Surviving Society Productions

Twayna is joined by Chantelle to reflect on the series and discuss how important it is to centre the voices of those with lived experience when it comes to the care system.

Host:

Twayna Mayne is an award-winning writer and stand up comedian. Twayna is the

creator of the web series Black People Drinking White Wine and the host of Loco

Parentis, a podcast that centres the voices of care experienced adults and adoptees.

Insta: @twaynamayne

Joining Twayna this week is Karl Broome. Karl is an academic researcher and one of

Twayna’s oldest friends. In this episode they talk about their early lives, adverse

childhood experiences and how they’ve navigated residual trauma and stress as

adults.

Host:

Twayna Mayne is an award-winning writer and stand up comedian. Twayna is the

creator of the web series Black People Drinking White Wine and the host of Loco

Parentis, a podcast that centres the voices of care experienced adults and adoptees.

Insta: @twaynamayne

Pause is a national charity that works with women who have experienced - or are at

the risk of having - more than one child removed from their care. They work with

women over a number of months and tailor their support to each individual woman’s

needs and their hopes for the future across a variety of areas, from housing to

improving relationships with children. In this episode we hear from T and Lillian. T

shares her experience of child removal and care proceedings and talks about the

work she has done and the support she has had from Pause and her practitioner

Lillian.

https://www.pause.org.uk/

Insta: @pauseorg

Twit: @pauseorg

Host:

Twayna Mayne is an award-winning writer and stand up comedian. Twayna is the

creator of the web series Black People Drinking White Wine and the host of Loco

Parentis, a podcast that centres the voices of care experienced adults and adoptees.

Insta: @twaynamayne

In this episode Twayna is joined by -Rose Regan and Paul Nelson -  co-leads of the Care Experience Movement (CXM). CXM is a collective of care experienced people working together to change the system. Rose and Paul explain the organisation’s mission and how they use their own lived experience of the children’s social care system to support the care experienced community and create a better future for all care experienced people in the UK.

www.careexperiencedmovement.com

Insta:: careexperiencedmovement

Twit: @careexpmovement

Host:

Twayna Mayne is an award-winning writer and stand up comedian. Twayna is the

creator of the web series Black People Drinking White Wine and the host of Loco

Parentis, a podcast that centres the voices of care experienced adults and adoptees.

Insta: @twaynamayne

Loco Parentis is brought to you by Surviving Society Productions.

Executively Produced by

Dr Chantelle Jessica Lewis

George Ofori - Addo

Twayna Mayne

Design by

Evelyn Miller

Edited by

George Ofori - Addo

In this episode we are joined by Nancy Doyle, Chief Research Officer at Genius Within and Charlie Eckton who is an independent Business Psychologist at Occ Psychs. We have a broad conversation about UK politics, the far right riots and how we can better connect and understand each other.

Links

https://geniuswithin.org

https://www.occpsychs.co.uk

Summary

This podcast series was produced in partnership Genius Within - an organisation  dedicated to helping neurodistinct individuals access their inner genius and be at their best at work. Genius Within is both a neurodivergent led and owned business.

In this episode we are joined by Nancy Doyle, Chief Research Officer at Genius Within and Charlie Eckton who is an independent Business Psychologist at Occ Psychs. We have a broad conversation about politics, the neurodiversity movement and how we can have more productive conversations about disability.

Links

https://geniuswithin.org

https://www.occpsychs.co.uk

Summary

This podcast series was produced in partnership Genius Within - an organisation  dedicated to helping neurodistinct individuals access their inner genius and be at their best at work. Genius Within is both a neurodivergent led and owned business.

During a deadly dawn raid by a Kenyan paramilitary squad, an innocent Muslim man, Omar Faraj, was brutally murdered. In the final episode of the series, Namir Shabibi sets out to find those responsible for this extrajudicial killing. The paramilitary squad is, we discover, part of America’s post-9/11 covert War on Terror infrastructure. Following the death squad from Mombasa’s muslim neighbourhoods to the ‘secret’ Recce military complex miles away in rural Ruiru all the way to the CIA’s headquarters in Virginia, we hear how it was developed, funded, equipped and supported by the United States. Across conversations with former Kenyan parliamentarians, ex-American security forces personnel, academic experts and local activists, including the Chair of ‘Muslims for Human Rights,’ Khelef Khalifa, Shabibi exposes the global War on Terror’s brutal underbelly: a project designed to evade accountability, while terrorising Muslim populations in Kenya and beyond. 

Useful Links 

Center for Constitutional Rights (USA): https://ccrjustice.org/

Muslims for Human Rights (Kenya): https://www.facebook.com/UTETEZI/

UNREDACTED (UK): https://unredacted.uk/

Further Reading

William Daugherty. Executive Secrets: Covert Action and the Presidency (Lexington: Kentucky UP, 2004). 

Loch K. Johnson. The Third Option: Covert Action and American Foreign Policy (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2022). 

Namir Shabibi. “Revealed: The CIA and MI6’s secret war in Kenya,” Declassified UK, 28 August 2020, https://declassifieduk.org/revealed-the-cia-and-mi6s-secret-war-in-kenya/.

Namir Shabibi & Jack Watling. “Britain’s Covert War in Yemen: A VICE News Investigation,” 7 April 2016, https://www.vice.com/en/article/8x3enb/britains-covert-war-in-yemen-a-vice-news-investigation. 

