favorite parts. Of note: (Ahem) Janelle Monáe’s pantsuit (photo) Jordan Peele’s win for Get Out and the amazing fan art he posts on Instagram Frances McDormand’s acceptance speech mentioning inclusion riders (hell yeah)… …which we go on to explore: Did you know Justin Bieber requires that his dressing room be filled with carnations? Riders can be wild. More important: Nicole Sanchez writes about taking inclusion riders beyond Hollywood and into fields like tech—and apply them to everything from speaking gigs to job offers. Yep. We also touch on Lara Hogan’s wonderful piece about applying inclusiveness to your hiring process, the Enterprise UX Conference’s journey through inclusive programming, how the Design & Content Conference put together a diverse conference production team, and Women Talk Design’s mission to empower organizers to create more diverse events. Interview: Stevie Thuy Anh Nguyen It’s not hyperbole to say it was an honor and a pleasure to talk with UX designer and educator Stevie Thuy Anh Nguyen. Stevie tells us about the causes that drive them, establishing a career in design, navigating coming out as queer, and what it really means to practice allyship. We talk about: Where Stevie lives in Vancouver, which is the unceded land of the Coast Salish people, particularly the Squamish, the Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Stevie’s work with Out in Schools, a program that engages students on issues of homophobia, transphobia, and bullying. How having a child while establishing a career—and then making choices about your career and your future—become intertwined in a way you never expected. What it means to realize you’re queer at 27—and what happens next. How we can better support marginalized people by practicing ongoing allyship, and provide safer spaces for those communities. (More on the idea of practicing allyship from Mariame Kaba.) Demystifying and sharing pronouns—and deconstructing the hard-coded way we think about each other. FYOTW We end the show with a little self-love and high-five because, fuck yeah!—we made the New & Noteworthy list on Apple Podcasts! AND it reminds us of all the amazing women-hosted podcasts we listen to and love—including a show you should definitely check out, called Good As Hell hosted by Lizzo. Sponsors This episode of NYG is brought to you by: Shopify, a leading global commerce platform that’s building a diverse, intelligent, and motivated team—and they want to apply to you. Visit shopify.com/careers to see what they’re talking about. _WordPress—the place to build your personal blog, business site, or anything else you want on the web. WordPress helps others find you, remember you, and connect with you. _ Transcript Katel LeDû This episode of No, You Go is brought to you by Shopify, the leading global commerce platform for entrepreneurs. And did you know they’re growing? If you want to work with a diverse, passionate team that likes to get shit done, then you should talk to Shopify. The best part: they don’t just want you to apply to them, they want to apply to you. So visit shopify.com/careers to see what they’re all about. Jenn Lukas Hey! And welcome to No, You Go, the show about being ambitious—and sticking together. I’m Jenn Lukas. KL I’m Katel LeDû. Sara Wachter-Boettcher And I’m Sara Wachter-Boettcher. SWB I’m so excited today to talk about one of my favorite topics: inclusion. And, more specifically, we’re going to talk about how people like me, like all of us, can step up and make an impact for underrepresented groups in any field. To help us out, we sat down with a friend of mine, Stevie Thuy Anh Nguyen, to learn more about what real inclusion can look like. But, first up, did you all watch the Oscars last week? JL Nope! KL Uh, I did, and I have a few favorite things I kind of want to share because, first of all — you didn’t have to watch it just to see all the pictures that come out of it but Janelle Monáe’s fire red, like military-inspired pant suit was phenomenal. SWB She looked amazing. KL She looked amazing. I also would really like to make a very genuine request to Tiffany Haddish and Maya Rudolph to run for presidents ASAP. SWB Like, co-presidents? KL Like, yeah, absolutely and then, I mean, to top it all off: Jordan Peele won for best screenplay for Get Out, which is just fucking so awesome. I saw that movie and I was so obsessed, I loved it so much that I started following Jordan Peele on Instagram, and he posts a lot of Get Out fan art, it is absolutely worth following. It’s magical. JL I loved that movie. KL It was so good. [2:02] JL Yeah. Um, also, I love this pantsuit. I just Googled it. SWB Get on the internet right now! “Janelle Monáe Oscars pantsuit.” The cape portion of it or whatever that kind of swoopy back is is amazing! So I loved that she really made it her own. Like it was not the kind of look that not just other women were wearing but that, like, anybody was wearing. But it also felt so completely Oscars. Right? Like it felt like she had the whole vibe — fantastic. Ok. So we can keep talking about the Oscars which I also did not actually watch. Uh I like to look at outfit photos later. But, instead, what I was hoping we could talk a little bit about was the story that came out about Frances McDormand and what she said at the end of her speech. She said something about how she wanted to leave the audience with two words and those words were “inclusion rider” So Nicole Sanchez wrote this piece that Jenn actually sent around to all of us, that was about what inclusion rider means in tech or what they could mean in tech. So Nicole is awesome. She is a diversity consultant who runs a company called Vaya Consulting. So she spent a long time looking at diversity and inclusion in the tech industry. And she wrote this piece where she talked about where inclusion riders come from and what they mean. So she credits Dr. Stacy Smith at USC for originally coming up with this concept, and says that it comes from diversifying talent in the media. And the concept is kind of pretty simple, right? It’s like: if you take a rider, which you may have heard about from the music industry— JL So a rider is like what you request if you are going to be performing somewhere. And it could be something like, “I need to have sparkling water, or I need to have a soundcheck of two hours before I’m going to go on.” It could be— KL A fancy rug. JL Or a fancy rug. It could be all these things, you know, maybe you want to make sure that you’re going to have some sort of food. Or in the famous case of Van Halen, you might say, “I demand there be no brown M&Ms.” Which really wasn’t a demand that they needed, they stuck that in their rider to make sure that it was actually being read. So it was one of those things where if they got to a venue and they saw that there was no brown M&Ms, then that means that someone actually read the rider, and the requests that they were going to do, and that they were going to have a good show. KL Paying attention. I mean it matters. JL That’s why Justin Bieber requests that his hotel room is decked out in carnations of a specific color pattern — I’m not making this up! KL I told you! It’s— [4:30] SWB Ok so, so the Bieber rider is not also what we want to talk about tonight. Although we could. Um instead I mean I really like the way that this concept applies to other facets of life. So what Frances was talking about at the Oscars was like, “Ok. If you are an in-demand name in Hollywood, you have an opportunity, in your contracts, to stipulate that the people who are working on the set, and the people who are working with you, um are coming from diverse backgrounds. You have this, you know, you have the opportunity to say that you want to make sure that they’re being paid fairly. You have an opportunity to make some demands that might actually be relatively small in comparison to what you could be getting paid if you’re a big star, but are really, really huge for people who aren’t you.” And so, what Nicole talks about in her article is really applying that other places like, let’s say, a tech conference. Like, if you’re an in-demand speaker, you also have a lot of power. And you can say, “I would love to speak at your event, but I’m going to need you to do some shit for me first.” And getting really specific about what you expect to make sure that that event is inclusive and welcoming to people who are not in demand like you are. KL Yeah, I really like what Nicole wrote because it made it really obvious and seemed really reasonable to have this filter out into a lot of different areas, right? And, like you were saying, you might not be a speaker who’s super in-demand, you might just be starting out. But I think a lot of it is just knowing that it’s very fair and totally appropriate to ask questions about the thing that you’re about to sign up to do. SWB Totally! That reminds me of what Erika Hall talked about when we interviewed