conversations in the pursuit of better and more inclusive ways of living!
about the host: Seadimo (accepts all pronouns) is a South African born Black queer human - with an LLB (cum laude) from Wits University and an LLM in progress from UCLA. Their passions include abolition, sustainability, art, Thandiswa Mazwai and rants about cis-hetero patriarchy and capitalism in moderation.
Black Women Living Abroad with Nthabiseng Nooe and Neo Dipate [Part 2]
In this series I chat with Black women about their lived experiences of living abroad.
Nthabiseng (@nthabiwabi /Nthabynooe) is a South African who has been living in Denmark for over a year, pursuing further education. Neo (@sandra_neo) was born in Botswana, and has been living in England with her family for the past 10 years. In this first part of the Black Women Living Abroad series, Nthabiseng and Neo shared the journey of how they ended up living abroad.
In this second part of this conversation we unpack how being a Black woman has shaped their personal experiences of living abroad by unpacking experiences of crime, racism, xenophobia and cost of living.
Music by Blaklez, PDOT O and Ntate Stunna: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIssXeDp3ok
2 Oct 2020
Black Women Living Abroad with Rudo Christine
In this episode I reconnect with my childhood best friend Rudo Christine (@christiner810), who was born in Zimbabwe and has been living in America for 13 years. We chat about racism and xenophobia, but also about the advantages of being a young person from Africa in America. She may have coined the term "African Privilege" and I love it.
Music:
Changes x Black Sabbath: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKrz8BRvwQM
Going through changes x Eminem : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc9F_mUCp4U
25 Sept 2020
Black Women Living Abroad with Nthabiseng Nooe and Neo Dipate [Part 1]
In this series I chat with Black women about their lived experiences of living abroad.
Nthabiseng (@nthabiwabi /Nthabynooe) is a South African who has been living in Denmark for over a year, pursuing further education. Neo (@sandra_neo) was born in Botswana, and has been living in England with her family for the past 10 years. In this first part of the Black Women Living Abroad series, Nthabiseng and Neo share the journey of how they ended up living abroad.
In the second part of this conversation we unpack how being a Black woman has shaped their personal experiences of living abroad by unpacking experiences of crime, racism, xenophobia and cost of living.
Music by Blaklez, PDOT O and Ntate Stunna: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIssXeDp3ok
18 Sept 2020
Black Love with YouTube couple, the Viks
In this episode YouTube couple, The Viks (@wearetheviks) share their experience of Black Love..
Music by Magdy Haddad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noIyZdwh-Jo
10 Sept 2020
Survivor or victim? (TW: content about rape)
[This is a repost from a few weeks ago] In this episode I share my reflections about how messed up it is to expect people to comfort you about their traumas. I.e. please don't listen to this and message me about how sorry you are. That makes me feel uncomfortable and pressured to give you comfort about my trauma. Also don't go around insisting people are survivors (if that's not how said people identify) because you need their trauma to mean something greater. I am not here to inspire you. Also you are complicit in rape culture if you participate in making it so damn hard and uncomfortable for us to be rape victims in peace.
Sources referred to:
5 Reasons Why I Identify As a Rape Victim, Not a Rape Survivor: https://everydayfeminism.com/2016/07/rape-victim-not-a-rape-survivor/ (https://everydayfeminism.com/2016/07/rape-victim-not-a-rape-survivor/)
Inspiration Porn: Why We Need to Stop Tokenizing Survivors: https://everydayfeminism.com/2014/10/survivor-stories/ (https://everydayfeminism.com/2014/10/survivor-stories/)
James is Dead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op14XhETfBw&feature=emb_logo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op14XhETfBw&feature=emb_logo)
Born to Kwaito:
Music by Bongo Maffin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdIz7UNE5Mc
3 Sept 2020
PSA: My Preferred Pronouns
What are your preferred pronouns? And are pronouns important to you? In this episode I talk through my thought process regarding my preferred pronouns.
The music is by Thandiswa Mazwai, and the source is Ted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-guHd9Zrbn4
7 Aug 2020
Substantive Transformation with Sohela Surajpal
Sohela Surajpal (@sohelasurajpal) and Seadimo (@seadimotlale) exchange reflections on what transformation in South Africa means.
Resources referred to:
Sohela's twitter thread: https://twitter.com/sohelasurajpal/status/1286200048670433280?s=20
Mpho Ndaba's On (Black) billionaires: https://medium.com/@manofcolor_/on-billionaires-88b83e647531 (https://medium.com/@manofcolor_/on-billionaires-88b83e647531)
Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Davis
The Communist Manifesto - Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx
The Destruction of Black Civilizations - Chancellor Williams
31 Jul 2020
Takeover by Mfumo B - Love in the time of the rona
Mfumo B (@mfumo_B) chats with Nonkululeko Nojoko (@nkulijoki_) and Ntokozo Mbonani (@iamntokozom) about the challenges of mjolo in the time of the rona.
