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Breaking Binaries

Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan

Every episode Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan is joined by a different guest to discuss and deconstruct two seemingly oppositional ideas (innocent/guilty, radical/moderate, secular/religious etc). In doing this we consider if things are really so simple, or if seemingly commonsensical binaries actually hides, obscures or allows for much more complicated political dynamics.

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All Episodes

59:44

Necolonial/Postcolonial with Vanessa Tsehaye

Breaking Binaries ·

2021/02/27

In Episode 9 of Season 2, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan breaks down the binary of Neocolonial and Postcolonial states with Vanessa Tsehaye.Vanessa Tsehaye is an Eritrean human rights activist who was born and raised in Sweden. She founded the organisation One Day Seyoum when she was in high school to continue the work of her uncle Seyoum Tsehaye, a journalist who has been imprisoned without a trial in Eritrea since 2001. One Day Seyoum is today one of the largest youth organisations fighting against human

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Secularism/Religion with Suhraiya Jivraj

Breaking Binaries ·

2021/02/06

In Episode 8 of Season 2, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan discusses the binary of Secularism and Religion with Suhraiya Jivraj. Suhraiya is author of The Religion of Law: Race, Citizenship and Children's belonging and interested in interrogating terms such as 'religion' and 'secularity' through government law and policy. She has a background working for human right NGOs and grassroots orgs and now teaches and researches in areas of Public law, as well as Decolonial Approaches to law and social justice. In

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Fake News/Truth with Maryam Jameela

Breaking Binaries ·

2021/01/23

In Episode 7 of Season 2, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan discusses the binary of Fake News and Truth with Maryam Jameela. Maryam is a writer and researcher with a background in academia, working in researching trauma, Islamophobia, and power structures. She's recently started working for the Canary as an investigative journalist, and her work can also be found via her Twitter handle, @yammatron. In this episode Maryam helped dismantle the rhetoric around 'combating Fake news' by considering the terms of

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59:51

Victim/Perpetrator with Kristen Cherry

Breaking Binaries ·

2021/01/09

In Episode 6 of Season 2, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan discusses the binary of Victim and Perpetrator with Kristen Cherry. Kristen is a survivor advocate and a movement worker based in Louisville, Kentucky, in the USA. She worked at her local domestic violence/sexual assault crisis center for 2 ½ years, counseling survivors in shelter, over the crisis line, and through the court process after filing for civil protection orders. Kristen is currently involved in community organising efforts in Louisville

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British Empire/British Nation with Nadine El-Enany

Breaking Binaries ·

2021/01/02

*BONUS EPISODE* In Episode 5 of Season 2, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan discusses the binary of Britain as empire and Britain as nation, with Nadine El-Enany. Nadine El-Enany is Reader in Law at Birkbeck School of Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Race and Law, she teaches and researches in the fields of migration and refugee law, European Union law, protest and criminal justice. Nadine has written for the Guardian, the LRB Blog, Pluto Blog, Verso Blog, Open Democracy, Media Diversified,

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Disability/Ability with Anamika Misra

Breaking Binaries ·

2020/12/26

In Episode 4 of Season 2, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan discusses the binary of Disability and Ability with Anamika Misra. Anamika is an Autistic PhD researcher and Assistant Lecturer at Kent Law School. She has previously been involved in the Decolonise the Curriculum Project at Kent and organises with precarious staff and students of colour across a range of social justice issues. Though she’s supposed to have academic expertise in the law of armed conflict and human rights, she finds the language of

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57:55

Majority/Minority with Azeezat Johnson

Breaking Binaries ·

2020/12/12

In Episode 3 of Season 2, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan discusses the binary of Majority and Minority with Dr Azeezat Johnson. Azeezat is a research fellow in human geography at Queen Mary University of London. Her current project unpacks the racial history that informs black Muslim women's lives in London. She asks how these women create and embody practices of home whilst navigating the imperial nostalgia and racism that has been exposed through Brexit. She's also the co-editor of The Fire Now:

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Free Speech/Censorship with Sita Balani

