The Ignoramus's Guide to Surviving Humanity: Recent Episodes
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A podcast about stuff we want to know. We read and discuss books, we have conversations with people who might be able to help us understand what we just read, we spout opinions both informed and uninformed and hopefully we help you to stop nodding through intellectual/political discussions and actually engage in the conversation.
Originally conceived as “cocktail parties” but...Covid
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The Ignoramus's Guide talks to John Ross, Senior Fellow Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China and No Cold War Britain Signatory.
On this episode, Ileana gets to alleiviate a lot of her ignorance around the differences in the economic systems between China and the West. They discuss what really causes inflation, why the capitalistic system of the West isn't actually better for investments and whether BRICS can hasten the replacement of the US dollar.
Find articles by John Ross here: www.learningfromchina.net
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On this episode, Wei and Ileana talk to Adrian Devant and Matt Alford about their documentaries Ithaka and Theaters of War and the alarming relevance of the book “Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent” to
our everyday lives.
If you're in North American, don't miss the Q and A screenings of Ithaka @ithakamovie (Instagram) with John Shipton and Gabriel Shipton @GabrielShipton (Instagram) running through April. If you're in Europe, catch a Q and A screening with Stella Assange. Follow @stellaassange (Instagram) for information on upcoming events.
Watch the trailer here: Ithaka: A Fight To Free Julian Assange | Trailer - YouTube
For more information on Theaters of War:
https://go.mediaed.org/theaters-of-war
Streaming on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/theatersofwar
Available on Kanopy beginning May 24, 2022
Watch the trailer here:
Theaters of War (2022): Official Trailer - YouTube
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Susana Khalil on why the Palestinian Cause is about the fight against the worst colonialism in our human history.
In this episode of The Ignoramus's Guide Pod, Ileana and co-host Ahmed Sharan talk to politologist , researcher and founder of the Canaán Association. They talk about why we must insist on being precise with framing the Palestinian Cause within the context of colonialism, how antisemitism is often misunderstood and why even though it is a struggle, we need to not allow fear to defeat our spirit. In the process, Ileana grapples with her unconscious internalisation of the common Imperialist attitude that we in the West can determine what is the “right” way for Palestinians to fight back.
You can find Susana Khalil's articles here:
Susana Khalil | Al Mayadeen English
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Episode 27
Huda Ammori on how we only need an alliance of the willing few to make meaningful change.
In this episode, Ileana talks to Huda Ammori co-founder of direct action group Palestine Action. They discuss how simple yet consistent action caused the shutdown of Elbit Systems (Israel’s largest arms firm) in the UK, Huda’s involvement in the bombshell Al Jazeera documentary series “The Labour Files” and how direct action is the logical tangible consequence of a political system that doesn’t work for any of us.
ElbitisGuilty
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Ep 26 Why Abolition is the compassionate and constructive solution to our punitive capitalistic system with Isabella Yasmin Kajiwara
Ileana and Sayorsa dive deep with Isabella Yasmin Kajiwara on Abolition, specifically abolishing borders and prisons. They debunk some common misconceptions, explain how it begins in your daily life and Isabella shares some of her experiences and insights from visiting border detention centers.
For more information on instagram: @soka.space @sds_noborders_noprisons
Check out this article: http://www.soasdetaineesupport.co.uk/how-can-it-be-your-job-to-be-that-cruel-sylvies-experience-of-being-detained-at-yarls-wood/
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Ep 25 What the Heck is Mutual Aid? With Keira May of All Rise Collective
Ileana and new Co-host, Soairse talk to Keira May about mutual aid, what it is, how it differs from charity and how anyone anywhere can do it. Keira shares their experience with three mutual aid projects, All Rise Collective, South End Pride and their monthly LBGTA+ Yoga and Wellness community project.
