shado-lite
Shado Mag
shado-lite is a brand new @shado.mag podcast hosted by Zoe Rasbash (@zorasbash) and Larissa Kennedy (@larissa_kennedy_). We will be using this podcast to navigate the big issues on your feed, moving from apathy and overwhelm to collective action and hopeful pathways forward. We’re not claiming to be experts in these issues – let’s remove the dichotomy of student versus teacher – but instead we want to take listeners on a collective journey of learning.
Visit shado’s website: shado-mag.com
Podcast artwork: @sayeeda.bacchus
Podcast production and music: @flrs.carla
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01/22/24 • 46 min
Last season, the need for housing justice - in all its forms - came up so much that we’ve dedicated an entire season to it. From migrant communities building home away from home, to indigenous communities defending their homes, the concept of home has so much to teach us.
To kick us off, co-hosts Zoe and Larissa are talking squatting: and where better to start than Olive Morris, the Brixton Black Women’s Group, the Brixton Black Panthers and an occupied launderette in Brixton? (It's a South London massive!!) But our conversation took us from South of the Thames to the Rozbrat squat in Poland and the multiple interconnected squats of the #RightsToTheCity movement in Brazil. Can we look to the squat as a place of ‘collective worldmaking’?
References:
- Remembering Olive Morris
- Polanska, D.V., Piotrowski, G., (2015). "The transformative power of cooperation between social movements: Squatting and tenants' movements in Poland"
- Zhang, Y. (2021). Rightful squatting: Housing movements, citizenship, and the "right to the city" in Brazil.
- Rozbrat Squat (Poznan, Poland)
- Prestes Maia Squat (Sāo Paulo, Brazil)
- To All the Blocks I’ve Loved Before (2023) Simmone Ahiaku
- Spotlight on London’s Radical Herstory: The Brixton Black Women’s Group (2020) Past Tense
- Counter hegemony, popular education, and resistances: A systematic literature review on the squatters' movement (2022) Julia Ballesteros-Quilez, Pablo Rivera-Vargas and Judith Jacovkis
- Our house: why protecting the right to squat is a defence of radical Black history (2021) Lisa Insana
- The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting (2017) Alexander Vasudevan
- Spotlight on London’s Squatted Streets: Villa Road, Brixton (2020) Past Tense
- Finding a Home: how artists and collectives occupy space (2023) Kieran Yates
- Squatting as tactics for creative resistance and transformation: The experience of a Brazilian housing occupation (2021) Juliana Canedo and Luciana Andrade
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02/20/24 • 46 min
As far back as we can go, communities have been on the move - migrating due to seasons, changing environments, cultures. Yet since 1500s in the UK, the state has clamped down on mobile communities, creating laws specifically to expel Gypsy, Roma and Traveller groups or force them to assimilate to static ways of living.
In this episode Larissa and Zoe get heated about the importance of the Right to Roam for all of us, how living on the move is resistance and ask WHY is the state so scared of mobile communities??? Digressions include whether the #VanLife girlies will join the revolution.
References:
- What is Gypsy and Traveller resistance? (2023) Chelsea McDonagh
- The PCSC Bill has Failed Gypsies and Travellers - so where do we go next? (2022) Chelsea McDonagh
- How the police Bill targets Gypsies Roma and Travellers (2021) Charlotte Powell
- Land Rights and Nomadic Populations: Indigenous Perspectives (2019) Karen Braun and Jocelyn Davies
- Beyond Borders: A deep dive into the nomadic way of life (2022) David Farley
- The Politics of the Nomad (2009) Yossarian
- The Right to Roam: Travellers and Human Rights in the Modern Nation-State (2010) Dualta Roughneen
- Silvia Citadini (2021) Social Justice and Adequate Housing: Rights, Roma Inclusion and the Feeling of Home
- UK Right to Roam campaign: https://www.righttoroam.org.uk/
- Isabella Cipirska (2022) The trespassers fighting for our right to roam
- Cittadini, Silvia. "A right to home or an individual preference? The impact of the definition of home in international and European legislation on cases concerning Roma, Travellers, and Gypsies." Romani Studies, vol. 32 no. 1, 2022, p. 85-103. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/859937.
