Okay so... tea's ready.
Welcome to Auntea-Ology, the podcast where we spill the tea on the ups, downs, and all the messiness in between of equity and social justice work. Hosts Mueni and Sobia bring a combined 20+ years of international development, equity, social justice, and academic work into the open, to tell the truth about what happens when good intentions fall short, systems silence us, and navigating the work risks our sanity.
Join us as we bring our kitchen table conversations to listeners, sharing our experiences and the lessons we've learned along the way.
Come curious. Leave knowing you're not alone.
This is the antidote. And the poison? It's everything we're too scared to say out loud.
Stay messy. Stay curious. Stay loving.
New episodes drop every Sunday. Pour yourself a cup and pull up a seat. The aunties are talking.
Episode 16: Not Everything is Trauma (And That's Good News)
Have you ever been told you caused harm when what you actually did was disagree? Or hold a boundary? Or tell the truth in a voice that wasn't soft enough for someone's liking? In this episode of Auntea-ology: The Antidote Dialogues, hosts Sobia Ali-Faisal and Mueni Mutinda ask a harder question. What happens when we take the language of trauma, language built to protect people, and start using it on each other in ways that protect no one? What happens when every tension becomes harm, every di...
25 Oct 2026
Episode 15: The Body Keeps the Score of Empire
Have you ever walked into a room and felt your whole body tense up before you even knew why? Your jaw tightens. Your breath goes shallow. Something in you remembers what your mind has forgotten. In this second Halloween episode of Auntea-ology: The Antidote Dialogues, hosts Sobia Ali-Faisal and Mueni Mutinda tell a ghost story. But the haunted house in this story isn't on a hill at the edge of town. It's your body. Because colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy don't just live in policies an...
18 Oct 2026
Episode 14: Three Ghosts at the Gate: A Halloween Story About Gatekeeping
Have you ever stood at a door you knew you belonged behind, and watched someone refuse to open it? Have you ever felt the cold shock of being kept out? Not by a stranger. Not by an enemy. But by someone whose face you know. Someone whose story mirrors your own. Someone who should have opened the door without you even having to knock. In this episode of Auntea-ology: The Antidote Dialogues, hosts Sobia Ali-Faisal and Mueni Mutinda do something different. It's Halloween season. The veil is thin...
11 Oct 2026
Episode 13: The Truth I Haven't Said Out Loud
Have you ever felt something was wrong, deeply, quietly wrong, and known you weren't ready to say it out loud? We've talked about radical honesty. About telling the truth when it costs you. But today we're going somewhere harder. Today we're talking about the truth you haven't even said to yourself yet, and the voices in your head that tell you you're not allowed to. In this episode of Auntea-ology: The Antidote Dialogues, hosts Sobia Ali-Faisal and Mueni Mutinda sit with the dissonance that ...
4 Oct 2026
Episode 12: Neurodivergence Is Not a Deficit. The Workplace Is.
Have you ever been told that you're the problem, not because of anything you actually did, but because of who you are? Have you ever been labelled "too much"? Too blunt. Too direct. Too honest. Too intense. Too awkward. Too different. And no matter how good your work is, no matter how kind your intentions, that label follows you everywhere, shaping how people see you, how they treat you, and whether they decide you belong. In this episode of Auntea-ology: The Antidote Dialogues, hosts Sobia A...
27 Sept 2026
Episode 11: The Community Hangover: Staying Connected After You've Been Burned
Have you ever been so burned by a community that you started to wonder if belonging was even possible anymore? You finally leave the space that was breaking you. You breathe. You sleep. You start to feel like yourself again. And then you realize: I'm lonely. Not because you're alone. But because you don't trust anyone anymore. In this episode of Auntea-ology: The Antidote Dialogues, hosts Sobia Ali-Faisal and Mueni Mutinda spill the tea on the part nobody warns you about: the community hangov...
20 Sept 2026
Episode 10: The Cost of Staying / Better to Exit | Auntea-Ology: The Antidote Dialogues
Have you ever had to choose between staying and leaving...and realized both options cost you something? In Episode 10 of Auntea-ology: The Antidote Dialogues, hosts Sobia Ali-Faisal and Mueni Mutinda spill the tea on the choice no one warns you about. Do you stay....or do you go? Because staying costs you. Your body. Your sanity. Your sense of self. You wake up tired and go to bed tired and somewhere in between you forget why you started. But leaving also costs you. The community. The mission...
13 Sept 2026
Episode 9: The Yes that Breaks You | Auntea-Ology: The Antidote Dialogues
Have you ever said yes, when every part of you was screaming no? In Episode 9 of Auntea-ology: The Antidote Dialogues, hosts Sobia Ali-Faisal and Mueni Mutinda spill the tea on the yes you regret. The one that cost you sleep. Boundaries. A piece of yourself. We're talking about why saying no feels impossible when you have no leverage, even when you do have leverage but don't feel it. What you lose every time you say yes to survive. And the tiny acts of resistance that cost nothing but c...