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In Episode 24 of The Ignoramus’s Guide Podcast, Ileana and new co host, Stephen Hoo talk to author Kerry Young about her trilogy that’s not really a trilogy, Pao, Gloria and Show Me a Mountain.They discuss the development of Pao as a TV series, the “unexpected” Chinese diaspora in Jamaica and Kerry shares how being diagnosed as autistic in 2017 changed her life.
Find the books here:
http://www.kerryyoung.co.uk
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On this week’s podcast, Ileana talks to author and musician, Ivy Ngeow on her books, “Overboard”, “Cry of the Flying Rhino” and “Heart of Glass”. They discuss how to differentiate between constructive criticism and perfectionism, the daily practices that help you cultivate your creative confidence and Ivy offers some advice to first time writers.
Get Ivy’s books here: www.writengeow.com
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On this week’s podcast, Wei and Ileana talk to academic, Yann Ryan about our Book of October, “Debt The First 5000 Years" by David Graeber. We discuss Squid Game, the Occupy movement 10 years on and how Graeber makes the case for debt being the bedrock of all human interactions and systems.
Yann Ryan is an academic with an MA in History, a PHD in English literature and is researching the intersection of literary history—specifically early modern news—and data science.
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In part two of our conversation, Wei and Ileana talk to creative producer, curator and researcher, Thiago Jesus on the 1st Brazil Indigenous Film Festival in the UK and his current project, “The Sacred Cave of Kamukuwaká”. We discuss the evocative soundscapes of the rainforest, the concept of Indigenous peoples as the “Guardian of Nature” and how our future is inextricably linked to the acceptance as Indigenous leader, Sonia Guajajara, puts it, that “We are nature”.
Thiago Jesus is a London-based Brazilian creative producer, curator and researcher. He works as Senior Project Manager at People's Palace Projects and leads the Indigenous Exchange and Climate Action programme. Thiago is a Royal Society of Arts fellow, holds a Master's Degree in Visual Culture from the University of Westminster and is currently a PhD Drama candidate at Queen Mary University of London with a London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP) Research Studentship.
Artwork by 𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗟𝗦𝗢𝗡 𝗕𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗪𝗔 @denilsonbaniwa (Instagram)
www.denilsonbaniwa.com.br
Tickets available for the 1st Brazil Indigenous Film Festival UK here:🗓 22-24 October, at @ICALondon
👉Full Programme and how to Book your Tickets: https://bit.ly/3BFBfQb
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Ep 20 Thiago Jesus on reimagining Indigenous collaborations with artists from the Kuikuro people in the Brazilian Amazon
In part one of our conversation, Wei and Ileana talk to creative producer, curator and researcher, Thiago Jesus on the first two of his current art projects with Indigenous Kuikuro artist Takuma Kuikuro, “OCA RED: The Nature of Living Together, 2021” in La Biennale di Venezia and “Natural Future Museums” part of the Reimagining Museums for Climate Action exhibition at Glasgow Science Centre for #COP26. We discuss what it means to be in equal collaboration with Indigenous peoples, the provocation of giving Indigenous lands museum status and how this Cop26 might be the most important even of our lifetime.
Artwork by 𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗟𝗦𝗢𝗡 𝗕𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗪𝗔 @denilsonbaniwa (Instagram)
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For more information on the installations:
https://peoplespalaceprojects.org.uk/en/
https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2021/across-borders/acasa-gringo-cardia-design
Thiago Jesus is a London-based Brazilian creative producer, curator and researcher. He works as Senior Project Manager at People's Palace Projects and leads the Indigenous Exchange and Climate Action programme. Thiago is a Royal Society of Arts fellow, holds a Master's Degree in Visual Culture from the University of Westminster and is currently a PhD Drama candidate at Queen Mary University of London with a London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP) Research Studentship.
