Don’t Call Me Resilient The Conversation

We’re bringing you an extra episode this week to share a fascinating interview from “The Conversation Weekly.” It’s a podcast hosted by our colleague Gemma Ware, from The Conversation UK. In this episode, psychiatrist Karandeep Sonu Gaind speaks to Gemma Ware on why he's a vocal opponent of Canada's expansion of its medically assisted dying laws to people with solely mental illness.

Political scientist Shikata Banerjee and cinema studies scholar Rakesh Sengupta sit down with Vinita to talk about how Bollywood and popular culture in general are being used by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his right-wing Hindu nationalist BJP to sway voters in the world's largest election.

Student protests on campuses are calling attention to atrocities in Gaza and challenging university administrators to divest. What is the best way forward that avoids unnecessary violence?

In this episode of Don't Call Me Resilient, Vinita explores the complicated, colonial roots of gardening - which affect who gets to garden and what we plant - with researcher Jacqueline L. Scott and community activist Carolynne Crawley.

Is a cell phone ban, along with increased surveillance, the right way to deal with the impact of addictive and harmful technology in classrooms?

Indigenous media in North America have rapidly expanded over the last 30 years with Indigenous media makers gaining greater control of their own narratives, including the ability to subvert colonial representations.