Solidarity Is This is a podcast created and hosted by Deepa Iyer, Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Building Movement Project where she runs Solidarity Is, a multi-strategy program to deepen transformative solidarity practices, models, narratives, and ideas. On the podcast, we explore how individuals and institutions are experimenting with cross-racial and cross-movement solidarity in America’s changing racial landscape. Learn more at www.solidarityis.org
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The unapologetic, sassy, proud Asian Americans you didn’t know you needed. Follow along the journey of two Asian American artists as we talk, discuss, and bring up real topics about the current issues within the Asian American experience.
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Solidarity at the Pace of Interdependence and Care: Lessons from New Disabled South
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42:14Co-host Adaku Utah talks with Dom Kelly of New Disabled South about building movements rooted in care, access, and interdependence. Amid rising attacks, Dom highlights how disability justice organizers resist harm and foster transformative solidarity.By Deepa Iyer
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Solidarity: Nonprofit Sustainability Now and Beyond
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44:20In this episode, co-hosts Adaku and Deepa explore the devastating impact of recent executive orders on nonprofits and how organizations are resisting defunding, criminalization, and state repression.By Deepa Iyer
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Solidarity in Crisis: Building Power in Uncertain Times
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44:55Building Movement Project's Executive Director Janis Rosheuvel and Adaku discuss the urgent challenges organizations and communities face in response to political instability, and how to balance immediate action with building long-term power.By Deepa Iyer
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Solidarity: Stories of Rebuilding and Reimagination
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32:09As Trump's administration unleashes a wave of restrictive executive orders, hosts Adaku Utah and Deepa Iyer spotlight innovative solidarity practices emerging across movements, from rapid response networks to bold models of community defenense and care.By Deepa Iyer
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Solidarity: Countering Attacks on Each Other
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1:05:08How do we build and protect cross-racial solidarity for the long term? In this episode, co-host Adaku Utah explores this question with Alvina Wong (APEN); Anna Castro (Transgender Law Center); and Janis Rosheuvel (Building Movement Project).By Deepa Iyer
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In this special episode, co-host Adaku Utah speaks with Margaret Faliano (IllumiNative), Mary Hooks (M4BL), and Rachel Cheek (NNAF) about the necessary and ongoing work we need to cultivate a democratic society beyond the ballot box.By Deepa Iyer
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Solidarity: 2024 Elections and Beyond: Fortifying Ourselves, Our Organizations, and Our Ecosystems
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30:15Join co-hosts Adaku Utah and Deepa Iyer as they present the "2024 Elections and Beyond" toolkit, offering tools to clarify values, engage in rapid response, and strengthen ourselves, our organizations, and ecosystems.By Deepa Iyer
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Solidarity: Building Solidarity In an Era of Silos
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1:05:19In an age of increasing polarization and division, how can we build bridges. Join us in this special State of Solidarity episode to explore the challenges and opportunities of building solidarity in our current social and political climate.By Deepa Iyer
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Solidarity: Reckoning with Sustainability
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44:05In this episode, co-host Adaku Utah and guest M Adams reflect on BMP's latest report: Reckoning with Sustainability, which explores how more than 50 Black movement leaders and their organizations understood the brief moment of “racial reckoning” in 2020..By Deepa Iyer
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Solidarity: Healing across generations at the intersections of memory, care, and justice
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43:16In this episode, Cara Page of Changing Frequencies discusses with host Adaku Utah how we reclaim ancestral wisdom for collective liberation and shape futures that center collective care and safety and build power.By Deepa Iyer
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Solidarity Narratives in Crises: A Practice Guide
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23:26Deepa Iyer and Shanelle Matthews discuss how organizations can shape solidarity narratives in a time of crisis.By Deepa Iyer
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Solidarity: Mothers of Gynecology transform our history and future
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34:50In this episode, Michelle Browder from the More Up Campus speaks with host Adaku Utah about how reclaiming the history of gynecology can transform our conditions and teach us how to center empathy and dignity.By Deepa Iyer
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Solidarity: Truth Telling From The Banks of the Ohio River
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21:08In this episode, Hannah Drake and Josh Miller from the (Un)Known Project speak with host Deepa Iyer about how sharing the names of stories of enslaved Black men, women and children in Kentucky transforms our understanding of history.By Deepa Iyer
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Solidarity: Reclaiming Our Collective Memory
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38:44In this episode, host Adaku Utah is in conversation with Mariame Kaba about transformative spaces and practices to reclaim our interdependence and collective memory.By Deepa Iyer
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Solidarity: How Sites of Conscience Can Transform Us
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24:42The new season of Solidarity Is This begins with an introduction to the power of sites of conscience. Host Deepa Iyer speaks with Braden Paynter and Ereshnee Naidu at the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience.By Deepa Iyer
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Deepa Iyer, Adaku Utah, and UyenThi Tran Myhre of the Building Movement Project/Solidarity Is team introduce the themes addressed in the next season of Solidarity Is ThisBy Deepa Iyer
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Solidarity: Funding Movements Differently
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25:47Deepa is in conversation with Cúagilákv (Jess Housty) and Kim Hardy to uplift lessons from the Right Relations Collaborative, a philanthropic effort that centers the Indigenous Aunties Council.By Deepa Iyer
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At a time of book bans and inadequate public institutions in the US, what can we learn from the city of Malmö in Sweden? Deepa Iyer is in conversation with Jude Dibia and Rena Baledi who work in Malmö.By Deepa Iyer
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In this conversation host Deepa Iyer and Julia Ho (Solidarity Economy St. Louis) and Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard (author of Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice), we explore the solidarity economies.By Deepa Iyer
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Homayra Yusufi (Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans) speaks with host Deepa Iyer about the urgent needs affecting refugees, and offers steps to practice true solidarity.By Deepa Iyer
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EP 5: Dating 101 - What We Wish We Knew About Dating
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50:57Help!!!!! I’m Asian American, how do I navigate the dating world? My date just sent me on a scavenger hunt…what do I do? Honestly, I just want to “Netflix and Chill”, how do I approach that? If you were curious about these questions, then look no further! In this episode, Matthew and Elise tackle the answers to these questions and share some tips f…
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EP 4: Is it Comedy or Is it Racist? How Viral Media Can Reinforce Asian Stereotypes
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37:54“EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!!!” – Did you read that with an accent?! Did you not? Don’t worry if you did! Haha, accents are prominently used and well practiced as comedic tools. But when does this cross the line from harmless comedy to blatant racism? In this episode, we tackle social media and comedy’s effects on Asian stereotypes. We explore our own biases…
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Solidarity: Equity Matters for Rural America
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17:24Heidi Khokhar (Rural Development Initiative) joins host Deepa Iyer to discuss pressing issues affecting rural America from the standpoint of equity and solidarity.By Deepa Iyer
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Solidarity: Finding Inspiration By Working with Gen Z
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27:19In this episode of Solidarity Is This, guest host Anna Castro talks about youth organizing and working with Gen Z with Juniperangelica Gia Loving, Associate Director of Gender Justice Leadership Programs at GSA Network.By Deepa Iyer
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Solidarity: Is Generative Conflict Possible?
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22:20In this episode, Yuko Uchikawa, a restorative justice practitioner and mediator, shares practices and approaches to address conflict among individuals, within organizations, and in movements.By Deepa Iyer
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Solidarity: Following the Lead of Black LGBTQ Migrants
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27:55In this LGBTQ History Month episode of Solidarity Is This, guest host Anna Castro talks with Rose Berry, co-director of Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project, about abolitionism and centering Black queer and trans migrants.By Deepa Iyer
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