Podcasts by Radio_SA-Y

Alton Mason needs to be immortalized artistically from 2023-11-10T07:39:39

Season 3, Episode 10 He is simultaneously regal, angelic, masculine and a gender fusion. He was perhaps designed to be painted.

Discussing Chapter One of Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí's book, "The Invention of Women" and other related stuff from 2023-11-07T03:44:07

Season 3, Episode 9: I share with Teviah my discoveries and thoughts while reading the book, "The Invention of Women" by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí. We then go back and forth relating it to personal lived e...

Taking a Firm Stance on the Israel-Palestine War as a South African studying in the US from 2023-11-04T08:52:45

Video clip - Joy Reid on MSNBC breaking news Book recommendations by @anat_international : 1. Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappe 2. Freedom is a constant struggle Angela Y. Davis 3. The Pal...

Initial thoughts on the Israel-Palestinian Conflict - 19th Oct 2023 from 2023-11-04T07:16:08

I recorded the first 41 seconds on October 19th and the rest of the 3 minutes and 45 seconds on October 21st (early hours of the morning). I meant to say "maniacs" instead of "idiots" but I believe...

Tyla + South Africa: American Exceptionalism, Racism, Conflict Resolution and Heritage Day - without the song - all platforms from 2023-09-25T03:21:57

I’m back! Please listen to Tyla’s song, “Water”! I’ll paste a link to the YouTube video below! Great TikTok videos that I recommend on this topic: @agirlnamedcassidy @starring_jacquijax @khahliso.a...

I dislike Arizona Robbin and I’m taking a break from 2023-04-16T04:38:18

Fictional character from Grey’s Anatomy plus quick explanation on break. This doesn’t count as a full episode.

Amazon Prime Video’s Swarm: No more sympathy for murders? from 2023-03-18T22:32:49

Season 3 Episode 4: Had to just release my thoughts on the show. It’s brilliant, not what I was expecting and it got me thinking. Something I didn’t say but I was on the edge of describing is the w...

Murder For Feminism Ep 2 Continued: I Spit On Your Grave, Carrie and upcoming Swarm from 2023-03-17T05:58:07

Season 3 Episode 3: Spoilers for You Season 4, I Spit on Grave (1978) and less extensive spoilers for Carrie (1976). Trigger Warning for rape, murder, sexual assault, sexist shaming and kidnapping....

Holding Alternative Identities in College from 2023-03-13T03:10:44

Season 3, Episode 2: Teviah and I talk about Israel and Palestine, Apartheid South Africa, religious identity, coping methods for holding intersectional and alternative identities in college, love ...

Clarification from 2023-03-13T01:20:46

Some clarification on one of my statements in my previous episode and what I’m looking forward to talking about and sharing with you in the future!

You S4: Innate rights for Women, Queer representation and Responsibility of Writers from 2023-03-11T09:58:45

Season 3, Episode 1: New year, new season! Starting strong with a You S4 discussion. Trigger Warning - mentions of violence (mutilation, gender-based violence and unal...

A Convoluted Spiel on Feminism - Dec 26,2022 from 2023-03-11T07:50:10

Season 2 Episode 33 - Season Finale that I forgot to release, or was unable to, or scared to, but will now be doing so anyways (without relistening). Partially to archive a moment in my life and pa...

Murder For Feminism: The Woman King Spoiler-Free Review from 2022-12-24T20:26:02

Season 2 Episode 32

This is a topic I am still thinking about the nuts and bolts. To be clear, fictional murder, aka death as a significant storytelling tool and violence as a symbol...

Evangelical Christianity: It's role in Modern Conservatism and the Fears that push the movement from 2022-11-30T05:00:31

Season 2, Episode 31: As a current Christian, I chose to refer to God as the Christian God in order to respect other people's beliefs. I know that it can be difficult to navigate these waters as un...

The Dark History of Thanksgiving: Racism and Culture - Remember Indigenous People from 2022-11-25T04:35:12

Season 2, Episode 30: Hey Everyone, today I talk about the American history of Thanksgiving and how its myth perpetrates racism. Remember that land treaties are not being protected. Rem...

How to deal with Loss: Breakups, Friendships, and Death. from 2022-11-19T20:10:27

Season 2 Episode 29: I go more personal in this episode and talk about a range of experiences in my life and give advice on how to cope. Much love and respect for everyone involved and for everyone...

What I wish I saw in WLW media as a MLM and WLW fan - a spontaneous recording on Nov 1st 2022. from 2022-11-17T05:53:48

I recorded this a while back and then just didn't post it. It was when I first arrived back in my dorm from covid isolation so the First of November 2022 (Nov 1). Fun Fact about me: sometimes I can...

