20 episodes
Loving Colour Tanaka Mhishi and Imogen Butler-Cole
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- Society & Culture
This is what it looks like when justice starts at home.
Two friends, one Black, one White, share a series of tender and uncompromising conversations about how Whiteness and anti-Blackness have shaped their lives.
Join us, Tanaka Mhishi and Imogen Butler-Cole, as we attempt our own version of restorative justice through compassion and storytelling.
Twitter: @lovingcolourpod
Instagram: @lovingcolourpod
Theme music: The Boatman from The Other Side by Quest Ensemble
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Episode Sixteen: Shereen on Facing Racism in Childhood
In which our guest Shereen Ibrahim reflects on Episode Seven: Who Gets to Be Creative, and shares a story of her own about facing racism in childhood.
Two friends, one Black, one White, share a series of tender and uncompromising conversations about how Whiteness and anti-Blackness have shaped their lives.
Join us, Tanaka Mhishi and Imogen Butler-Cole, as we attempt our own version of restorative justice through compassion and storytelling.
Twitter: @lovingcolourpod
Instagram: @lovingcolourpod
Theme music: The Boatman from The Other Side by Quest Ensemble
Shereen would like to credit Jassa Ahluwalia's TED Talk for the idea of being Both not Half. -
Episode Fifteen: Words and Language
In which we talk about words and language; think about their true value and explore how our approach to language can bring us together or push us apart.
Two friends, one Black, one White, share a series of tender and uncompromising conversations about how Whiteness and anti-Blackness have shaped their lives.
Join us, Tanaka Mhishi and Imogen Butler-Cole, as we attempt our own version of restorative justice through compassion and storytelling.
Twitter: @lovingcolourpod
Instagram: @lovingcolourpod
Theme music: The Boatman from The Other Side by Quest Ensemble
Resources mentioned in this episode are:
Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin
bell hooks’ book A Will to Change
bell hooks’ essay Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination: https://pages.mtu.edu/~jdslack/readings/CSReadings/hooks_Representing_Whiteness_Black_Imagination.pdf
and Patti Digh and Victor Lee Lewis’s brilliant anti-racism courses: https://www.pattidigh.com/racism/ -
Episode Fourteen: Dionne Reflecting on Hair
In which our guest Dionne Lakey reflects on Episode Twelve: Hair, and shares a related story of her own.
Two friends, one Black, one White, share a series of tender and uncompromising conversations about how Whiteness and anti-Blackness have shaped their lives.
Join us, Tanaka Mhishi and Imogen Butler-Cole, as we attempt our own version of restorative justice through compassion and storytelling.
Twitter: @lovingcolourpod
Instagram: @lovingcolourpod
Theme music: The Boatman from The Other Side by Quest Ensemble
Dionne’s recommendations:
Mazelee Family hair episode, YouTube
Look Up by Nathan Bryon and Dapo Adeola
Dionne’s current reads:
How to Be an Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi
This One Sky Day by Leone Ross
The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Pan-African Schools
Summer school in operation in UK summer ‘21 -
Episode Thirteen: Pride
In which we explore the power of metaphor in responding to stories, how they create empathy and aid the processing of challenging events.
Two friends, one Black, one White, share a series of tender and uncompromising conversations about how Whiteness and anti-Blackness have shaped their lives.
Join us, Tanaka Mhishi and Imogen Butler-Cole, as we attempt our own version of restorative justice through compassion and storytelling.
Twitter: @lovingcolourpod
Instagram: @lovingcolourpod
Theme music: The Boatman from The Other Side by Quest Ensemble -
Episode Twelve Point Five: Feedback and Trigger Warnings
In which we respond to some finely executed constructive feedback, discuss the importance and pitfalls of trigger warnings and share our plans for the coming season.
Two friends, one Black, one White, share a series of tender and uncompromising conversations about how Whiteness and anti-Blackness have shaped their lives.
Join us, Tanaka Mhishi and Imogen Butler-Cole, as we attempt our own version of restorative justice through compassion and storytelling.
Twitter: @lovingcolourpod
Instagram: @lovingcolourpod
Theme music: The Boatman from The Other Side by Quest Ensemble -
Episode Twelve: Hair
In which we tackle society’s fear of, and fascination with, Black hair.
Two friends, one Black, one White, share a series of tender and uncompromising conversations about how Whiteness and anti-Blackness have shaped their lives.
Join us, Tanaka Mhishi and Imogen Butler-Cole, as we attempt our own version of restorative justice through compassion and storytelling.
Twitter: @lovingcolourpod
Instagram: @lovingcolourpod
Theme music: The Boatman from The Other Side by Quest Ensemble
Resources mentioned in this episode are: Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri (US edition is Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture)
Hair Love, Oscar-winning animated short: https://youtu.be/kNw8V_Fkw28
Barbershop Chronicles by Inua Ellams (available to buy in script form)
Selina Thompson’s play Dark and Lovely: resources available here:
https://selinathompson.co.uk/projects/dark-lovely/
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl/reinvention/archive/bcur2013specialissue/rhodes/: Subtle Racism: Viewing Race through Hair by Zoey Olivia Rhodes