Curious Anarchy

BWNO: Bias Breakers - Pam Case & Louise Slattery | Pam joins us in today's episode in the series to share on recognising one's own identity and how immersion in quite a homogenous environment can shape your thinking and beliefs about the world, yet a harnessing a desire to explore and find oneself in other cultures and thinking can influence, and effectively disconnect you from your or...

In this special episode of BWNO: Bias Breakers, showcasing the book released by we have the opportunity to speak with Alaska Harrison. The first author to join us on this experimental series, Alaska Harrison, a young person from North London who has carved out a complicated yet deeply understood, kaleidoscopic, intersectional identity whilst in a hostile environment, figuring out the ontological n...

BWNO: Bias Breakers - Emma Jones & Andrea Malam | Mark joins Jermaine, the duo of Content and Curious dive into the minds of self-exploration from another two authors from the Bias Breakers series on Curious Anarchy. Curious reads the excerpts from the book again to ponder over... Dive in as we hear perspectives whilst simultaneously grappling with tech and the complex nature of unravelling id...

BWNO: Bias Breakers - Archna Gohil & Kate Wilson | Archna Gohil and Kate Wilson's turn in this 6-part series of Bias Breakers, focussing on the recent anthology with 12 authors released on 19th April 2023, today's segment covers two stories by two women of differing heritage converging on their womanhood. Both taking routes to self-actualisation through their study and entrepreneurial...

Creating the life you desire is a task many are faced with. Some persist and succeed after much ado, and some give up, choosing a different direction after feelings of deflation and the fatigue from extenuating circumstances.  Connecting with other people walking the same path as you is a crucial and familiar tactic employed by those wanting more for their life. Listen to how the wonderful Ella Ma...

With both guests, Zishan Khan and Nirmala Bhojani absent from the interview, aswell as Mark not present, our studious Curious aka Jermaine dives into a few paragraphs from their chapters and explores some immediate thoughts on being the black sheep, and flying through a dominant patriarchal society. Great stories of triumph through treacherous beginnings and elevated mindsets, both contributors to...

BWNO - Champion Runner - Jamie Baulch | Adopted in his early years, Olympian, champion, world record holder, Jamie Baulch, joins us to speak about realising his fuller identity in his teens. This exploration continued beyond 'The Flying Pineapple' leading onto a 2-part BBC documentary where he sought to find his biological parents. A keen sports fan throughout, Jamie details the transition...

BWNO: Recovery, Neurodivergence & The Cult - Priscilla Eyles | We talk about the discovery of neurodivergence as a sign of the times and reflective of many finding out for themselves later in life when the signs were there from an early stage. We've come along way, yet more to go...We also unravel susceptibility and exiting cults. Priscilla talks about two experiences described as having a very ne...

Antonio Ferreira | Mind The Gap Diana Award recipient, board member for Beyond, and activist in mental health. Antonio gives us his take on his experience of needing support amongst a culture that gave very little, and still continues to trail behind the needs of a growing and ever-changing society. Growing up surrounded by social, political and legal arenas that never seemed to interlace in a way...

Flag In My Pocket | Carrying the roots of your people everywhere you go Maryam Amini, a neuro art teacher. An activist, and spiritually aware woman living in Canada with familial ties to Iran. She has been campaigning to raise awareness of the plight of those living under the Islamic Regime with the hashtag #womenlifefreedom. Sharing a name with Mahsa Amini, who was brutally and wrongfully murdere...

Meet Simona Georgieva... Keen writer, journalist and mental health activist also combining elements of these talents delivering training for social media giant, Bytedance, owners of TikTok. Hear Simona speak to her upbringing and how the themes of navigating the religious, societal and cultural understanding and finding her way in a new environment have given her a sense of capability deserving of...

Mark and Jermaine are joined by Olly Hibble and Carl Blackstock for a chat about football.... but more so, the love of, in and around football, that so often is contained in a pressurised environment of the stands, the route to the game and exclusive circles. Why can't fans admit their love in general conversation? At the bus stop? In the park on a rainy day? What will it take to bridge the commer...

