Social Justice Salon – Details, episodes & analysis

Hello!

We're back and with a rebrand.!

Justice Studio Sessions is now the Social Justice Salon with me, Marianne Moore.

And I'm very very excited about Season 2 of this podcast.

We've got some really really cool guests and interesting topics.

We will have monopoly power with Nicholas Shaxson, public sexuality and how women navigate it, how we can eliminate nuclear weapons, and so much more.

I hope you will enjoy the new look Social Justice Salon.

Welcome to episode 15 of Justice Studio Sessions. In this concluding episode of series one, we have a frank discussion about what it means to run a consultancy focused on social justice. In this episode we discuss the challenges of running a small values based business in an industry that favours the big boys.

For this episode Marianne Moore, foundress of Justice Studio, is joined by Dr Irum Ali a social scientist and consultant who runs the organisation Inclusive Growth with her co-founder. Irum has nearly two decades of experience in both the academic and charity fields, working on a range of projects across research, policy and evaluation areas. Her current areas of interest lie in diversity, equity and inclusion in the charity sector, the impact of poor public service provision on marginalised communities and race equality policy.

In this no holds barred episode, Irum and Marianne talk about their personal experiences and frustrations running a consultancy committed to social justice and equity in a capitalist world. We hope the topics raised will resonate with other consultants and small business owners and can be a force for more community rather than competition amongst us.

Links for this episode:

Follow Irum on Linkedin: Irum Ali

Visit her website: www.inclusivegrowth.co

Justice Studio’s website: www.justicestudio.org

Follow Justice Studio on Instagram: @justicestudio

Follow Justice Studio on Twitter: @justicestudio

Follow Marianne on Instagram @creatrix.london

Welcome to Episode 6 of Justice Studio Sessions. in this episode we delve into the issues of Older LGBT+ people in England and Wales. Justice Studio has undertaken a number of projects to promote and understand LGBT+ activism as well as the challenges facing older people, and we are glad to discuss these important issues in this episode.

Joining us for our discussion is Bridget Symonds. Bridget is the CEO of Opening Doors, a charity dedicated to supporting LGBT+ people over 50 across the country. Before this she was Head of Women's Centres and Safeguarding at Women in Prison, and has worked extensively with survivors of domestic and sexual violence, homeless people, and older women fleeing domestic abuse.

In this episode we discuss the people at the intersection of LGBT+ discrimination and ageism, in some difficult topics such as loneliness, and experience of abuse in care homes. But we also speak of inter-generational solidarity, recognising the beauty and wisdom in age, the innovative Pride in Care Mark, and celebrating older LGBT+ people through Silver Pride.

It is with deep sadness that we postscript this episode with the news that unfortunately Opening Doors had to close due to funding issues after this episode was published.

Links for this episode:

Opening Doors' website: https://www.openingdoors.lgbt

Follow Opening Doors on Twitter: @openingdoorsuk

Follow Opening Doors on Instagram: @openingdoorslgbtq

Justice Studio’s website: www.justicestudio.org

Follow Justice Studio on Instagram: @justicestudio

Follow Justice Studio on Twitter: @justicestudio

Follow Marianne on Instagram @creatrix.london

Welcome to Episode 5 of Justice Studio Sessions. In this episode we discuss equitable quantitative research. Perfect for research nerds and data scientists, we will be deep diving into numbers, statistics and all that is “hard data” to establish what to do to ensure that, however you crunch it, it is equitable.

We are joined by the super smart Heather Krause, who is a data scientist and cross-sector thought leader in data equity issues. Caring passionately about data and people she set up We All Count which fosters a data equity community through their newsletter and forum.

