Theory, testimony, and survival in conversation.
Surviving Society Productions makes serious, interview-led audio about power, identity, care, and resistance. Its recent episodes move between Overlooked’s black, brown, and global majority women’s conversations and Poetics of Revolution’s scholarship on anti-colonial, feminist, and revolutionary thought.
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Surviving Society Productions gathers conversations about survival, knowledge, and political imagination without smoothing out the difficulty of any of those words. It moves slowly on purpose. The recent Overlooked episodes are built around black, brown, and global majority women speaking from neurodivergent experience, diagnosed and undiagnosed, with an emphasis on community rather than performance. Shame is treated as social, embodied, and political. Schooling becomes a site where racism, sexism, ableism, colourism, teacher violence, and institutional neglect are remembered in detail. Work, capitalism, diagnosis, and the disability system appear not as abstract policy areas, but as places where young black and brown women are repeatedly overlooked. The tone can be blunt. It is also caring, with speakers setting intentions, naming who the conversation is meant to reach, and returning to the possibility of being heard. The Poetics of Revolution strand shifts the register toward long-form intellectual history. Scholars discuss Jean Genet, Temsula Ao, Huey P. Newton, and Gloria Anzaldúa as figures whose writing complicates authority, colonialism, feminism, community, solidarity, and revolutionary imagery. The conversations often begin with biography, then widen into the pressure between political commitments and lived limits. Genet’s theatrical critique of authority sits beside questions of queer twentieth-century French writing. Ao’s literature opens onto Northeastern Indian history, violence, memory, and the fragile insistence on humanity. Newton’s thought is read through black studies, capitalism, colonialism, Palestine, and unfinished political legacy. Anzaldúa’s work brings pedagogy, indigenous thought, gender studies, spiritual activism, inward reflection, and collective transformation into view. What connects these strands is a refusal of neat separation. Personal story, social structure, literary analysis, and political responsibility keep crossing into one another. Surviving Society Productions suits listeners who want careful conversation about the conditions people survive, and about the intellectual tools that make survival more than endurance.
Made for: For listeners drawn to serious social justice audio, black and brown neurodivergent testimony, abolitionist community work, and politically engaged scholarship. It especially suits those who prefer careful context over quick takes.
What sets it apart: Surviving Society Productions stands apart by placing intimate accounts of neurodivergence and institutional harm beside theory-rich conversations on revolutionary writers and thinkers. It treats scholarship and lived experience as mutually necessary forms of knowledge.
We produce award winning podcasts focused on sociology, politics, holistic knowledges and neurodiversityOut Mondays and TuesdaysPresenter: Dr Chantelle Jessica LewisExecutive Producer: George Ofori-AddoDesign: Evelyn Miller
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Scholarly conversations connect political thought and cultural history to the lived consequences of borders, institutions, violence, and collective struggle.
Surviving Society Productions gives scholarly conversation a clear public purpose. Dr Chantelle Jessica Lewis and guest presenters bring researchers into sustained discussions of migration and belonging, digital hate, political thought, literature, and colonial power.
A security guard at a failing floodgate is your way into the politics of who gets warned.
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A patient reading of how Temsula Aao turns social change, community, and violence into layered literary questions.
Temsula Aao's writing is treated here as a way to read social change without forcing it into a simple split between tradition and modernity. Manjeet Barua places her work alongside peace and conflict studies, then follows questions of community, patriarchy, identity, and change.
A careful look at Huey Newton's fame, political thought, and unfinished legacy.
Huey Newton comes through as a figure caught between fame and infamy, carried by popular culture but still in need of a fuller account of his political thought. The conversation with Dr.
A reflective single-episode review of Anzaldua's spiritual activism, political limits, and collective thought.
Gloria Anzaldua comes through in Professor Anna-Louise Keating's account as an intellectual presence, friend, and comrade. The conversation tracks Anzaldua's work from the spiritual charge Keating found in La Prieta and El Mundo Zurdo toward spiritual activism as an inward…
A careful look at public scholarship as a target, and why that risk is not shared equally.
Surviving Society's "Cultures of Digital Hate" looks at what can happen when researchers take their work into public view. It opens with Hannah Yellen and Laura Clancy's account of the response to their 2018 article on Meghan Markle, where they argued that the monarchy used…
Tivia Collins connects Caribbean migration, resource extraction, and the unsettled question of who gets to belong.
The episode sets migration and belonging inside the Caribbean's longer history of colonial power, then brings that history close through Tivia Collins, an assistant professor in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at Wake Forest University.
A floodgate collapse becomes a close study of infrastructure, accountability, and riverside life in Ahmed.
Eray's episode opens on the evening a floodgate collapses at a major dam on the Upper Tigris River upstream of Ahmed. As water moves toward the city, a self-built riverside neighborhood shifts into emergency mode: people leave for friends and relatives, light bonfires to watch…
Canarian community radio for poetry, justice, education, and democratic culture.
Care, systems, survival, and social change.
Workplace truth with lived-experience clarity.
The episode investigates a 2018 floodgate collapse in Ahmed, a Kurdish city in Turkey, tracing it to the Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) and its dams.
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Ez Chigbo and Dr Chantelle Jessica Lewis reflect on season two of the podcast, discussing the practical role of love in social justice work and finding hope amidst institutional challenges.
Surviving Society’s “Reflection” brings the Overlooked team back to assess how conversations about neurodivergence, race, and shame affected them.
Three black neurodivergent women discuss shame and set intentions for their podcast aimed at helping others feel seen and understood.
A discussion about how racism, colorism, and bias manifest in schools, particularly in teacher-student interactions with black and brown neurodivergent women.
A group of neurodivergent women of color discuss their hopes for healing and connection in a safe space.
Three black women with ADHD launch a podcast to share experiences and build community for neurodivergent women of color.
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Temsula Ao, a poet, novelist, and ethnographer, writes from “entanglement,” not a simple identity-versus-modernity split.
Huey Newton said the Black Panther Party was read as "insurrectionist" even though its first program was to stop children being run over in Oakland.
Anna-Louise Keating, Professor of Multicultural Women's and Gender Studies at Texas Woman's University and editor of This Bridge We Call Home and The Gloria Anzaldua Reader, discusses her decades-long friendship and collaboration with Gloria Anzaldua.
Hannah Yelin (Oxford Brookes) and Laura Clancy (Lancaster University) discuss their Cultures of Digital Hate research project, which grew from their own 2018 experience of a Sunday Times headline that falsely claimed they accused Meghan Markle of 'dropping feminism like a hot potato.' Drawing on an 85-respondent survey and 13 in-depth interviews with UK academics, they report that 74 percent of respondents experienced harm from sharing research publicly, including rape and death threats, doxing, and hospitalisation.
A reflective roundup of season two of Surviving Society, discussing the role of love in social justice work with host and guest Ez Chigbo.
Jessica Horn discusses her book 'African Feminist Praxis' and the importance of community and gratitude amidst global challenges.
Harshad Keval discusses his book 'Whiteness, Racial Trauma and the University' and the significance of his name in the context of migration and identity.
An interview with Rachell Sánchez-Rivera about her book 'Slippery Eugenics' and the intersections of race, gender, and coloniality in Latin America.