What Radicalized You?

Episode 70 featuring Tara

Episode 68 featuring Hadas Thier

On the left response to inflation, the labor market, unionizing, and understanding the system in order to change it.

Episode 67 featuring Thuraya Zeidan

On the risk of speaking about Palestine, on being falsely accused and attacked for speaking the truth, the obligation to be vocal, performative activism and normalization of settler colonialism, comparison of the Palestinian struggle, and what non-Palestinians can do to support a free Palestine

Episode 66 featuring K

On organizing, 8 to abolition, free Ashley, and disability justice.

Episode 64 featuring Natalia 

Episode 63 featuring Sara Bawany

On the dynamics of power and money, radical compassion, decolonizing therapy and social work, accountability and transformative justice within the Muslim community, and more.

Episode 60 featuring Thuraya Zeidan

On growing up in Occupied Palestine, electoral politics, awareness vs action, and building and cultivating empathy in the teaching profession.

Episode 59 featuring Danny Haiphong

Growing up in a working class family, class and the Labor movement, Occupy, Black Agenda Report, the new Cold War on China, traveling to China and Cuba, anti-Asian racism, the Western left, and anti-imperialism.

Episode 58 featuring Aniyah Vines

On the experience of being a Black woman in America, the murder of Aniyah’s cousin by a police officer, founding the LIVE movement, Tent City, learning through direct action and the Blackburn protest.

Episode 57 featuring Dante

Content warning for mentions of sexual assault, mention of suicide.

On climate justice, Obama and liberalism, student debt, Occupy, the academic industrial complex and white supremacy, power imbalance and anti-Blackness in academia, and the Claudia Jones School.

Episode 56 featuring Matt 

On influential Black radical figures, the importance of reading, and starting a reading club/mutual aid organization.

Episode 55 featuring Comrade Bayano 

On censorship in high school, unlearning propaganda, revolution, and fighting for a better future.

Episode 54 featuring Saira Rao

On the fated dinner with the Jans, white feminism, white saviorism, and where we are now.

Episode 53 featuring Skye Webster

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On gentrification, facing temporary homelessness, emergency housing, and affordable housing in the District of Columbia.

Episode 52 featuring Tristan Graham

On Pan-Africanism, Kwame Ture, internationalism, socialism, and more. 

Tristan Graham is Pan Africanist author from Jamaica. His debut book "The Thoughts Of An Unchained Mind" details his various areas of study. Tristan is also a member of AAPRP and the Left Alliance for National Democracy and Socialism (Jamaica).

Episode 49 featuring Hen 

On their experience with having thyroid cancer, the medical-industrial complex, pilocarpine, cancer-causing environmental agents, and beyond universal healthcare to an anti-imperialist lens. 

Episode 48 featuring Nashwa Lina Khan

On growing up in poverty, access to healthcare, identity as a Muslim, and little micro moments of radicalization.

Episode 47 featuring Kei Pritsker

On organizing with PSL, Palestine, US propaganda, and a political journey from a libertarian to a socialist.

Episode 46 featuring Evan Casper-Futterman 

On journey from a liberal to a leftist, from living in Nicaragua to moving to New Orleans, and anti-racist work as a white person. 

Episode 45 featuring Judy 

On identity as an Asian person growing up in Kansas, living in San Francisco, and organizing with Hotels Not Hospitals.

Episode 44 featuring Sharmin Hossain

On identity as a Bangladeshi Muslim and growing up and organizing in Queens, New York. 

Episode 43 featuring Ron Placone 

On the Iraq War, the role of the media, and net neutrality. 

You can find more of Ron here: 

Episode 42 featuring Victor

On identity as a Queer, Black Puerto Rican, Anti-Blackness externally and internally within communities, and Puerto Rican independence. 

Episode 41 featuring Erika from Cocktails and Capitalism 

On growing up in Jakarta, praxis vs. theory, and sustainability.

Connect with Cocktails and Capitalism at any of the links below: 

Episode 40 featuring Mel

Content warning: this episode contains mentions of sexual abuse and suicidal feelings. Listener discretion is advised. 

On disability, ableism, and lived experience as a person with a psychotic disorder. 

Episode 39 featuring Della Z. Duncan 

On McMindfulness, alternative economic systems, and the connection between our own mental health/therapy and systems of oppression.

Episode 38 featuring Emani 

On the passing of a best friend in 2020, to leading protests over the summer, radical love and the Golden Rule, and Intersectionality.

Episode 37 featuring Salifu Sesay

On the passing of a friend from COVID that spurred a series of moments through 2020, leading through Assata's biography, Kwame Ture speeches, protests resembling warzones, and ultimately finding Pan-Africanism. 

Episode 34 featuring Hasan Bhatti

On split and shared identity, experiences as a child in India and Jerusalem and returning as an adult, finding connections between our stories and moving through conflict with one another.

You can find more of Hasan here:

https://www.instagram.com/snapsomebhatti/

Episode 33 featuring Kayla Moore 

On education, police in schools, and the school to prison pipeline. 

You can find more of Kayla here: 

https://www.instagram.com/kay.lavon/

and follow Moore4Education here: 

https://www.instagram.com/moore4education/

Episode 32 featuring Ysa 

On the displacement of her family at a young age during the US sponsored military coup in Chile, the effects of US imperialism in her home country, white feminism, and political education.

You can find more of Ysa here: https://www.instagram.com/yourfavoritechilenita/

and more about Florida Rising here: https://floridarising.org/

Episode 31 featuring Eviction Defense Attorney Jacque Patton 

On growing up in Kansas, organizing with the Fight for 15, law school, and wealth inequality.

You can find more of Jacque here: 

https://www.instagram.com/jacquepatton/

https://twitter.com/jacquepatton

Episode 29 featuring Rahim

On the American propaganda system, learning Black international history, gun violence, leading protests in DC, and revolution. 

You can find more of Rahim here: www.instagram.com/hecticheem/

Episode 28 featuring abolitionist Sameen Affaf 

On growing up in Toronto, teaching, moving to the US during the Trump Administration, individualism, and the label of 'radical' as Muslim.

You can find more of Sameen here: www.instagram.com/sameen.affaf/

Episode 25 featuring climate activist Ayisha 

On growing up in Pakistan, the fossil fuel industry, and the climate crisis. 

Episode 24 featuring Julia

On growing up in a small town, joining Sunrise Movement, environmental racism, and people power.

Episode 23 featuring Climate Activist Jamie K

On an experience in elementary school that stayed with them, becoming a climate activist, and understanding the link between social justice and climate justice.