Solidarity Is This

Deepa Iyer

Solidarity Is This is a podcast created and hosted by Deepa Iyer who is with the Center for Social Inclusion and a 2017 Soros Equality Fellow. Each month, we explore how individuals and institutions are experimenting with and exploring multiracial solidarity. We will learn how to practice transformative solidarity in a rapidly transforming racial landscape and in the midst of heightened discrimination targeting communities of color.

  • 44 minutes 5 seconds
    Solidarity: Reckoning with Sustainability
    In 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..
    19 March 2024, 9:40 pm
  • 43 minutes 16 seconds
    Solidarity: Healing across generations at the intersections of memory, care, and justice
    In 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.
    23 January 2024, 3:57 pm
  • 23 minutes 26 seconds
    Solidarity Narratives in Crises: A Practice Guide
    Deepa Iyer and Shanelle Matthews discuss how organizations can shape solidarity narratives in a time of crisis.
    29 November 2023, 5:51 pm
  • 34 minutes 50 seconds
    Solidarity: Mothers of Gynecology transform our history and future
    In 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.
    22 October 2023, 10:38 pm
  • 21 minutes 8 seconds
    Solidarity: Truth Telling From The Banks of the Ohio River
    In 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.
    26 September 2023, 11:03 pm
  • 38 minutes 44 seconds
    Solidarity: Reclaiming Our Collective Memory
    In this episode, host Adaku Utah is in conversation with Mariame Kaba about transformative spaces and practices to reclaim our interdependence and collective memory.
    20 August 2023, 11:34 pm
  • 24 minutes 42 seconds
    Solidarity: How Sites of Conscience Can Transform Us
    The 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.
    26 June 2023, 8:45 pm
  • 22 minutes 44 seconds
    Solidarity: Introducing The Next Season
    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 This
    27 April 2023, 3:34 am
  • 25 minutes 47 seconds
    Solidarity: Funding Movements Differently
    Deepa is in conversation with CĂșagilĂĄkv (Jess Housty) and Kim Hardy to uplift lessons from the Right Relations Collaborative, a philanthropic effort that centers the Indigenous Aunties Council.
    11 November 2022, 12:46 am
  • 25 minutes 43 seconds
    Solidarity: Equity and Culture in Malmö
    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.
    19 September 2022, 11:10 am
  • 25 minutes 13 seconds
    An Introduction to Solidarity Economies
    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.
    20 July 2022, 12:54 pm
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