Necessary Rebels
Welcome to Necessary Rebels! Hosted by Sandra, co-founded by Sandra and Kanar, this podcast was inspired by the BLM, anti-racism and inequalities work in different sectors. You’ll hear stories from our guests about their experiences of inequalities & racism both in and outside of the workplace. Each episode currently conducted by Sandra will leave you with information on how you can help tackle these injustices and be a Necessary Rebel... Some of the content in these episodes may be uncomfortable and these conversations are never easy. But change needs to come - What part will you play to become a Necessary Rebel?
Episodes
35 episodes
Women of colour in Menopause with Meera Bhogal
In this episode we talk to Meera Bhogal who runs healthy eating and wellbeing classes for menopausal women of South Asian descent, as well as healthy eating brand Made from Scratch. When Meera ...
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38:00
Swiss, The Creator Of Black Pound Day
Meet Swiss, best known as a member of BRIT and MOBO award-winning group So Solid Crew, who rose to fame in the early 2000s. And now most recently, the creator of Black Pound Day. BPD first launched in the wake of the resurgence of t...
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26:32
Black Mental Health with Tashan Jordan
In this episode we sit down with Tashan Jordan to talk about mental health, being released from QPR football academy and racism faced on the job.
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35:56
Yomi Sode Manorism(s)
Yomi is a poet, playwright, facilitator, and recipient of the 2019 Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship. He is known by the public thanks to his acclaimed one-man show titled COAT, which has been performed at Brighton festival and th...
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43:15
Shameful assault of Child Q
In our first episode back we talk with Esther, a social worker and team manager with experience in working in child protection, and children's safeguarding about Child Q, as she is called, a 15 year old girl who was made to remove her clothing,...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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28:39
Dope Black Mums, Sisterhood and why we need safe spaces with Nina Malone
Nina Malone is a Talent Agent at IAG and Founder of Dope Black Mums movement, a digital safe space for black women to navigate motherhood together. Dope Black Mums does amazing work supporting Black mothers and their families, and I’m re...
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35:53
‘Sometimes a child just needs a home' - The Practice of Farming with Tori Awani
Have you heard of 'farming'? We hadn't. Do a search and you'll see it won’t quickly turn up. It's the practice of private fostering or adoption outside of the local authority. It gained notoriety in response to a growing popul...
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25:56
Life lessons with my friend Louis Howell
On this weeks episode we talk to my friend Louis Howell about his work in the public and private sector on Diversity and Inclusion. We hear him share important life lessons from his childhood and how Bl...
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42:41
'England is no Mumma to me' with Author Colin Grant
In this episode, we have the incomparable Colin Grant. He takes us on a journey through the early days of his career. Shared emotional stories of some of the people in his books. Sit back and relax. Trust me when I say you are in good com...
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21:52
‘Busy Being Black is a f***ing moment’ with Josh Rivers
Josh is the creator and host of Busy Being Black (podcast) and Head of Communications for UK Black Pride. On this episode Josh talks to us about the ways in which he navigates the world as Queer and...
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38:08
Windrush, identity, belonging and what it means to be Indo-Caribbean with Jana Ally
Jana is a mixed Indo-Guyanese and Egyptian Muslim and is breaking barriers through the intersection of her art and research. Here she talks about the underrepresentation of the Indo-Caribbean Windrush generation, the journey of Indo-Ca...
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21:22
Dropping gems with Malik Al Nasir
Malik experienced racism from a young age initially in the care system where he was taken into custody aged nine in 1975 after his father had a stroke having committed no crime. He moved to several different community homes where he suffe...
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32:32
Black maternal health with Liz, a community midwife
Black women who often face racial discrimination throughout their lives experience unacceptably poor maternal health outcomes, including disproportionately high rates of death related to pregnancy or childbirth. On this episode we talk with Liz...
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44:43
Trauma and Resilience in our DNA with Sherod Haynes and Temara J. Holt
‘We are a resilient people. Just like we have generational trauma, we must remember we also have resilience.’ On this episode we talk to Sherod Haynes currently an MD-PhD Candidate at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City...
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46:16
Childhood, race & the care system - with Fiona Peters
Author and sociologist Fiona Peters joins us to discuss the care system, race and childhood. Fiona wrote the book Fostering Mixed Race Children Everyday Experiences of Foster Care. To purchase a copy please visit: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/bo...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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57:20
'Sister Outsider' a conversation with Dionne Usherwood
Dionne Usherwood , Head of Children’s Integrated Commissioning talks about her journeys from the outside in.The Leadership imbalance - Black and Asian leaders missing in action cited in this episode can be found here: https://www....
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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37:29
Speaking Out on the Government’s Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities Report
For this episode, we invited past guests, as well as friends and activists, to share their views on the government's recently published Sewell report on race and ethnic disparities. Reactions are resounding! Thank...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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15:49
The UK Government Race and Ethnic Disparities Report
We are joined again by the wonderful psychologist, sociologist, researcher and anthropologist Abu-Bakr Madden Al-Shabazz to discuss the controversial report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities. We delve into the reac...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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31:35
The ethnicity pay gap - with Dianne Greyson
We discuss the ethnicity pay gap with Dianne Greyson - a professional mediator, author and campaigner who specialises workplace equality, diversity and inclusion.For more information on how to support the ethnicity pay gap campaign pleas...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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35:44
Know Thyself, Know Thy Past - with Abu-Bakr
Abu-Bakr is a psychologist, sociologist, researcher and anthropologist. At present he is a Black History Officer for Race Council Cymru. Listen to Abu-Bakr school us about Black History told and untold. Hope you're ready!
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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39:53
UK food poverty with Sarah Bentley
Our guest on this episode is Sarah Bentley, the founder of Made In Hackney - a vegan community cookery school and charity. We discuss the food poverty crisis in the UK, what can be done about it and how they’ve embedded anti-racism work in the ...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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46:48
Inclusive Marketing: Moving beyond the black square and other tokens, with Charlotte Williams
Charlotte Williams, founder of SevenSix Agency, a go-to voice for brands on inclusive marketing, talks about the lack of representation in marketing and how an increasingly diverse audience is demanding a shift towards more re...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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28:42
Being Your Authentic Self with Olivia Vincenti
Olivia Vincenti joins us again to discuss being our ‘authentic selves’ whilst dealing with the hurts of oppression. We would like to pre-warn our audience that this episode includes content related to racial trauma that some listeners ma...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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34:36
White Allies - with Josephine Namusisi-Riley
Today’s episode features an interview with Josephine Namusisi-Riley. We discuss her ‘White Allies’ campaign and how racial discrimination shows up in schools. Josephine is interested in hearing from White people who want to share their...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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