The F Less Travelled... Guilaine Kinouani

The F Less Travelled... Goldsmiths Strike!

The F Less Travelled… Goldsmiths Strike! with Islam Al Khatib, Victoria Chwa, Akanksha Mehta, Caroline Frizell, Louise Chambers, Marina Benini, Sara Bafo, Sara Farris, Svenja Bromberg, Thank you everyone for your time and energy on this episode. Special thank you to Maria Riga & Georgia Golebiowski who edited this together with speed and brilliance. You can follow Islam @Outvertigo [https://twitter.com/outvertigo] @GoldsmithsUCU [https://twitter.com/GoldsmithsUCU] on twitter and support the strike fund here: https://goldsmithsucu.org/donations/strikefund/ [https://goldsmithsucu.org/donations/strikefund/] Follow us on twitter @f_travelled [https://twitter.com/f_travelled] Music by Ruari Paterson-Achenbach Original Artwork by Katharine Davies-Herbst Episode art work by Islam Al Khatib The F Less Travelled...Tracing Feminist Pathways is brought to you in collaboration with The Centre for Feminist Research and with support from the Centre for Urban and Community Research and Methods Labs, all based at Goldsmiths. To make our conversations more accessible, we include a transcript with every episode. Read today's conversation here [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pO7bLKvp8E7jy-z55UqGaztpV21ly4ad/view?usp=sharing].

The F Less Travelled... Dr Akanksha Mehta & Chloe Turner

The F Less Travelled… with Dr Akanksha Mehta and Chloe Turner. Chloe Turner is a writer, curator and PhD researcher. As of September 2021, Chloe is an Associate Lecturer in both the Design Department at LCC, University of the Arts London and the Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. Dr Akanksha Mehta is a feminist educator, researcher, writer, photographer, and organiser. She is a Lecturer in Gender, Race and Cultural Studies and the co-director of the Centre for Feminist Research at Goldsmiths, University of London.  Akanksha's book choices: Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante Care Work - Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Akanksha's music choice: Not so much one song - but a whole genre of women singing ghazal, qawwali, sufi, kafi music (in Urdu-Punjabi-Hindi) Akanksha's object: Grandmother's shawls/scarfs Chloe's book choices: Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russell Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girls Notes from the End of the World by  Kai Cheng Thom Chloe's music choice: Madison Moore's DJ lecture sets Chloe's object: Grandmother's rhubarb plant Additional notes: Follow us on twitter @f_travelled [https://twitter.com/f_travelled] and tweet us with your feminist companions with #ThisIsMyCanon Music and sound production by Ruari Paterson-Achenbach Artwork by Katharine Davies-Herbst The F Less Travelled...Tracing Feminist Pathways is brought to you in collaboration with The Centre for Feminist Research and with support from the Centre for Urban and Community Research and Methods Labs, all based at Goldsmiths. To make our conversations more accessible, we include a transcript with every episode. Read our conversation with Akanksha and Chloe here [https://drive.google.com/file/d/15cuO-bMUeR7OuS9Hyama1mt0FEF1D8AK/view?usp=sharing].

The F Less Travelled... Stella Dadzie

The F Less Travelled… with Stella Dadzie. Stella is a feminist writer, historian and education activist, best known for her co authorship of The Heart of the Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain, which won the 1985 Martin Luther King Award for Literature, and was republished by Verso in 2018 as a feminist classic. \Stella has also written numerous publications and resources aimed at promoting good practice with Black learners and other minorities, including resources to decolonize and diversify the UK National Curriculum in schools and colleges. She is a founding member of OWAAD (Organisation of Women of African & Asian Descent) a national umbrella group for Black women that emerged in the late 1970s as part of the British civil rights movement. Her career as a writer, artist, and education activist spans over 40 years. She has written numerous publications and resources aimed at promoting good practice with Black learners and other minorities, including resources to decolonize and diversify the UK National Curriculum in schools and colleges Book choices: * Finding A Voice by Amrit Wilson * Other Kinds of Dreams by Julia Sudbury * Half the Sky: How to Change the World by Nicholas D Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn Music: * Black Woman by Judy Mowatt * Let there be Peace by Sweet Honey in the Rock Object: Stella’s gold earring(s) - which she had made in Ghana 20 odd years ago, based on the Ghanaian 'Nyinkyim' Adinkra symbol which literally means 'twistings' and stands for initiative, dynamism and versatility Additional notes: Order The Heart of the Race https://www.versobooks.com/books/2694-the-heart-of-the-race [https://www.versobooks.com/books/2694-the-heart-of-the-race] and A Kick in the Belly https://www.versobooks.com/books/3699-a-kick-in-the-belly [https://www.versobooks.com/books/3699-a-kick-in-the-belly] Follow us on twitter @f_travelled [https://twitter.com/f_travelled] and tweet us with your feminist companions with #ThisIsMyCanon Music and sound production by Ruari Paterson Achenbach Artwork by Katharine Davies-Herbst The F Less Travelled...Tracing Feminist Pathways is brought to you in collaboration with The Centre for Feminist Research and with support from the Centre for Urban and Community Research and Methods Labs, all based at Goldsmiths. To make our conversations more accessible, we include a transcript with every episode. Read our conversation with Stella here [https://drive.google.com/file/d/15cuO-bMUeR7OuS9Hyama1mt0FEF1D8AK/view?usp=sharing].