Clips from this episode from:
ETE LONDON - London as a Village
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FciwjZ_1B1w&t=7s
OLOGIKO: Artistic Residency in an Indigenous Village
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVYmSO2n7lE&list=PLH7kuIXtCmBoLovWrFE9S6WlsDhFTL2C_&index=1&t=358s
Natural Future Museums (teaser)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHfd9DaGh44
Biennale Architettura 2021 – ACASA GRINGO CARDIA DESIGN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj2B3y8r2w8&t=1s
KUARUP final video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWRYb7qpY_0
What You Need To Know About The Amazon's Burning Season
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfR1FY7paAs
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On this week’s podcast, Ileana and community organiser, Saorsa have an honest conversation about their own evolving Sinophobia, biases and susceptibility to the propaganda they were brought up in (Spoiler alert! It’s from the West) and what we can do to battle seemingly ubiquitous imperial brainwashing.
Check out the Tricontinental article on poverty alleviation in China: "Serve the People: The Eradication of Extreme Poverty in China" https://thetricontinental.org/studies-1-socialist-construction/
The Italian report on Xin Jiang:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18Hr6c0ubP0DGH8QbqApr3nTdlGZOpfNN/view?usp=sharing
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On this week’s podcast, Wei and Ileana talk to Dr Anna Sulan Masing about Iban longhouse parties, the versatility of sarongs, how cinnamon unites us all and that both cheese and the Cheese Magazine might both be accidental moments of genius.
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On this week’s podcast, Anne and Ileana talk to Jeremy Lyne, a doctoral student in his second to last year in a clinical psychology program in California whose clinical work and research both focus on working with individuals and couples who have a history of complex trauma utilizing a combination of relational and body based approaches. He is currently researching how to utilize couples therapy and trauma center trauma sensitive yoga for partners to treat complex trauma for one or all individuals in the relationship and to top it all off he is also a certified sex coach.
They discuss what trauma actual is, the markers to look out for that will help you determine whether or not you have experienced it, useful tools to handle trauma in relationships and how to recognize if you are in an abusive relationship.
If you’re looking for trauma based therapy for individuals or for couples and are in the LA area:
Fuller Psychological and Family Services Clinic
This is particularly good for anyone dealing with faith based issues.
(626) 584-5555
https://www.fuller.edu/fuller-psychological-and-family-services/
Rose City Center (Pasadena)
626-793-8609
https://www.rosecitycenter.org/
Books mentioned in episode:
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga in Therapy: Bringing the Body into Treatment byDavid Emerson
Mindsight: Transform Your Brain with the New Science of Empathy by Dan Siegel
Developmental Couple Therapy for Complex Trauma: A Manual for Therapists by Heather MacIntosh
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On this week’s podcast, Anne and Ileana talk to actors and creatives Max Carver and Scott Victor Nelson about our book of September, “The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma” by Bessel A. Van der Kolk. They discuss how this book changed both their lives, the personal and often harrowing journey of accepting their traumas and how facing your pain as uncomfortable as it may be is instrumental to living a full whole life.
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Part one and two of our conversation with Febriana Firdaus and Vincent Bevins on "The Jakarta Method”
How anticommunism led by the US capitalist agenda killed millions. Part One.
On this week’s podcast, Wei and Ileana talk to Indonesian journalist Febriana Firdaus and American journalist and author, Vincent Bevins on his bestselling book “The Jakarta Method”. We discuss how the US backed capitalist agenda led to the mass killings of innocent unarmed leftists across the global south and especially how it led to the massacre of over a million Indonesians in 1965, an event that is still being silenced to this day.
Articles by Febriana Firdaus here: https://www.febrianafirdaus.com muckrack.com/febrianafirdaus
Watch “Our Mothers’ Land” here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwro9TsU2mE&t=4s
Articles on the 2016 Symposium: https://www.rappler.com/world/catatan-simposium-pancasila-hari-pertama
Get the book here:
https://vincentbevins.com/book/
CIA fratboys, reclaiming history and fake sextapes with Vincent Bevins & Febriana Firdaus. Part Two.
