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lyonga and Lucas Odahara join edna bonhomme to talk about collectivizing around anticolonial activism of the Coalition of Cultural Workers against the Humboldt Forum (CCWAH) and BARAZANI.berlin and how their activism is oriented towards creating a space of resistance and community, acting in solidarity with long-term calls for repatriation.
In this episode edna bonhomme is in conversation with Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro. Mba Bikoro's work analyses processes of power & science fictions in historical archives critically engaging in migrational struggles & colonial memory focusing on queer indigenous and feminist biopolitics. The artist creates immersive performative environments for alternative narratives and future speculations of colonial resistance movements led by African women of the German diaspora and indigenous communities.
Fenja and Alina from the Black Student Union (BSU) at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin join edna bonhomme to share about organizing the BSU at the university. Expanding on the BSU starting in December 2020 and their first actions which included meeting with the Mittelbau (or department administration) at the Institute for Asian and African Studies, Alina and Fenja also share more about the BSU’s current action of an open letter of complaint to hold the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin accountable for anti-Black racism on all levels including the institute’s colonial inception and foundation as well as the ongoing coloniality of its structure and curriculum, everyday student experiences of racism and discrimination, university hiring practices, uses of racialized language within the classroom as well as the German education system at large.
Discussing the necessity for an ever-expanding intersectional climate justice movement, edna bonhomme and Indigenous lawyer and climate activist Yi Yi Prue are in conversation for this episode, expanding on Prue’s legal actions that took Germany to court for global warming, holding the German state accountable for the ongoing climate catastrophe, a crisis created by the Global North that has already created devastation and unlivable conditions around the world especially in the Global South.
Edna Bonhomme interviewed Dr. Shay-Akil McLean. As a scholar, Shay-Akil studies how systems of human practices produce the differential distribution of health, illness, quality of life, and death. He is also the founder of the free political education website decolonizeallthethings.com & the free scientific ethics website decolonizeallthescience.com.
In this episode, edna bonhomme spoke with Bino from Wearebornfree! Empowerment Radio (WeR!).
On a rainy summer day in Berlin-Neukölln, edna bonhomme, Moritz Gansen, and Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss met for a “theory conversation” initiated by Nacre Journal and loosely centered around the theme of its Issue 4, General Public.
On self-empowerment, solidarity, and Black diasporic experiences, this episode shares a conversation between Black feminist podcasters based (usually) in Berlin, featuring edna bonhomme from Decolonization in Action, Kate Cheka from Love in the Time Of, Cassianne Lawrence from Tones of Melanin, Goitsy Montsho and Rhea Ramjohn from Tanti Table, and Ropafadzo Murombo from Afro Comb.
In this episode, edna bonhomme spoke with Saadya Windauer, an activist who has studied and worked on the larger issue around justice and climate activism.
Decolonization in Action Podcast interrogates how people are challenging the legacies of colonialism through art, activism, and knowledge especially as people advocate for reparations, restitution, and repair.
This podcast is hosted by edna bonhomme and co-produced by Kristyna Comer.