her which is like the importance of asking questions and the power of asking questions. I have been thinking about this a lot and I talked about this a little bit actually on Twitter today. Like, one of the things that I’ve started doing is when I’m asked to speak at conferences which, you know, I’ve written some books, and I’ve done a lot of speaking. So I do get asked which is great but I’ve started asking some questions back and I try to make them pretty consistent, across the board, because I find if I ask the same stuff over and over, I’m more comfortable asking and it also feels a little less weird, like it’s not a special standard, it’s just my standard. And so I have a few things that I would say are kind of in my rider, or at least like, they’re in my Go/No Go [chuckling] kind of file, right? Like I won’t go to your event if you don’t answer these questions in a way that I can live with. So it’s things like, you know, for me I always ask like, “Does your event have a code of conduct?” That’s something that’s on Nicole’s list too. But I also ask things like, “What are you doing to ensure that your event has a diverse lineup?” And I ask it that way specifically because I want to hear how people think about it. And if they tell me things like, “Well, we just want to have the best speakers.” Then that’s a big red flag for me because I question, “Well, how do you know you have the best speakers? ‘Best’ according to whom? According to like people you already knew? People your Twitter connections already knew?” You know it’s like it brings up a lot for me. Or at least it’s an opportunity to have a conversation with them. And depending on how that conversation goes, that can tell me a lot about whether I’m interested in coming there, and also it’ll tell me whether I’m interested in investing time and helping them identify speakers they hadn’t heard about, which I’m super happy to do if I feel confident that, you know, if I recommend a speaker who is from a more marginalized group, who’s maybe less experienced than I am, to go to an event, I don’t want that person to be treated poorly. I want to make sure that I’m sending them to an event where somebody’s going to take them seriously. So I feel like by having those conversations, it gives me a chance to feel out how much somebody’s thought about this, how open they are to change, and how willing they are to kind of put in work. Because it is. It takes work, right? Just like we talked about on an earlier episode: it takes work to think about, you know, not centering all your events on drinking, which is a really answer. It takes worth to think about something like onsite childcare but like every single detail you do as an event planner is work and I want them to think about this as an important piece of their job. [8:33] KL Yeah, I mean, you just said that you have an opportunity to do this and I would almost say that established folks, like yourself, I imagine feel like they have a — an obligation to. SWB Absolutely. I don’t know that everybody does. I wish more people who felt like they had some sway — and I, you know, I have like some level of sway. There’s people who — who are like much more in demand and who make a lot of money speaking in our field. And I think that they have a huge responsibility. But I definitely, 100 percent like I — yes, I think of that as an opportunity in the sense of like, I’m glad to have the opportunity. But 100 percent it is an obligation and it is a responsibility. JL Yeah, um I’ve always did a similar thing to you, Sara, where I had a list of a set of questions that I asked every conference opportunity that came up and, you know, like you’re saying, it helps when you have the standard because then you can send an email back that’s like, “This is what I ask all my conferences. No matter what.” And I wrote a post about this awhile back, mine were focused a little bit more about seeing if they — if speakers were paid, and one of the things that I really like to ask is, “What is the cost of the conference? And how many attendees do you expect?” And then afterwards I would say, “What is your speaker fee?” To make sure that then, you know, if a conference will write back, “Oh our conference cost 12 hundred dollars, we’re expecting, you know, a thousand, 2,000, 5,000 people and then the speaker fee is zero, right? KL Then that math is wrong! SWB That math speaks for itself, right? Like it’s like, “Mmm, hmm, how do you like the way those numbers look on the page?” Right. [10:00] JL Not — not too great um so I think it’s really important, you know, for — to realize too and like it’s a mix of educating also, where I think some people never— never thought about that. And I’m not saying that that’s ok. But like it is — then I become, “Well, here are these questions and why I’m asking them because it’s not ok.” SWB Yeah, I mean I wish that everybody would have thought about this by now. I kind of feel like, “C’mon, like you sh— c’mon, you should be thinking about this already.” However, I also accept that that’s not the case and if my goal is to make more people aware, and hope that more people come along with me on this particular journey, then I do feel like part part of it — being able to do something than education is ok and important. I don’t expect everybody to do that, in all circumstances, but I feel like I have enough like sort of comfort and confidence of where I am that I— I can do that. And I think that’s a service to — I’m not so much worried about doing it as a service to the conference organizer, I think that’s like a side benefit. I think about that as a service to the industry, at large, and to the people who need that information to be more widespread. JL Completely. And, you know, I would say that, as a speaker, I did this but as an attendee I’ve asked for things too. And so I feel like people should feel empowered to ask questions as an attendee also, you know, “Will you have a vegan meal?” “Will you have a vegetarian meal?” And that’s something that I used to ask a lot um you know, “Is there a place to nurse?” Or “Is there a place to pump?” And like, “What sort of facilities will be available?” And, as an attendee, someone who’s paying for a conference, you should definitely feel empowered. I mean as a speaker, you should too, that wasn’t taking away from that. But you should definitely feel empowered to write the organizers and make sure that they will have these things available to you also. SWB And I’m also deeply suspect of any event that makes you feel bad for having— like if some event makes you feel bad because you ask for a vegan meal or you ask for a nursing room, like, “I’m sorry. What the actual fuck?” It’s one thing for them not to necessarily be able to meet every need, that’s like a different conversation. But I think if somebody comes to you with a need, and you write them off, or you minimize it, or you pretend like it doesn’t matter. Like, I don’t want to go that event. And I don’t want — I don’t want those people to have my money, or for them to use like my face and my talk to promote their event. KL Right. SWB Um so there were some things though on Nicole’s list that I’d never thought about before that I’m super glad to have heard about now. So for example, I had not thought about — and I feel silly not having thought about it but I never thought about asking about the people who are working the event. So like the laborers, the people who are doing setup and takedown, the people who are doing food, like how are they being paid? She specifically mentioned, you know, what are the labor conditions, are they part of a union? I think there’s probably a whole lot of different questions you might ask depending on your particular interests or your particular kind of like stance but I think asking about the welfare and the support of the people who are not kind of seen as like part of the conference, but are, in fact, like what makes the conference run. Like that’s a huge area that I’m going to be thinking more about. KL And the fact that, you know, she points out, is there — is there a process for intake of these kinds of requests, or like these kinds of questions, right? For like just handling that and — and talking about them. JL So I think the conversation that keeps coming up again and again, from conference organizers saying, “How do I make this happen? How do I diversify my lineups? How do I diversify my speakers?” And I think some people have provided solutions and ideas for this. An article I read recently on Medium was about the Enterprise UX Conference which um they’ve been working on this for four years and every year have slowly iterated on how they’ve been handling things. And I think one of the things that is really great about that is they didn’t just give up after year one. They’re like, “Well, I don’t know how to do it.” Is that they’ve been slowly trying to improve their process and they wrote about this