In GBA 203 we get better acquainted with Sajeela Kershi. She talks about making comedy and her show Immigrant Diaries where people share their true life stories, and we move from these topics into wider discussions of Islamophobia, racism, belonging, social responsibility as well as into personal recollections of Sajeela's childhood.
Sajeela plugs:
Changing Britain Festival: Immigrant Diaries: 24th April: http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/immigrant-diaries-91203
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sajeelakershi
Shallow Hallal: https://boxoffice.brightonfringe.org/comedy/7742/sajeela-kershi-shallow-halal
Comedy Cottage: 16th April: https://www.facebook.com/events/1414664585508687/
I plug:
Tragic Spring at the Hackney Attic 25th April: https://www.facebook.com/events/588668424609848/
We mention:
The treatment in the press and public opinion of the young girls who wanted to join IS: http://mediadiversified.org/2015/02/24/the-denial-of-childhood-to-children-of-colour/
http://mediadiversified.org/2015/03/05/thetrashies-challenging-the-medias-misinformed-consensus/
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/if-teenage-girls-want-to-join-isis-in-the-face-of-all-its-atrocities-then-they-should-leave-and-never-return-10065516.html
Brief Encounter: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037558/
Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/
Eddie Peppitone: http://eddiepepitone.com/
Pro Resting: https://twitter.com/proresting
Keith Jarrett: http://zoneonetosix.blogspot.co.uk/
Spark London: http://sparklondon.com/
Leicester Comedy Festival: http://www.comedy-festival.co.uk/
Amnesty: http://www.amnesty.org.uk/
USP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_selling_proposition
Big Brother: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_%28UK_TV_series%29
TOWIE: http://www.itv.com/essex
Punjab: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjab_region
Partition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India
Thatcher: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher
Radcliffe Royds: https://radclifferoyds.wordpress.com/
Al Qaeda: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda
Salman Rushdie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie
The Satanic Verses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses
Malcolm X: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X
Cartoon - bikini / hijab: http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/02/22/questioning-definitions-of-freedom/
Hipsters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_%28contemporary_subculture%29
Lumbersexual: http://gawker.com/are-you-a-lumbersexual-1657844454
Algerian War: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_War
The Charlie Hebdo March: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/11338185/Paris-shootings-Crowds-join-Unity-march-for-Charlie-Hebdo-attacks-in-pictures.html
Leaders: http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2015/jan/13/charlie-hebdo-attack-world-leaders-paris-press-freedom
Backlash to French Muslims: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/13/europe/france-anti-muslim-threats/
Enoch Powell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Powell
Rivers of Blood: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Powell#.22Rivers_of_Blood.22_speech
Lenny Henry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Henry
Romesh Ranganathan - Jonathan Ross: https://www.itv.com/itvplayer/the-jonathan-ross-show/series-8/episode-5
BNP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_Party
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