2018
Solidarity Is This Podcast
This season we explored our social change ecosystem with disruptors, weavers, frontline responders, healers, builders, and more.
December 2018
Solidarity: 2018’s Solidarity Mo(ve)ments
Jamia Wilson (Feminist Press) and Jonathan Jayes-Green (UndocuBlack Network) join Deepa to discuss what shaped 2018’s solidarity moments and movements, and look forward to 2019.
October 2018
Solidarity: The Role of White People
Deepa Iyer is in conversation with Heather Cronk (Standing Up for Racial Justice) and Olivia Lowery (Stay Together Appalachian Youth Project) to discuss how white communities are dismantling the culture and policies of white supremacy.
September 2018
Solidarity: 17 Years Later
Aber Kawas (Campaign to Take on Hate/National Network of Arab American Communities) and Arjun Sethi (American Hate: Survivors Speak Out) join Deepa to discuss the 17th anniversary of 9/11, and its ongoing effects.
August 2018
Solidarity: Mother Earth
In the Mother Earth episode of Solidarity Is This, Deepa is in conversation with Colette Pichon-Battle (Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy) from the about the 13th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and why we must be in the fight for climate justice.
July 2018
Solidarity: Never Again Is Now
Deepa is in conversation with Satsuki Ina, a trauma therapist born in a prison camp, and Brandon Shimoda, a poet writing about the afterlife of Japanese American incarceration.
June 2018
Solidarity: Faith Matters
Deepa Iyer speaks with Rev. Tuhina Verma Rasche and Bayadir Mohamed-Osman to explore how faith and movement building can lead to solidarity.
May 2018
Solidarity Is This: Disability Solidarity
During Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Deepa talks with Alice Wong, founder of the Disability Visibility Project, about acknowledging & dismantling ableism in social justice movements.
April 2018
Solidarity Is This: Campus Solidarity
How do campuses get beyond the rhetoric of diversity + inclusion? The April 2018 Solidarity features Shige Nic Sakurai and Eesha Ramanujam.
March 2018
Solidarity: A New Vision of Safety
Deepa speaks with Dante Barry, the director of Million Hoodies United, about gun violence, school safety and solidarity practices.
February 2018
Solidarity: Network Weavers
How can networks cultivate multiracial solidarity? Deepa Iyer is in conversation with Jayne Park (Impact Silver Spring) and Angel Padilla (Indivisible) in the February episode of Solidarity Is This.
January 2018
Solidarity: Movement Ecology
Deepa Iyer explores food justice with Leah Penniman (Soul Fire Farm), and the #MeToo Movement with Shivana Jorawar (Jahajee Sisters).