6 Sept 2026
Episode: 8 The Voice in Your Head Is Lying | Auntea-Ology: The Antidote Dialogues
Have you ever been in a room full of people who seem to know exactly what they're talking about....and felt completely sure you were the only one who didn't belong? In Episode 8 of Auntea-ology: The Antidote Dialogues, hosts Sobia Ali-Faisal and Mueni Mutinda spill the tea on the voice in your head. The one that says you're not doing enough, you haven't read enough, you're not pure enough for the movement. We're spilling on perfectionism, burnout, and the dirty secret nobody tells you: we're ...
30 Aug 2026
Episode 7: Moving at the Speed of Trust | Auntea-Ology: The Antidote Dialogues
Have you ever heard someone say "we're moving at the speed of trust".....and felt your stomach drop? In Episode 7 of Auntea-ology: The Antidote Dialogues, hosts Sobia Ali-Faisal and Mueni Mutinda spill the tea on the most dangerous phrase in social justice. It sounds beautiful, right? Patient. Grounded. Community-centred. Until you realize it's been three years and nothing has changed. Until you're caught between the community you're building relationship with and the donor who wants a report...
23 Aug 2026
Episode 6: The Only One | Auntea-Ology: The Antidote Dialogues
Have you ever walked into a room, counted the heads, and realized.....you're the only one? In Episode 6 of Auntea-ology: The Antidote Dialogues, hosts Sobia Ali-Faisal and Mueni Mutinda spill the tea on being the lone voice in spaces that claim to care about equity. We're talking about the nonprofit industrial complex, the unpaid emotional labour, the math you do in your head before you decide whether to speak, and why "we see you" usually means "we see what you can do for us." In this episod...
16 Aug 2026
Episode 5: They Buried Your Report | Auntea-Ology: The Antidote Dialogues
Have you ever told the truth - the careful, documented, necessary truth - and watched it disappear like it never existed? In Episode 5 of Auntea-ology: The Antidote Dialogues, hosts Sobia Ali-Faisal and Mueni Mutinda spill the tea on what happens when power doesn't like what it hears. No pitchforks. No pretending. Just a real conversation about who gets to speak, who pays the price, and what we do when the system we trusted brushes us under the rug. In this episode: Mueni shares a deeply pers...
9 Aug 2026
Episode 4: When Allies Go Silent | Auntea-ology: The Antidote Dialogues
Have you ever had someone claim to have your back, only to realize they were just using you as a shield? In Episode 4 of Auntea-ology: The Antidote Dialogues, hosts Sobia Ali-Faisal and Mueni Mutinda spill the tea on conditional solidarity. We're talking about the allies who post the right things, say the right words, and show up to the right meetings, but who vanish the moment your situation becomes complicated or standing with you might cost them something real. In this episode: Sobia share...
2 Aug 2026
Episode 3: The Tears Aren't the Work | Auntea-ology: The Antidote Dialogues
Have you ever been in a room where someone falls apart....and suddenly you're the one holding them together? In Episode 3 of Auntea-ology: The Antidote Dialogues, hosts Sobia Ali-Faisal and Mueni Mutinda spill the tea on the cryer. You know the one. The person whose tears stop the conversation, shut down accountability, and leave everyone else cleaning up the mess. Come tired of cleaning. Leave knowing it's not your job. In this episode: Mueni shares a raw, firsthand story: six months into a ...
26 Jul 2026
Episode 2: Radical Honesty – The Truth They Called Dangerous | Auntea-ology: The Antidote Dialogues
Have you ever told the truth and been called dangerous? In Episode 2 of Auntea-ology: The Antidote Dialogues, hosts Sobia Ali-Faisal and Mueni Mutinda spill the tea on what happens when you stop performing peace and start speaking truth. Come quiet. Leave louder. In this episode: Sobia shares a story that will hit home for anyone who's ever been silenced for speaking truth: fired from her role as Director of EDI and Human Rights after the Faculty Association complained about her anti-Zionist ...
19 Jul 2026
Episode 1: Antidote to What? – Am I the drama? | Auntea-ology: The Antidote Dialogues
Have you ever asked yourself - honestly - "Am I the problem?" Or, you know, the meme version: "Am I the drama?" Welcome to the first episode of Auntea-ology: The Antidote Dialogues, where we talk about what breaks us and what heals us in equity and liberation work. We're spilling the real tea on equity issues - the awkward moments, the blind spots, the things nobody says out loud. No cancelling. Just radical honesty, held with love. In this episode: We explain the name: why an auntie, why tea...
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