Bodies Bodies Bodies, Scream and the fears of relating across generations from 2022-10-28T01:50:59

Season 2, Episode 27: 

This one is a little disorganized and a little personal. I am mostly thinking through things in the movement. This discussion/unfolding of thought comes in res...

A New Iranian Revolution is taking place from 2022-10-10T09:46:35

Season 2, Episode 26

Listen and implement ways of supporting Iranian citizens right now.

All videos are on Tiktok, written in order of appearance.

First, 3 video...

Pearl the Movie: Why it's in my top five films from 2022-10-10T09:43:06

Season 2 Episode 25

Twitter: @YsaPlatform

Gossip Girl, Global Capitilism and Poetry from 2022-09-30T02:46:39

Season 2, Episode 24:

A bit of beautiful rambling at 54 minutes and 39 seconds

Poem: "Love Poem, After Arizona by Qwo-Liv Driskill"

Play: "A Thin Place" by Lucas Hnath

Red White and Royal Blue Review: Parallel Univervises are the Antidote to Political Trauma from 2022-09-25T00:03:30

23rd Episode of Season 2:

Spoiler warning for part 2.

Happy Bisexual Visibility Week! Are you still lowkey hating on the British Monarchy? Obsessed with gay European royalty theori...

Why Modern Day Feminism is Useless - An Ongoing Discussion from 2022-09-18T21:49:22

S2 E22

Please note: Policing language should not be a cause to invalidate the point. The creator's main point is facts. Modern Day White feminism is ineffective because of choice feminism...

Queen Elizabeth is Dead but Racial Capitilism is Not from 2022-09-09T03:47:15

Season 2 Episode 21: Hey Everyone! First Episode in America! I promise that in my next episode I will do less repetition of what I have already said in class. Get ready for some Marxist theory, ...

Bye South Africa, Beauty Pageants and Bafana Bafana from 2022-08-16T23:01:42

Bye South Africa! Happy Women's Month and well done to all the women who have made our country proud these past two months. I love being a woman and South African; I will miss my country. I'm he...

Women's Day, WLW Media and WTF Bheki Cele! from 2022-08-09T23:18:58

S2 E19: Happy National Women's Day in South Africa! I, Zukiswa your host, talk about current issues women face in our nation, the history behind today, and WLW media not getting enough support. ...

Book Club: The Picture of Dorian Gray from 2022-08-03T22:54:25

S2, Ep 18: A new series! In addition to The Youth Speaks, Three part discussions and Film reviews, I shall be doing book club episodes where I analyse and discuss in depth a novel. I will also a...

Maurice 1987: Reviewing and Analysing the best queer film ever through the lens of classsim from 2022-07-26T20:56:44

Truly a masterpiece of a film. Warning for spoilers especially in the latter half of this podcast.

Twitter @YsaPlatform

Season 2, Episode 17

The Metamorphosis of my Abortion Stance as a Christian Intersectional Feminist after the Overturning of Roe v Wade from 2022-06-27T20:49:38

Episode 16, Season 2

Resources for Abortion Access:

https://www.wired.com/story/guide-abortion-resources-post-roe-america/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/25/how-...

Depp vs Heard: Misogyny is Okay Again - The consequences of this trial and society’s lack of priorities from 2022-06-27T20:06:44

Episode 15 of Season 2. This trial served as a precursor to the Overturning of Roe v Wade. It's scary seeing how quickly we abandon women and work to protect male abusers. Scary but not surprisi...

Happy Pride! Queer Recs, a Lesbian Apocalpus and a forecast of our genderless future from 2022-06-27T19:55:25

HEY EVERYONE! 14th Episode of Season 2. It's Pride Month in America! This will be overall a more of a lighthearted conversation with more political and societal theory tossed in the end. I was l...

BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR WAS...WRITTEN BY A MAN - A LESBIAN REVIEW from 2022-06-27T18:17:02

Episode 13, Season 2. Shoot, 13 is usually my lucky number. Honestly, no words.

Personal and Political: Horror, Bodily Autonomy and Racism from 2022-05-22T23:09:14

For perhaps my most extended episode yet, I talk about nightmares, the horror genre, not taking opportunities and my (concerning??? anti-capitalist???) relationship with resting. Then how annoyi...

Young Royal and Roe vs Wade from 2022-05-07T19:18:16

E11: I review the Netflix Show Young Royals and rant about Roe v Wade. A point I didn't add but just remembered: Conservative people understand that the right to bodily autonomy supersedes other...

Heartstopper has captured my heart from 2022-04-30T22:49:28

Ep 10: WATCH HEARTSTOPPER NOW. I rant about how good it is and how it's my new comfort show while sharing all my thoughts and knowledge on the cast, the writer of comic book and webcomic series ...

