habibti please

Hello friends, 

Hope this finds you well midweek, whatever “well” means in this whack wild world. Enclosed is a preview to an episode I did with my brother-friend Ryan Deshpande. We are so grateful to have chatted with the lovely Hawa Y. Mire on a Sunday in September. This episode hopes to fill gaps regarding Me to We, Somalis in Canada, the ever racist Children’s Aid Society, the “Canadian” understanding of the Somali diaspora, and so much more.  A collective Bismillah from the team as we release our first premium episode!

We are really excited for the next month of episodes and hope you are too! Nashwa is getting something better than a chromebook *fingers crossed* so hopefully we start to sound a bit snazzier. If you want to support and unlock the full episode, please consider becoming a patron on Patreon or a paid Substack subscriber. 

With love, 

Nashwa, Johnny and Ryan

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This week, Nashwa joins Rob Rousseau of 49th Parahell for a great conversation about why Canadian media sucks and how we are planning on changing that, the problem with Liberals, establishment journalist gatekeepers learning nothing from the last six months, Green Party entryism, and the potential to build a bigger left through posting (just kidding...but seriously 👀). 

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Guest Information:

Guest of the week: Rob Rousseau

Rob is a prolific podcaster who hosts 49th Parahell; he also co-hosts The Insurgents alongside Jordan Uhl. In addition, he works as a producer at the newly launched Harbinger Media Network—which Habibti Please is also a part of—which you can support here.

Find Rob on Twitter @robrousseau.

Support Rob by subscribing to his Patreon.

Production Credits:

Hosted by Rob Rousseau featuring Nashwa Lina Khan 

Music by Johnny Zapras and postXamerica

Art for Habibti Please by postXamerica

Production by Nashwa Lina Khan and Johnny Zapras

Production Assistance by Raymond Khanano

Social Media & Support:

Follow us on Twitter @habibtiplease

Support us on Patreon

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In this episode, Nashwa is joined by longtime online friend Zoé Samudzi to sit down and chat about anti-racist booklists, the need to buy from independent sellers, the surge in popularity of anti-racist books, diverse syllabi, Jessica Krug and the expanded universe of faking race in academia, and the Whitney Museum’s parasitic Mutual Aid project. We also share our love for another friend of the show Lauren Michele Jackson, and her piece What is an Anti-Racist Reading List For?; additionally, we highlight a piece from the Boston Review by Melissa Phruksachart entitled The Literature of White Liberalism. Another topic we touch upon is The Combahee River Collective Statement and the morphing role of the words identity politics. An informative piece about Warren B. Kanders, former art collector and vice chair of the Whitney Museum, can be found here. Lastly, we end by considering what happens or what we do with people who are race tourists, as well as Zoé’s top five dissertation writing songs.

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Shukran bezaf habibtis & habibis! 

Guest Information:

Guest of the week: Zoé Samudzi

As detailed in this episode, Zoé is the co-author of a book with William C. Anderson titled As Black as Resistance (AK Press), which engages the anarchistic position of Black people in the United States. It can be ordered here.

Find Zoé on Twitter @ztsamudzi and check out her website.

Additional Resources:

As mentioned in the episode, here is a list curated by Zoé of good Latinx writing that isn’t American Dirt:

* Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli

* to love and mourn in the age of displacement by Alan Palaez Lopez

* Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera

* Cruel Fictions by Wendy Trevino

* Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas by Robert Lovato

* The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States edited by Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores

Black and Indigenous Owned Bookstores in America and Canada: https://secondstorypress.ca/wavemaker/2020/6/12/black-and-indigenous-owned-bookstores-in-canada-and-the-usa

Independent bookstores in Canada: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/canadian-independent-bookstores-delivery

Independent bookstores in America: https://www.newpages.com/independent-bookstores

Production Credits:

Hosted by Nashwa Lina Khan

Music by Johnny Zapras and postXamerica

Art for Habibti Please by postXamerica

Production by Nashwa Lina Khan and Johnny Zapras

Production Assistance by Raymond Khanano

Social Media & Support:

Follow us on Twitter @habibtiplease

Support us on Patreon

Subscribe to us on Substack

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Hey friends - if  you have wandered here you probably know that this is a new podcast and place for writing by Nashwa Lina Khan and friends. This specific episode is part of an ongoing commitment to highlighting voices in Canadian politics who are or aspire to be progressive. Hope you enjoy the journey!

Hi!  Welcome to the first episode of Habibti Please. In this episode, Ryan and Nashwa interview Leah Gazan, Member of Parliament for Winnipeg Centre. Leah, who has been involved with social movements, sits down with the podcast to discuss her Motion 46 on Universal Basic Income gaining traction and the process of building a progressive left in Canada. Other topics covered include the NDP and her socialist politics and background.

Additional Resources:

Read the text of Motion 46 here: https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/leah-gazan(87121)/motions/10852236

Sign the petition and learn more about the Day of Action here: leahgazan.ca/

Production Credits:

Hosted by Nashwa Lina Khan and Ryan Deshpande

Music by Johnny Zapras and postXamerica 

Art for Habibti Please by postXamerica

Production Assistance by Raymond Khanano

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