Today on WDYTAX we're joined by Aminata Kamara, presenter of BBC Radio Leicester's The VIBE: Vibrant Intelligent Black Entertainment, podcaster, and writer. Aminata discusses with us about why white people find it so hard to talk about race. We cover an interesting range of differences from education to day-to-day experience and Aminata flips the conversation on its head, asking what does it mean to be White?

Why should you listen to this episode? Maybe you're white and want to think about how you can be a better ally. Maybe you're not, and you want to hear some tips from Aminata on discussing it. 

Aminata's show runs every Wednesday 19:00-22:00 and can be accessed through the link here:

Aminata can also be found online here:

Today on WDYTAX we're joined by Dr. Lucy Burke. Lucy is an academic at Manchester Met specialising in literary and cultural disability studies and the medical humanities. Her study explores how dementia and learning disabilities are represented across a range of literary, filmic, televisual and auto/biographical texts, and how we might draw upon ways of working in arts and humanities develop creative ways of working with disabled people and older people living with dementia.

Links mentioned in the episode:

Music by Chris Tybjerg

This week on WDYTAX we’re joined by three-time cancer survivor Sam Rose; PhD research student, Head of Content at a digital marketing agency and author of Gut Feelings - a book about her experiences with cancer and Lynch Syndrome. Among other things, in this episode, we talk to Sam about how cancer has shaped her identity and her ‘dark humour’, how to be a good supporter to cancer patients and, importantly, what percentage of her organs have been removed….place your bets!

Sam's book Gut Feelings: Coping with cancer and living with Lynch syndrome can be found on Amazon at  www.amazon.co.uk/Gut-Feelings-Coping-Cancer-Syndrome/dp/B08T6BTJZ3/

Welcome to season two of WDYTAX - Identity!

We'll be theming the upcoming episodes around identity and allyship, gathering experiences and research from some brilliant writers and thinkers on the subject. Watch out for episodes on cancer survivorship, disability in the UK, and toxic masculinity.

It's been a year since we first decided to get the microphones out and start recording WDYTAX. In this episode we review some of the discussions we've had over the last year and start to think about where we want to go next. As always, any feedback is greatly appreciated.

In this episode of WDYTAX, Prof. Ruth Kinna talks to us about anarchy and its place in the modern world. Ruth is a researcher and lecturer in political theory at the University of Loughborough and has published several books on anarchy and political theory over the years.

In this episode of WDYTAX we're joined by Neil Logan to discuss entrepreneurship and the impact businesses can have on the people they interact with. Neil is the CEO of Incremental Group, board member of Edinburgh Business School, and Senior Enterprise Fellow at the University of Strathclyde.

Music by Chris Tybjerg

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This week on WDYTAX we're joined by Liam Bagshaw, a researcher from the University of Reading. Liam's focus is on international law and the role it plays in creating disasters. I was surprised to have some of my thinking really challenged in this discussion - you'll not hear the term 'Natural Disaster' in the same way ever again! 

As always catch us at @aboutxpodcast to carry on the discussion after.

Music by Chris Tybjerg

Cover art by www.irondragondesign.com

In this episode of WDYTAX, Amina Easat-Daas discusses her research on gendered Islamophobia with us. Amina talks through some of the impact current legislation is having on communities in France and Belgium. 

This was really eye-opening highlighting significant inequalities and the troubling roots they've grown from. We drew some interesting parallels centred around 'otherness'.

Amina also hosts another podcast, Network ReOrient, that dives much deeper into these and much broader topics reconnecting the Islamosphere. 

If you're interested in reading more of Amina's work and research you can find Amina's profile here:

https://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/academic-staff/business-and-law/amina-easat-daas/amina-easat-daas.aspx

Or connect with her on Twitter at @aeasat

The blog post mentioned in the episode can be found here:

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Today on WDYTAX we're joined by Jonathan Rose, Associate Professor in Politics and Research Methodology. He's guiding us through a fascinating conversation on the nature of corruption. We talk about definitions and the history of the word and some of the current research on the topic.

If you'd like to check out Jonathan's work his profile is here:

https://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/academic-staff/business-and-law/jonathan-rose/jonathan-rose.aspx

And the Last Week Tonight episode on Civil Forfeiture can be seen on YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks