Inner Work: Recent Episodes
Ally Squared
Self-reflection and honest conversations seem like daunting feats in the path towards practicing allyship. Join hosts Yasmine and Uswah as they have hard conversations to explore the ways they can better practice allyship. Inner Work is Ally Squared's official podcast. For more information, visit www.allysquared.ca
Shame and Honour are heavy words that can carry a lot of power. Yasmine and Uswah talk about their experiences with cultural shame and the ways communities can use honour to empower people.
In Season 2's premier episode, we dive into how lonely tokenism can make you feel, and how belonging is one of the most powerful emotions to think about when it comes to representation.
In the last episode of Season 1, Yasmine and Uswah talk about positionality using Ally Squared's Grocery Store analogy.
In an individualistic society, how do we build collective consciousness and community care? Yasmine and Uswah interview Kamil Ahmed from Community Fridge KW about exactly how to do so.
Celina Cesar-Chavannes joins Yasmine and guest host Sumaya to talk about why representation isn't enough. Celina shares her experiences as a Black woman in White-dominated leadership spaces and gives some advice on how to be unapologetically yourself.
Yasmine and Uswah use intentionality to create goals for active allyship. They should how to use intentionality effectively, and how to avoid performative activism.
We sometimes talk about issues without giving equal weight to solutions. Join Yasmine and Uswah as they interview Leah Gazan, a Member of Parliament, activist, and educator. Leah talks about her fight for Guaranteed Livable Basic Income in the House of Commons and the impact it would make in building equitable futures.
Karens are White women who weaponize their Whiteness to oppress and attack racialized people. Join Yasmine and Uswah as they interview Justine Abigail Yu from Living Hyphen about Karens and their negative impact on society.
Rayne Fisher-Quann led Ontario's largest walkout in protest of budget cuts to sex education and Indigenous curriculums in public schools. Yasmine and Uswah talk to her about front-line activism, the depiction of young activists as martyrs, and the future of resistance after COVID-19.
Are petitions and online advocacy forms of slacktivism? Are they effective? Yasmine and Uswah interview Mikala Messam from Send Your Support and talk honestly about the emotional toll online advocacy takes on individuals leading change.
What's the difference between cultural appropriation or appreciation? In this episode, Yasmine and Uswah dive deep into the world of music festivals, the Kardashians, and the everyday ways we've normalized appropriation.
Microaggressions happen daily but most people don't stop to think about the impact of their words. On today's episode, Yasmine and Uswah talk about the macro impacts of microaggressions and how to stop being a microaggressor.
In this episode, Yasmine and Uswah interview Sid Pereira of Boys of the Future about toxic masculinity. They explore the ways kids learn gender roles and ask Sid about how to combat the homophobia and transphobia found in toxic masculinity.
On this episode, Yasmine and Uswah touch on a tricky topic: Cancel Culture. They discuss the ways cancel culture has failed to hold people accountable, and suggest alternative methods of de-platforming or educating.
In our first episode, we talk about identity, a word that we use all the time but seldom reflect on. Yasmine and Uswah talk about their identities and how the ways that society treated them affected how they thought of themselves. Doing the inner work on identity formation is incredibly important in practicing allyship for those with marginalized identities.
Join hosts Uswah and Yasmine on a deep deep dive into the inner work needed to practice real, impactful allyship. Start listening to begin your inner work in practicing allyship.