Shows
New blue review2023.08.21 – Seadimo and Tshepang Tlale, International Chess Players – Playing chess locally and internationally, and Chess Kidding
2023-08-2118 min
Critical Conversations on Human Rights: The Promise Institute PodcastSolitary ConfinementWhen laboratory researchers wanted to study the effects of solitary confinement, they had to obtain special permission because mimicking the isolation of solitary confinement was considered so cruel to the mice. From the social framework surrounding solitary confinement, to its neurological impacts, the Mandela Rules, why solitary confinement in the U.S. is so unregulated, and more, this episode offers an important and unshakeable look in to the human rights implications of solitary confinement's use. Discussion features Clara Long of Human Rights Watch, Jean Casella of Solitary Watch, and was moderated by Promise Fellow, Seadimo Tla...
2021-10-0934 min
intersectionally speakingBlack 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 th...
2020-10-1048 min
intersectionally speakingBlack Women Living Abroad with Rudo ChristineIn 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
2020-10-0247 min
intersectionally speakingBlack 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 th...
2020-09-2652 min
intersectionally speakingBlack Love with YouTube couple, the ViksIn 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
2020-09-181h 00
intersectionally speakingSurvivor 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 pa...
2020-09-1122 min
intersectionally speakingPSA: My Preferred PronounsWhat 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
2020-09-0432 min
intersectionally speakingSubstantive Transformation with Sohela SurajpalSohela 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
Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Davis
The Communist Manifesto - Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx
The Destruction of Black Civilizations - Chancellor Williams
2020-08-0750 min
intersectionally speakingTakeover by Mfumo B - Love in the time of the ronaMfumo B (@mfumo_B) chats with Nonkululeko Nojoko (@nkulijoki_) and Ntokozo Mbonani (@iamntokozom) about the challenges of mjolo in the time of the rona.
2020-07-3140 min
intersectionally speakingTribalism 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...
2020-07-3054 min
intersectionally speakingBlack Girl Joy with Buhle MayatulaIn 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.
2020-07-241h 02
intersectionally speakingPrison Abolition with Tumi MolotoIn this episode, Tumi Moloto (@tumi.moloto) and Seadimo (@seadimotlale) share their respective journeys of being abolitionists in South Africa.
2020-07-1754 min
intersectionally speakingWhite Allies with Sarah Godsell and Kate PatersonSarah 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.
2020-07-1047 min
intersectionally speakingBisexuality with Mpho NdabaBisexual 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...
2020-07-0354 min
intersectionally speakingHBO'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).
2020-06-1724 min
intersectionally speakingHBO'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.
2020-06-1625 min
Sisters In ConversationS1E16 - Seadimo Tlale, Justice Innovator and LLM candidate at UCLAPS: please be patient with the sound - technology let us down and re-recording would have tampered with the organic nature of the interview.
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Seadimo Tlale is a 26 year old justice innovator who hails from Thabang township in the Free State. She has merged her background in law and media to advocate for social justice with a focus on intersectionality.
Her story starts with chess. At the age of 3 her mother taught her how to play chess and at age 11 Seadimo started to play chess professionally. In 2008 she and her sister were the first Black girls to represent South Africa...
2020-06-151h 00