18 episodes
What do you think about X? Adam Sroka, Simon Stevens, and Perry Pearcey
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- Society & Culture
Each episode will be a themed discussion with X being anything from automation to zealots. With backgrounds in political philosophy, artificial intelligence and professional marketing, Simon Stevens, Adam Sroka and Pel Pearcey will try and make some sense of things, understand things that we might not have thought about before and hopefully pose some deeper questions along the way.
Music by Chris Tybjerg
Cover art by www.irondragondesign.com
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S2: Identity | Being Black and White | Aminata Kamara
Today on WDYTAX we're joined by Aminata Kamara, presenter of BBC Radio Leicester's The VIBE: Vibrant Intelligent Black Entertainment, podcaster, and writer. Aminata discusses with us about why white people find it so hard to talk about race. We cover an interesting range of differences from education to day-to-day experience and Aminata flips the conversation on its head, asking what does it mean to be White?
Why should you listen to this episode? Maybe you're white and want to think about how you can be a better ally. Maybe you're not, and you want to hear some tips from Aminata on discussing it.
Aminata's show runs every Wednesday 19:00-22:00 and can be accessed through the link here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07hsm77
Aminata can also be found online here:
Instagram - @aminataonline
Twitter - @aminataonline
Contact us: wdytax@gmail.com
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S2: Identity | Disability in the UK | Lucy Burke
Today on WDYTAX we're joined by Dr. Lucy Burke. Lucy is an academic at Manchester Met specialising in literary and cultural disability studies and the medical humanities. Her study explores how dementia and learning disabilities are represented across a range of literary, filmic, televisual and auto/biographical texts, and how we might draw upon ways of working in arts and humanities develop creative ways of working with disabled people and older people living with dementia.
Currently working with Access All Areas theatre company on an Arts Council England project Transforming Leadership and coming to the end of a major AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) project D4D exploring disabled people’s experiences of community.
Links mentioned in the episode:
http://www.accessallareastheatre.org/transforming-leadership
https://sickfestival.com/2019_events/graphic-encounters-event/
Music by Chris Tybjerg
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S2: Identity | Gut Feelings: living with cancer | Sam Rose
This week on WDYTAX we’re joined by three-time cancer survivor Sam Rose; PhD research student, Head of Content at a digital marketing agency and author of Gut Feelings - a book about her experiences with cancer and Lynch Syndrome. Among other things, in this episode, we talk to Sam about how cancer has shaped her identity and her ‘dark humour’, how to be a good supporter to cancer patients and, importantly, what percentage of her organs have been removed….place your bets!
Find Sam at www.writersam.co.uk or @writersamr on Twitter.
Sam's book Gut Feelings: Coping with cancer and living with Lynch syndrome can be found on Amazon at www.amazon.co.uk/Gut-Feelings-Coping-Cancer-Syndrome/dp/B08T6BTJZ3/
As always catch us at @aboutxpodcast to carry on the discussion after.
Music by Chris Tybjerg
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S2: Identity | Introduction
Welcome to season two of WDYTAX - Identity!
We'll be theming the upcoming episodes around identity and allyship, gathering experiences and research from some brilliant writers and thinkers on the subject. Watch out for episodes on cancer survivorship, disability in the UK, and toxic masculinity.
We're also delighted to introduce a new co-host - Perry Pearcey, a marketing professional, punslinger, and one of our oldest and dearest friends. You'll get to know Pel over the next few episodes as he settles into the conversation. -
S1: Discovery | Our first year!
It's been a year since we first decided to get the microphones out and start recording WDYTAX. In this episode we review some of the discussions we've had over the last year and start to think about where we want to go next. As always, any feedback is greatly appreciated.
If you've been with us from the start, joined partway through, or have only just discovered us thank you so much - your time and attention mean a lot to us.
Music by Chris Tybjerg
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S1: Discovery | Anarchy isn't anarchism | Ruth Kinna
In this episode of WDYTAX, Prof. Ruth Kinna talks to us about anarchy and its place in the modern world. Ruth is a researcher and lecturer in political theory at the University of Loughborough and has published several books on anarchy and political theory over the years.
As always catch us at @aboutxpodcast to carry on the discussion after.
Music by Chris Tybjerg
Cover art by www.irondragondesign.com