Ep.14: Visual Artist JR; Film Director Maysaloun Hamoud; The Future of Centrism in the US & UK w/ Journalist Clare Foran, Strategist Sandra Khadouri and DJ Mr Gee

We profile French street artist, JR to learn about his new project, Faces Places with director Agnès Varda. We catch up with award-winning director Maysaloun Hamoud, to find out more about her directorial debut movie In Between, a film which explores the lives of  three Palestinian women living together in Tel Aviv amidst societal pressures and a desire to free themselves. Will Centrism ever be in vogue again? We explore this question through politics and music with  journalist Clare Fornan, strategist Sandra Khadour, and DJ Mr.Gee.

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Ep.13: Food Glorious Food w/Great British Bake Off Finalist Ruby Tandoh; Stephanie Kuo & Juan Ramirez the Racist Sandwich Podcast, Poet Selina Nwulu; Artist Larry Achiampong; A Feminist Workshop

On this episode, Stance explores our complex and glorious relationships to food. We chat with London based Great British Bake Off finalist and writer Ruby Tandoh about class and food fads. We also look at the language of food with US based Stephanie Kuo and Juan Ramirez, hosts of the Racist Sandwich Podcast. Stance explores the poetry of food with London based poet Selina Nwulu, and her latest collection Who’s Full? on memory and cheesemaking. Heta has an immersive tour to Tomales Farmstead Creamery, and finds out more on America’s rising artisanal cheesemaking practice. Chrystal profiles visual artists Larry Achiampong. He gives her a tour of his studio, discusses his works and they play video games. And lastly, in our age of fourth wave feminism and the internet, Chrystal speaks with  See Red Women’s Workshop - a radical artist activist collective formed in 1974 Britain.

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Ep.12: What is Home? w/ Grenfell; The Rohingya Crisis; The first LGBTQ Shelter in San Francisco & Fleeing Venezuala; Tel Aviv Politician Mehereta Baruch-Ron; Musicians Ibeyi

Stance explores the wide ranging  notion of home covering the UK, Venezuela, USA, Myanmar and Israel. Chrystal joins some survivors of  London’s Grenfell Tower fire on their walk for justice six months on. We speak with journalist Maria de la Guardia on the displacement of the Rohingya people, and the unfolding crisis in Myanmar. We chat with the manager of Jazzie’s Place to learn more about San Francisco’s first LGBTQ homeless shelter. Venezuelan, Anna Maria shares a love letter to her country which she doesn’t want to leave but has to, due to the worsening political crisis in Venezuela. Stance chats with Mehereta Baruch-Ron, Deputy Mayor of Tel Aviv, who speaks about her journey from Ethiopian Jewish refugee to Israeli law maker, and her plans to create a more just society in her home of Israel. We profile French Cuban twin sisters Ibeyi who share their latest album, Ash.

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Ep.11: Musician Four Tet; Sport & Revolution w/ WNBA Star Kelsey Bone, Gym Founder Ivo Gormley; Notions of The Sea w/ Director Kwame Kwei-Armah, Actor Nikki Amuka Bird; Surfing w/ Brown Girl Surf

Stance profiles musician Four Tet in his first and only interview about his exceptional new album, New Energy. We cover his life before music, his South African Indian heritage, and his collaboration with the light, sound and technology collective, Squidsoup. Women’s NBA player Kelsey Bone, writer and journalist Musa Okwonga and Goodgym founder Ivo Gormley share their take on the links between Sport and Revolution. Plus Chrystal speaks with Bafta-nominated actor Nikki Amuka-Bird about their new play The Lady from the Sea at Donmar Warehouse, based on the work of Henrik Ibsen. We also chat with Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE about his brand new role as Artistic Director at London’s Young Vic Theatre. To end, Heta catches a wave with the collective Brown Girl Surf in California to discuss notions of The Sea.

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Ep.10: BrexShit: Taking the UK Government to Court w/ Businesswoman and Campaigner Gina Miller; The Works of Artist Basquiat; Women & Sex w/ Females Perspectives of Desire

We profile  political campaigner Gina Miller who shares more about her upbringing in Guyana and why she’s  taking the British Government to court over Brexit. We cover  sex with five women who are helping more of us own their sexuality and desires, including legendary theatre director Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal who brought The Vagina Monologues to India on breaking taboos around sex and sex education. Chrystal visits a play party Skirt club to find out more about pleasure and freedom found in women centered spaces. Stance visits the first large scale UK exhibition of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s works at the Barbican in London, and Heta meets with curator of Basquiat’s works at the Guggenheim, Chaédria LaBouvier  

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Ep.09: Outnumbered in Silicon Valley w/ Lindsay Meyer; Playwright & Poet Sabrina Mahfouz; Perspectives on the War in Yemen

Stance reports on the gender problem facing Silicon Valley through speaking with Lindsay Meyer, an entrepreneur sharing her experience of sexual harassment, and why it is a symptom of a larger problem in the tech industry. We profile playwright, poet and screenwriter Sabrina Mahfouz, who discusses her journey so far, newest works, and plans for the future. Chrystal and Heta cover the worsening situation in Yemen since the civil war began in 2014 from two Yemeni voices. Italian-Yemeni Journalist Laura Silvia Battaglia and the personal account of Fayza Suleimani, highlight views on their country’s humanitarian crisis, proxy war and human toll of those caught in the middle. 

