Birthing and Justice with Dr Ruth De Souza Dr Ruth De Souza

Synopsis:
Diasporic nurse scholar Dr. Favorite Iradukunda studied in Rwanda, South Africa and the United States. She is a global nurse leader and commited to decolonising nursing through an African lens. She combines her research on advancing the holistic well-being of African-diasporic women, with activism in black birth equity and justice.

Notes:
Google Scholar
Dr. Favorite's personal website
Dr. Favorite Iradukunda on Twitter 
Music:
Music in this episode includes ‘Native American Dream’ by AudioLion used under an Audio Standard Licence from Adobe Stock.
Birthing and Justice is written and produced by Dr Ruth De Souza on the traditional and unceded lands of the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nations. Sound editing by Olivia Smith.

Synopsis:
Experiencing a “high risk” pregnancy and birth while growing a new life during the pandemic was transformative for Wiradjuri writer and producer Hannah Donnelly, and Arab-Turkish partner, writer Omar Sakr. We talk about queering birth, the administrative load of pregnancy, and the need for collective infrastructure to improve birthing experiences and outcomes for families and communities.

Notes:
Hannah
Blacklight: Ten Years of First Nations Storytelling edited by Hannah Donnelly
Arts and Cultural Exchange (ACE)
Westmead Dragonfly Midwifery
Omar
Non-Essential Work by Omar Sakr
Shelf Reflection: Omar Sakr
Three poems by Omar Sakr

Music:
Music in this episode includes ‘Dream Drone’ by Yigit Atilla, and ‘ZEN’ by All Bets Off used under an Audio Standard Licence from Adobe Stock.
Birthing and Justice is written and produced by Dr Ruth De Souza on the traditional and unceded lands of the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nations. Sound editing by Olivia Smith.

Synopsis:
Dr. Sapna Samant, is a GP, radio producer, film maker, activist, and single adoptive parent and is passionately committed to social justice. Both her creative work and medical practice strive for  equity and work to rectify injustice wherever it occurs.

Notes:
Twitter
Mastodon
Sapna's blog
What Bridgerton gets right and wrong about being Indian

Music:
Music in this episode includes ‘Exclusiva One’ by Vzen Instrumental Beat used under an Audio Standard Licence from Adobe Stock. 
Birthing and Justice is written and produced by Dr Ruth De Souza on the traditional and unceded lands of the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nations. Sound editing by Olivia Smith.

Synopsis:
Melbourne-based artist and cultural leader Aseel Tayah was born and raised in Jerusalem and is passionate about the role of the arts in connecting diverse communities across generations. Aseel uses art and storytelling to foreground the experiences of displaced people and advocate for artists of color, mothers, children and young people — changing the world, one project at a time.

Notes:
Aseel's website
Aseel Tayah: The home that lives within (YouTube)
Music:
Music in this episode includes ‘AERATE’ by Higher Power, and ‘Native American Dream’ by AudioLion used under an Audio Standard Licence from Adobe Stock.
Birthing and Justice is written and produced by Dr Ruth De Souza on the traditional and unceded lands of the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nations. Sound editing by Olivia Smith.

Synopsis:
How do Indigenous communities weave together ancestral feminine lineages? This question is at the heart of Associate Professor Sara Motta’s praxis of transformation and collective liberation. Through a lens of feminised resistance, Sara, a proud mestiza salvaje, shares her healing journey from the wounds of patriarchal capitalist-coloniality, exploring restorative and reparative pathways of well-being and justice.

Notes:
Sara's personal website
Geneologies (M)otherwise
Weaving Enfleshed Citizenship (M)otherwise
Voices of el pueblo: the road to the Colombian elections
Decolonising critique in, against and beyond the business school
Decolonising (critical) social theory: Enfleshing post-Covid futurities

Music in this episode includes ‘ZEN’ by All Bets Off, and ‘AERATE’ by Higher Power used under an Audio Standard Licence from Adobe Stock.


Birthing and Justice is written and produced by Dr Ruth De Souza on the traditional and unceded lands of the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nations. Sound editing by Olivia Smith.

Synopsis:
Birthing holds a different significance for Indigenous communities that have experienced colonial attempts at elimination. For scholar, poet and irredentist Professor Alice Te Punga Somerville, (Te Āti Awa, Taranaki), birth is an act of resistance. She joins us to talk about her journey to parenthood and her experiences as a scholar who traverses between Indigeneity and migrancy.

Notes:
UBC academic page
Personal website
Alice Te Punga Somerville: My story as told to Elisabeth Easther
Alice Te Punga Somerville and the politics of italics
Important reading and writing questions for Alice Te Punga Somerville
Writing while colonised
Buy her first book of poetry

Music:
Music in this episode includes ‘SMOOTH LIFE’ by Killer Chops used under an Audio Standard Licence from Adobe Stock.
Birthing and Justice is written and produced by Dr Ruth De Souza on the traditional and unceded lands of the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nations. Sound editing by Olivia Smith.