Bio

Namir Shabibi is a visiting lecturer and doctoral candidate at Westminster University, researching covert paramilitary action in the “War on Terror.” He also leads the University’s Working Group on Telecoms, Spyware and Surveillance. As an investigative journalist, Namir has published reports for the BBC, the Bureau and VICE, among others, and now regularly contributes to Declassified UK. He previously worked for Reprieve, and the International Committee of the Red Cross in Darfur and Guantánamo Bay.

This episode was co-developed with Claire Lauterbach, whose support with additional research into music, sounds and archival materials were integral to its production.  

Voiceovers: Claire Lauterbach and Chris Alger  

Sitting at the edge of the notorious ‘Western Balkan Route,’ Bihac’s Borici Temporary Reception Centre is witness to some of Europe’s worst border violence. Only a few kilometres from the Bosnian-Croatian border that separates the Western Balkans from the European Union, migrants find themselves stuck; arrested, tortured and pushed back over and over again by Croatian police. But within Borici, they also find themselves part of this building’s 75-year history. Borici is a place where communities have always found shelter: against fascism, against civil war and siege, against post-war abandonment, and now against fortress Europe. Benedetta Zocchi is guided through Borici’s many incarnations by local historians, Asmir Piralic and Almir Kurtovic, human rights activist, Silvia Maraone, and local volunteer, artist and activist, Adem Hajdarevic. 

Useful Links

Border Violence Monitoring Network: https://borderviolence.eu/

IPSIA (Institute for Peace, Development and Innovation ACLI) Bihac: https://www.ipsia-acli.it/notizie/itemlist/tag/bihac.html

Radio Elsewhere: https://www.radioelsewheres.net/

Further Reading 

Barbara Beznec & Andrej Kurnik. “Old Routes, New Perspectives: A Postcolonial Reading of the Balkan Route,” movements 5:1 (2020), pp. 34-54. 

Marta Mitrovic et al. (eds). The Dark Sides of Europeanisation. Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the EUropean Border Regime (Belgrade: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, 2020).

Bene Zocchi. “The Game: Ritualized Exhaustion and Subversion on the Western Balkan Route,” Journal of Borderlands Studies (2023), pp. 1-21. 

Bene Zocchi. “Contesting the EU Border: :Lessons and Challenges from the Bosnian Frontier,” Postcolonial Studies 26:1 (2023), pp. 165-182. 

Bio

Benedetta Zocchi is a border and migration researcher and a humanitarian development consultant. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Queen Mary University, where she wrote about border struggles and resistances in Bihac. Her work sits at the intersection of decolonial thinking and activist scholarship and she has contributed to several academic and advocacy projects across and beyond the Balkans.

When a dam on the Tigris burst in 2018, waters rushed towards Amed, Turkey’s largest predominantly Kurdish city. In its aftermath, the Turkish state claimed there were no casualties. Speaking with environmental justice campaigners and farmers (Samed Uçaman, Doğan Hatun and Zeki Kanay), Eray Çaylı reveals how this claim was based on dodgy accounting. Delving into the depths of this case, he explores Turkey’s long history of using water as a tool of war and treating Kurdistan as a laboratory for resource extraction. But, as we’ll hear from conversations with Amed residents like Berivan Arslan, these riverbanks are also fertile sites of struggle against the tide of Turkish state violence.  

Useful Links

Amed Ecology Association:

https://x.com/Ekolojidernek?t=Epz5LkL0-yvwYUmUH5kbzQ&s=09

Coordination Council of Amed-based Professional Organizations:

https://x.com/Amedikk?t=UwLb2R72f0soPzMpJntY8g&s=09

Turkey’s State of Emergency (Documentary on the "commune field"): 

https://youtu.be/v11PuSvpaUY?si=vWYSphqOfTb6_o9A

Further Reading

Zeynep S. Akıncı, Arda Bilgen, Antònia Casellas, & Joost Jongerden. “Development Through Design: Knowledge, Power, and Absences in the Making of Southeastern Turkey,” Geoforum 114 (2020), pp. 181–188. 

Eray Çaylı. “The Aesthetics of Extractivism: Violence, Ecology, and Sensibility in Turkey’s Kurdistan,” Antipode 53:5 (2021), pp. 1377–1399.

Eray Çaylı. “Contemporary art and the geopolitics of extractivism in Turkey's Kurdistan,” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 46:4 (2021), pp. 929–943. 

Anıl Olcan & Zozan Pehlivan. “Wildfires in Mount Cudi and the Ecological, Ideological, Political, and Historical Dimensions of Forest Fires: Turkey's Destruction of the Kurdish Environment,” Jadaliyya, 30 September 2020 https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/41791/Turkey’s-destruction-of-the-Kurdish-Environment-WILDFIRES-IN-MOUNT-CUDI-AND-THE-ECOLOGICAL,-IDEOLOGICAL,-POLITICAL-AND-HISTORICAL-DIMENSIONS-OF-FOREST-FIRES   

Bio 

Eray Çaylı is a researcher and teacher of spatial politics and culture in Istanbul, London, Hamburg, and Amed. He regularly collaborates with Amed-based independent organisations such as the Architects' Chamber and the artist-run space Loading. His books include Victims of Commemoration: The Architecture and Violence of Confronting the Past (2022), Architectures of Emergency in Turkey: Heritage, Displacement, Catastrophe (2021), and Climate Aesthetics: Essays on Anthropocene Art and Architecture (2020). 

Voiceovers: Maia Holtermann Entwistle