and they were saying that one of the things they did was make sure to have different people, besides three white men, choosing the lineup and being in charge of the themes. And as soon as they started expanding from that, then so did their speaker lineup. SWB You know one of my favorite conferences, Design and Content, actually a conference that Stevie, our guest today, is going to MC this year, they’ve done a really similar thing where they have a selection committee and what they specifically did is they intentionally went out and identified people from a bunch of different backgrounds and then they paid them for their time to be on that committee. And it dramatically changed how they come up with who’s going to be on the roster for the year. And they’ve written about it publically, we’ll put that in the show notes, because I think that they have a process that is — is something that other people can follow. And, you know, part of it came out of their first year. They had really good intentions. They went out and thought about, you know, “You know let’s make sure we have a good, diverse lineup. Let’s ask some people who we’ve never seen before, and some new faces, et cetera.” And an attendee called them out for it at the event and said you know, “This lineup is really white.” And they had to take a step back and be like, “Yeah, it is.” And sit with that. Right? And figure out what to do about that. And I think that that’s hard but I think that’s one of the responsibilities that we have is to be able to hear those kinds of feedback and say, “Ok I’m going to listen to that and then I’m going to figure out how do I change?” And, you know, and that’s one of the reasons I like to ask these questions I ask, right? Is it’s like, do I get defensiveness? Or do I get somebody who can say, “Yeah, you know, we haven’t that diverse of a lineup in past years. You’re right that’s something we should change. I have some ideas but I would love to hear more,” or whatever it is. But that — that openness is really, really important. So, um, that’s one of the things about Enterprise UX that I think has been great as well is that they’re willing to write about it. Like they’re willing to admit it that it wasn’t great year one! Which is sometimes hard to do, right? You have to be able to look at your work and say like, “Here are the ways that this wasn’t where we wanted to be. And then here’s what we did differently.” [16:11] JL Another site that I found interesting was womentalkdesign.com. Their tagline is that they “elevate the best talks about design from women and empowers event organizers with tools, approaches, and information to engage more women speakers.” So this is a neat project because it’s an answer to that question of, “Well, I don’t know where to find these speakers!” And so I really like it because they went out and tackled this specific question that people kept asking. SWB Yeah, I mean Christina Wodtke who is one of the people who created that site, I know that part of this was born of her frustration. Like, she’s been in the industry a long time, working in tech and in UX. And people would frequently ask her, “Well, where do I find all these diverse speakers?” And now she’s like, “I don’t have to answer that question anymore!” Right? Like she’s like, “They’re out there. You just have to do a little bit of work, to get outside of the bubble that you have,” and then she was like, “Ok, let me go and do some of that work.” And um — and so the result is that it’s like, “Oh! You’re looking for more diverse lineups for your event?” That’s certainly not everybody, by any means, but like if you haven’t at least gone through that, like you’ve done not even the bare minimum. JL And I— I don’t think inclusiveness just stops at these conferences, right? I mean one of the things that came out recently was Lara Hogan wrote a great article about how to apply inclusiveness to your hiring process, and how to like tackle that, and one of the things that she had was to make sure that you have a diverse group of the team interviewing these candidates, and I think that’s great thing: making sure that it’s not just one group of people that are interviewing all of your candidates as they come in. SWB And I think it also goes back to some of the same stuff that we talked for like an inclusion rider is that if you are in a position where you feel like you have some choice about the job that you’re taking, which I recognize not everybody is in, but if you’re in that position and you’re thinking about, “I want a place that’s going to give me the most growth opportunity, I want the place that’s going to offer a really good salary package, et cetera, et cetera,” you know, I think that it’s another responsibility to be able to say, “I want to place that is willing to kind of put its money where its mouth is when it comes to being an inclusive environment,” and to ask those same kinds of questions, right? “So what are you doing to increase diversity in your team?” And “What are you doing to support people who come from different backgrounds? And like — what does that look like?” JL I love this question. I love this so much. Um I think it’s like— as a candidate, as an interviewee, you might be like, “Well, how do I phrase this? How do I make sure that this job is going to be a good job with me?” And I think that’s a great way to phrase it. Um when we interview people, one of the questions I always ask is, um I phrase it as: “Diversity and inclusiveness are really important values to us. What are some important values to you?” And, you know, it’s a very leading question but you’d be surprised at how many people go on some sort of tangent that is, like, “Ah. You know? I want to make sure that I have like — snacks.” No one’s ever said snacks! That’s an exaggeration [sure] but it’s certainly something that’s like, you know, not appropriate for the answer or where I was hoping that they would go. SWB We talk a lot about sort of how this relates to people who are working in like tech and design fields, but this is the kind of thing that I think is really transferrable to almost any field, right? Like that it’s not really about the industry that you’re in, it’s like if you were working in an industry that is not necessarily perfectly inclusive, which is like, newsflash: probably all of them. Then you know I think that the— the same kind of stuff applies and you can kind of bring some of these same principles and ideas along. So I’m really stoked that we’re talking about inclusion riders, I don’t think it necessarily has to be like a contract in every circumstance, I think it’s much more about how can you apply that concept to whatever it is that you’re doing in your professional and however you’re interacting with people who hold power in your industry. [19:55] ** **** JL** [Sponsor] No, You Go is proud to be supported by wordpress.com. Whether you’d like to build a personal blog, a business site, or both, creating your website on wordpress.com can help others find you, remember you, and connect with you. That’s why nearly 30 percent of all websites run on WordPress. You don’t need experience setting up a website, WordPress guides you through the process from start to finish. And takes care of the technical side. In fact, we use WordPress at No, You Go. WordPress also has 24 hour customer support, which is great because we all have different schedules. Plans start at just four dollars a month. Start building your website today! Go to wordpress.com/noyougo for 15 percent off any new purchase. That’s wordpress.com/noyougo for 15 percent off your brand new website. Interview: Stevie Thuy Anh Nguyen SWB Our guest today is Stevie Thuy Anh Nguyen. I first met Stevie back in the summer of 2015, after I gave a talk at a conference up in Vancouver, and they approached me afterward wanting to chat about my talk, which was very flattering. But more than anything, what I really remember about that conversation was that this person I just met had come to me with so much kind of kindness and generosity, and our conversation felt so uplifting. And over the next few years, I have paid a lot of attention to what Stevie’s been up to and the things that they’re talking about and interested in. And this year, fast forward, Stevie is now going to be the MC of that very event where I met them: the Design & Content Conference. They’re also a UX designer, a design educator who works with youth and teaches in two different university programs, and somebody who’s just really active in their community in Vancouver, and in design in general. I am so excited to welcome Stevie to the show today. Thank you so much for being here. Stevie Thuy Anh Nguyen Thank you for having me. Can I add a moment and just also acknowledge that I am also on unceded Coast Salish territories, and while we may call it Vancouver, it is the unceded land of the Coast Salish people, particularly the