The Other Checkbox: Recent Episodes
The Other Checkbox
The Other Checkbox is a project funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation that explores London's other ethnic identities within the national statistics. Every episode features a conversation with a different person living in London on identity and not feeling represented or belonging in the diversity and monitoring forms of the national statistics.
This is the ninth episode of this podcast series exploring London's 'other ethnic' identities, especially within the equality and diversity monitoring forms and the national statistics. In this episode we discuss Arab identity and representation in the UK and how does that affect your sense of identity and your feeling of belonging. Our guest is Sandy Abdelrahman, a migrant woman of colour, an activist, creative social entrepreneur and a co-founder of Skaped who will be sharing with us what it is like to grow up as an immigrant woman of colour in the UK.
The 'Other' Checkbox is a project funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and it is a collaboration between Sandy Abdelrahman and JC Candanedo. The idea of the project was born from our continuous conversation and debates on identity and not feeling represented or belonging. It is a project that is rooted in our own lived experience as immigrants and members of the 'Other' ethnic groups ourselves.
Our aim is to create a sense of community and belonging for individuals from the 'Other' communities and a space to share our voices. The other checkbox is broken down into four parts that interlink with each other starting with a survey, Podcast, Creative workshop and finally the impact report. You can learn more about the project on our website theothercheckbox.co.uk.
The Hosts: Sandy is a migrant woman of colour, activist, creative social entrepreneur and a co-founder of Skaped, a charity that inspires young people to engage with their human rights through the creative arts. JC is a Queer and Migrant Visual Artist who uses photography to explore Human Rights, Mental Health and Identity.
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This is the eighth episode of this podcast series exploring London's 'other ethnic' identities, especially within the equality and diversity monitoring forms and the national statistics. Today, Sandy Abdelrahman and JC Candanedo speak to Rebecca Dsouza, a Christian British Pakistani living in the UK who will be sharing with us her lived experience and a different perspective on being able to fit in one of the diversity monitoring forms checkboxes.
The 'Other' Checkbox is a project funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and it is a collaboration between Sandy Abdelrahman and JC Candanedo. The idea of the project was born from our continuous conversation and debates on identity and not feeling represented or belonging. It is a project that is rooted in our own lived experience as immigrants and members of the 'Other' ethnic groups ourselves.
Our aim is to create a sense of community and belonging for individuals from the 'Other' communities and a space to share our voices. The other checkbox is broken down into four parts that interlink with each other starting with a survey, Podcast, Creative workshop and finally the impact report. You can learn more about the project on our website theothercheckbox.co.uk.
The Hosts: Sandy is a migrant woman of colour, activist, creative social entrepreneur and a co-founder of Skaped, a charity that inspires young people to engage with their human rights through the creative arts. JC is a Queer and Migrant Visual Artist who uses photography to explore Human Rights, Mental Health and Identity.
Find us on Instagram and Twitter!
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-other-checkbox/message
This is the seventh episode of this podcast series exploring London's 'other ethnic' identities, especially within the equality and diversity monitoring forms and the national statistics. Today, Sandy Abdelrahman and JC Candanedo speak to Jamie Craven, a mixed-raced person of Filipino and British decent. For the last 12 years he has been living, studying and working in the UK, but he was raised as an expat in Cambodia, Malaysia and Singapore with the majority of his youth being spent in Singapore.
Jamie is running a fundraising campaign to provide shelter to his community back in The Philippines who were affected by the Typhoon Odette in 2021. Please donate on this link: https://gofund.me/0efe7bb0
The 'Other' Checkbox is a project funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and it is a collaboration between Sandy Abdelrahman and JC Candanedo. The idea of the project was born from our continuous conversation and debates on identity and not feeling represented or belonging. It is a project that is rooted in our own lived experience as immigrants and members of the 'Other' ethnic groups ourselves.
Our aim is to create a sense of community and belonging for individuals from the 'Other' communities and a space to share our voices. The other checkbox is broken down into four parts that interlink with each other starting with a survey, Podcast, Creative workshop and finally the impact report. You can learn more about the project on our website theothercheckbox.co.uk.
The Hosts: Sandy is a migrant woman of colour, activist, creative social entrepreneur and a co-founder of Skaped, a charity that inspires young people to engage with their human rights through the creative arts. JC is a Queer and Migrant Visual Artist who uses photography to explore Human Rights, Mental Health and Identity.
Find us on Instagram and Twitter!
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-other-checkbox/message
This is the sixth episode of this podcast series exploring London's 'other ethnic' identities, especially within the equality and diversity monitoring forms and the national statistics. Today, Sandy Abdelrahman and JC Candanedo talk to Chantal Olivia Miller about how to keep your identity in the diaspora and how does that affect your sense of belonging. Our guest is a filmmaker and broadcast journalist and social and creative entrepreneur who will be sharing with us her insight and lived experience. She is also the founder of Island Girls Rock - a non-profit initiative celebrating women of Caribbean heritage in the UK.
