This week Fiyory helped us return to a topic we covered a few years ago – how the personal training/gym industry exploits workers. Fiyory talks of how frustrating the health, nutrition and fitness sector is and how through her scholarship she is trying to get adults and young people to think more critically about training and nutrition.

Useful links-

https://hypekcl.com/

Secondary school teacher, scholar & lecturer Julia Toppin joined us to talk about how unevenly felt the global pandemic is for children and young people living on the margins of society.

Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic.

*Listener discretion advised for this episode (domestic violence and sexual harassment)*

Sister Uncut, domestic violence and austerity: Aviah breaks down how the combination of austerity and the hostile environment have impacted women’s access to domestic violence services. Chantelle also gets some home truths from Aviah on how we recover from the general election result…

This week we were joined by journalist and radio host Afua Adom to give some advice on parenting through the pandemic. Tissot ends with a discussion on the anti-Chinese racism we are witnessing both online and interpersonally as a result of Covid-19.

Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic.

Karim joined us to discuss his PhD research focused on Muslim communities in Scotland and the impact(s) of systemic, institutional an interpersonal racism (particularly islamophobia) on mental health.

Useful links-

https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/karim-mitha

Nasar joined us to talk about the often hidden and unprotected refugee populations in camps in Europe and across the world. We also discuss the evolution of nationalism(s) during this time.

Useful links-

https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/coronavirus-we-are-risking-covid-19-tragedy-europes-refugee-camps-nasar-meer-2532139

Education specialist, Sofia joined us to talk through the Insider/Outsider report and how we all must continue putting pressure on the sector to change and move towards both direct and positive action to challenge racist inequitable structures.

Useful links-

https://www.gold.ac.uk/racial-justice/insider-outsider/

*Warning* - this episode contains 3 angry Black people!!!

This week we were joined by Jade LB from The Echo Chamber podcast to discuss the racialised and classed unevenness of the impact of Covid-19.

Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic.

Useful links -

-The title of the episode is from Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter's new book - Reactionary Democracy https://www.versobooks.com/books/3173-reactionary-democracy (available 28 April 2020)

-Check out Jade's article in Black Ballad - https://blackballad.co.uk/views-voices/capitalism-and-the-politics-of-the-coronavirus

How do we find solidarities on the left in this current moment (2020)? John Narayan joined us to talk through how we can learn from the Black Panthers and Black British Power movement as we seek to move towards a class politics which is anti-racist, anti imperialist and anti-capitalist!

Useful links-

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0038026119845550

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/metrics/10.1177/0263276417741348

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01436597.2017.1374172

Podcast alumni Dr Yusef Bakkali joined us to talk about the eurocentric nature of the 5G conspiracies and whether lessons will be learnt about the toxicity of capitalism post covid-19

Weekly sociological reflections with Tissot and Chantelle during the COVID19 global pandemic.