Squamish, the Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. SWB Thank you for doing that. I think that actually sets the tone for this conversation really well because I think one of the things I would love to talk with you more about is sort of the way that you look at your role as a designer in your community and sort of the impact that you have on community and on the way that people from different backgrounds within your community are represented. So can you tell us a little more— how did you get to this place where you start a conversation and you say, “Actually, can we remind ourselves of the indigenous people whose land this is and this land has always been?” Like, what was your process of getting to a place that you were comfortable doing things like that? STAN Honestly, every time I have these moments where I’m like, “Oh! I need to say something, I should say something, this is the right thing to say,” and it is still really, really hard because I think always makes me uncomfortable not knowing how the other person may respond on the other end. Yeah, these issues are political and they are uncomfortable for people to talk about, hear, or acknowledge. I don’t know if you know what’s happening right now in Canada, but Tina and Coulton were murdered and people don’t talk about it because people don’t care. And so we need to bring these things up even though it’s really hard because people are dying. So that’s my response I guess. When I began to recognize that when we don’t talk about things, people die. And the more personal we make it, the more people who we spend time with who are directly affected by these things, by systemic oppression, the more we recognize the power that we have as individuals when we are in a place where we have to acknowledge these things. SWB That’s a pretty difficult topic and I think that that’s something pretty challenging to our audience — I mean, you mentioned that it’s hard for people to talk about, I think it’s hard to talk about on a podcast like this where we — where we really do want to talk about, you know, finding some joy even when things are difficult. And I don’t that that means erasing talking about the things that are difficult, by any means, and so, with that in mind, what is your day to day work? [25:23] STAN Hmm my day-to-day work probably doesn’t look too different from many people. I’m a parent; I have a five, almost six-year-old, son. And I have shared custody with his father. And so on days when he’s with me, I actually wake up at like 4:30 in the morning, and I wake up, and I shower, and I go to make a matcha latte for myself every morning. And I come out and I answer emails, I try my best to catch up on like Slack, on text messages, on WhatsApp, on Viber, on Signal, on my work email versus my personal email, and um what else is there? Messenger. So that’s kind of normal, I imagine, I think we all have these mornings of having to try to catch up with all that stuff. And then I get him ready for school, take him to school, and it’s a privilege that allows me to do that, and I come back and I work. And so some days that’s with Out in Schools, where I’m talking about queer and gender issues with young people in high schools. And sometimes in elementary schools. And other days it’s going to meet my own clients at their offices. And then other days, it’s staying home um and doing like UX work. So for me that’s everywhere from leading a workshop, like I did this morning, where I’m presenting to clients whatever our ideas are, whatever our proposals are, and then other days I’m heading off to go teach. And then I come home and I try to fit in some yoga somewhere. And pick up my son and then do things with him in the evening, feed him, put him to bed. And do some more work and then go to bed. That’s my day. SWB I think a lot of our listeners can relate to sort of the juggle and trying to figure out what the right mix of things is in a day and how to have some time for yourself amid everything else. Can you tell us more — like what was your journey into becoming a designer? How did you end up in this sort of life that you’ve crafted for yourself now? STAN I lucked into it, I think. I remember I was in high school and I had really no real idea about what I wanted to do and somebody came into the school who was an alumni and did a presentation. And she worked in — she worked in marketing for an ad agency. And I just thought her job sounded really cool. I liked that she got to like talk to people and I liked hearing about how she got to like come up with ideas to do things and like sell things to people, which I feel so much like cringey shame about now. But at the time it sounded really interesting. Um so I went into the university and studied communications but partway through my program, I did a certificate in innovative leadership from SFU, Simon Fraser University, and it was an eight-month program where the first four months we did workshops, and the last four months we got to do like a practical project with a local company. And the company that I happened to work with was a leadership development company. And at the end of this project, which was, funnily enough, all about looking at how people within the organization viewed their leadership skills, as opposed to people who are like several levels away from them. How did those people view their executives leadership skills. At the end of the project, the person I’d been working with at this company said, “Oh I noticed you like — maybe had some graphic skills. You know we really need a graphic designer.” And I’m like, “Well, I’m like — I’m taking my first course in design right now.” “Well, that’s great! That’s more knowledge than we have!” And so they hired me and I started off just like making PowerPoints and doing a lot of things in print, working within business development and supporting people people in sales. Packing suitcases. I did a lot of packing suitcases. But along the way I learned a lot about like leadership and leadership models and um when we talk about adult learning, that realm is something that I gained a lot of experience with over six years. And so at the same time I was still in school, had abandoned communications, and had — was fully in design now, and then I went away on an amazing field school and came back and was pregnant! So I took a year off. And I will say this is like — this is an important part of my professional journey, this is an important part of my growth and journey as a person, because having my son changed everything. I’ve always been someone that was really into research. So the moment I got into something, or the moment I found out about something new, I’d like totally geek out and go read every book, watch every movie and documentary, and talk to every person I could find about the thing. Uh I get really excited about new hobbies and interests. So I got really excited about being pregnant, and about birth, and about breastfeeding, um and about being a parent. And when that happened, I began to see the ways in which I had to make really, really clear decisions. So the same way in marketing or in design, you have to have a reason as to why you’re doing something for a certain desired outcome, I knew that I wanted my son, I wanted my child to be happy, and I knew that I wanted him to be really kind, and I knew that I wanted him to be really safe. Like I wanted him to live. Right? Like that’s all I really wanted and I knew that I had to make decisions to support that. And so that was like — we raised him vegan for the first like year because we felt it was important for him to have the choice, right? It was important for him to know that you don’t have to eat animals but you can and that’s your choice. But do you know what you are doing if you are going to that? So he still doesn’t really eat animals. But that’s still something that applied to me in my life. I began to think about like what am I doing? Is this who I want to be? Is this how — what powers do I have as an individual to like make all those things happen for him? And it made me really political. Like all of a sudden, things that I have always had values about like really mattered because I’d made an investment in the future by having him, and I needed to invest in the future. And then I got laid off from my job. The job that I’d had for six years. I was a marketing assistant or a project assistant but I was never actually a designer. And I was feeling a lot of doubt about this and I have a mentor at school, Russell Taylor, who is kind of the father to like so many of us in this design program. And I reached out to him and I said, “Well, I got laid off. I really love design but I have no design skills. I didn’t finish my degree.” And he goes, “Well come back and teach for me. Um like you know this stuff. You’ve taken this course and I like — I feel confident that you’re going to do a good job in this.” And so he brought me back and