A Conversation with Vincent Bevins and Febriana Firdaus on "The Jakarta Method”. Part Two.
On this week’s podcast, Wei and Ileana continue their conversation with Vincent Bevins and Febriana Firdaus about “The Jakarta Method”. They discuss how this book could help new generations of Indonesians to reclaim their history, the frat boy mentality of the CIA and Vincent destroys Christmas for all of us.
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On this week’s podcast, Wei and Ileana continue their conversation with Vincent Bevins and Febriana Firdaus about “The Jakarta Method”. They discuss how this book could help new generations of Indonesians to reclaim their history, the frat boy mentality of the CIA and Vincent destroys Christmas for all of us.
Articles by Febriana Firdaus here: https://www.febrianafirdaus.com muckrack.com/febrianafirdaus
Get the book here:
https://vincentbevins.com/book/
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On this week’s podcast, Wei and Ileana talk to Indonesian journalist Febriana Firdaus and American journalist and author, Vincent Bevins on his bestselling book “The Jakarta Method”. We discuss how the US backed capitalist agenda led to the mass killings of innocent unarmed leftists across the global south and especially how it led to the massacre of over a million Indonesians in 1965, an event that is still being silenced to this day.
Articles by Febriana Firdaus here: https://www.febrianafirdaus.com muckrack.com/febrianafirdaus
Watch “Our Mothers’ Land” here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwro9TsU2mE&t=4s
Articles on the 2016 Symposium: https://www.rappler.com/world/catatan-simposium-pancasila-hari-pertama
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https://vincentbevins.com/book/
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On this week’s podcast, Wei and Ileana talk to BESEA.N founding member and one of the hosts of the podcast “But where are you from?”, Mai-anh Peterson. They discuss the many layers of identity, racism and ignorance, the BESEA.N community HQ bat signal and how gaslighting by a certain Guardian reader editor may have been the impetus for starting BESEA.N.
Follow BESEA.N on instagram: @besea.n
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On this week’s podcast, Anne and Ileana talk to Mexican born actress and former undocumented youth, Mariel Martinez about our book of July "The Undocumented Americans" By Karla Villavicencio.
In part two, we discuss how the dehumanizing language around immigration is damaging, getting into the minds of right wing pundits as a survival mechanism and some updates on the Biden administration and Mariel’s citizenship status!
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On this week’s podcast, Anne and Ileana talk to Mexican born actress and former undocumented youth, Mariel Martinez about our book of July "The Undocumented Americans" By Karla Villavicencio.
In part one, Mariel shares some of her experiences growing up, her complicated feelings about Obama, the emotional rollercoaster of receiving DACA status and the often hidden trauma of being undocumented in America.
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On this week’s podcast, Anne and Ileana talk to Gulf born, Palestinian, Ahmed Sharan about the documentary “Gaza Fights for Freedom” by Abby Martin. They discuss the complicated yet very simple situation in Palestine and Israel, how anti-Zionism can’t be the same as antisemitism and that Debra Messing might be the biggest ignoramus of them all.
Watch “Gaza Fights for Freedom” by Abby Martin here:
https://gazafightsforfreedom.com
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On this week’s podcast, Wei and Ileana talk to journalist, activist and signatory for the No Cold War campaign, Fiona Edwards. They discuss how Western propaganda shapes our fears and xenophobia , the myth of America and China as equal imperialist evils and how there is solidarity and hope…outside the US and the UK.
Check out the No Cold War Britain launch that we reference in the interview here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keS9ZcpCSgo
You can find more tools to arm yourself from the propaganda here:
Check out Fiona’s articles here:
https://eyesonlatinamerica.com
https://www.youtube.com/c/NoColdWar
Add your name to the No Cold War Statement here:
https://www.nocoldwar.org/statement
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In part two of this week's podcast, Wei and Ileana get the tables turned on them by their childhood "Uncle", Balliol educated Human Rights lawyer and Singaporean political exile, Tan Wah-Piow. What exactly are they doing to change the system?
