PODCASTS & RADIO
AS WE SEE IT
Refuge Worldwide Radio | March 2023-Present
As We See It is a show that explores the many facets of Berlin that you may not have heard about. Edna and Abby dive into different aspects of the city’s culture, history, and community by going beyond the headlines to discuss the issues shaping Berlin today. With an emphasis on progressive viewpoints, the show features in-depth interviews, political debates, quirky finds, and the latest cultural events. Listen on Spotify.
DECOLONIAL FEMINISM WITH FRANÇOISE VERGES
UCL | October 2022
Decolonial feminism: a politics, working towards the abolition of capitalism, heteropatriarchy, and the state; a theory, rethinking logics of exploitation, oppression, and the institutions that engender them; a pedagogy, recognizing and understanding difference as a pre-condition for working together across difference. We spoke about state violence, climate catastrophe, racial capitalism, and reproductive (in)justice.
FUTURE PERFECT WITH DENISE FERREIRA DA SILVA
Savvy Contemporary | June 2022
During this conversation, Denise Ferreira da Silva and I engage in a conversation about her book, Unpayable Debt. Focusing on the philosophical basis of these renderings of value, Denise Ferreira da Silva exposes how coloniality and raciality operate in the juridical, ethical, and symbolic systems that facilitate the expropriation of labor and extraction of land essential for the accumulation of Capital.
DECOLONIZATION IN ACTION PODCAST
Co-founder and Cohost | October 2019 - December 2021
This podcast focuses on how the legacies of colonialism is inflected in art, activism, and science especially as people advocate for reparations, restitution, and repair. . In conversation with activists and scholars, this podcast aims to unravel how decolonization is understood, and most importantly to give attention to how anti-colonialism is being practiced today.
TELLING BLACK STORIES
Schirn Gallerie Podcast | November 2021
During this interview, I tried to reflect on how does colonial trauma show today? During my conversation with Jena Samura, we discussed Black afterlives and its relation to German colonialism. We get to the bottom of the aftermath of the transatlantic slave trade and the (sexual) exploitation of black people during colonialism as well the ways that of trauma and memory get manifested in (his) storytelling.
ECOLOGIES OF VULNERABILITY AND RESISTANCE
Goethe-Institut Niederlande | October 2021
During this conversation, I spoke with Dr. J.T. Roane about the politics of urbanisation and public health. Within these instances, we can trace harm as the outcome of systemic inequalities and injustices and consider how overarching declarations of ‘public crisis’ obscure the overlapping nature of crises compartmentalised across urban housing, poverty, public heath and healthcare, and environmental collapse.
OBSERVING THE PAST: ARCHIVES, INTERPRETATION AND PRACTICES OF CARE
Princeton University | May 2021
During this discussion, we discussed medical history archives. We worked through difficult questions around the collection, interpretation, and publication of medical history and imagery that continue to have an impact on the ways people are treated within the medical sphere and beyond.
BURNING FUTURES: ON ECOLOGIES OF EXISTENCE
Hebbel am Ufer Berlin | December 2020
On this podcast, I was in conversation with French political scientist, Françoise Vergès. We discussed the current environmental crises are rooted in the racial capitalist exploitation of both humans and nature. The basic elements of life such as water and fire are violently turned into ‘cheap’ commodities and weaponized against unprivileged communities especially the conditions that fuel the politics of what makes people sick, the racially differentiated exposition to environmental risks, and the relation between cleaning.
CRITICAL CULTURE – ARTISTIC STRATEGIES IN RESHAPING REALITY
Therme Art | September 2020
The world is currently in a critical condition, and a remedy could lie in both critiquing the current culture and through embodied action. Every move made now will determine the shape of the future. As we journey through this collective intellectual and cultural shift, everyone is implicated and should ask themselves: What is my part in the evolution and liberation of all life on this planet?
REVOLUTION IN THE KITCHEN
Alt_Cph20 | June 2020
I had a conversation with Luiza Prado de O. Martins and Nazila Kivi on technologies of resistance and radical care. In this conversation on technologies of resistance and radical care, we will start by the foundations of decolonial practice by introducing the interconnectedness of coloniality, capitalism and reproduction and introduce a few core concepts of decolonial theory.
CITIES, SOCIAL EQUITY, AND PANDEMICS IN HISTORY
Epidemic Urban Initiative | August 2020
Studying epidemics and their urban responses in history--and today--illuminates the need to recognize the ways in which pandemics, past and present, exploit and amplify social inequalities, and the urgent need for scholarship and interventions to work toward more critical, just, and equitable solutions. I spoke on this panel and discussed the intersection of pandemics and social inequities.
POLITCS IN THE TIME OF CORONA
Jadilayya | April 2020
This podcast takes you to several cities/countries affected by COVID-19 to discuss social, economic, and political challenges facing their societies, with emphasis on the most vulnerable groups and on what this pandemic reveals about the human condition. I discuss my experience of living in Berlin and how we are collectively experiencing and dealing with similar challenges.
IOWA CAUCUSES SPECIAL
Bay Gays Podcast | February 2020
With special guests Mac Folkes and Edna Bonhomme, Ben Miller explores the life story, politics, and cultural phenomenon of Pete Buttigieg. We look at how longer-term trends in gay life and culture, including the split of the "mainstream" wealthy and white gay rights movement from multiracial struggle, have influenced both his politics and the broad audience they have found.