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Ep.08: Actor & MC Riz Ahmed; Real & Imagined Borders w/ Academic Dr Prithvi Hirani, Campaigner Betty Holmes & Photographer Kate Stanworth; Exploring Oakland’s Under Threat Afro House Scene

Stance profiles Emmy award-winning actor and MC Riz Ahmed to find out more about his background and ambitions for the future. We hear unique perspectives on borders with researcher on displacement, Dr.Prithvi Hirani, campaigner Betty Holmes, and documentary photographer Kate Stanworth on what it means to cross borders real and imagined. Plus a look at Oakland, California’s booming Afro House scene and why it is under threat. 

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Ep.07: Unpacking Colourism w/ Makeup Artist Kay Montano & Academic and Author Dr. Aisha Phoenix; Artists The Singh Twins; Author Yaa Gyasi

Stance dissects the issue of colourism with live guests - makeup artist Kay Montano and Dr Aisha Phoenix from SOAS University of London as part of Riposte at London’s Ace Hotel. We profile internationally acclaimed contemporary artists The Singh Twins who share more about their visual art depicting traditions of the East and West, old and new. Plus author Yaa Gyasi discusses her extraordinary, award-winning debut novel Homegoing.

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Ep.06: Alternative Realities - Escaping North Korea; Actor and Singer Pearl Mackie of Dr Who; Visual Artist and Filmmaker Charlotte Colbert

Stance profiles actor and singer Pearl Mackie who plays Doctor Who companion Bill Potts. Pearl shares more about her Brixton background and journey so far. Stance looks at alternative reality once again by exploring what life is like for the North Korean refugees trying to escape one of the most oppressive political regimes on earth. Plus an interview with visual artist and filmmaker Charlotte Colbert who takes Chrystal on a tour of her east London studio.

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Ep.05: Trauma & Creativity w/ Women in Prison in the UK vs US; Synergy Theatre Company; Costumer Maker & Designer Lydia Higginson; Award-Winning Alvin Ailey Dancer Jeroboam Bozeman

Stance investigates the female prison experiences in the US and UK and the safety and future of transgender inmates. We hear about how a traumatic experience led one woman to create her entire wardrobe from scratch and how sharing her skills with others is her  form of activism. We profile award-winning choreographer and lead dancer of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater Co, Jeroboam Bozeman, shares how dance has become an expressive language which shapes his life. 

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Ep.04: Alternative Realities - Kids in Cults; Comedian & Author Shappi Khorsandi; Artistic Director, Jude Kelly and the Women of the World Festival

Stance profiles UK based comedian and author Shappi Khorsandi to hear more on her new book Nina Is Not Ok. Chrystal Genesis and Heta Fell speak with Women of the World Foundation founder Jude Kelly CBE and hear from Broadcaster & DJ Gemma Cairney, a speaker at WOW, who chat’s about their new book, Open: A Toolkit for How Magic and Messed Up Life Can Be. In the first of our Alternative Reality series, we hear from a range of guests who candidly and publicly share, for the first time, their experiences of growing up in their alternative reality as kids in cults.

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Ep.03: Why We Should Care w/ Filmmaker Fazeelat Aslam, Author & Activist Selma James; DIY Movements in a Social Media Age w/ gal-dem Founder Liv Little and Sad Asian Girls Club

Stance profiles LA based, Academy award-winning documentary filmmaker Fazeelat Aslam on her films which insightfully cover climate change, politics and gender. In conversation with New York born, London based author and activist Selma James, motivated by her own experiences being a mother and housewife working low-paid jobs, we consider society's attitude to caring from a visionary feminist perspective. Plus we take a close look at the exciting world of DIY movements in our social media age and hear from members of the New York based Sad Asian Girls Club, and chat with gal-dem founder, Liv Little about the independent magazine produced by women of color and non-binary people.

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Ep.02: Virtual Reality for Good? w/ Film Director Milica Zec, Virtual Reality Leaders Lauren Burmaster and Alex Smale; Artist & Model Phoebe Collings-James; Short Film, Mum

Can virtual reality be a force for good? Stance takes a look at this technology with filmmaker Milica Zec, and virtual reality industry leaders, Lauren Burmaster, social impact lead at Oculus, and Alex Smale, managing director of Tribemix. Stance profiles London born, new wave British artist and model Phoebe Collings-James to find out more about her art, and the complexities of feminism, mixed race identity and diasporic experiences. Plus a look at how the new moving short film, Mum, set in Manchester is challenging transgender stereotypes in relationships of care between parents and their children. 

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Ep.01: Unpacking White Racial Identity w/ Author Robin DiAngelo; Actor Alix Wilton-Regan; The Rise of the Demagogue

On Stance’s first episode, Chrystal Genesis and Heta Fell profile actor, activist and founder of Play4Calais & Beyond, Alix Wilton-Regan to learn more about her role in the Hollywood film, The Wife, starring Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce and Christain Bale, and her grassroots work with child refugees. In the current political climate where white supremacy appears to be celebrated, we delve into white racial identity with the author of White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo. Plus, Chrystal digs into the history and meaning of  demagoguery ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration starting in ancient Greece. 

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