30 Jul 2020
Tribalism with Mfumo B and Paballo Chauke
"Venda and Tsonga people (from Limpopo) have South Africans of many tribes meting out myriad violence to us. We are at the bottom of the totem pole, with harmful discourses about how difficult our languages are, hypersexualized and seen as less attractive and more intelligent. The violence is expressed through lack of representation in government, media, and other spheres. The stereotypes are that we eat dirty or scary foods, are spoken of in the same xenophobic and afrophobic terms used to alienate other Africans. Tribalism is not a joke. . . The violence does ultimately become physical but most of it is seen in discourse around and about Tsonga and Venda people as being dark, ugly, not belonging and existing in the periphery so the jokes are not funny as they have tangible ramifications on peoples lives . . .I hope this thread can be a conversation starter amongst us a people, to be reflexive and adopt an intersectional revolution, because yes Black Lives Matter, but let’s also get our house in order."
Thread about tribalism in South Africa, by Twitter user @withPaballo. Check out the full thread here: https://twitter.com/withPaballo/status/1272413369866293249?s=20
In this episode, two South African Tsonga men from different intersections, Mfumo Bamuza (mfumo_B) and Paballo Chauke (@withPaballo) unpack their experience with tribalism with Seadimo (@seadimotlale).
24 Jul 2020
Black Girl Joy with Buhle Mayatula
In a world filled with so much pain and exclusion for Black women, what does joy and the relentless pursuit of it look like?
Listen to Buhle Mayatula (@buhlemayatula) and Seadimo (@seadimotlale) share their journeys.
TW: content about mental illness.
17 Jul 2020
Prison Abolition with Tumi Moloto
In this episode, Tumi Moloto (@tumi.moloto) and Seadimo (@seadimotlale) share their respective journeys of being abolitionists in South Africa.
10 Jul 2020
White Allies with Sarah Godsell and Kate Paterson
Sarah Godsell (@sdgosell) and Kate Paterson (@take_the_kate) chat with Seadimo (@seadimotlale) about white guilt, white privilege and fighting racism as a white person in South Africa.
3 Jul 2020
Bisexuality with Mpho Ndaba
Bisexual people make up more than 50% of the LGBTQ community worldwide, yet they are the least visible.
South African bisexual Black man, Mpho Ndaba (@manofcolor_) and queer Black human, Seadimo (@seadimotlale) have a chat about the less visible members of the LGBTQ community, with a focus on the bisexual community. We unpack biphobia, and ways to be more kind to and inclusive of bisexual people.
some relevant material:
Article by Mpho Ndaba on his experience of being a bisexual Black man in South Africa: https://mg.co.za/article/2018-10-05-00-no-home-for-bisexual-black-men/ (https://mg.co.za/article/2018-10-05-00-no-home-for-bisexual-black-men/)
Things you should not say to bisexual people:
https://www.pride.com/identities/2020/5/19/11-things-you-should-never-say-bisexual-men#media-gallery-media-4 (https://www.pride.com/identities/2020/5/19/11-things-you-should-never-say-bisexual-men#media-gallery-media-4)
https://www.playboy.com/read/in-search-of-the-20biteen-man (https://www.playboy.com/read/in-search-of-the-20biteen-man)
More conversation on the experience of Black bisexual black men in South Africa: https://omny.fm/shows/mid-morning-show-702/the-experiences-of-black-bisexual-men-in-south-afr (https://omny.fm/shows/mid-morning-show-702/the-experiences-of-black-bisexual-men-in-south-afr)
Also check out Changing the Lens by Mpho Ndaba: https://radiopublic.com/changing-the-lens-6VBdrM/episodes (https://radiopublic.com/changing-the-lens-6VBdrM/episodes)
17 Jun 2020
HBO's Insecure Season 4 Finale [part 2]
Part two of the conversation between three Black South African women on HBO's Insecure Season 4 Finale. On this part we unpack mental health, imposter syndrome and the burden of responsibility we place on Black people with social influence.
Hosts: Seadimo (@seadimotlale), Zanele Masombuka (@kneezus_) and Malebona Maphutse (@bonny_maphutse).
16 Jun 2020
HBO's Insecure Season 4 Finale [part 1]
Three Black South African women, Zanele Masombuka (@kneezus_), Malebona Maphutse (@bonny_maphutse) and Seadimo (@seadimotlale) unpack their feelings about the season 4 finale of HBO's Insecure, and the ways they relate to the friendship dynamics, Issa and Lawrence's relationship and Tiffany's post partum depression.
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