In this episode Seun Matiluko (@Seunspeakss) chats with Simmone Ahiaku, friend to the podcast and an award-winning changemaker, campaigner and environmental activist.
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Further resources:
Article by Sean F Britt:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25762257
Black Women and Homelessness:
https://www.bigissue.com/latest/black-people-are-more-than-three-times-as-likely-to-experience-homelessness/
https://england.shelter.org.uk/media/press_release/black_people_are_more_than_three_times_as_likely_to_experience_homelessness
https://www.trustforlondon.org.uk/publications/roof-not-home-housing-experiences-black-and-minoritised-women-survivors-gender-based-violence-london/
Climate Justice:
https://shado-mag.com/?s=climate+justice
https://www.nus.org.uk/campaigns/decolonise-education/mixed-media-library
Ogoni Nine:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-55330945
https://unpo.org/article/13664
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/role-women-struggle-environmental-justice-ogoni
https://csw.ucla.edu/2017/03/23/ogoni-women-nigeria-us-migrating-movement/
Political Assasinations:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-57459055
Space Colonisation:
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-limits-of-jeff-bezos-winged-space-utopia-2021-7
Film Recommendation:
Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century
Music Recommendation:
Willow Smith, 21st Century Girl
Simmone's Book Recommendations:
Octavia Butler, The Parable of the Sower
Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism v The Climate
Ike Okonta and Oronto Douglas, Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights and Oil
Kathryn Yusoff, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
Nick Buxton and Ben Hayes, The Secure and the Dispossessed: How the Military and Corporations Are Shaping a Climate-Changed World