EPISODE 19: Chanju Mwanza: Her Blogs, Her Thoughts

This is Episode 3/5 of our October / Black History Month edition

For five weeks during October / Black History Month UK, we’ll be handing over the mic to VERVE Operative and blogger, Chanju Mwanza for a She/Said Melanin Takeover.
Chanju will be welcoming a range of guests including Stella Dadzie, one of the authors of Heart of the Race, Black Women’s life in Britain.
The Melanin Podcast Takeover will be covering topics like misogynoir, the politics of black hair and how to survive a white curriculum that denies your voice.

This week our London VERVE Operative, Chanju Mwanza, reads some of her favourite blogs that she’s written for verveup.com & speaks a little bit after each one on why she wrote them & why the topics are important to her. Expect the problem with tokenism within the goal for diversity & inclusion; the problem with private & higher education when you’re one of the only black girls there; questioning where Africa’s #metoo movement is, and the issues with poverty porn. Listen to Chanju read her own words, and prepare to be educated.

Find ‘Let’s Talk Tokenism’ blog here: https://www.verveup.com/shesaid/lets-talk-tokenism?rq=chanju%20

If you want to read ‘Equal Education For All? It’s A Myth’, go here: https://www.verveup.com/shesaid/equal-education-for-all-its-a-myth

Find ‘Where Is Africa’s #metoo Movement?’ blog here: https://www.verveup.com/shesaid/where-is-africas-metoo-moment

If you want to read ‘Poverty Porn: Perpetuating Stereotypes and Denying Real Activism’, go here: https://www.verveup.com/shesaid/poverty-porn-perpetuating-stereotypes-and-denying-real-activism

If you want to read anything else that Chanju has written, head over here:
https://www.verveup.com/shesaid/?author=5a82eb02db7926cb172dbe43

VERVE links:
Website: https://www.verveup.com
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Guest Host: Chanju Mwanza - VERVE London Operative & Blogger

Music Intro & Outro: Jamie Masterson - Freelance Music Producer (insta: jaytmasterson)

Podcast Editor: Helena Burton- Jones

Speaking over Intro & Outro music: Anna Quick- Palmer - VERVE Founder & Chief Feminist Operative

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