After roughly two months out other than releasing BWNO episodes, Mark and Jermaine catch up on Curious Anarchy's more regular episodic series, Curious Muse. Dropping updates on news and events taking place across the UK, but also offering thoughtful perspective. Sharing some of the findings of the last few weeks and seeing the development of the plot that is life around us, the duo check in, recap...

Highlighting very relevant themes of our time, after decades of being in active pursuit of happiness through hard work, JK finds herself coinciding with the outcome of a grafting ethic. How does she balance a life so full? Listen to JK share on her journey of being the child of immigrants quickly finding their feet, crossing the north-south divide, and burnout... One of our resident Curious Anarch...

Yaz Pink of Miss Pink Is Mobile joins us for a chat about her background, how she got into beauty education and the various threads to her bow that she identifies as a part of her, and that make her as a mother and entrepreneur. Learning how to be independent from an age where most young people would be reliant upon friendships led Yaz to discover more about herself later in life through appreciat...

Meet Gina Genie, a black woman embracing herself as she commands her life as she desires it to be. Hear about some of the influences in her life that carved a path for her to proudly walk into, and about how she is co-creating circles of trust and relationship to one another in her work as a coach. A feeling of connection will be sensed as you listen to Gina account early experiences, and walks us...

Bobby Kalinowsky, cofounder of The Emergeré along with Nicole Doty who was interviewed by us last year, joins us today to share experiences of self-reflection and setting intentions for a brighter future. Having transited government and military fields, Bobby's domestic violence insights reveal a story of alignment with women, being on the receiving end of abuse himself for years in a marriage. Th...

Andrei Knight joins us from Tantric Awakening the now registered group for practicing Tantra in the United States. Kendall Aragon also sits in with us to share more on her experiences of unravelling the layers of religiosity as she describes how her self-expression was suppressed in subservience to the Catholic church. The two now coming together in a relationship to form a formidable duo, Jermain...

After two and a half years of a 4 and a half sentence, Siyanda Mngaza sits in with us for a talk about her time inside. The story, for many, has frustrated and angered at how successive events in the lead upto court cases appear to have some kind of inherent bias towards a particular type of people. Often minoritised people in countries who have a presence because of waves of immigration for one r...

Avid traveller of the online and physical world, Pam Case stops by Curious Anarchy to chat about her deeply profound trip to India that opened her eyes to things she hadn't expected and had her reflecting on her own experiences. Now building relationships with people across the planet, Pam has transmuted much of her childhood feelings of isolation, guilt, shame and stigma, and now applies remedy,...

MetaRuth... one of the wonderful and amazing people that the team have come across on their journey in podcasting and social audio. Through web3, the metaverse, and building community, MetaRuth has carved out a path of defiance against toxicity in relationships, speaking up for those who are experiencing discrimination, subjugation, harm and violence in intimate settings. A proud Latin-American wo...

The NHS announce their first strike in 106 years. Jermaine and Mark discuss the potential for opening talks with health agencies, networks, and across the industry, inviting the key people in policy-making and structural to participate in cooperative discussion around resolving. We had a surprise guest, Neomi Bennett MEB, join us. An NHS nurse, founder of Equality 4 Black Nurses, currently campaig...

Malachi Nunes, a youth worker, father, and entrepreneur sits in with us for a talk about his origin story and process of unravelling the self through his experiences. Whether schooling, health, neurodivergency, relationships with family, friends or romantic engagements, Malachi appears to have a deep sense of connection through having an older sister with a disability. He shares experiences of nav...

Remember, Remember the fifth of November... Jermaine and Mark take a little walk down memory lane and share some deeper insights on the history behind the ceremony of failed attempts at death, and death of those that failed the attempt, so-called The Gunpowder Plot, Jesuit Plot, or the Gunpowder Treason Plot. Consider how loaded the language is around this particular event, as well as the time per...

Facilities Manager, mother, and TikTok London Ambassador,  Brandiece stops by to share some insights on the lifestyle of a managed social media account. Brandiece drops some recently released news from TikTok about new features available as well as sharing about her experience as a parent whilst living life in a sense of anarchy, demanding what she wants from the world around her. This powerful an...