This week, we're reissuing a solo episode from April 2024, where Angie shares an essay on allyship and advocacy in the context of global atrocities and the war in Gaza, and how these events intersect with educators’ roles and school conversations about the Middle East. She argues that passive allyship and apathy have catastrophic impacts, urging listeners to face the horror of dehumanisation—citing events including the Hamas killing of 1,200 Israeli civilians, the Tigray War, ethnic cleansing in Sudan, mass killings in Syria and Ukraine, and the Israeli invasion of Gaza with at least 30,000 killed—and to respond with rehumanising advocacy. Angie offers examples of advocacy from personal check-ins to organisational policy reviews and public speech, and connects international conflict to rising UK Islamophobic and antisemitic hate crimes, calling for solidarity and strategies to mitigate faith-based discrimination.

Angie Browne reflects on International Women’s Day and how it has shifted from its socialist, working-class origins into a more corporate, marketing-friendly celebration, using narrative literacy to examine which stories are told and which are erased. Browne then applies narrative and relational literacy to Theresa May’s 2011 Violence Against Women Action Plan, acknowledging policy advances while also naming the harms of austerity, cuts to specialist services, refuges, and a hostile environment, and offers questions for how organisations mark IWD and who is centred or excluded.

Angie Browne shares an essay written in response to the BAFTAs and the BBC broadcasting the N word during a time-delayed edit, while reportedly editing out an acceptance speech that included “Free Palestine.” She argues for lineage consciousness, urging listeners to see the incident not as a one-off but as part of a long pattern of institutional behavior by BAFTA and the BBC, citing previous controversies involving racism, disability, and organisational culture. Angie explores how unclear values and a lack of a lived culture of care create spectated lawlessness, and introduces relational literacy and Sarah Ahmed’s Sticky Emotions to explain how shame, fear, anger, and disgust circulate and attach to people, fueling pile-ons that distract from institutional accountability.

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