Breaking Binaries ·

2020/11/28

In Episode 2 of Season 2, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan discusses the binary of Free Speech and Censorship with Dr Sita Balani. Sita is a lecturer in contemporary literature and culture at King's College London. In her research and teaching, she explores the relationship between imperialism and identity in contemporary Britain. Her work has appeared in Feminist Review, Identity Theory, Open Democracy, Photoworks and the Verso blog. This episode's discussion centers on dismantling the straight-forward ways

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Season 2, Episode 1: Fascist/Liberal

Breaking Binaries ·

2020/11/14

In Episode 1 of Season 2, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan discusses the incredibly timely binary of Fascist/Liberal with an anonymous guest. The discussion focuses on British and European contexts, interrogating the types of politics and policies that are defined as "fascist" or "liberal", and asking who they do and don't apply to, and whether fascist tendencies are really so distant from liberal ones? By discussing a wide range of relevant contexts and histories the binary is dismantled to uncover what it

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Season 2 coming out this autumn

Breaking Binaries ·

2020/10/03

Make sure you're caught up with Season 1 before Season 2 drops this autumn iA!

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Pakistani/Balochi with Hanain Brohi

Breaking Binaries ·

2020/03/08

In episode 7 (final episode of Season 1) Suhaiymah discusses the binary of Pakistani/Balochi with Hanain Brohi. She is a PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University, her study explores sisterhood in Muslim women, and the discourses of Otherness in their everyday lived experiences, she is interested in the use of language as a reflection of socio-cognitive ideologies. The discussion surrounds her Balochi identity and how it is both forced into "Pakistan" but also excluded from it

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58:49

Ethical/Unethical Fashion with Mayisha Begum

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2020/01/26

In episode 6 Suhaiymah discusses the binary of Ethical/Unethical fashion with Mayisha Begum who is also known as @ohsoethical - she’s an advocate and activist for labour rights who studied labour, social movements and development at SOAS and works as a labour research assistant. The discussion looks into how "ethical" has increasingly become a marketing tool and whether material conditions of garment workers have changed despite the rise of 'ethical fashion' brands. More

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Black/White with Saffana Monajed

Breaking Binaries ·

2019/10/27

In episode 5 Suhaiymah discusses the binary of Black/White with Saffana Monajed, co-founder of Project Ribcage: http://projectribcage.com/ who works in the media researching ethnic minorities in the UK and focused especially on the census data to break it down.

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Healthy/Sick with Waithera Sebatindira

Breaking Binaries ·

2019/09/29

In episode 4 Suhaiymah discusses the binary of Healthy/Sick with Waithera Sebatindira, writer, educator, lawyer and feminist hero co-author of A FLY GIRL'S GUIDE TO UNIVERSITY: Being a woman of colour at Cambridge and other institutions of power and elitism: https://vervepoetrypress.com/product/fly-girls-guide-to-university/.

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Moderate/Extremist with Nisha Kapoor

Breaking Binaries ·

2019/08/26

In episode 3 Suhaiymah discusses the binary of Moderate/Extremist with Nisha Kapoor. Nisha is Assistant Professor in Sociology at Warwick and author of, Deport, Deprive, Extradite: 21st Century State Extremism (Verso 2018). Purchase here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2551-deport-deprive-extradite

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Illegal/Legal Migrants with Helen Brewer of Stansted 15

Breaking Binaries ·

2019/08/04

In episode 2 Suhaiymah discusses the binary of Illegal/Legal Migrants with Helen Brewer. Helen is a member of the "Stansted 15" who were a group of non-violent human rights activists who took action to stop a deportation flight leaving from Stansted Airport, UK on 28 March 2018. The discussion looks into how "legal" and "illegal" are constructed and what happens when we think beyond that binary.

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Innocence/Guilt with Daria Reaven

Breaking Binaries ·

2019/07/19

In episode 1 Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan discusses the binary of Innocence/Guilt with Daria Reaven. Daria is a Criminal Defense Investigator, prison abolitionist and PhD Candidate at New York University. The discussion looks into how "crime" is constructed as a category, how "innocence" is applied disproportionately to certain bodies, and what the function of believing in a direct opposing dichotomy that all people fit into is. What happens when we think beyond innocence vs guilt?

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BREAKING BINARIES : Trailer

Breaking Binaries ·

2019/07/15

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