The F Less Travelled... Guilaine Kinouani

The F Less Travelled… with Guilaine Kinouani. Guilaine is a UK based French radical and critical psychologist. She's a therapist, equality consultant and award nominated writer of the blog racereflections.co.uk. She works as a senior psychologist and is an adjunct professor at Syracuse University in London. Her first book Living While Black: The Essential Guide to Overcoming Racial Trauma is available now. Book choices: Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde Black Skin White Masks - Frantz Fanon White Racism: A Psychohistory - Joel Kovel Music: Le cul entre 2 chaises - Bisso na Bisso Talkin' About A Revolution - Tracy Chapman Object: African drum Additional notes: Race Reflections blog: https://racereflections.co.uk/ [https://racereflections.co.uk/] Living While Black: The Essential Guide to Overcoming Racial Trauma - Guilaine Kinouani Tweet Guilaine https://twitter.com/KGuilaine [https://twitter.com/KGuilaine]  Follow us on twitter @f_travelled [https://twitter.com/f_travelled] and tweet us with your feminist companions with #ThisIsMyCanon Music and sound production by Ruari Paterson Achenbach Artwork by Katharine Davies-Herbst The F Less Travelled...Tracing Feminist Pathways is brought to you in collaboration with The Centre for Feminist Research and with support from the Centre for Urban and Community Research and Methods Labs, all based at Goldsmiths. To make our conversations more accessible, we include a transcript with every episode. Read our conversation with Guilaine here [https://drive.google.com/file/d/19kFN90YWmDINq7PHVF9InLKHVgWwZAJN/view?usp=sharing].

The F Less Travelled... June Reid

The F Less Travelled… with June Reid. June is an MA Cultural Studies student at Goldsmiths and is researching Black females who run and operate all female sound systems in the UK. She herself has co-run and co-operated Nzinga Soundz alongside her long term friend, Lynda Rosenoir-Patten. Outside of University she works part-time as a Registrar of Births, Death and Marriages. During the 80s she was very active in the arts and cultural sectors including working with CEDDO Film and Video Workshop; and sitting on the Boards of Apples & Snakes (performance poetry), Munirah Theatre Company (Black Women's Theatre) and the Black Art Gallery/Organisation for Black Arts Advancement and Learning Activities (OBAALA). Book choices: Acts of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colour - Iyanla Vanzant The Spook Who Sat by the Door - Sam Greenlee Intersectionality - Patricia Hill Collins and Sirma Bilge Music: One Drop - Bob Marley Someday We'll All Be Free - Donny Hathaway Object: Her friend - June Dennis Additional notes: Watch Steve McQueens Uprising https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m000y317/uprising [https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m000y317/uprising] Tweet June https://twitter.com/JuneRei29195898 [https://twitter.com/JuneRei29195898] and Nzinga Soundz https://twitter.com/NzingaSoundz [https://twitter.com/NzingaSoundz] Follow us on twitter @f_travelled [https://twitter.com/f_travelled] and tweet us with your feminist companions with #ThisIsMyCanon Music and sound production by Ruari Paterson Achenbach Artwork by Katharine Davies-Herbst The F Less Travelled...Tracing Feminist Pathways is brought to you in collaboration with The Centre for Feminist Research and with support from the Centre for Urban and Community Research and Methods Labs, all based at Goldsmiths. To make our conversations more accessible, we include a transcript with every episode. Read our conversation with June here [https://drive.google.com/file/d/13tuhLa0QUz9knHrFOw2HghJAgHHwPxe6/view?usp=sharing].