Check out Wah-Piow's recent articles here:
http://universalcs.org
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In part one of this week's podcast, Wei and Ileana have a conversation with their childhood "Uncle", Balliol educated Human Rights lawyer and Singaporean political exile, Tan Wah-Piow. They discuss the cost of speaking up for your principles, the real reasons why Singapore is prosperous and dismantle the myth of the apolitical Asian trope. Model minority myth debunked.
Check out Wah-Piow's recent articles here:
http://universalcs.org
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On this week's podcast, Ileana attempts to understand how the economy works with the help of behavioral economist, Ahmed Sharan. He explains MMT, inflation, what the deficit really is and why we actually can have nice things in a conversation about our book of June, "The Deficit Myth" by Stephanie Kelton.
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On this week’s podcast, Anne and Ileana talk to life and sex coach, Yasmeen Sharan @tapinwithyaz. Palestinian, Gulf born, Yasmeen shares how growing up in the Middle East shaped her idea of self and sexuality, the differences and similarities between attitudes in the Middle East and West, and the map to your own pleasure and authenticity.
Find Yasmeen on instagram @tapinwithyaz or on her website: www.tapinwithyaz.com.
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In this week’s podcast, The Ignoramus Guide bursts some bubbles and possibly breaks some hearts as they look over Biden’s COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act that is being touted as a stance against the rising tide of Anti-Asian Hate. The brillant Jess Wu @1312hbu comes by to set us straight 💜💛💜
Jess's recommended resources:
@aapiwomenlead - US based org putting issues affecting AAPI women to the front
@redcanarysong
@sistersuncut - UK based org taking direct action against domestic violence
@blmuk - Updates on BLM in the UK
@gcblegal - legal services for activists and protestors
@criticalresistance - US national grassroots org for abolition
@thinkingabolition - resources for those thinking about and trying to practice abolition
https://incite-national.org/ - network of radical feminists of color committed to ending violence in homes and communities
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On this week’s podcast, Anne and Ileana talk to fertility specialist, OBGYN, functional medicine practitioner and sex and wellness coach, Dr Tina Koopersmith.
We bust some fertility myths, breakdown the dreaded 35 year mark and learn how to navigate between the woowoo and exciting new discoveries based in science.
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On this week's podcast, Wei and Ileana talk to Jess Wu, a community organizer seeking to uplift and support marginalized voices in their struggles. With her belief in solutions that are non-punitive, non-carceral and community-led, she guides us through how to navigate identity politics, why Andrew Yang isn't who the Asian American community needs and so much more!
Plus, Wei and Ileana come to the surprising revelation that they actually disagree on some stuff and despite knowing each other their whole lives a few more podcasts may help with their rapport.
@aapiwomenlead - US based org putting issues affecting AAPI women to the front
@sistersuncut - UK based org taking direct action against domestic violence
@blmuk - Updates on BLM in the UK
@gcblegal - legal services for activists and protestors
@criticalresistance - US national grassroots org for abolition
@thinkingabolition - resources for those thinking about and trying to practice abolition
https://incite-national.org/ - network of radical feminists of color committed to ending violence in homes and communities
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In this week's podcast, British Malaysian Chinese, Wei and Ileana bravely wrestle with these conflicting parts of their identities and learn something about the history of Sarawak despite the aggressive colonial propaganda of the trailer for the new movie “Edge of the World”.
Shout out to the podcast “Behind the bastards“ with Robert Evans for some illuminating and startlingly conflicting details about the real life of Rajah James Brooke.
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In this week's podcast, Anne and Ileana learn about why the healthcare system in the US is reminiscent of a post apocalyptic wasteland from our book of May, "An American Sickness" by Elisabeth Rosenthal. They examine the solutions presented in the book through their own personal experiences and come away with more knowledge but possibly less hope. Get bonus content on Patreon
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