#12-22 Kenya Politics and Women … on the eve of new national elections

Zuleikha Hassan is one of the most outspoken members of Kenya’s Parliament. This episode covers several years of her political

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#38-21 Conflict Is Not Abuse … Mistaking discomfort for violence is an error of our times

Lesbian novelist and nonfiction writer Sarah Schulman speaks in Vancouver about her book Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community

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#36-21 bell hooks … on feminism, race, violence and dealing with rage

The world-famous Black author and thinker known as bell hooks passed away on December 15, 2021, at age 69. From

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#12-21 Zimbabwe Diaspora … Outside the country but connected – and they care

In the premier edition of the podcast version of her radio show HotSeat, Violet Gonda interviewed Thandiwe Newton, filmstar and

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#44-20 Sizani Ngubane, R.I.P. … Great South African organizer claimed by COVID

One of the great organizers of our times, Sizani Ngubane of South Africa, has died of COVID-19. From 1997, here

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#13-20 Guardians of the Amazon … Indigenous Women Rising

It was 1920 when the first international oil corporation entered the Amazon region. The struggle against destructive extractive industries has been

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#12-20 Slovenia Uprising … Rejecting the Right

Slovenia is a social democracy that was the first to secede from the Yugoslav Federation. It has relatively good conditions

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#10-20 The Aunt Jemima Struggle … How her image became an offense

In 2020, Quaker Oats announced it would remove Aunt Jemima from its syrup and pancake mix brands. This was the

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#36-19 Spiritual Politics of Marta Benavides … Grassroots organizing vs oligarchy in El Salvador

Marta Benavides’s parents were an indigenous healer and a bureaucrat. She grew up Catholic, was recruited to the Baptists, and

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