Homosexuality is Natural, The Nature of Love and Comphet - A Lesbian perspective from 2022-04-18T15:20:44

Season 2, Episode 9

The title describes everything discussed. Additional explanation on the white boy of the month discussion may also be influenced by my internalised white supremacy. My...

Bridgerton, White American Monolithic Culture and Fashion Nowadays from 2022-04-09T15:28:57

Season 2, Episode 8

Hey! I'm back with a 3 part episode where I discuss Bridgerton (specifically representation and how much I recommend the show), White American Monolithic Culture (Does...

56 minutes and 56 seconds of me just babbling from 2022-04-03T21:30:31

A tiny bit about Ukraine, a third about Will Smith slapping and a quarter about my girlfriend. Sorry for the long break but I'm back with a chaotic episode before returning with more consistent ...

Ukraine, War and Racism in Media - P.S Fear and Concern does NOT justify your Bigotry from 2022-03-05T00:14:29

Trigger warning: Racism (It's pretty overt this time and video clips and messages are often repeated). Drink your favourite liquid, mine is Rooibos tea, it calms me and listen to me partially ra...

Being a Minority at a PWI with Hellen from 2022-02-24T22:00:15

My friend Hellen and I discuss our experiences of being black at white-majority schools while going through a series of questions. Feel free to join the conversation on Twitter by tweeting @YsaPlat...

A Quick Dip into Cultural Appropriation from 2022-02-22T00:00

Season 2, Episode 4 (This is the 2nd year since starting Radio_SA-Y)

A 25-minute episode talking about cultural appropriation. It is a very quick dip into the surface of the variety of is...

Desmond Tutu and South Africa's loss of Morality from 2022-02-19T22:35:26

The long-promised podcast episode. Archbishop Desmond Tutu died on Sunday the 26th of December 2022. I talk about his death and how I feel as though it symbolizes our nation's struggle to follow...

Don't say the N Word from 2022-02-10T17:40:20

Here's why it is wrong.

A part of our Black History Month collection here at the YSA platform. Make sure to check out the website for more.

Website: https://zukiswamhlo...

You Neflix Series: Romantic Misogyny and The Responsibility of Media from 2022-02-03T01:58:02

First episode of 2022! I delve deeper in the portrayal of rape culture in the Netflix Series "You". Furthermore I discuss the link between gender and the portrayal of romance ...

Youth Responses to GBV questions Part 1 from 2021-12-27T01:44:31

A long-awaited episode. Thank you so much, Mandi and Mulisa for asking your friends to send in voice recordings! thank you to everyone who answered. This time I let the youth of South Africa sha...

Dear Homophobes: Corrective Rape Actually Makes No Sense from 2021-12-27T00:44:41

I had a lot of thoughts in my brain lately on this topic, here is my attempt to give voice to them.

A genuinely calm explanation on why corrective rape is not just wrong, it actually does...

FW De Klerk has died, and honestly I had no idea he was still alive from 2021-11-13T00:05:13

FW De Klerk has died, and as a black South African I feel... conflicted. His legacy is a controversial one. He is often sanctified and idolised but hardly held accountable for the war crimes he ...

Interviews and Education : Rape and GBV in East London, South Africa #2 from 2021-07-06T21:51:44

The 2nd interview I recorded in East London, asking a woman how safe she felt in her community.

Centres and Hotlines

https://rapecrisis.org.za/what-is-a-thuthuzela-care...

The importance of art and literature from 2021-05-14T01:58:26

1st half is my opinion in February and 2nd half is my opinion in May after having a conversation with a friend

Euphora: Rue's Unreliable Narration and how its creating some ill Character formation from 2021-05-13T22:55:05

 Tiktok video from: @i.dont.exist.yesterday

I highly recommend her whole euphoria analysis series on TikTok

Until next time.

Links to socials: Listen

Sexualisation of Celebrities from 2021-05-13T22:54:03

I was unable to find the resources I wanted to share, so as soon as I find them I will upload them to other platforms listed below, instead of continuing to delay the release of this episode. I ...

Abortion and Intersectional Feminism from 2021-04-17T11:28:26

Sooo I'm pro-life ...and an intersectional feminist. Let me explain

Links to what is mentioned in the episode:

Abortion and Intersectional Feminism Video: https://...

Interviews and Education : Rape and GBV in East London, South Africa from 2021-04-09T13:16:09

An interview with my twelve-year-old cousin and a bit of an explanation on what to do in situations like this.

Centres and Hotlines

https://rapecrisis.org.za/what-is-a-...

YSA Podcast Trailer : Radio_SA-Y from 2020-09-30T13:46:47

Welcome to Youth of South Africa's Podacst "Radio_SA-Y" , where the youth finally get their say in the matters that matter most! A unique  group of guests each episode, a range of topics ar...