Daily Podcast #10 Miriam Hillawi Abraham /// The Exotic Other

ABOUT MIRIAM HILLAWI ABRAHAM ///

Miriam Hillawi Abraham is a multi-disciplinary designer who hails from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Her work advocates for social justice through afrofuturism and intersectional feminism by creating playful dialogue, immersive experiences, mining artefacts from the future and constructing alternative realities. She was a contributor to The Funambulist 24 (July-Aug. 2019) Futurisms. Learn more on her contributor page.

ABOUT THIS DAILY PODCAST SERIES ///

As many of us are currently confined at home in many places of the world, and while we keep in our minds and in our hearts those who have no choice but to be at risk from the ongoing worldwide pandemic, because they’re doctors, nurses, cashiers, workers, homeless, incarcerated, or in any other precarious situation, we wanted to provide you with a daily podcast to use this time to reflect and organizing without talking about the pandemic itself — there might be already enough about it.

The concept is very simple. Every day, we ask one person the same question: “what is for you a moment of true decolonization?” The answer can be a historial moment or something they witnessed; something heroic and grandiose, or rather discreet and mundane; a durable blow to the structures of colonialism or a short instant of liberation.

We thank you for listening and wish you and your loved ones the very best wherever you are.

(music by hooksounds originals)

NB. The Funambulist daily podcast is also played every day at 3:30PM, Palestine time, on  راديو الحارة Radio Alhara, a new radio produced from locked-down Bethlehem and Ramallah, along with another 15-minute production about worldwide solidarity, created specifically by The Funambulist for the purpose of this show.