diaspora

In this podcast, researcher, writer and curator Tania Safura Adam takes us inside her research processes and strategies to revive the individual and collective memories of blackness in Spain: an urgent and tenacious writing operation based on fragments that are often scattered and disjointed. The public dissemination of these silenced and ignored narratives has the power to make us feel uncomfortable, and in this discomfort lies the potential for transformation. We also talk about gaps in the archive, about potential archives, and about what it means to take responsibility for this. And on a more personal note, about what motherhood and child rearing in the diaspora means for her and for many other women.

We dig up some unreleased fragments from our conversation with researcher, writer, and curator Tania Safura Adam. Here, she reflects on the inner drive in the face of injustice, writing as a form of healing, and the need to protect one’s own time. We also talk about the personal and collective implications of assimilation, denial, and trauma within the context of the African diaspora and migrant life, sharing family experiences that connect Mozambique, Lisbon, and Madrid. Kizombando the past, she also shares how music, literature, and art help to recognize what one tries to forget: to understand and share experiences.

In this podcast, political theorist Adom Getachew walks us through the histories of Garveyism, the dynamism of music and political speech, an inward-facing politics of self-transformation, and what decoloniality might mean beyond the mere insertion or inclusion of voices into structures that ultimately re-center existing forms of power. From Garveyite schools of “educating allocution” to the broadcast traditions of anticolonial movements, she explores how power travels not only through institutions and treaties, but through sound—through the ways communities cultivate a collective voice when paper is too costly, borders too rigid, and histories too fractured. Her reflections remind us that political transformation is always collaborative, always practiced in relation, and shaped by those who find ways to speak even when they are not handed a stage.

In this podcast, Brazilian writer and organizer Carol Stampone speaks about writing as her first experience of belonging, motherhood as a deeply transformative and often traumatic process, and the politics of empathy and compassion. She reflects on the importance of asking better questions rather than seeking definitive answers, inviting us to stay with uncertainty, to think with others, and to imagine forms of living, caring, and creating that remain open, relational, and unfinished.