It seems like everywhere you look these days – on TikTok, on the sides of buses, in news headlines – you see Ozempic. The drug originally created as a diabetes treatment is now being used as a weight loss method, and is in incredibly high demand. While Ozempic may just be the next in a long line of get-thin-quick fads, it’s already causing a lot of issues, many of which are especially felt by racialized communities. In this episode of Don't Call Me Resilient, host Vinita Srivastava speaks with fat and disability studies professor at Carleton University, Fady Shanouda, who examines anti-fat bias in medicine. He fills us in on the history of racism in relation to body size and how fatness – as a standard human variation – has come to be negatively associated with unintelligence and immorality. Shanouda says these associations gravely impact the quality of health care fat people receive and supports their exclusion from social and cultural spaces. Listen to the episodehttps://theconversation.com/listen-widespread-use-of-ozempic-for-weight-loss-could-change-the -way-we-view-fatness-206457 or wherever you get podcasts.
On the latest episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient, host Vinita Srivastava speaks with Anjali Arondekar - feminist studies scholar at the University of California, Santa Cruz and founding co-director of the university’s Center for South Asian Studies - about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming U.S. state visit on June 22.
If his visits to Australia last month, to Canada in 2015 and to Texas in 2019 are any indication, he’ll be given a rockstar welcome.
How much does overseas support contribute to Indian Prime Minister Modi’s popularity, and what kind of an impact a progressive element of that diaspora could have on Indian politics?
Listen: https://theconversation.com/listen-indian-pm-modi-is-expected-to-get-a-rockstar-welcome-in-the-u-s-how-much-is-the-diaspora-fuelling-him-206260 or wherever you get podcasts.
On the latest episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient, we discuss the exclusion and resistance of Asians in America, through a personal, intergenerational lens.
Host Vinita Srivastava speaks with Ava Chin, associate professor at the City University of New York and author of #MottStreet: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming.
As Asian Heritage Month comes to an end, the book traces how immigration policies - such as the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 - set America on a course to viewing all Asians as foreign and suspicious.
Listen to the episode here: https://theconversation.com/a-5th-generation-new-yorker-reveals-tales-of-asian-resistance-since-the-19th-century-204721 or wherever you get podcasts.
What are the colonial roots of a tulip or the grass we grow?
On the latest episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient, we dig into the complicated roots of gardening. The practice of gardening is deeply tied to colonialism — from the formation of botany as a science, to the spread of seeds, species and knowledge.
Host Vinita Srivastava speaks to Jacqueline L. Scott (Black Outdoors Canada), PhD candidate at the University of Toronto who researches Blackness outdoors and Carolynne Crawley, a community activist who leads workshops that integrate Indigenous teachings into practice.
Listen to the episode here https://theconversation.com/decolonize-your-garden-this-long-weekend-dig-into-the-complicated-roots-of-gardening-listen-205720 or wherever you get podcasts.
Tomorrow is Mother’s Day. It can be a complicated day. For some, it could mean a bouquet of flowers or a breakfast in bed. For others, it can mean mourning the loss of a loved one or dealing with a haunted past. And still — for others — like the 66 per cent of incarcerated women in prison who are mothers, it can mean something else entirely.
Despite a reduction in crime in the last 20 years in Canada, many women attempting to make ends meet for their families end up colliding with the prison system. The fastest-growing prison population in Canada is racialized women, and one of the reasons the women’s prison population is rising is poverty.
On the latest episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient, host Vinita Srivastava speaks to Rai Reece, a sociologist at Toronto Metropolitan University who researches prisons and feminist criminology, and Lorraine Pinnock, a formerly incarcerated mother who now works with the Walls to Bridges program which helps women with education when transitioning out of the system.
Listen to the episode at https://theconversation.com/more-than-60-per-cent-of-incarcerated-women-are-mothers-listen-204020 or wherever you get podcasts.
Recently, Elizabeth Hoover, a UC Berkeley associate professor, published a letter in which she said, “I am a white person who has incorrectly identified as Native my whole life, based on incomplete information.”
Hoover is among a growing list of so-called “pretendians” - those falsely claiming Indigenous identity. These cases often become big news stories, but they have real-life consequences, too. Misidentifying as Indigenous can have financial and social consequences, with the misdirection of funds, jobs or grants meant for Indigenous peoples.
And if we take a look at recent headlines, it seems tolerance for these so-called pretendians is running out.
Revisit episode 8 of Don’t Call Me Resilient to hear from Veldon Coburn from the University of Ottawa and Celeste Pedri-Spade from Queen’s University, two Indigenous scholars who tackle the complexities of Indigenous identities and politics in their work.
Listen to the episode here: https://theconversation.com/stolen-identities-what-does-it-mean-to-be-indigenous-dont-call-me-resilient-podcast-ep-8-166248 or wherever you get podcasts.
Seventy-five years ago, starting on May 15, Palestinians were driven from their homes in 1948. This event is what Palestinians have come to refer to as the Nakba, which means catastrophe in Arabic.
At that time, approximately 750,000 people were violently forced from their homes. In the decades after, tens of thousands of others were murdered and displaced. And millions of Palestinians became refugees.
Recently, the United Nations passed a resolution to finally acknowledge that day of catastrophe.
On the latest episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient, host Vinita Srivastava speaks with M. Muhannad Ayyash, professor of sociology at Mount Royal University in Calgary to help unpack some of the meanings behind this resolution.
Listen to the full episode here: https://theconversation.com/will-a-un-resolution-to-commemorate-the-expulsion-of-palestinians-from-their-lands-change-the-narrative-listen-204799 or wherever you get podcasts.
#DontCallMeResilient #NakbaDay #theNakba #Nakba
What the Crown Jewels tell us about exploitation and the quest for reparations — Podcast
On the latest episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient, we discuss the history and meaning behind the British monarchy’s Crown Jewels ahead of the upcoming coronation ceremony of King Charles later this week.
The pomp of the ceremony - along with its display of the Crown Jewels - does not reflect current day British attitudes. Only 32 per cent believe the Empire is something to be proud of — that is down almost 25 per cent from 2014. That means, attitudes are changing quickly. Will the Royal Family catch up?
Host Vinita Srivastava is joined by Annie St. John-Stark, Assistant Professor of History, Thompson Rivers University and Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra, Instructor of History at the University of the Fraser Valley & the University of British Columbia to explore the stories of exploitation and colonial conquest behind the jewels, and whether reparations are possible when it comes to the stolen riches.
Listen: https://theconversation.com/what-the-stories-of-the-crown-jewels-tell-us-about-exploitation-and-the-quest-for-reparations-podcast-204000 or wherever you get podcasts.
#CrownJewels #Kohinoor #Coronation #KingCharlesIII #KingCharles #BritishMonarchy #DontCallMeResilient
Will the brilliance of Netflix’s ‘Beef’ be lost in the shadow of a sexual assault controversy? — "Don't Call Me Resilient" Podcast
On the latest episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient, we discuss the brilliance of Netflix’s “Beef” – its beautiful meditation on life and survival, its portrayal of alienation and loneliness, as well as class, race and gender, and its revolutionary representation of Asian Americans.
And, we discuss the controversy that erupted after a 2014 podcast episode resurfaced, featuring supporting actor David Choe relaying a sexual assault story where he is the perpetrator. Choe has apologized since and has also said the story was made up. And, on Friday, “Beef” creator Lee Sung Jin and executive producers and stars Steven Yeun and Ali Wong released a statement acknowledging that Choe’s story was “undeniably hurtful and extremely disturbing,” but that he’s “put in the work to get the mental health support he needed… to better himself and learn from his mistakes.”
Host Vinita Srivastava speaks to Michelle Cho, an assistant professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto specializing in Korean film, media and popular culture; and Bianca Mabute-Louie, a PhD student in Sociology at Rice University in Houston with a background in Asian American studies and racial justice.
Listen to the episode here: https://theconversation.com/will-the-brilliance-of-beef-be-lost-in-the-shadow-of-a-sexual-assault-controversy-podcast-203321 and find #DontCallMeResilient wherever you get podcasts. #BEEFNetflix #BEEF #DontCallMeResilient
Fast Fashion: Why garment workers’ lives are still in danger 10 years after Rana Plaza — Podcast
On the latest episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient, we take a look at the global garment factory industry 10 years after the tragic factory collapse at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh.
The fashion industry is the second most polluting industry in the world, after the oil and gas sector. It’s also famously unfair to its workers, the majority of whom are women. Although there has been a lot of talk about female empowerment, the reality is that most women who toil on the factory floor remain in poverty for most of their lives.
