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Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda

The show where business meets love, and culture meets critique. We’re Aiwan and Tamanda, two Black women with 20 years each in entertainment, research, and social justice. We’re also a married couple figuring out what it means to build a life and two businesses together.We"ll talk about the realities of running a business, making creative work that matters, and navigating research with integrity.What You’ll Find:Honest conversations on entrepreneurship, research, and creativity.Unpacking the

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1:04:41

Bad Gals Get The Corner Office | Millie Odhiambo,...

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda ·

2025/10/28

The original African Bad Gal gets us going, Kenyan MP and activist Millie Odhiambo Mabona, whose fearless voice and legendary one-liners have cut through flaccid politics with candour. From calling out men on the parliamentary floor on decisions, periods (!), to publishing her book Rig or Be Rigged, Millie embodies the unapologetic role needed for women to step into power.From there, we pivot to the plains, asking why the wildlife stories of Africa are still told through a White lens. Where are the

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56:02

How a Fake African Agony Aunt Shaped a Generation:...

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2025/10/21

We travel back to the glossy pages that raised us - the agony-aunt columns, gossip spreads, and advice pages that shaped girlhood across Africa and beyond.At the centre of the story is Dear Dolly - an advice column that captured the hearts of readers across the continent of Africa, answering questions about love, shame, and desire. What few people knew was that, in the early days at least, “Dolly” wasn’t a woman at all, but a group of men writing under her name.Reading directly from the Drum

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1:00:33

The Land Is Still Not Ours | Colonial Legacies,...

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2025/10/14

We step into the charged terrain of land, power, and belonging - and ask who really gets to claim ownership of land in Africa. Beginning with a screening of The Battle for Laikipia at Hyde Park Picture House, we trace the tensions between Indigenous Samburu pastoralists and fourth-generation white settlers in Kenya - and unravel how the logic of private property, colonial inheritance, and climate crisis continue to shape who eats, who survives, and who gets fenced out.From there, we widen the lens

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38:14

Confronting FGM in Britain: “A Lifetime Sentence” |...

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda ·

2025/10/07

FGM, cultural silence, and women’s rights in Britain today.In this feedwarmer - and our very first Rigour & Flow On The Go - we take our podcast out of the studio and into community spaces. Live from Climb25 in Leeds, Aiwan reflects on the intimacy of podcasting, how deep conversations can cut through even in a noisy public space, and the art of capturing sound in the moment. From the clang of a circus game in the background to the warmth of our signature African textile on the table, this is

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32:25

Undocumented & Working in London: A Hidden Struggle |...

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2025/09/29

Trans rights, migrant labour, and the hidden lives of domestic workers in Britain.In this feedwarmer, we shine a light on Our Place Is Here - a powerful three-part podcast series created in partnership with the Our Place Is Here campaign produced by Aiwan and AiAi Studios in collaboration with gal-dem. The Filipino Domestic Workers Association, and campaign partners fighting for migrant workers’ rights including Kanlungan Filipino Consortium, The Voice of Domestic Workers, Kalayaan, and Purpose

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56:23

What Links Queer DV, Raising Boys & Anti-Immigrant...

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda ·

2025/09/23

In this final episode of Season 2, we return to our signature Unfinished Business format, bringing together the conversations that refused to be neatly stitched up.We open with reflections on the mixed reactions to our episode on mixed race identity, which sparked far more commentary than we anticipated on social media - including a sharp intervention from the brilliant BBC 1Xtra presenter and commentator Richie Brave, who stepped in with timely analysis just as things were getting hot in the

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1:19:02

Sickle Cell, Queer Faith & Black Britishness -...

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda ·

2025/09/16

We hand the mic to you. For our first-ever community voicenote episode, we asked you, our listeners, to share what’s stayed with you so far. What you’ve disagreed with. And what you want us to explore more deeply. The result is this moving, funny, and thoughtful collection of reflections that remind us why we make this show in the first place.From lived experiences of sickle cell and navigating Black British and other migrant identities, to the intersections of queerness and faith, your voices bring

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1:08:21

From Tyler Henry to Satanic Panic: Guilty Pleasures...

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda ·

2025/09/09

We abandon the serious stuff and dive straight into our love of all things woo-woo: near-death experiences, dodgy mediums, growing up under Satanic Panic, and the paranormal guilty pleasures that make us cry with laughter.Tamanda sets the scene early: this is not a serious death and grief episode. Instead, it’s a confessional of the strange, terrifying, and sometimes hilarious ways we first encountered the afterlife - from her family cat “Pussy Rosa”, to the endless references to reincarnation and

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1:13:27

Too Fat for Europe, Too Skinny for Africa? The Beauty...

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda ·

2025/09/02

We step into the tangled, deeply personal politics of body image - and the fat and skinny shaming scripts that shape how we see ourselves, each other, and the people we love.We open with a conversation about what it means to be two women in a relationship with entirely different body types; each of us shaped by radically different cultural beauty standards in our own homes. From Lagos to London, Malawi to the Midlands, we unpack how the same body can be celebrated in one place and critiqued in

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1:08:35

Are We Ever Really Grown? Generations, Adulthood &...

