What was it like growing up transgender and black in the 1960s? How did colonialism determine the lived experience of being black in the 1960s? And what's it like to be transgender in a world that has no concept of gender fluidity? These are some of the questions I explore here with Dr. Page.

I had the honor of working with Dr. Page as a health coach and I found his story amazing. Here for the first time he shares some of those experiences with the wider world.

Time stamps:
0:00​ Introduction
2:30​ First experiences of racism
4:12​ First understanding of being transgender
11:02​ Parents finding out
14:10​ Surviving university
16:57​ Becoming an activist
19:53​ Racism didn't end in the 60s
22:12​ Discovering trans history and trying to get surgery
28:58​ Student organising, community work and colonialism
32:55​ Zimbabwe and seed imperialism
35:05​ Colonialism in Africa and the USA
43:29​ Agrarian crises and solutions
47:00​ Pharmaceutical agriculture, debt and suicide
50:02​ Hybridization of seeds
54:20​ Maize is not an African crop
55:22​ Healing from heteronormativity, racism and academia
1:01:08​ Is the academy a colonial institution?
1:06:24​ Enoch's health journey
1:12:10​ Enoch's experience of working with me

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Overcoming the disease of Apartheid is an ongoing process. Here I talk with Prof. Rasigan Maharajh about Apartheid, globalization, and transformation.
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0:00​ Intro
0:35​ Introducing Professor Majarajh
1:40​ Growing up under apartheid
4:28​ The founding of Chatsworth to divide "Indians" from "Africans"
5:52​ All Black people under Apartheid were political
8:20​ Many were employed by the Apartheid state that oppressed them
9:04​ Apartheid clamped down on nationalism, paving the way for Black Consciousness and Trade Unionism
10:31​ What does growing up in a radical environment look like?
11:20​ Solidarity funds and mutual aid
12:27​ Soweto Uprising of 1976
14:39​ The radical ruler and the municipal library
16:40​ Grandparents' politics and inspirations
18:47​ Divide and rule politics of the 1980s and resistance
21:05​ Student organising25:10 Apartheid welfare and the violence of transition
31:05​ States of emergency then and now
33:08​ Statism, neoliberalism and Texas
36:18​ The importance of rethinking
38:42​ Apartheid bureaucracy and universities
40:26​ Organizing as a university student and class suicide
44:59​ Struggle above and below ground
49:36​ Violence, political education and South African McCarthyism
55:07​ Post-Apartheid transition - upside down world
1:00:20​ Collaborators were welcomed
1:02:24​ Post-apartheid disillusionment
1:08:00​ The global context
1:14:34​ Apartheid lost, but we didn't win
1:17:58​ The role of armed struggle
1:19:50​ Disaster capitalism and the Great Reset
1:25:11​ Towards an ecological understanding
1:26:18​ The individual as ecosystem
1:27:32​ Indigenous knowledge includes ecosystems thinking
1:29:15​ Limits to growth
1:35:40​ Ubuntu and taxation
1:37:51​ Remembering the successes
1:40:17​ Non-statist solutions
1:52:47 Nando's and KFC
1:54:48 What can be done practically?

Hi I'm Sameer and welcome to the first episode of this podcast. This is not only the first episode but it will also be a kind of flipping of the script of what will be future episodes in that I will not be the person doing the interviewing. instead I will be the person being interviewed by my own amazing partner Shirin. Shirin is a peace educator and co-founder of Peace Vigil which you can learn more about at the website PeaceVigil.net . Shirin has very kindly agreed to do this with me today partly because her own training as a journalist makes her imminently qualified for this role. But also I wanted to use the opportunity to clarify my own thoughts and expectations as I begin this journey that, if I'm being honest, may not go anywhere. Podcasts these days are a dime a dozen and I myself am so busy with various projects that if I don't feel that this is adding value to the world, I may not persevere. But at the moment I am confident that this can add value both to my own thought processes and, I hope, to you the listener. So without further ado, let's turn it over to Shirin.