had me teaching his second year course with him. And then at the same time he was developing a conference that was in its second year. And at this conference, he brought in agencies and different companies to like do talks but also to do interviews. And while I was teaching, I also applied for an interview at this conference, and I came out of the conference and I was offered — I was offered some jobs! My first job in which I would get to call myself a designer. And so, Sara, this is where it kind of comes back around to you because this job was the first job that I gone in to do the interview and really felt like, “This is who I am. And like I don’t know these things. This is what I’m working on. Um please see some potential in me!” Like, “Please take some faith in me because I think I can do this.” Uh and I felt really good about some of the things that I felt were just really natural and inherent to me. And they absolutely said, “Yeah!” Like, “We think you can do this. We think that you can kick it out of the park. I feel confident putting you in front of like our — any client, right from the getgo.” And this was my manager, Robin Ashmore, and so it was the first job where I’m like, “Oh. Ok. Like I can admit that I don’t really know this but I can learn this and I can develop in these areas where I think I’m good.” And part of how he supported me was allowing me to go to that conference DCC, Design & Content, which is how I met Sara! And at this time though I was beginning to get really bitter, um I was beginning to look around and see that we, as designers, have all this potential to build things that really make a difference in the world and really help people, and yet we’re like focused on how to get snacks. Or we’re building technology that is actually enabling violence against marginalized people. So I — even now I tell people that I feel shame around calling myself a designer because as a whole, this industry is causing so much more problems than it is helping and I think so many of us have this power and opportunity to actually do something about it, and we’re afraid to. And we don’t. For whatever reasons. And some people have more ability to do something about it then others and I really do mean this in like ability, privilege, some people have more privilege in order to make change happen. Um but I went to this conference, I went to DCC, I met Sara. I’m like, “Oh!! There’s designers who really do see the same things I see! Who really are concerned about the same things that I’m concerned about.” And there are people who, like you, Sara, who want better things out of tech, who want designers to do better things — the tech industry to do better things. And so I began to look for places in which I could try to do better things and I could try to learn on how to be a better designer. This is where I’m at right now. Like I’m still working on that. I’m still trying to influence and like bring kindness into the world, bring safety into places where I think people need someone to invite them in or to support them while they’re there. So yeah that’s where I am right now. [35:25] SWB Well, I am so proud and kind of tearing up a little bit to think that I played even just like a tiny, tiny, little role in your story— STAN Big role! SWB —oh gosh! Ok, ok I wouldn’t — I wouldn’t oversell that. I really think like, you know, your work and your what you are bringing to your community is— is big and different than anything that I do. So I definitely don’t want to oversell what I might’ve played a role in. Something that I’m really interested in hearing more about that you mentioned a little bit ago is the work that you’re doing with Out in Schools. So can you tell us a little bit about that organization and how you got involved with them? STAN Yeah, oh. So I guess one of the key parts of the story that was a huge pivot point in my life, that happened shortly before I met Sara, is that I realized that I was queer. And I like to say that I “realized” because it was something that kind of — it’s always been a part of me. It’s who I am. I am a queer person. But I didn’t have the words for it and I didn’t know that’s what other people were calling it and when this happened, I was 27, I had already had my son, Noah, and I had a cis male partner. And realizing I was queer, finding queer community, making queer friends, really like embracing and exploring what that could mean for me was like so amazing! It sounds so cheesy, but I really did feel like I was born again. And I was also really disappointed and sometimes embarrassed to admit that I was 27. And I think about how I grew up with very conservative parents. I think they’re a little bit more liberal now than they used to be but they are conservative, they’re still very Catholic. I grew up in a very Catholic cishet family. And I was also really protected, care for, loved, I still am. And for them, that meant sheltering me from just sexuality in general. And so that included putting me in an all-girls private school um great school, I mean great academics but it was also an all girls Catholic private school. So we didn’t get sex-ed. And when I was 27, I realized that I was queer and I was so happy about it because I think like being queer is so liberating, and so fun. I really wanted to make it happen — or contribute to a culture where queerness is normalized. And so I found the Queer Film Festival, I met some people there, including some facilitators from Out in Schools, and they became my friends. Jen Sung, in particular, reached out and was like, “Hey! You kind of said that you would love to do this. Were you serious?” And I said, “Yes!” And she goes, “Well! We’re hiring! You should submit an application!” And I submitted an application and became an Out in Schools facilitator. So we’re led by Gavin Somers and Brandon Yan, and we go around to high schools, and elementary schools, and we talk to young people about queer and trans issues using media, like using film. So we watch movies with them, we watch music videos with them and we lead discussions. And it’s interesting in the ways in which like that also ties back into the skill I have around facilitation because that’s part of what I do in my job as a designer. So I get to practice, like, being in front of people, and presenting, and engaging with audiences. Like, in everything that I do, in many places in my life. [39:24] SWB That’s such a cool additional piece to your professional profile that I didn’t know about until — you know just now, right? Like you being involved with Out in Schools seems like, in some ways, you know, really different from doing the design work, but it feels very natural, the way that you talk about it all together. STAN Thanks. It feels really natural to me. SWB I’m also curious, you know, you mentioned coming out as queer at 27 and sort of realizing to yourself that that was even the case and I know that in that same time period you also started going by different pronouns, and coming out as non-binary, and I’m wondering if you can talk a little bit about what that was like? And especially what was that like, you know, in the context of work where that seems like maybe it could be a challenging thing to do. STAN Well, what had happened was that you did this amazing talk and you were really vulnerable and real and talked about how important it was to like create spaces and technologies that allowed and encouraged people to be who they are uh rather than try to force them to fit in any particular box. And I came up to you and I was in tears, I remember this, because I had this name tag and the name tag actually had my name, like “Stevie” was on it, but Stevie’s like — is not my given name. And I was expressing to you, like, “Oh my god, how amazing is it that, yeah the Eventbrite form for the conference was like, shout out to Steve Fisher and Shannon Fisher for recognizing the significance and importance of this. But the conference signup form allowed me to input my name. Like it didn’t ask me for a piece of ID to like prove that that was my name.” And I’m like tearing up now, thinking about it, but yeah that’s like it was the first piece of paper that I wore around my neck that allowed me to identify myself and identify myself to other people as Stevie. And it was in a professional context. And then all the speakers, everybody that I met that weekend like called me Stevie. Like everybody that knows me from that time onwards, calls me Stevie and so it felt so good. I came back and I didn’t immediately do it but from then on, anytime I introduced myself to somebody I was like, “No, Stevie.” Like I’d been doing this previously, as a nickname to personal friends but not professional contacts. And being at Design and Content, meeting people who would use my name eventually I think, a couple weeks later, gave me the confidence to actually casually, jokingly at work say, “Actually! Like all my friends call