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2025/08/26

We step into the messy truth about adulthood, rites of passage, and why so many of us hit 40 feeling… not quite grown.Aiwan opens with Kendra Lindsay’s viral post - a rallying call to join the “Council of Elders” instead of clinging to youth - which ultimately ruffled the feathers of a legion of women in their 40s. From there, we dive into the uncomfortable question: Where did we get the idea that 40 isn’t old? And who exactly benefits from allowing us to believe that, at 40, we are still really

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1:32:40

Are Mixed Race People “Properly Black”?

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2025/08/19

One of the most emotionally charged and quietly policed questions in the politics of race - a question so fraught, it’s almost unsayable: Are mixed race people “properly Black”?This time, the question’s unquestionably personal…!This isn’t just a discussion between two Black women. It’s a conversation between two queer women in love - building a life, a business, and a podcast together - while navigating complex and sometimes uncomfortable truths about race, desire, identity, and proximity.Tamanda

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1:02:10

Who does the algorithm think you are?

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2025/08/12

We’re unpacking what our algorithms say about us, whether business can cure poverty across the continent of Africa, and why women are so obsessed with true crime as a genre.Tamanda opens with a late-night spiral about the politics of platform recommendations: what do your YouTube and Instagram feeds reveal about your identity? And are you really who you think you are? Or does the algorithm tell a different story?Aiiwan follows with a deep dive into African economic development, reflecting on the new

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1:17:53

Black, Queer, Free: What UK Black Pride Gave Us!

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda ·

2025/08/05

We take you inside one of the most joyful, radical, and hard-won celebrations of Black queer life: UK Black Pride. As the movement gets ready to mark another year, we reflect on Aiwan’s work on the UK Black Pride Time Capsule Podcast, what it really means to come into yourself, and the very real challenges of building sustainable spaces that can hold us through every stage of becoming.Aiwan reflects on her first encounter with UK Black Pride back in 2015, the American YouTubers who shaped her sense

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1:25:40

How Do You Raise a Boy When You Don’t Trust Men?

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2025/07/29

We dive headfirst into the contradictions and complexities of what it means to raise boys as a lesbian couple… especially when men have caused us so much harm?Aiwan opens with a striking reflection on The Tin Men, a social media account that toes the line between thoughtful masculinity and, at times, men’s rights rhetoric. From there, she shares more about her own desire for a son, the question of if and how our son would need male role models in their life, and the impacts of growing up in a single

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Notes From the Margins: From Sickle Cell to Save the...

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda ·

2025/07/22

In this three-part episode of Rigour & Flow, we explore how race, gender, and language shape our lives, and how health inequities, queer histories, and identity politics often get erased.Aiwan opens with a deep dive into sickle cell and other racialised health disparities, reflecting on her own sickle cell trait diagnosis as a child and how the UK’s most common genetic condition continues to be under-researched and underfunded.Tamanda traces the forgotten queer history of Save the Children’s

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1:13:21

From Paper Rounds to Pitch Decks | Childhood Dreams,...

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2025/07/15

We dig into the complicated world of entrepreneurship - from childhood side hustles and early money lessons to investment readiness culture, the “cult of startups”, and what it takes to grow a business without losing yourself.Aiwan shares how her grandma in Nigeria shaped her business mindset growing up on a council estate in London - and how visiting her Auntie Margaret’s market stall in Balham inspired her to pursue a “work for herself” path that would eventually lead to founding her creative

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BONUS: What Happens When the Archive Doesn’t Include...

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2025/07/10

In this bonus segment, Tamanda and Aiwan dig deeper into the existing and emerging research around LGBTQ+ domestic violence.They reflect on the stories we don’t hear, the data that doesn’t exist or is too easily overlooked, and the ways coercive control shows up in queer relationships, from misgendering and outing to body shaming and withholding gender-affirming care.Tamanda shares insights from Galop’s research and from scholars working to fill the gaps in how LGBTQ+ domestic abuse is understood

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1:15:04

Why Don’t We Talk About Abuse in Queer Relationships?

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda ·

2025/07/08

In this deeply personal and long-overdue episode, we unpack the silences, scripts, and systems that shape how we understand abuse, and how they fail queer people in particular.Aiwan opens up for the first time about her experience of domestic violence in a same-sex relationship, and what made it so hard to recognise or name.Tamanda reflects on a coercive relationship marked by gaslighting, manipulation, and lies, including a fabricated cancer diagnosis, and how it warped her sense of

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Season 2 Begins Here | Rigour & Flow - Abuse,...

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda ·

2025/07/06

⚠️ Content warning: domestic violence, emotional abuseSome stories mark you.Even when they’re not yours.Even when you’re just eight years old, standing in the corner, trying not to breathe.Even when the person on the phone says they’re dying, and you believe them - because how could someone LIE like that?In this first episode of Season 2, we’re talking about the kinds of relationships we don’t talk about.The ones you don’t know how to name.The ones that break you open in slow, strange ways. Before

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35:49

Bonus Drop: Sunday School for Misfits & the Power of...

Rigour & Flow with Aiwan and Tamanda ·

2025/07/01

Tamanda introduces us to a podcast that deeply moved her: Sunday School for Misfits, created by theologian and public educator Dr Selina Stone.Tamanda shares how she first met Selina through a chance encounter at a ‘Life Beyond the PhD’ residential - a connecting moment that led to a research collaboration which exposed her to Selina’s unique approach to theology, which is as rigorous as it is compassionate.Across academia, community, and the digital pulpit, Selina brings a voice that holds space

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