- Roma, poets and storytellers podcast episode
- Kinder Scout Mass Trespass
- The Politics of the Nomad (2009) Yossarian
- The Right to Roam: Travellers and Human Rights in the Modern Nation-State (2010) Dualta Roughneen
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07/02/23 • 50 min
Of a survey of 10,000 children across 10 countries, 75% said they believe the future is frightening. Across the world, anxiety about the climate crisis is no longer a fringe issue. But historically, anxiety has served to alert humans to danger, to help us know when to act. Is eco-anxiety fuel for us to act on the climate crisis?
Co-host Zoe sits down with Tori Tsui, climate justice and mental health campaigner and author of new book It's Not Just You, to ask: is a bit of eco-anxiety is a good thing? Tori says: think bigger.
Let us know your thoughts, feelings, critiques and resource reccs [email protected].
References:
- Its Not Just You, Tori Tsui
- Climate Anxiety: An Illness of the System, Ayisha Siddiqa
- No Good Alone, Rayne Fisher Quann
- Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey, Caroline Hickman et al.
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PILOT: Welcome to shado-lite
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06/19/23 • 8 min
Join our hosts Larissa and Zoe as they introduce themselves and what to expect from podcast ahead of the first episode launch on 3rd July.
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08/07/23 • 66 min
FOIs conducted by the Runnymede Trust reveal that there are almost 1000 police officer operating in UK schools, and there are plans to hire more. Children and young people are being robbed of their childhoods through criminalisation and surveillance in schools.
Why do the police appoint “Safer Schools Officers” when we know that police make marginalised children unsafe? Why are surveillance technologies being rolled out in schools? Why is community concern about all of this ignored? Co-hosts, Zoe and Larissa, ask all these questions and more on this week’s episode. Have a listen to learn more about the issues we’re facing and the orgs on the ground that give us hope!
References:
- The Runnymede Trust (2023) Over-policed and Under-protected Report
- No More Exclusions (2021) School Exclusions During the Pandemic: Why we need a Moratorium
- The 4 Front Project
- Safeguarding, Surveillance and Control: School Policy and Practice Responses to the Prevent Duty and the ‘war on terror’ in the U.K. Necla Acik, Jo Deakin and Bob Hindle 2018
- Curating Risk, Selling Safety? Fear of Crime, Responsibilisation and the Surveillance School Economy Emmeline Taylor
- Surveillance Won’t Protect Students with Chris Gilliard, Tech Won't save us Podcast
Articles to read:
- If exclusion is retribution, abolition in education is freedom! - Shado Magazine
- Obedience, Oppression and Capitalism: why we need to address the legacy of schools - Shado Magazine
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09/17/23 • 54 min
We know that many feminisms do not truly resist oppression in all its forms [insert TERFs and boss babes here] Another group of feminists flopping on the ‘radical reimagination’ front are carceral feminists.
Our guest this time, abolitionist revolutionary, author and lecturer Dr Aviah Sarah Day, describes the term carceral feminism as “a critique about a particular branch of the feminist movement”. With Aviah’s knowledge and experience in the movement, we get into why investing in policing and punitive responses to gendered violence will not save us!
Somehow the tech failed us on the recording of this episode (boo, hiss!) so we lost the second half of our chat with Aviah. Co-hosts Zoe and Larissa have wrapped up the chat by reflecting on some of the parts of the conversation that we lost.
In the episode, we discuss some examples of gendered and sexual violence, including r*pe, so if you’d like to skip that part of the conversation, hit pause at 32:14 and resume at 32:44. Masses of love and solidarity to any survivors listening.
Resources:
- Dr Aviah Sarah Day (2022) Why police will never be the answer to gendered violence
- Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean (2022) Abolition Revolution
- Ruth Wilson Gilmore (2022) Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation
- Mariame Kaba (2022) We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
- Oonagh Ryder and Mo Mansfield (2018) “Just Paint the Walls Pink”: Gender, Prison and Carceral Feminism
Actions:
- Find your local CopWatch group
- Use Abolitionist Futures’ Framework differentiating between reformist reforms and abolitionist steps in UK policing
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09/24/23 • 56 min
Warning: this is an unbelievably straight episode. This week the girls are tackling ‘the apps’: are they making love and dating harder, or are they simply reflecting already broken society? How far can we blame big tech for the state of dating right now? And can we even be bothered to resist it?
Zoe and Larissa talk dating horror stories, politics of desirability and why straight mens dating profiles really are just for other men. Tune in for two 5’11 queens who cannot make up their mind on how we might change modern dating to be less BLEUGHJ...