Host Vinita Srivastava is joined by Dina Siddiqi, a feminist anthropologist, expert on labour in Bangladeshi garment factories and associate professor at New York University NYU Liberal Studies; and Minh-Ha Pham, associate professor in media studies at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and author of “Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” who says the fashion industry has a “murderous disregard for human life.”
Listen to the full episode here: https://theconversation.com/fast-fashion-why-garment-workers-lives-are-still-in-danger-10-years-after-rana-plaza-podcast-203122 and follow #DontCallMeResilient wherever you get your podcasts.
#RanaPlaza #FastFashion #GarmentWorkers
The Vatican recently renounced a 500-year-old doctrine that justified colonial land theft. While the Church’s role was quickly taken up by new political entities, the lingering effects of the Doctrine continue to function as a rationale for ongoing colonial practices.
On the latest episode of #DontCallMeResilient, political and Indigenous studies scholar Veldon Coburn from The University of Ottawa says this welcome symbolic gesture may work to alleviate the moral stain of colonial plunder, and serve as an admittance of culpability.
Listen: https://theconversation.com/the-vatican-just-renounced-a-500-year-old-doctrine-that-justified-colonial-land-theft-now-what-podcast-203229
And follow #DontCallMeResilient wherever you get podcasts.
#DoctrineofDiscovery #PapalBull
The latest episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient from discusses a recent change to the Canada-U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement, which has already impacted the lives of thousands of asylum seekers attempting to make a life in Canada.
Guest Christina Clark-Kazak, an associate professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, urges us to think critically about who we accept as refugees, and who we turn away.
The issues at play are larger than any one single border crossing; they are intimately connected to global politics including economic inequities, resource extraction, imperialism, colonialism and exploitation.
Listen to the episode via the link in our bio, and follow us wherever you get your podcasts.
#DontCallMeReselient #STCA #RoxhamRoad #AsylumSeekers #immigration #podcast
Don't Call Me Resilient - Season 5 trailer
Don’t Call Me Resilient returns on March 30! And this season, we’re going to be getting a little newsier.
In Season 5 of our podcast, we’ll be recording in real time, bringing our unique analysis to the stories of the week as well as stories that we think are overlooked in the media. Each week, host Vinita Srivastava will go deep with academic experts and those with lived experience to bring you your weekly dose of news, through an anti-racist lens.
Listen to Don't Call Me Resilient on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast app: www.dontcallmeresilient.com
#DontCallMeResilient #racism #antiracism #cultureandrace
Congratulations to Duncan McCue on joining Carleton University (Official) J-School full-time in the new post of Indigenous Journalism & (Story)telling professor. We can’t wait to see the things you will do!
You can hear Duncan on Episode 24 of our podcast #DontCallMeResilient discussing how we can decolonize journalism, and change the portrayal of Indigenous communities in the newsroom and the classroom.
LISTEN: https://theconversation.com/how-to-decolonize-journalism-podcast-192467
#decolonizejournalism #mediabias #cdnmedia
Smaller cities "under-rated"? They're fighting back
Smaller cities had a bit of a moment during the global COVID-19 pandemic, as people started moving away from larger cities in search of affordable housing and a better quality of life.
Smaller and mid-sized cities saw an opportunity to capitalize on to attract new residents – using social media influencers.
Listen to the full episode of The Conversation Weekly #podcast wherever you get your podcasts, or here: https://podfollow.com/the-conversation-weekly/episode/45c4568a05625698ba9611af1c707427ec1a62a9/view
Rediscovering research done in the Warsaw Ghetto
During the Holocaust, a team of Jewish researchers in the Warsaw Ghetto documented the grim effects of starvation on the human body even as they themselves starved.
"They hoped their research would benefit future generations through better ways to treat malnutrition, and they wanted the world to know of Nazi atrocities to prevent something similar from ever happening again."
Hear more from the researcher who found the book in our podcast: https://podfollow.com/the-conversation-weekly/episode/107c5a4291d53c4969264fb901f0215ff947c7b8/view
#HolocaustRemembranceDay
In tomorrow's newsletter: 'Don't Call Me Resilient' Host + Producer Vinita Srivastava reflects on the past season of the podcast. Sign up to receive The Conversation Canada's newsletter:
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