Season 4, Episode 10: The Coalition of Cultural Workers against the Humboldt Forum and BARAZANI.berlin
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Season 4, Episode 10: The Coalition of Cultural Workers against the Humboldt Forum and BARAZANI.berlin

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.

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Season 4, Episode 9: Our Histories Are Not Missing
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Season 4, Episode 9: Our Histories Are Not Missing

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.

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Season 4, Episode 8: Blackness as Organizing Tools & Principles: Black Student Union at HU Berlin and Contextualizing Blackness, Gathering Pluralities, and Broadening Spectrums
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Season 4, Episode 8: Blackness as Organizing Tools & Principles: Black Student Union at HU Berlin and Contextualizing Blackness, Gathering Pluralities, and Broadening Spectrums

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.

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Season 4, Episode 7: Taking Germany to Court: Legal Actions for Climate Justice and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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Season 4, Episode 7: Taking Germany to Court: Legal Actions for Climate Justice and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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.

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Season 4, Episode 6: Decolonize All The Things with Shay-Akil McLean
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Season 4, Episode 6: Decolonize All The Things with Shay-Akil McLean

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.

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Season 4, Episode 4: Everything for Everyone
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Season 4, Episode 4: Everything for Everyone

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.

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Season 4, Episode 3: Black Feminist Podcasters in Berlin
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Season 4, Episode 3: Black Feminist Podcasters in Berlin

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.

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Season 3, Episode 10: Wayward Dust
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Season 3, Episode 10: Wayward Dust

In this episode, edna bonhomme is in conversation with Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, a transdisciplinary Nigerian-American artist and writer living in Berlin. Primarily working with painting, performance, video, installation and writing, her studio practice acts as a (meta)physical space where she can produce evidence and embark on earnest freedom pursuits.

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Season 3, Episode 9: Black Lives in Modern Cinema
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Season 3, Episode 9: Black Lives in Modern Cinema

In this episode, edna bonhomme interviews Ncube, a Zimbabwe-born, British writer and director based in Berlin, Germany. Ncube's films explore the Black African psyche in the modern world, especially how the past informs our present and derails our future.

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Season 3, Episode 8: Curing Our Bodies
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Season 3, Episode 8: Curing Our Bodies

In this episode edna bonhomme is in conversation with artist and writer Grace Ndiritu. Ndiritu has been engaged in “The Year of Black Healing” which is an artistic response to President Macron’s declaration that 2020 is the year of Africa in the entire French territory.

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Season 3, Episode 7: Reading May Ayim through Poetic Revolutionaries in Berlin
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Season 3, Episode 7: Reading May Ayim through Poetic Revolutionaries in Berlin

This episode opens with spoken word poetess Savannah Sipho reading May Ayim’s poem titled “blues in Schwarzweiß” (“Blues in Black and White”) during a recent critical walking tour in Berlin called Dekoloniales Flanieren, or Decolonial Flaneur (August 21, 2020).

This episode begins and ends with poetry: At the end of the episode, Savannah reads “exotik” by May Ayim and Decolonization in Action host edna bonhomme reads one of her own poems titled “Foremothers.”

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Season 3, Episode 6: Mobilizing Black Germany
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Season 3, Episode 6: Mobilizing Black Germany

edna bonhomme interviews Tiffany Florvil and they discuss Black-led social movements in Germany, the history of German colonialism, and transforming academic institutions.

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Season 3, Episode 5: Black Imagination
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Season 3, Episode 5: Black Imagination

In this episode, edna bonhomme spoke with Natasha Marin, curator of Black Imagination: Black Voices on Black Futures (2020, McSweeney’s).

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Season 3, Episode 4: La France Noire
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Season 3, Episode 4: La France Noire

In this episode, guest host Laurence Meyer asks Afro/Black French people about racism and police brutality in France, in discussion with Marie-Julie Chalu, Mame-Fatou Niang, Maliga, Olivia Mabounga, Assa Traoré, and the Mwasi Collectif, a French Afrofeminist collective.

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Season 3, Episode 3: Revolutions from the Kitchen
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Season 3, Episode 3: Revolutions from the Kitchen

This episode features the recent panel discussion "Revolutions from the Kitchen: On Technologies of Resistance and Radical Care," which was part of the Alt_Cph20, co-produced with Salon Hysteria as part of the summer seminar series Hysterical Utopias, and curated by Ida Bencke. The conversation was between edna bonhomme, Luiza Prado de O. Martins, and Nazila Kivi on technologies of resistance and radical care.

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