Stories from the Hart

In this instalment of our series on student organizers, Hart House Student Podcaster Muzna sits down with the founder and director of the Prevention Empowerment Advocacy Response Project (PEARS) for survivors at the University of Toronto, Micah Kalisch. Micah shares their experience creating a peer-led, grassroots support organization while still an undergraduate student, the need to be nimble and responsive in this work, and the compelling reasons they are called to create a community of care and support for survivors. This episode comes with a content warning. In this conversation we talk about sexual assault and abuse, which we know can be distressing topics. We offer this content warning to empower you, our audience, to make healthy decisions about how, and if, you should consume this podcast content. Please take care.

Transcript URL: https://harthouse.ca/stories/podcast/s4ep6

In this installment of our series on student organizers, Hart House Student Podcaster Muzna sits down with Etienne Oshinowo, the President of the Black Students' Association at U of T.

Transcript URL: https://harthouse.ca/stories/podcast/s4ep5

In this installment of our series on student organizers, Hart House Student Podcaster Muzna sits down with Jadine Ngan, Editor-in-Chief of The Varsity, U of T's tri-campus newspaper.

Transcript URL: https://harthouse.ca/stories/podcast/s4ep4

In this installment of our series on student organizers, Hart House Student Podcaster Muzna, sat down with Alicia Corbiere, one of the Marten Clan leaders of the Indigenous Students Association at U of T St. George.

Transcript URL: https://harthouse.ca/stories/podcast/s4ep3

Hart House Podcaster Muzna sits down with fellow students Beatriz, Cindy, Aimi, Khaleda, and Rodrigo to celebrate the women who inspire and teach them, each and every day, and on International Women's Day.

Transcript URL: https://harthouse.ca/stories/podcast/s4ep2

In this conversation with Hart House Hip Hop Community Connector Marcus Singleton, aka iomos marad, we focus on his start with music and Hip-Hop, the tape that changed his life, his personal journey growing up in Chicago, and how he defines Hip-Hop.

Transcript URL: https://harthouse.ca/stories/podcast/s4ep1

In honour of Asian Heritage month, in which we cast a spotlight on the words and voices of GTA artists from the Asian Diaspora. This segment features Eric Wang, poet and recent graduate of UTSC. Eric joined us over Zoom to read us his poem Weatherman Elegy, a poem of mourning he wrote after realizing how many years it's been since he flipped open the Weather Channel.

Transcript URL: https://harthouse.ca/stories/podcast/s1ep3-eric

In honour of Asian Heritage month, in which we create a spotlight on the words and voices of GTA artists from the Asian Diaspora. This segment features Patrick Debelen, poet, storyteller, educator, and filmmaker. Patrick tells us about his connection to community, here in Canada and in the Philippines, and the power and importance of being loud about mental health and loss, especially as a male-identifying person of Asian heritage. He reads his poem "Fearwrite" from his recent project In Between Lines, a spoken word album, digital chapbook and video series.

Transcript URL: https://harthouse.ca/stories/podcast/asian-heritage-spotlight-patrick

In honour of Asian Heritage month, in which we cast a spotlight on the words and voices of GTA artists from the Asian Diaspora. We talked to Sheniz Janmohamed over zoom from her home in the GTA. She traces her ancestral roots through Kenya, back to Kutch, Gujarat, in India. Sheniz reflects on what it means to be disconnected from her ancestral homeland, living on a land that isn't traditionally hers, here on Turtle Island. She read her poem Salt, from her latest collection of poems, Reminders on the Path. Sheniz wanted to know the stories that were absent in her family narrative, those of her women ancestors. Salt came out of the conversation she had with her maternal grandmother on her last visit to Kenya, after asking her to share her story and the story of her mother.

Transcript URL: https://harthouse.ca/stories/podcast/sheinz

In this episode, Claire speaks with 3rd year international student Kristal across a 7-hour time difference and halfway around the world. They talk about the upbeat, bouncy Bang, by AJR and why this song has been a go-to support for Kristal, not only through quarantine, but also through the transition to adulthood.

Transcript URL: https://harthouse.ca/stories/podcast/s2ep1-kristal