The Henceforward

In this episode, youth researchers (ages 14 to 18) and graduate facilitators from the afterschool land education program, Youth Dreaming and Designing Relations to Lands and Waters, reflect on climate justice and Land relations, focusing on the impacts of colonization, urbanization, and gentrification on both human and more-than-human beings. Through rants, poems, and stories, they challenge anthr...

In this episode, Kayla Webber and Paige Grant interview Denise Baldwin, from Ontario, to discuss her experiences of being a Black-Indigenous woman in Canada. The conversation considers the ways that Black-Indigenous and/or Afro-Indigenous identities have, and continue to be, invisbilized in Canada. Some members of these communities have been taught to dishonour their Indigenous and/or Black ancest...

This episode was originally recorded in February 2019. However, it is especially relevant during the COVID-19 virus, given the increasing use of online platforms, and amidst conversations about life following the pandemic. In this episode, Sefanit interviews Nasma Ahmed, the founder of Digital Justice Lab (DJL). Nasma is a Black woman whose work considers surveillance, digitization, and tech justi...

This episode was originally recorded in October 2018. It remains relevant today, amidst the COVID-19 virus, as we are imagining life following the pandemic. In this episode, Jennifer Sylvester and Jade Nixon interview Alayna Eagle Shield, creator of the Mní Wičhóni Nakíčižiŋ Owáyawa (Defenders of the Water School), which began at the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Camp at Standing Rock. Alayna generously shares...

In November 2017, Indigenous and Black community members, scholars, and activists gathered at the University of Toronto to discuss getting elsewhere .   In the spirit of The Henceforward, the elsewhere is lived and created today, as well as a realm of unknown possibilities. Members of the gathering created guided meditations that take us on a walk-through future-day 125 th Street in Harlem and inv...

In this episode, Chris Ramsaroop, Greer Babazon and Nisha Toomey discuss Toronto's rapid gentrification. We visit the kitchen table to unpack what communities are most impacted by gentrification; explore how gentrification has been, and continues to be, justified by (settler colonial) logics of progress and inevitability; and we speak with a resident of Toronto's Junction area on the shifted/shift...

In this episode, Carey DeMichelis & Bea Jolley delve into the Canadian rhetoric of multiculturalism. The Kitchen Table discusses what multicultural discourses miss and mask. And we are joined by Tiffany King, Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Michael Dumas, Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the Graduate Sch...

In this episode, Sefanit Habtom and Sigrid Roman interview Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński and Naomi Rincón Gallardo, creators of the Formaldehyde Trip and Unearthing. In Conversation, respectively. Naomi and Belinda generously share their artistic decision-making processes, how they see art as resistance, and speak to future generations of Black and Indigenous peoples. Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński is a writer...

This episode explores the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program in Canada by considering the modes of surveillance, exploitation, denial and violence embedded in the program. Nisha Toomey and Chris Ramsaroop demystify false histories of Canadian innocence and the white settler anxieties entrenched in the state.

  In a deliberate attempt to un-forget erased histories, this snack episode considers a housing co-op in Toronto's downtown core. The name of the street, the co-op, and the land where it's situated, trace a relationship between settler colonialism, slavery, and antiblackness.

In this episode, various voices consider self-care in the work of the henceforward. There is a discussion of self-care collectively vs. individually, Elder Jacqui Lavalley generously explains smudging, and dark sousveillance* is offered as a form of self-care. *Dark sousveillance counters and subverts surveillance mechanisms that target Black and Indigenous peoples. For more information about dark...

In this episode, Danielle Cantave and Sefanit Habtom interview Robyn Maynard, author of the new book Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present . In her book, Maynard narrates little known - or entirely unknown - stories of Blackness in Canada and the continued state-sanctioned violence enacted upon Black people. This conversation includes her reasons for writing th...

In this episode, Simone Weir, Kate Curtis, and Jessamyn Polson feature extended interviews with Gita Madan and Tanya Aberman about the safety of Toronto schools for Black and undocumented youth. The central question of the episode is when we talk about safety, whose safety are we talking about? Gita discusses the School Resource Officer (SRO) program, which places uniformed and armed police office...