References:
- Alfie Bown, Dream Lovers: The Gamification of relationships
- Dr. Jacqueline Ristola || Queering the Metaverse
- Zoe Rasbash, Love in the age of platform capitalism
- Fope Ajanaku, Does radical vulnerability hinder us in the digital arena of love?
- The Singles Reports
- bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
- Shado Bookshelf: Love Beyond the Binary
- Clotilde de Maricourt et al, #MeToo or #MenToo? Expressions of Backlash and Masculinity Politics in the #MeToo Era
- Chris Haywood, Men, Masculinity and Contemporary Dating
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10/01/23 • 29 min
This season has discussed A LOT of stuff - from unpicking climate anxiety to the issues of carceral feminism. So Larissa and Zoe sit down to map out the connections between all of these issues. How are these systems connected and what might be the leverage points for change? When the scale of these issues can be super overwhelming, what are actions we can take to resist and rebuild?
References:
- Free Black University - https://www.freeblackuni.com/
- Black Earth: Resistance Anti Racism and the Environment - https://www.tiatafahodzi.com/black-earth
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S1 Ep4: What is Apple hiding?
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07/23/23 • 44 min
Hello, we are scared of Big Tech and iPhones are cursed!
This ep the girls are getting into the dark side of Apple: how was it able grow so exponentially in the noughties?
We spin out into history of Chinese labour policy and emerging fin-tech in Africa, and the incredibly hard to pronounce ‘algorithmic colonialism’. The girls struggle to get their head around these massive supply chains that produce the little computers we’re all so addicted to. Tech girlies we need your advice, how do we bring down silicone valley? Or at least make them less evil??
References:
- Proletarian China: A Century of Chinese Labour The Foxconn Suicide Express, (2022) Jenny Chan
- Foxconned labour as the dark side of the information age: Working conditions at Apple’s contract manufacturers in China. Communication, Capitalism & Critique, (2013) Sandoval, Marisol. (2013)
- Tech firms failing to address forced labour in supply chains (2010) Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Computer Weekly
- Apple supplier Lens Technology accused of using forced labour in China (2021) Reed Albergotti, Washington Post
- USA: Apple agrees to human rights and labour policy audit following investor pressure (2023) Aislinn Murphy, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
- Tech giants’ pivot out of China can usher in a human rights reset (2023) Michael Caster, Al Jazeera
- Abeba Birhane ( Algorithmic Colonization of Africa by Abeba Birhane
- Shakir Mohamed, Marie-Therese Png & William Isaac (2020) Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence
- Kai-Fu Lee (2017) The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence
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04/05/24 • 54 min
On this week’s episode we are joined by Sarona Bedwan, on behalf of Makan, a Palestinian-led transformative education organisation that strengthens voices for Palestinian rights. Continuing on our series centred on the concept of home, this time we’re talking about how Israeli settler colonialism not only violently displaces Palestinian people from their homeland but commits psychological and ecological violence in efforts to sever the connection Palestinians have to land that they, and their ancestors, have cultivated and lived in relationship with for generations. Amid the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, it is more important than ever that we are deepening our knowledge of how settler colonialism operates, the resistance of Palestinians themselves, and how this can inform our action in solidarity with the Palestinian people. FREE FREE PALESTINE!
References:
Makan - https://www.makan.org.uk/
“Prisoners are the Compass of Our Struggle”: why the release of Palestinian prisoners is central to our liberation - https://shado-mag.com/opinion/prisoners-release-palestine-israel-war/
The environmental cost of Western greed in Palestine and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Other shado articles on Palestine - https://shado-mag.com/discover/palestine/
Explainer TikTok: No such thing as an ‘innocent settler’
APN, the Arab League for the Protection of Nature
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How many episodes does shado-lite have?
shado-lite currently has 32 episodes available.
What topics does shado-lite cover?
The podcast is about Society & Culture, Podcasts and Education.
What is the most popular episode on shado-lite?
The episode title 'S1 Ep4: What is Apple hiding?' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on shado-lite?
The average episode length on shado-lite is 45 minutes.
How often are episodes of shado-lite released?
Episodes of shado-lite are typically released every 8 days, 20 hours.
When was the first episode of shado-lite?
The first episode of shado-lite was released on Jun 19, 2023.
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