Links for this episode:

WeAllCount website: https://weallcount.com/

Their community forum: https://community.weallcount.com/

Justice Studio’s website: www.justicestudio.org

Follow Justice Studio on Instagram: @justicestudio

Follow Justice Studio on Twitter: @justicestudio

Follow Marianne on Instagram @creatrix.london

Welcome to Episode 4 of Justice Studio Sessions. In this episode we will be discussing Children’s Rights in Somaliland. Justice Studio worked in Somaliland during 2014 and 2015 to develop their first Children's Rights Act. We were working for a taskforce led by the Somaliland Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (MOLSA), UNICEF and Save the Children. The creation of the Act included consultations across the country with children, teachers, parents, elders and religious authorities.

During this project our colleague was the inspiring and impressive Guleid Ahmed Jama who joins us for this episode. Guleid is a Human Rights Lawyer and activist. He established and was Chair of the Human Rights Centre Somaliland from 2013 to 2019, and he's also just completed a PhD on children's rights in unrecognised States at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.

In this episode we discuss the country of Somaliland – how it came to be – and is still unrecognised, and what that means for children. We also delve into the process we went through in creating what became the Children’s Rights Protection Act and what this act looks like today. Please note that we cover some difficult topics in detail including discrimination, child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM).

Links for this episode:

Follow Gulied on Twitter: @GuleidJ

Follow the Human Rights Centre Somaliland on Twitter: @hrcsomaliland

The Human Rights Centre Somaliland website: hrcsomaliland.org

Justice Studio’s website: www.justicestudio.org

Follow Justice Studio on Instagram: @justicestudio

Follow Justice Studio on Twitter: @justicestudio

Follow Marianne on Instagram @creatrix.london

Welcome to Episode 3 of Justice Studio Sessions. In this episode we will be discussing Women in Prison in Uganda.

We’re delighted to have Doreen N. Kyazze joining us for this episode.

Doreen is a Human Rights lawyer, Prison Reformer and Regional Director at Penal Reform International, she also has her own organisation the Zebra Foundation which advocates for the rights and dignity of women in prison and other vulnerable situations.

Links for this episode:

Follow Doreen on Linkedin: Doreen N. Kyazze

Follow Doreen & the Zebra Foundation on Twitter: @DKZebra

To donate to the Zebra Foundation's work please send to Rachel Nakawungu (Doreen's Sister & member of the Zebra foundation): https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RNNino

Justice Studio’s website: www.justicestudio.org

Follow Justice Studio on Instagram: @justicestudio

Follow Justice Studio on Twitter: @justicestudio

Follow Marianne on Instagram @creatrix.london

Title Music by Luke Fraser @the_tonic_

Show Artwork by Marianne @creatrix.studio

Welcome to Episode 2 of Justice Studio Sessions. In this episode we discuss food poverty, and in particular, Food Banks in London.

We’re delighted to have two guests with us to delve into this topic:

Dr Irum Ali, is a social scientist and consultant who works in diversity, equity and inclusion in the charity sector, and is also on the Board of Trustees at the Bow Foodbank in Tower Hamlets

Lily Bissett was formerly Justice Studio’s Operations Director and is still a dear friend, she is currently the manager at Highams Park Food Aid in Waltham Forrest,

Links for this episode:

Bow Food Bank’s Double Donation Drive for year end 2023: https://www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/communities-together-3

General website and details on how to donate food or volunteer: https://www.bowfoodbank.org/

Instagram: http://bit.ly/bowfoodbank

Follow Irum on Linkedin: Irum Ali and visit her website: www.inclusivegrowth.co

Highams Park Hub can be found at http://hphub.co.uk

Their Crowdfunder: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hpfoodhub

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/HPFoodHub

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/highamshub/

Justice Studio’s website: www.justicestudio.org

Follow Justice Studio on Instagram: @justicestudio

Follow Justice Studio on Twitter: @justicestudio

Follow Marianne on Instagram @creatrix.london

Title Music by Luke Fraser @the_tonic_

Show Artwork by Marianne @creatrix.studio

Welcome to Justice Studio Sessions!

In this very first episode of the podcast, Marianne Moore introduces Justice Studio. She takes you through the reasons why she set Justice Studio up, the kind of work and projects we do, and the values and philosophy behind how we do things.