In this episode, Erin Soros interviews writer, Alicia Elliott. Alicia discusses writing in the "messy zone" without answers, her reasons for writing creative non-fiction, and much more.  How do Black and Indigenous people now imagine alternative futurities, and what approaches do they find most useful? Here at this threshold, an important intellectual and emotional energy is gathering – contributo...

In this episode, Jessamyn Polson, Kate Curtis, and Greer Brabazon linger with water and all of its rushing meaning. Including an extended interview with Dr. Karyn Recollet, this episode considers ways to find ourselves back in love and in good relation to the water. Other contributors include Simone Weir, Erin Soros, and Sandi Wemigwase. Karyn Recollet is Assistant Professor in the Women and Gende...

Season 2 begins with an interview by Jade Nixon and Cornel Grey with Itah Sadu, founder and owner of A Different Booklist. A Different Booklist is an independent bookstore and cultural centre in Tkaronto that specializes in books from the African and Caribbean diaspora. Itah generously outlines the history of the space, naming many prominent writers, poets, and publishers along the way. This episo...

In this episode, Marie Laing , Rebecca Beaulne - Stuebing , Sandi Wemigwase , and Sefanit Habtom sit with Kyle Mays to discuss his work as a Black-American Saginaw Anishinaabe scholar and hip-h op enthusiast. He discusses what draws him to the work he is currently doing, how hip-hop is used to dismantle Indigenous stereotypes , and what relationships he hopes to see between Indigenous and Black pe...

This episode features the full discussion between Eve Tuck and Rinaldo Walcott that took place at the Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education Conference at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education on September 30, 2016 . Snippets from this exchange were featured in Episode 10 , "Writing Into the Henceforward". In this conversation, Eve and Rinaldo explore the complexities of indigen...

In this snack episode, Melissa Wilson and Lynn Ly provide an overview of the work that the Henceforward podcast sets out to do.

In this snack episode, Rahma Hilowle, Christy Guthrie, and Fizza Mir deliver "podcards" (podcast/postcards) that reflect on time and place. Presented as short letters, the contributors take us to Black Creek, an Art History Museum, and on a commute along Highway 407 to consider the often untold stories of land and spaces we engage with daily. The podcards consist of sounds, memories, and interacti...

In this episode, we have collected snippets from the discussions that took place at the Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education Conference, a one day conference for writers and aspiring writers hosted by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. The episode is split into three segments based on the themes that emerged from a few of the conversations. Thr...

In this snack episode, Jen Brailsford, Alicia Cameron, and Karima Kinlock disrupt a game show entitled "Whose land is it anyways?" because of the settler colonial and antiblack narratives it perpetuates. Instead, they offer reflections upon what land is and means to Indigenous and Black peoples living on Turtle Island. The episode features a spoken word piece by K.K.Q.

In this episode, Melissa Wilson and Lynn Ly offer an overview of texts that explore settler colonialism, blackness, and land. This episode hopes to make terms more approachable and accessible by connecting them to current examples. Traveling through history, the present, and into the future, this discussion provides insight into the citation practices that ground our podcast. The texts referenced...

In this "snack" episode (a shorter episode released between full-length episodes) Rinaldo Walcott and Eve Tuck discuss the dilemmas of posing generous and productive questions between Black people and Indigenous people.   Walcott reflects on the long practices within whiteness to frame questions in ways that replicate the brutalities of white imposition, and the implications of those frames on que...

The Henceforward Episode 6: Movement Building Beyond the Moment: On Getting Free Together in #StandingRock and #FreedomSquare with Kelly Hayes. In this episode, Stephanie Latty, Sefanit Habtom, and Rebecca Beaulne-Stuebing interview Kelly Hayes, a cofounder of the Chicago Light Brigade and the direct action collective Lifted Voices. Hayes is a member of the Menominee nation, and is based out of Ch...