The 'Other' Checkbox is a project funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and it is a collaboration between Sandy Abdelrahman and JC Candanedo. The idea of the project was born from our continuous conversation and debates on identity and not feeling represented or belonging. It is a project that is rooted in our own lived experience as immigrants and members of the 'Other' ethnic groups ourselves. Our aim is to create a sense of community and belonging for individuals from the 'Other' communities and a space to share our voices.
The other checkbox is broken down into four parts that interlink with each other starting with a survey, Podcast, Creative workshop and finally the impact report. You can learn more about the project on our website theothercheckbox.co.uk.
The Hosts: Sandy is a migrant woman of colour, activist, creative social entrepreneur and a co-founder of Skaped, a charity that inspires young people to engage with their human rights through the creative arts. JC is a Queer and Migrant Visual Artist who uses photography to explore Human Rights, Mental Health and Identity.
Find us on Instagram and Twitter!
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-other-checkbox/message
This is the fifth episode of this podcast series exploring London's 'other ethnic' identities, especially within the equality and diversity monitoring forms and the national statistics. Today, Sandy Abdelrahman and JC Candanedo discuss academia and representation within the education system with guest Samar AbdelRahman, a PHD student reading film who's also a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Kings University, and who will be sharing her insights into Academia and representation.
The 'Other' Checkbox is a project funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and it is a collaboration between Sandy Abdelrahman and JC Candanedo. The idea of the project was born from our continuous conversation and debates on identity and not feeling represented or belonging. It is a project that is rooted in our own lived experience as immigrants and members of the 'Other' ethnic groups ourselves. Our aim is to create a sense of community and belonging for individuals from the 'Other' communities and a space to share our voices.
The other checkbox is broken down into four parts that interlink with each other starting with a survey, Podcast, Creative workshop and finally the impact report. You can learn more about the project on our website theothercheckbox.co.uk.
The Hosts: Sandy is a migrant woman of colour, activist, creative social entrepreneur and a co-founder of Skaped, a charity that inspires young people to engage with their human rights through the creative arts. JC is a Queer and Migrant Visual Artist who uses photography to explore Human Rights, Mental Health and Identity.
Find us on Instagram and Twitter!
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-other-checkbox/message
This is the fourth episode of this podcast series exploring London's 'other ethnic' identities, especially within the equality and diversity monitoring forms and the national statistics. Today, Sandy Abdelrahman speaks to JC Candanedo and they discuss mixed-other identities, what it is like to belong and be represented in the UK, and how representation affects our identities. JC Candanedo is a queer migrant visual artist and co-host of this podcast, and he will be sharing with us his lived experience on what it is like to have to tick the mixed-other checkbox in the UK.
The 'Other' Checkbox is a project funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and it is a collaboration between Sandy Abdelrahman and JC Candanedo. The idea of the project was born from our continuous conversation and debates on identity and not feeling represented or belonging. It is a project that is rooted in our own lived experience as immigrants and members of the 'Other' ethnic groups ourselves. Our aim is to create a sense of community and belonging for individuals from the 'Other' communities and a space to share our voices.
The other checkbox is broken down into four parts that interlink with each other starting with a survey, Podcast, Creative workshop and finally the impact report. You can learn more about the project on our website theothercheckbox.co.uk.
The Hosts: Sandy is a migrant woman of colour, activist, creative social entrepreneur and a co-founder of Skaped, a charity that inspires young people to engage with their human rights through the creative arts. JC is a Queer and Migrant Visual Artist who uses photography to explore Human Rights, Mental Health and Identity.
Find us on Instagram and Twitter!
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-other-checkbox/message
This is the third episode of this podcast series exploring London's 'other ethnic' identities, especially within the equality and diversity monitoring forms and the national statistics. Today, Sandy Abdelrahman and JC Candanedo speak to Lisa Stepanovic and Moses Adeyemi about the intersection of Class and Ethnic Identity in the UK, and how does that affect your sense of identity and your feeling of belonging.
Lisa Stepanovic is a working-class award-winning entrepreneur and the founder of Social Ark, an East-London charity that helps young people use their own lived experiences to start their own projects. Moses Adeyemi is an award-winning entrepreneur who founded the specialist wellbeing programme Silverline Project. He's currently working on a new venture, Flick First Ltd, launched in 2020 and bringing a fresh perspective to the world of eCommerce.