me Stevie.” And so my co-workers were like, “Do you want us to call you Stevie?” And I’m like, “Yes!!!” And I had another amazing colleague, like Jason Landry, he reached out to me privately on Slack and said, “Hey, I know that you’re going by Stevie.” And like, “Awesome! Stevie’s a great name. I just wanted to check in. Like have your pronouns changed? Like what pronouns would you like me to refer to you as?” So at the time I said, “Oh um like no, like, she/her is fine.” And she/her is great. I just don’t use she/her anymore. Like they/them is super comfortable to me. Like it makes me feel really good. And so I use they/them and eventually like it was people in my team making me feel like welcome. And doing that work of like welcoming me as opposed to me having to step out and be vulnerable is what allowed me to come to work and tell people, “My name is Stevie.” And now like over time I’ve built enough confidence to include it in my email signature. If I meet someone new, I always say, “Stevie Thuy Anh Nguyen. My pronouns: they/them/theirs.” So I try to assert myself and I know that from what we tell young people in schools, every time that I do that, I can help somebody else feel more comfortable sharing their pronouns. And as a practice of allyship, that’s the best thing folks can do is share their pronouns. SWB I love that story so much and I’m so thankful that you had a colleague who reached out to you sort of made it ok for you to say like, “Yeah, actually I prefer to go by different pronouns.” Was that a scary conversation to start to have? Like the first few times you were doing that in these professional settings? STAN Mm hmm yeah. And I mean, let’s be honest, my team, most of the people on my team are great. They use they/them pronouns. Some people still make mistakes. I think it’s interesting the way in which every time someone new comes onto the team, if I don’t already know them, I have to find a time or an opportunity to, hopefully, quickly get in there and let them know that my pronouns are they/them/theirs before they hear maybe the wrong pronoun from somebody else, or make an assumption, and then I eventually have to awkwardly correct them. But yeah it was initially really hard because I didn’t even understand the — like once I understood how it felt empowering to me, it was hard because there was always a lot of explaining. People like need explanations or they look at me, you know, like, “Wait. What does that mean?” And they like — I think — I think people look at me and they’re like, “Wait. What does that mean for your body parts?” SWB Which um is — has nothing to do with it at all. STAN Exactly. But— SWB It is not an appropriate question for work — like pretty much ever. STAN Well it’s just like — I don’t think it needs to be even verbally said sometimes, it’s just like people stop and look like the same way. Some folks know — like particularly feminine-presenting folks knows what it looks when someone looks at you and looks you up and down [mm hmm]. I think like queer and trans and non-binary folks, we know what it looks like when you look at us and you’re like, “Mmm,” like, “What’s under your clothes and how do you have sex?” [44:55] SWB Which I, you know, I understand that it’s kind of uncomfortable for people when they are first presented with pronoun and gender stuff that they’ve not encountered before and that they don’t understand, and um and then even still, you know, I mean I think I, for example, like I have several friends who would identify as non-binary or who identify as, let’s say they’re trans, and I have tried to unlearn some of that like default gender binary language and it’s hard. And I screw it up. And I screw it up oftentimes when I have, you know it’s like something gets coded in my brain early on, whether it’s an assumption, or whether it’s something where, you know, I have a friend who I met when they presented as male and they, at some point, came out as trans. And they’re a woman. And I sometimes still have like that little mental like kind of hiccup right? That like is about the history that I have with them, and sort of having to shift my thinking, I mean that just is what it is but that that’s up to me, right? Like it’s my job. It’s my job to figure that out. It’s not their job to figure that out. And if I feel weird or if I have to like go through an extra like you know mental circuit in order to make sense of it and make sure that I’m doing it correctly, like, that’s work that is on me to do. And that the more I do that kind of work, the easier it becomes. And that’s kind of like the way that I’ve tried to deal with it but I think it’s — I think it’s something that seeing people like you who are willing to be vulnerable and to say, “Hey, this is who I am.” And to know that you might get reactions that aren’t positive and that aren’t good. I think that that’s — it’s such a gift, I think, to the rest of us, in terms of opening our minds and helping us get to a more inclusive place. KL I also just want to say that— that you said something, you said the words, “practice of allyship,” and I wrote that — I just wrote that down because I like that so much and I feel like if we can just share that as much as possible, that is — that is such a gem of a thing to think about. STAN Let me — let me credit that Mariame Kaba who is @prisonculture on Twitter because I heard Mariame — actually I may be pronouncing this wrong: M-A-R-I-A-M-E. I heard her speak on a webinar, which is run by Talila Lewis, TL Lewis, who does not use any pronouns, and this is what they — the whole discussion was about, was about the practice of allyship. That no one gets to say like, “I am an ally! So I am done!” Like it’s not about what this identity, it’s about how do you continue to practice allyship. KL Exactly. It’s like — it really, truly is a practice. It’s like all things that you, you know, I’m — at least I know for myself that I want to get good at, you know, between yoga, and just being a, you know, a better friend and publisher and coworker. It’s— it really, truly takes practice. And you have to be — you have to be aware of that. STAN Yeah, and it takes like that, like what you talked about earlier, Sara, that constant, the constant practice and I think when we’re in community with other people, we’re all practicing our allyship to marginalized people, and marginalized communities, there has to be a practice of forgiveness as well. Like grace, for us as individuals, and the practice of forgiveness for each other. Like I wouldn’t know anything I know if somebody didn’t tell me I was wrong if somebody didn’t like — wouldn’t forgive me, and like didn’t cast me out of their life because I made a mistake, but it also has to come from a place of like being willing to sit around and like shut up sometimes. SWB So as somebody who has gotten more comfortable bringing your whole identity to work, and who has kind of gone through some of those scary parts, what would you tell someone or what advice would you have for somebody who is thinking about some of the same things, about being able to be more of their authentic selves in their professional environments and being able to kind of fuse maybe some of the stuff that they’ve kept personal or private with the way that they present professionally. [49:40] STAN Hmm. What would I tell someone? I think the first thing I would want to make sure is that person feels safe. And I know this word like “safe” or “safety” gets thrown around a lot. But, quite honestly, what are your risks and dangers? And what violence may you face if you fully — if you bring yourself fully? And this is me speaking from a position of privilege of where I am able to bring myself to work, where every part of me is at least, at the very least, recognized and acknowledged. And then I would say: surround yourself in community and with allies to support you through it. I don’t think I could do it if I didn’t think — like I don’t think I could show up, assert my name, assert my pronouns, talk about my politics, if I thought that I would be attacked in any way, or punished in any way. And so that — that’s sort of required first. Make sure you’re safe and make sure you have support. And then, like show up and be real. This — it’s, again, cheesy sayings but I was tweeting, I tweeted about it this morning. But this idea of like nobody — I don’t know anything other than my own experience and I have so little that I know, but all I know is like myself. And so if I show up at work as myself, then I’m in a state of being in my greatest power. And I think if you can find a workplace where they want you to be there in your greatest power, then like, yeah, show up. This is how you do it. KL I love that. STAN Does that help? SWB That’s so great. That is so great. Yeah. So, very last question then is you mentioned safety and the importance for people who are going to do something vulnerable, whether that’s