Links for this episode:

Justice Studio’s website: www.justicestudio.org

Follow Justice Studio on Instagram: @justicestudio

Follow Justice Studio on Twitter: @justicestudio

Follow Marianne on Instagram @creatrix.london

Title Music by Luke Fraser @the_tonic_

Show Artwork by Marianne @creatrix.studio

Welcome to episode 14 of Justice Studio Sessions. In this episode we discuss three international safeguarding scandals.

In 2018 it was discovered that senior Oxfam staff had paid local young women for sex whilst working in the response to the Haiti earthquake. The Oxfam Haiti incident was not an isolated incident, however. In this episode Marianne talks about the Oxfam Scandal as well as two other scandals that shook the international aid community but took place earlier: These are the UN DynCorp Trafficking case in Bosnia in early 2000s, and the UNHCR Peacekeepers scandal in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone around the same time.

Please be advised that this episode contains distressing content.

References

Bosnia:

Bolkovac, K & Lynn, C. 2011. The Whistleblower. Palgrave Macmillan: New York.

Human Rights Watch. Nov 2002. HOPES BETRAYED. Volume 14 No. 9 (D)

Jennings, K. 2017. The Immunity Dilemma. E-International Relations p.1

Simm, G. ‘Regulating sex in peace operations: Dyncorp in Bosnia.’ Open Access: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1q1crtm

Martina Vandenberg, Complicity, Corruption, and Human Rights Available at: https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/jil/vol34/iss3/3

West Africa

UNHCR and Save the Children-UK Sexual Violence & Exploitation in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone 2001 to 2002.

IASTC Report 13 June 2002

UK House of Commons. Sexual exploitation and abuse in the aid sector. 23 July 2018.

Haiti

Oxfam GB Haiti Investigation Final Report – Confidential 2011

Charity Commission. 2019. ‘Summary Findings and Conclusions Oxfam.’

Charity Commission. 2019. ‘Statement of the Results of an Inquiry into Oxfam .’

The New Humanitarian: https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigations/2018/02/13/exclusive-oxfam-sexual-exploiter-haiti-caught-seven-years-earlier-liberia

FCDO progress report on safeguarding against sexual exploitation abuse and harassment (SEAH) in the international aid sector.

Links:

Justice Studio’s website: www.justicestudio.org

Follow Justice Studio on Instagram: @justicestudio

Follow Justice Studio on Twitter: @justicestudio

Follow Marianne on Instagram @creatrix.london

Welcome to Episode 13 of Justice Studio Sessions. In this episode we discuss young people in Wessex, South West England. We focus on the work of the Wessex Dance Academy which is a dance school for young people aged 15-25 based in Hampshire. The young people referred to the Academy are either excluded from, or not attending, school, care leavers or those with experience of the criminal justice system. Justice Studio was lucky enough to work with the academy twice – in 2013 when we undertook an outcomes study, and again in 2020 to do a refresher of the study as the covid 19 pandemic broke.

We are lucky to have Clare Hobbs with us for the discussion. Clare is the creator of the Wessex Dance Academy, establishing it 2009 because she wanted to bring dance to those who would not otherwise experience it. As manager of the Academy, she and her team, have been working closely with the young people ever since.

In this episode we discuss the lives of the young people who have been through the Academy, how the programme operates and the positive outcomes they are able to achieve in the young people’s confidence and self-esteem. We look at the challenges it faces in a funding landscape that does not always acknowledge the importance of the arts and touch on how the pandemic has affected a growing number of young people who are not in school.

Links

Follow Wessex Dance Academy on Instagram: @wessexdanceacademy

Justice Studio’s website: www.justicestudio.org

Follow Justice Studio on Instagram: @justicestudio

Follow Justice Studio on Twitter: @justicestudio

Follow Marianne on Instagram @creatrix.london

Title Music by Luke Fraser @the_tonic_

Show Artwork by Marianne @creatrix.studio