The 'Other' Checkbox is a project funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and it is a collaboration between Sandy Abdelrahman and JC Candanedo. The idea of the project was born from our continuous conversation and debates on identity and not feeling represented or belonging. It is a project that is rooted in our own lived experience as immigrants and members of the 'Other' ethnic groups ourselves.
Our aim is to create a sense of community and belonging for individuals from the 'Other' communities and a space to share our voices. The other checkbox is broken down into four parts that interlink with each other starting with a survey, Podcast, Creative workshop and finally the impact report. You can learn more about the project on our website theothercheckbox.co.uk.
The Hosts: Sandy is a migrant woman of colour, activist, creative social entrepreneur and a co-founder of Skaped, a charity that inspires young people to engage with their human rights through the creative arts. JC is a Queer and Migrant Visual Artist who uses photography to explore Human Rights, Mental Health and Identity.
Find us on Instagram and Twitter!
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-other-checkbox/message
This is the second episode of this podcast series exploring London's 'other ethnic' identities, especially within the equality and diversity monitoring forms and the national statistics. Today, Sandy Abdelrahman and JC Candanedo speak to Eelyn Lee about the representation of mixed-others, East-Asian identity in the UK and how does that affect your sense of identity and your feeling of belonging.
Eelyn Lee is an award-winning artist and filmmaker who has exhibited across UK including Barbican, Tate Modern, National Portrait Gallery and Whitechapel Gallery as well as internationally in Paris, Berlin, and Toronto.
The 'Other' Checkbox is a project funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and it is a collaboration between Sandy Abdelrahman and JC Candanedo. The idea of the project was born from our continuous conversation and debates on identity and not feeling represented or belonging. It is a project that is rooted in our own lived experience as immigrants and members of the 'Other' ethnic groups ourselves.
Our aim is to create a sense of community and belonging for individuals from the 'Other' communities and a space to share our voices. The other checkbox is broken down into four parts that interlink with each other starting with a survey, Podcast, Creative workshop and finally the impact report. You can learn more about the project on our website theothercheckbox.co.uk.
The Hosts: Sandy is a migrant woman of colour, activist, creative social entrepreneur and a co-founder of Skaped, a charity that inspires young people to engage with their human rights through the creative arts. JC is a Queer and Migrant Visual Artist who uses photography to explore Human Rights, Mental Health and Identity.
Find us on Instagram and Twitter!
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-other-checkbox/message
Welcome to the first episode of this podcast series exploring London's 'other ethnic' identities, especially within the equality and diversity monitoring forms and the national statistics. Today, Sandy Abdelrahman and JC Candanedo introduce The Other Checkbox project and speak about where the podcast comes from and where will the project lead to in the future.
The 'Other' Checkbox is a project funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and it is a collaboration between Sandy Abdelrahman and JC Candanedo. The idea of the project was born from our continuous conversation and debates on identity and not feeling represented or belonging. It is a project that is rooted in our own lived experience as immigrants and members of the 'Other' ethnic groups ourselves.
Our aim is to create a sense of community and belonging for individuals from the 'Other' communities and a space to share our voices. The other checkbox is broken down into four parts that interlink with each other starting with a survey, Podcast, Creative workshop and finally the impact report. You can learn more about the project on our website theothercheckbox.co.uk.
The Hosts: Sandy is a migrant woman of colour, activist, creative social entrepreneur and a co-founder of Skaped, a charity that inspires young people to engage with their human rights through the creative arts. JC is a Queer and Migrant Visual Artist who uses photography to explore Human Rights, Mental Health and Identity,
Find us on Instagram and Twitter!
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-other-checkbox/message
COMING SOON A podcast series exploring London's 'other ethnic' identities, especially within the equality and diversity monitoring forms and the national statistics. We've spoken to so many interesting people with the most amazing backgrounds and we can't wait to share those conversations with you!
The 'Other' Checkbox is a project funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and it is a collaboration between Sandy Abdelrahman and JC Candanedo. The idea of the project was born from our continuous conversation and debates on identity and not feeling represented or belonging. It is a project that is rooted in our own lived experience as immigrants and members of the 'Other' ethnic groups ourselves.
Our aim is to create a sense of community and belonging for individuals from the 'Other' communities and a space to share our voices. The other checkbox is broken down into four parts that interlink with each other starting with a survey, Podcast, Creative workshop and finally the impact report. You can learn more about the project on our website theothercheckbox.co.uk.
The Hosts: Sandy is a migrant woman of colour, activist, creative social entrepreneur and a co-founder of Skaped, a charity that inspires young people to engage with their human rights through the creative arts. JC is a Queer and Migrant Visual Artist who uses photography to explore Human Rights, Mental Health and Identity,
Find us on Instagram and Twitter!
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-other-checkbox/message