Solidarity Is This
Education Podcasts
Solidarity Is This is a podcast created and hosted by Deepa Iyer, Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Building Movement Project where she runs Solidarity Is, a multi-strategy program to deepen transformative solidarity practices, models, narratives, and ideas. On the podcast, we explore how individuals and institutions are experimenting with cross-racial and cross-movement solidarity in America’s changing racial landscape. Learn more at www.solidarityis.org
Location:
United States
Description:
Solidarity Is This is a podcast created and hosted by Deepa Iyer, Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Building Movement Project where she runs Solidarity Is, a multi-strategy program to deepen transformative solidarity practices, models, narratives, and ideas. On the podcast, we explore how individuals and institutions are experimenting with cross-racial and cross-movement solidarity in America’s changing racial landscape. Learn more at www.solidarityis.org
Twitter:
@dviyer
Language:
English
Website:
http://www.solidarityis.org/
Email:
dviyer@gmail.com
Episodes
Solidarity: Reckoning with Sustainability
3/19/2024
In this episode, co-host Adaku Utah and guest M Adams reflect on BMP's latest report: Reckoning with Sustainability, which explores how more than 50 Black movement leaders and their organizations understood the brief moment of “racial reckoning” in 2020..
Duration:00:44:05
Solidarity: Healing across generations at the intersections of memory, care, and justice
1/23/2024
In this episode, Cara Page of Changing Frequencies discusses with host Adaku Utah how we reclaim ancestral wisdom for collective liberation and shape futures that center collective care and safety and build power.
Duration:00:43:16
Solidarity Narratives in Crises: A Practice Guide
11/29/2023
Deepa Iyer and Shanelle Matthews discuss how organizations can shape solidarity narratives in a time of crisis.
Duration:00:21:08
Solidarity: Mothers of Gynecology transform our history and future
10/22/2023
In this episode, Michelle Browder from the More Up Campus speaks with host Adaku Utah about how reclaiming the history of gynecology can transform our conditions and teach us how to center empathy and dignity.
Duration:00:34:50
Solidarity: Truth Telling From The Banks of the Ohio River
9/26/2023
In this episode, Hannah Drake and Josh Miller from the (Un)Known Project speak with host Deepa Iyer about how sharing the names of stories of enslaved Black men, women and children in Kentucky transforms our understanding of history.
Duration:00:21:08
Solidarity: Reclaiming Our Collective Memory
8/20/2023
In this episode, host Adaku Utah is in conversation with Mariame Kaba about transformative spaces and practices to reclaim our interdependence and collective memory.
Duration:00:38:44
Solidarity: How Sites of Conscience Can Transform Us
6/26/2023
The new season of Solidarity Is This begins with an introduction to the power of sites of conscience. Host Deepa Iyer speaks with Braden Paynter and Ereshnee Naidu at the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience.
Duration:00:24:42
Solidarity: Introducing The Next Season
4/26/2023
Deepa Iyer, Adaku Utah, and UyenThi Tran Myhre of the Building Movement Project/Solidarity Is team introduce the themes addressed in the next season of Solidarity Is This
Duration:00:22:44
Solidarity: Funding Movements Differently
11/10/2022
Deepa is in conversation with Cúagilákv (Jess Housty) and Kim Hardy to uplift lessons from the Right Relations Collaborative, a philanthropic effort that centers the Indigenous Aunties Council.
Duration:00:25:52
Solidarity: Equity and Culture in Malmö
9/19/2022
At a time of book bans and inadequate public institutions in the US, what can we learn from the city of Malmö in Sweden? Deepa Iyer is in conversation with Jude Dibia and Rena Baledi who work in Malmö.
Duration:00:25:49
An Introduction to Solidarity Economies
7/20/2022
In this conversation host Deepa Iyer and Julia Ho (Solidarity Economy St. Louis) and Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard (author of Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice), we explore the solidarity economies.
Duration:00:25:18
Solidarity With All Refugees
4/29/2022
Homayra Yusufi (Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans) speaks with host Deepa Iyer about the urgent needs affecting refugees, and offers steps to practice true solidarity.
Duration:00:24:30
Solidarity: Equity Matters for Rural America
3/9/2022
Heidi Khokhar (Rural Development Initiative) joins host Deepa Iyer to discuss pressing issues affecting rural America from the standpoint of equity and solidarity.
Duration:00:17:29
Solidarity: Finding Inspiration By Working with Gen Z
1/28/2022
In this episode of Solidarity Is This, guest host Anna Castro talks about youth organizing and working with Gen Z with Juniperangelica Gia Loving, Associate Director of Gender Justice Leadership Programs at GSA Network.
Duration:00:27:23
Solidarity: Finding Inspiration By Working with Gen Z
1/28/2022
In this episode of Solidarity Is This, guest host Anna Castro talks about youth organizing and working with Gen Z with Juniperangelica Gia Loving, Associate Director of Gender Justice Leadership Programs at GSA Network.
Duration:00:23:30
Solidarity: Is Generative Conflict Possible?
11/17/2021
In this episode, Yuko Uchikawa, a restorative justice practitioner and mediator, shares practices and approaches to address conflict among individuals, within organizations, and in movements.
Duration:00:22:25
Solidarity: Following the Lead of Black LGBTQ Migrants
10/23/2021
In this LGBTQ History Month episode of Solidarity Is This, guest host Anna Castro talks with Rose Berry, co-director of Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project, about abolitionism and centering Black queer and trans migrants.
Duration:00:27:59
Solidarity: 20 Years Later, We Look Back and Chart A Path Forward
9/11/2021
On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Deepa Iyer and guests Kalia Abiade, Anirvan Chatterjee and Sahar Pirzada share reflections and provide insights for where we go from here.
Duration:00:31:42
Solidarity: Philanthropy’s Role in Social Change
8/9/2021
Rickke Mananzala (Exec. Director, New York Foundation) joined guest host Sean Thomas-Breitfeld (Co-Director, BMP) to talk about how philanthropy can act in solidarity to support movements, build the power of communities of color, and advance social change
Duration:00:29:23
Solidarity: Beyond Pride Month
6/28/2021
In this Pride month episode of Solidarity Is This, guest host Anna Castro talks about the End Trans Detention campaign with Jorge Gutierrez, executive director of Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement.
Duration:00:25:30