Another Way: The Podcast: Recent Episodes
Twasiima Bigirwa
Another Way the podcast is dedicated to exploring what else can emerge through us, and what we can create in this life, with all its fullness and complexities. With a focus on our collective survival and a re-imagination of what our world can look and feel like, join Twasiima Bigirwa and different friends and co-weavers as they set out to conjure liberation in our lifetime.
We're back beloveds!
Here's to a new season.
Thank you for listening, sharing and holding the space for these conversations.
This is for our liberation, always.
A special one for episode 10!
In conversation with two of my siblings; David and Pauline.
We talk through growing up with the set cultural and otherwise expectations and what it has meant for us to reject some of those ideas, and charter our own path. We talk through mental health, exploring the ways of re-parenting, and what it means to show up fully for each other.
David is a Civil and Environmental engineer by training, and has recently co-founded a company; Danold Works, that focuses on sustainable ways of construction, among other things. David first appears on Episode 8 of the podcast. Pauline is all things creative and loves fashion, art, design and hair. She will be starting university in September.
Sarah and I talk through the lessons that have come to us about how to accept the different highs and lows of life. We talk about learning to live with pain and what that means for the kind of compassion, love and empathy we then can show up with. As a parent, Sarah also shares some of her own ways she teaches her boys how to show up in the world.
Sarah is a financial guru and teaches on all things planning, investing and being accountable to money, in ways that are ethical and sustainable. She is a mother of two lovely boys.
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In conversation with Mugabe David.
David, my brother and I talk through the question of what is deemed moral in our society, and why. We go talk through the process of questioning everything we have been conditioned to believe, ultimately landing on our own truths about how we see the world.
David is a Civil and Environmental engineer by training, and has recently co-founded a company; Danold Works, that focuses on sustainable ways of construction, among other things. He is a self taught chef and baker, which is a passion he is hoping to explore and grow more.
In conversation with Rushongoka Wa'Mpiira.
Rusho and I talk through the courage of moving away from previously defined ideas of success that focus on accumulation. We talk about the urgency of cultivating more sustainable practices that focus on regeneration, sustainable ways of producing food and different models of development.
Rusho is an agro- ecologist and the founder of Nyaza Academy. He works with restoring farming systems and making farming systems truly sustainable by focusing on the natural and indigenous ways of growing food. Rusho loves working with children, introducing them to ways of living that are more harmonious with nature. He lives in Fort-Portal, Uganda.
Darlyne and I are in conversation with Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah's 'The Sex Lives of African Women".
We talk through sex and sexuality as we have come to understand it, talking through some of our personal journeys of unlearning shame, fear and resistances that hold us back from experiencing pleasure as a whole.
Darlyne is a multi-disciplinary artists with a focus on photography and DJing who is a Black Women loving woman. You can find her in her instagram stories on @darlkom or on a stage somewhere near you.
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Gloria and I talk about mothering, sharing our own experiences with the changing relationships with our own mothers. Acknowledging that motherhood looks and feels differently for all of us. we talk through the different people who have loved and nurtured us, including each other and the lessons we draw from that.
Gloria is a feminist writer and organiser whose daily work is focused on among other things reproductive justice for all. She is also the founder of Bonera Designs and an all round creative person. She loves life and purposes to use her gifts to spread love, infuse pleasure and have enough room always to pay attention to the different miracles that make life worth living.
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In conversation with Nayebare Shiella.
Shiella and I talk through our own personal experiences with grief. We explore the ways in which we survived, and found beauty in-spite of deep loss. For both of us, grief is something we live with, memories of how much we have loved. It is also a reminder to stay present, to live as fully and as intentionally as we can, for as long as we have.
Shiella runs a design and build firm; Archies where she spends her days bring to reality visions of her love for architecture. She is also currently pursuing her degree in psychology. Sheilla is truly multitalented and for as long as we have known each other has been great at singing, dancing, acting and all things creative. She is a mother of three.
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In conversation with Nabaasa Babrah.
Babrah and I discuss how else we can commune and relate with each other. We speak through how relationships are currently structured; the hierarchies that have been dictated and the great limitations that come with that. For both of us, it has been important that we step out of what is considered to be culturally acceptable in order to allow us experience the full expansiveness of what our relationships can feel and look like.
Babrah is a soon-to-be-licensed therapist. She is also a business woman, who enjoys traveling the world and having conversations that speak to reimagining and remodelling our current reality. Babrah is determined to remain free and to cultivate relationships that allow her to embody her full self.
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In conversation with Eshban Kwesiga.
We talk about the ways in which work has been traditionally structured, discussing the journey to redefining what our priorities are and how work can feel like. For both of us, the pandemic was an opportunity to redefine what our priorities are, and we talk through some of these internal changes we are undergoing.
Eshban is a dreamer and lover of most things design and history. While his 9-5 is in global philanthropy, his true love is everyday philosophy and doing concerts in the shower. He is trying (miserably) to pick up ceramic pottery as one of his loves.
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In conversation with Ophelia Kemigisha.
We talk through the process of coming to freedom - and the necessity of remembering to centre pleasure. In the midst of all the chaos and systemic oppression that we are dealt with, this often seems frivolous, and yet it is as urgent. Together, we talk through some of our own personal journeys. And hopefully spark a curiosity or a knowing on you to do the same.
Ophelia is a feminist lawyer, writer and organiser. More recently, she is in deep exploration and learning of transformative justice and abolitionist praxis that focus on restoration and harm reduction.
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Welcome to Another Way Podcast, this is the intro.
Thank you for listening and here's to journeying this together.