New Poverty Politics for Changing Times

On Black Self-Making and the Ongoing Struggle for Reparations

September 11th, 2020

Aliyah Abu-Hazeem with Marcus Turner on Black Self-Making and the Ongoing Struggle for Reparations. This podcast continues with the Relational Poverty Network podcast series on Re-imagining A Black Sense of Place Under Siege: COVID-19 & The Police State. Listen or subscribe to the series on Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/…/new-poverty-politic…/id1445209423Listen or subscribe to the series on Stitcher:…

On Music, The Media, and Black Boy Joy

August 21st, 2020

Aliyah Abu-Hazeem (University of Washington) with Andre Jamal Cardine (Longy School of Music of Bard College) on Music, the Media, and Black Boy Joy. This podcast continues with the RPN Podcast series on Re-imagining A Black Sense of Place Under Siege: COVID-19 & The Police State. Listen or subscribe to the series on Apple Podcasts:…

On Storytelling As a Tool for Coping with Isolation

August 3rd, 2020

Aliyah Abu-Hazeem (University of Washington) with Afia Ofori-Mensa (Princeton University) on Storytelling As a Tool for Coping with Isolation. This podcast continues with the RPN Podcast series on Reimagining A Black Sense of Place Under Siege: COVID-19 & The Police State. Listen or subscribe to the series on Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/…/new-poverty-politic…/id1445209423Listen or subscribe to the…

Soul In A Bottle

July 29th, 2020

Danielle Brown (University of Washington) shares her poetry set titled Soul In A Bottle. This podcast is part of the series on Re-imagining A Black Sense of Place Under Siege: COVID & The Police State. Soul in A Bottle My poetry focuses most prominently on the African American quest for freedom, and questions “what does…

On Black Rage, Black History, and Black Power

July 29th, 2020

Aliyah Abu-Hazeem is a PhD Student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington. This podcast serves as an introduction to the new RPN Podcast series on Re-imagining A Black Sense of Place Under Siege: COVID-19 & The Police State. Cover art is made by Danielle Brown (University of Washington). Listen or subscribe…

Portraits for Change Exhibit Launch

June 5th, 2020

Isaac: All right. Let’s get this show started. Despite what maps say otherwise, this is Duwamish land. My name is Isaac Rivera. I am a PhD student in the Department of Geography and research assistant with the Relational Poverty Network. I want to begin by acknowledging the spaces that we are on right now. In…

On Queer Resistance to Housing and Racial Injustice

May 8th, 2020

Dilara: My name is Dilara Yarbrough. I’m a researcher and professor at San Francisco State University. Dilara: I’m here with Jeanette Johnson, the executive director of the Transgender Gender Variant and Intersex Justice Project, and Jenny Friedenbach, the executive director of the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness. We’re working together and a community-based housing and…

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May 8th, 2020

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On Transborder Resilience, Migration, and Decolonial Hope

March 20th, 2020

Tony Buenos dias. Good morning. Hi, I’m Tony Lucero in Seattle, Washington. I’m an Associate Professor at the University of Washington and a member of the Relational Poverty Network. And it’s my great pleasure to have a chance to chat with Dr. Yolanda, Valencia who is an Assistant Professor of geography and environmental systems at…