shado-lite Shado Mag

In this episode, contributing shado editor Samara Almonte is back to connect with Natasha Berting, a designer and writer from Bali, Indonesia and the communications editor for What Design Can Do (WDCD). WDCD is an international organisation that seeks to accelerate the transition to a sustainable, fair and just society using the power of design. Samara and Natasha discuss how WDCD works to address system issues at large, for example through circularity, as a way to address the climate crisis. But where does the concept of circularity come from and who should benefit from it? 
To learn more about circularity, visit the following resources: 

What is Circularity?Disruptive Design MethodFlourish Systems Change Michael Pawlyn & Sarah IchiokaSlow Factory Open EducationFernando Laposse: TotomoxleSustainable & Product Design - Taina CamposSanitary Napkins Manufacturer – Saathi: Eco-friendly, periodDEAL (doughnuteconomics.org)What Design Can Do (@whatdesigncando) • Instagram photos and videos WDCD Amsterdam 2024 - What Design Can DoRedesign Everything 

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We always come back to how everyone deserves a right to home: somewhere safe and dignified to live. And over this season, shado-lite has traversed histories and geographies to understand how people have and still are fighting for that basic right: from Indigenous communities reclaiming their land, to the fight for Caribbean communities to access their beaches, to squatters in Brixton housing the homeless in unused buildings. 
Inspired Amarha Spence’s use of her ‘Grandads house’ to guide her work on building life-affirming infrastructures for her community and beyond, Zoe and Larissa are asking how expanding our concept of homes can build healthier and happier movements and imagine warm, kind and fair futures. 


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On this week’s episode we are joined by Sarona Bedwan, on behalf of Makan, a Palestinian-led transformative education organisation that strengthens voices for Palestinian rights. Continuing on our series centred on the concept of home, this time we’re talking about how Israeli settler colonialism not only violently displaces Palestinian people from their homeland but commits psychological and ecological violence in efforts to sever the connection Palestinians have to land that they, and their ancestors, have cultivated and lived in relationship with for generations. Amid the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, it is more important than ever that we are deepening our knowledge of how settler colonialism operates, the resistance of Palestinians themselves, and how this can inform our action in solidarity with the Palestinian people. FREE FREE PALESTINE!
References:
Makan - https://www.makan.org.uk/
“Prisoners are the Compass of Our Struggle”: why the release of Palestinian prisoners is central to our liberation - https://shado-mag.com/opinion/prisoners-release-palestine-israel-war/
The environmental cost of Western greed in Palestine and the Democratic Republic of Congo
How the British Museum’s partnership with BP has shown the world its allegiance to imperialism at any cost
Other shado articles on Palestine - https://shado-mag.com/discover/palestine/
Explainer TikTok: No such thing as an ‘innocent settler’
Dar Jacir 
Jumana Manna
APN, the Arab League for the Protection of Nature
Vivien Sansour
Mazin Qumsiyeh
Muna Dajani




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We’re talking about the importance of home this season, and it’s crucial we understand the impact of homeless and landless peoples on the world. This week we’re sitting down with Dandara, representing the MST or Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement - one of the largest peoples movement in Latin America, celebrating 40 years of action.
Since 1984, the movement has lead more than 2,500 land occupations with 370000 families that are today settled on 7.5 million hectares of land they won as a result. The impact on Brazilian land and agrarian policy is unparalleled - and we have to ask Dandara, what can the rest of the world learn?
References:
People's Agrarian Reform: An Alternative to the Capitalist Model, João Pedro Stedile and Osvaldo LeónHistory of the MSTPopular Agrarian Reform and the Struggle for Land in Brazil

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Okay but run it all back - for years feminists have asked us to understand the home as a place of work, as a place where labour is enacted for free everyday. The Wages for Housework movement launched in 1972 united women across geographies and lived experience with the idea that housework is not ‘innately womens work’ nor an ‘act of love’, but labour which capitalism depends on to thrive and therefore deserves a wage. Women deserve to get paid for all the invisible work that the world needs to function: cleaning, cooking, having sex and raising the workforce. 
This week, Zoe and Larissa are returning to this foundational feminist movement to ask: should we still be fighting for this? How far have we come in 50 years?
Resources:

Selin Çağatay (she/her/hers) (2023) “If women stop, the world stops”: forging transnational solidarities with the International Women’s Strike, International Feminist Journal of PoliticsHow the Caribbean influenced domestic work and the ‘international parliament of labour’Amelia Horgan, 2021. Creeping and Ameliorative Accounts of "Work". Theory & Event"Wages for housework means wages against heterosexuality": On the Archives of Black Women for Wages for Housework and Wages Due Lesbians Beth Capper, Arlen Austin
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Can the club be a home? This week, Leticia Sánchez Garris joins the podcast to chat about her work creating cultural events and club nights for the African diaspora in Buenos Aires. Leticia founded Afro-hunting in 2017, a cultural movement which brings together and makes visible the beating heart of music, art and culture lead by and for those of afro-descent.
How does coming together to experience joy help us build solidarity to get through the hard times? How has culture made the afro-histories of Buenos Aires visible?


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