In this episode, Chris Ramsaropp, Greer Babazon and Nisha Toomey discuss Toronto’s rapid gentrification. We visit the kitchen table to unpack what communities are most impacted by gentrification; explore how gentrification has been, and continues to be, justified by (settler colonial) logics of progress and inevitability; and we speak with a resident of Toronto’s Junction area on the shifted/shifting community.
Read moreEpisode 24 – Multiculturism - A Performative Distraction
In this episode, Carey DeMichelis & Bea Jolley delve into the Canadian rhetoric of multiculturalism. The Kitchen Table discusses what multicultural discourses miss and mask. And we are joined by Tiffany King, Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Michael Dumas, Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the Graduate School of Education and the African American Studies Department.
Read moreEpisode 23 – “How Can I Talk About This Violence Without Being Violent?”: An Interview with Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński & Naomi Rincón Gallardo
In this episode, Sefanit Habtom and Sigrid Roman interview Naomi Rincón Gallardo and Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, creators of the Formaldehyde Trip and Unearthing. In Conversation, respectively. Naomi and Belinda generously share their artistic decision-making processes, how they see art as resistance, and speak to future generations of Black and Indigenous peoples.
Read moreEpisode 22 – Migrant Labour, White Settler Anxiety, and No Returns
This episode explores the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program in Canada by considering the modes of surveillance, exploitation, denial and violence embedded in the program.
Read moreEpisode 21 – Hazelburn
In a deliberate attempt to un-forget erased histories, this snack episode considers a housing co-op in Toronto’s downtown core.
Read moreEpisode 20 – Self-care, Smudging, and Penguins
In this episode, various voices consider self-care in the work of the henceforward. There is a discussion of self-care collectively vs. individually, Elder Jacqui Lavalley generously explains smudging, and dark sousveillance* is offered as a form of self-care.
Read moreEpisode 19 – Policing Black Lives: An Interview with Robyn Maynard
In this episode, Danielle Cantave and Sefanit Habtom interview Robyn Maynard, author of the new book Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present.
Read moreEpisode 14 – “It’s Not About You”: An Interview with Kyle Mays
In this episode, Marie Laing, Rebecca Beaulne-Stuebing, Sandi Wemigwase, and Sefanit Habtom sit with Kyle Mays to discuss his work as a Black-American Saginaw Anishinaabe scholar and hip-hop enthusiast.
Read moreEpisode 12 – The Start Of The Future Now
In this snack episode, Melissa Wilson and Lynn Ly provide an overview of the work that the Henceforward podcast sets out to do.
Read moreEpisode 10 – Writing Into The Henceforward
In this episode, we have collected snippets from the discussions that took place at the Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education Conference, a one day conference for writers and aspiring writers hosted by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.
Read moreEpisode 9 – Whose Land Interrupted
In this snack episode, Jen Brailsford, Alicia Cameron, and Karima Kinlock disrupt a game show entitled “Whose Land Is It Anyways?” because of the settler colonial and antiblack narratives it perpetuates. Instead, they offer reflections upon what land is and means to Indigenous and Black peoples living on Turtle Island. The episode features a spoken word piece by K.K.Q.
Read moreEpisode 8 – The Books Episode: Settler Colonialism, Blackness & Land
In this episode, MelisIn this episode, Melissa Wilson and Lynn Ly offer an overview of texts that explore settler colonialism, blackness, and land. This episode hopes to make terms more approachable and accessible by connecting them to current examples. Traveling through history, the present, and into the future, this discussion provides insight into the citation practices that ground our podcast.
Read moreEpisode 7 – "I don't want to ask you a f'd up question," with Rinaldo Walcott
In this “snack” episode (a shorter episode released between full-length episodes) Rinaldo Walcott and Eve Tuck discuss the dilemmas of posing generous and productive questions between Black people and Indigenous people.
Walcott reflects on the long practices within whiteness to frame questions in ways that replicate the brutalities of white imposition, and the implications of those frames on questions non-white communities can engage with each other.
Read moreEpisode 6 – Movement Building Beyond the Moment: On Getting Free Together in #StandingRock and #FreedomSquare with Kelly Hayes
The Henceforward Episode 6: Movement Building Beyond the Moment: On Getting Free Together in #StandingRock and #FreedomSquare with Kelly Hayes.
In this episode, Stephanie Latty, Sefanit Habtom, and Rebecca Beaulne-Stuebing interview Kelly Hayes, a cofounder of the Chicago Light Brigade and the direct action collective Lifted Voices. Hayes is a member of the Menominee nation, and is based out of Chicago where she works as a direct action trainer.
Read moreEpisode 5 – Back To The Henceforward
In this episode, Faith Juma and Hunter Knight take you on a journey to the future! And also the past. And also the present. All of them are part of the future because of our nifty TTCdelorean, a time-space compression device that formerly happened to be a subway car in Toronto. Featuring special guests Rebecca Beaulne-Steubing, Shequita Thompson, and Mitch Case.
Read moreEpisode 4 – Red and Black DNA, Blood, Kinship and Organizing with Kim Tallbear
In this episode, Eve Tuck interviews Kim Tallbear, a scholar who focuses on Indigeneity and technoscience as part of the Faculty of Native Studies at University of Alberta.Highlights in the discussion include ideas on kinship, the ways that race and blood have been constructed differently for Indigenous and Black peoples in settler nation-states, and Eve asking possibly the longest podcast interview question ever.
Read moreEpisode 2 – Reconciliation?
Reconciliation? This episode explores the challenge and question of reconciliation on the lands now known as Canada. Hosted by Meg Bertasson (Ininiw iskwew) and Rebecca Beaulne-Stuebing (Weesawkoday Anishinabe), conversations with Indigenous and Black community members are woven in to a discussion on reconciliation, settler colonialism, and antiblackness.
Read moreEpisode 1 – Give It Back
Give It Back! What are reparations? Who deserves them? Is it a viable project? In today's episode, we explore the dynamic and, often times, controversial debate around reparations in Canada. We feature a number of important conversations and people including members of local indigenous communities, a prominent figure of the Afrikan Global Congress, and voices from the inspirational Black Lives Matter-Toronto movement #BLMTOtentcity. Together, we imagine the henceforward, an alternative and creative space, separate from dominant, Eurocentric powers.
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