you know coming out at work or anything else, to feel like they have some sense of safety. So what can listeners do who feel like they can — they have some power in their workplace or in the organizations they’re part of, to help foster that safety for people. Like what are some of the ways that we can ensure that more of the people that we work with feel safe around us? STAN Well I think for people of marginalized identities, yeah, showing up so that you can be that example, so that you can be another person who like makes someone feel safe because you see someone who’s similar to you. That’s one way. But if you aren’t, like if you are someone who is in a position of privilege and power, gosh, like: not punishing people. How do you make — how do you make that space? Inviting it? Educating yourself? Like and making it — like I’ll bring it back to the beginning: like making it personal. I think if you genuinely care about the people in your company, then these are things worth learning about and these are things worth like not just acknowledging and recognizing and forgiving, for some reason, like if you think it’s wrong and you “forgive” them for this thing. Like get past that point where you can love them for that. [55:08] STAN I think that’s it. FYOTW SWB I have a pretty important Fuck Yeah tonight. It’s the Fuck Yeah to the um real champagne that Katel brought over today. KL Uh we have to take this moment to say a little “Fuck yeah” to ourselves because we made it onto the New and Noteworthy in Apple Podcasts and I’m really excited because we are a little, indie podcast that we started because we just really wanted to talk to each other and see where this went and, I’m psyched. SWB We started talking a while back about how much we were really hoping we could get onto the New and Noteworthy list because it’s a really good way to get new audience, and have people kind of be aware of you, plus it just feels good to know that what you’re doing is working. And, when I started looking at the other shows that were on there, almost all of them were supported by a bigger brand. It was like a podcast coming from Gimlet, or a podcast coming from Slate, or some other organization that was backing them and funding them, and so it’s a kind of a big deal to have a podcast like this that’s completely independently run be able to make it onto that list. Or at least, it feels like a big deal to me. JL Fuck yeah! It’s a big deal! KL Feels like a huge deal. SWB And I was also thinking about how much of a big deal to see a podcast ran by women, and more podcast run by women coming out because I feel like for a long time, there were just so few. I remember seeing a stat the other day that was like something like 70 percent of podcasts are run by men. And I don’t know if that’s true. Like it wasn’t the kind of stat that I felt like I could easily back up. But it is something that’s talked about quite a lot in the industry is just how male-dominated podcasting is. And how almost all of the biggest name podcasts are run by men. And, you know, there’s some really great podcasts run by men. It’s not like there aren’t but like man, there are so many interesting women doing interesting things. And I would love to hear from more of them. And, like, that’s what we’re doing. JL Yeah! I mean, also, fuck yeah women’s history month! And with that in mind I just started looking — I went a little Google-wild again and I just started looking at all these like, you know there’s all these lists, it’s the internet; of course there’s lists. But I just started looking into more like women-run podcasts and I just started going through them all — and I just — I have so many queued up right now. I’m so excited to listen to them all because I feel like, again, the more we support each other as women podcasters, the more that we get our — like we share our message! And we keep listening to each other and raising each other up! So it’s been so fun to try to listen to some of these other podcasts also. Katel, I know that you have been like super into one recently. KL Yeah, I gotta be honest: I’m actively looking for more podcasts that are just basically more diverse voices. And one that I really like lately is by a music artist that I just really love, her name is Lizzo. And if you don’t know her, just Spotify that shit immediately because it will make you feel good and it’s totally worth it. But she has a new podcast, that I think launched like right around the same time ours did, which is so cool, and it’s on Spotify. She describes it as, “A safe space for the baddest women in music.” She’s an alternative rapper, she sits down with iconic queens and rising stars and basically sets the record straight on making a name in a very male-dominated world in music. So I just love that. I love her. I’m so happy that I get to hear her not only sing but also talk and talk with other women. JL What’s the podcast called? KL Sorry, I should’ve said that! It’s called Good As Hell which is also just a really fucking good name. And yeah it’s really inspiring and you should take a listen. JL Maybe we could do a crossover episode: No, You Good. KL That would be amazing! SWB I love this whole concept because it feels like a sister podcast to No, You Go. Because I think that that’s really like — similar stuff we’re trying to do. Obviously we don’t have as many connections in music but if any, like, musical stars want to be on our show, that’s great. JL Kesha! [Ahem.] SWB Kesha is definitely like Jen’s number one dream guest. She’s literally on a spreadsheet right now. But I think that — that’s a lot of the same stuff that we’re trying to talk about, right? It’s like who are the most badass women and non-binary people we have encountered in our professional lives who are doing great things and who have something to say to the world? And how can we talk about ways to elevate their voices and make spaces that are more inclusive? So fuck yeah to women-run podcasts. JL Fuck yeah! KL Fuck yeah on New and Noteworthy. [59:59] JL Well, that’s it for this week’s episode of No, You Go! The show about being ambitious— and sticking together. NYG is recorded in our home city of Philadelphia and produced by Steph Colbourn. Our theme music is by The Diaphone. Thanks to Stevie Thuy Anh Nguyen for being our guest today. If you like what you’ve been hearing on our podcast, we would love it if you subscribed and rated us on Apple Podcast where we’ve been New and Noteworthy! And fuck yeah! New and Noteworthy! Deserved! Your support really helps us spread the word. We’ll be back next week with another great guest.
In Episode 19 of Beyond Prisons, hosts Brian Sonenstein and Kim Wilson catch up with activist, writer, and educator Mariame Kaba. Mariame shares her experiences advocating on behalf of Bresha Meadows, a teenage girl who killed her abusive father and was detained while facing the possibility of trial as an adult and a lifetime of incarceration. She recount's Bresha's story and explains how activists worked to make sure the family's needs were met and help them navigate the collateral consequences of detention, including an enormous financial burden and the shame and stigma that makes people internalize their struggle. Mariame explains how children who are abused face limited options and harsh punishment for trying to escape their abusers and even harsher punishment for defending themselves. She talks about the racialized aspect of this arrangement, and how black children are dehumanized and not seen as children but as criminals in training. She discusses the work that Survived and Punished put into assembling a tool kit to help people who are victims of abuse and are criminalized for survival actions. The tool kit has information on what the group thinks works for supporting immigrant survivors, trans survivors, how to engage with the media and legal teams, how to raise money and build a base of support, and more. Their website also has interviews and videos that provide more information. Mariame reacts to a common question asked of abolitionists, which is what to do about people who have caused serious harm to others. She talks about the fear of criminals in society and the severe misperceptions among the public of who is incarcerated and what it means to be in prison. The effectiveness of prison as a tool to fight sexual violence, murder, and other serious crimes is questioned. The conversation continues with Mariame's view of abolition as a collective project that embraces people who sense there is a problem with American institutions and are interested in figuring out what to do about it. She explains what she means when she says hope is a discipline, not an emotion or sense of optimism, and how this informs her organizing. Self care is examined as a community project. Finally, Mariame shares what books are on her shelf and what she's reading right now. Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator, and curator. Her work focuses on ending violence, dismantling the prison industrial complex, transformative justice, and supporting youth leadership development. She is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. She was a member of the editorial board for Violence Against Women: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal from January 2003 to December 2008. She was a founding advisory board member of the Chicago Community Bond Fund and she's a member of the Critical Resistance community advisory board. Kaba currently organizes with the Survived and Punished collective and, in addition to organizing and serving many other organizations, she is an educator and also runs the blog Prison Culture. Follow Mariame Kaba on Twitter: @prisonculture Support our show and join us on Patreon. Please listen, subscribe, and rate/review our podcast on iTunes and on Google Play Sign up for the Beyond Prisons newsletter to receive updates on new episodes, important news and events, and more. Send tips, comments, and questions to beyondprisonspodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @Beyond_Prison @phillyprof03 @bsonenstein @jaybeware Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beyondprisonspodcast/ Music & Production: Jared Ware
Ce soir, notre première invitée est l'auteure de "Différente comme tout le monde", paru fin septembre aux Editions Le Passeur. Mariame Tighanimine nous raconte son vécu de petite fille puis jeune fille voilée, que l'on a toujours voulu catégoriser : croyante, banlieusarde, voilée ... Alors qu'elle souhaitait simplement être elle-même sans revendication particulière. Avec humour et brio, Mariame Tighanimine nous dresse (entre autres) le portrait d'un système scolaire et universitaire français plombé par le racisme et le mépris de classe. On revient avec elle sur ses études, son aventure en tant qu'entrepreneuse, et le message qu'elle aimerait aujourd'hui faire passer avec son livre. "On a souvent voulu m'associer à des causes ou des personnes avec lesquelles je n'avais rien en commun." Le Mégaphonetour, fondé par notre invitée Caroline Guaine, voyage aux quatre coins de la France pour faire découvrir les artistes qui feront la scène de demain. Ce festival itinérant veut donner leur chance aux jeunes artistes et leur permet de découvrir la scène par la pratique. Il s'agit aussi de créer une synergie entre les artistes, de leur permettre de se constituer un réseau, et de leur apporter des compétences professionnelles concrètes pour gérer leur projet. La fondatrice nous parle de ce projet d'un genre nouveau. Pour y participer, l'appel à candidatures débute courant novembre pour les intéressés ! "L'idée, c'est d'être une photo de ce qui se passe dans la musique actuelle." Militant pour un monde "sans nucléaire, ni civil, ni militaire", le Forum Social Mondial Antinucléaire débute le 2 novembre. Pour en savoir plus, on écoute l'interview par Radio Parleur de Kolin Kobayashi, journaliste japonais établi à Paris et organisateur du Forum Social Mondial. Il nous parle de la contestation anti-nucléaire et des solutions qui existent pour réussir à se passer de cette énergie. Présentation : Marion Guichaoua / Co-interview : Victoria Peek et Xénia Ivanova / Chronique : Radio Parleur / Coordination : Nina Beltram et Elsa Landard / Web : Arthur Jean
Ce soir, notre première invitée est l'auteure de "Différente comme tout le monde", paru fin septembre aux Editions Le Passeur. Mariame Tighanimine nous raconte son vécu de petite fille puis jeune fille voilée, que l'on a toujours voulu catégoriser : croyante, banlieusarde, voilée ... Alors qu'elle souhaitait simplement être elle-même sans revendication particulière. Avec humour et brio, Mariame Tighanimine nous dresse (entre autres) le portrait d'un système scolaire et universitaire français plombé par le racisme et le mépris de classe. On revient avec elle sur ses études, son aventure en tant qu'entrepreneuse, et le message qu'elle aimerait aujourd'hui faire passer avec son livre. "On a souvent voulu m'associer à des causes ou des personnes avec lesquelles je n'avais rien en commun." Le Mégaphonetour, fondé par notre invitée Caroline Guaine, voyage aux quatre coins de la France pour faire découvrir les artistes qui feront la scène de demain. Ce festival itinérant veut donner leur chance aux jeunes artistes et leur permet de découvrir la scène par la pratique. Il s'agit aussi de créer une synergie entre les artistes, de leur permettre de se constituer un réseau, et de leur apporter des compétences professionnelles concrètes pour gérer leur projet. La fondatrice nous parle de ce projet d'un genre nouveau. Pour y participer, l'appel à candidatures débute courant novembre pour les intéressés ! "L'idée, c'est d'être une photo de ce qui se passe dans la musique actuelle." Militant pour un monde "sans nucléaire, ni civil, ni militaire", le Forum Social Mondial Antinucléaire débute le 2 novembre. Pour en savoir plus, on écoute l'interview par Radio Parleur de Kolin Kobayashi, journaliste japonais établi à Paris et organisateur du Forum Social Mondial. Il nous parle de la contestation anti-nucléaire et des solutions qui existent pour réussir à se passer de cette énergie. Présentation : Marion Guichaoua / Co-interview : Victoria Peek et Xénia Ivanova / Chronique : Radio Parleur / Coordination : Nina Beltram et Elsa Landard / Web : Arthur Jean
Dans cet épisode, Siham rencontre Mariame Tighanimine.Mariame est la fondatrice de ... beaucoup de choses : elle a commencé avec "Hijab and the city", un média co-fondé avec sa soeur qui donnait la parole aux femmes musulmanes. Puis il y a eu "Babelbag", un sac crée par une communauté de femmes, promu par le bouche à oreille et vendu par le main à main. Aujourd'hui, c'est sur "Babelbusiness", que Mariame travaille avec son associé. Le but ? Permettre à n'importe qui de lancer son activité grâce à des outils et une méthode, notamment inspirés du sport.Dans cet épisode d'une heure (!), Mariame nous raconte comment elle est passée d'un projet à un autre, partage sans tabous sa vision du business, dénonce l'entre-soi et le "bullshit" et invoque même les Power Rangers comme source d'inspiration ;)Je vous préviens, on rigole beaucoup dans cet épisode, j'espère que ce format un peu plus long que d'habitude vous plaira et comme d'habitude, je vous souhaite une très bonne écoute !Pour suivre Mariame :https://www.facebook.com/mariame.tighaniminehttps://www.facebook.com/babelbusiness/https://twitter.com/mariametighttps://medium.com/@Mariame_TighaniminePour suivre Génération XX :www.facebook.com/generationxx.podcast/www.instagram.com/generationxx.podcast/twitter.com/generationxxPwww.generationxx.fr/medium.com/generationxxsiham.podcast@gmail.comProduction : Siham JibrilRéalisation : Olivier BessugesThème musical : Please listen carefully (musique libre de droits) Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.
Mariame is a singer at the beginning of her career. Her background is Cree/Arab. Her original songs are mainly R & B but there are occasional hints of tribal rhythms. Her debut CD Bloom has just been released on the … More ... The post Mariame: Musician, and Paul Howe: Fund Raising Cyclist appeared first on Paradigms Podcast.
It is estimated that 1 in 68 births is diagnosed with autism. (CDC, 2014). Autism is a life long developmental disorder, and as yet there is no cure. Raise awareness with Charlotte View, listen and share. In 2006, Mariame Boujlil, a mother of a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder, founded the 501(c)(3), non profit organization, "World Alliance for Families & Children" WAFAC, Inc. With over 100 members it holds the mission to support individuals with Autism and their families, by expanding and enhancing opportunities to improve quality of life. On October 25 of 2014, WAFAC obtained from the Mayor of Charlotte, Daniel G. Clodfelter, a Proclamation of "Blue Angels Day". Autism is used to describe someone who lives in a world of his/her own. In medical terms, autism is a brain-based developmental disorder that affects a person's ability to communicate, be with other people, and engage in developmentally appropriate behaviours. Children do not “outgrow” autism but symptoms may lessen or change as the child develops and receives educational interventions. WAFAC has developed several programs that will be explained during our interview, including: Social Skill Education; Life Skill Education; Recreational Programs; Connections Parent Support Groups; Special Interest Program expansions Family Gatherings; Autism Awareness presentations in the community. Mariame will talk about their After_School/Respite program as well the construction of the "Multi-sensory Room" Join us to break the myths and learn the truth about autism! For more information contact Mariame Boujlil: 704-618-1489 / Email: mariame2001us@yahoo.com
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