Can you remember the last time you got butterflies looking at someone? And what would it mean if that person wasn't allowed to exist? Exploring queerness with 22-year-old-writer Progga, from Bangladesh, as we learn to handle how to love our trans community when we are being told they don't exist.

Guest: Progga

Host: ⁠⁠⁠katie MACK⁠⁠⁠

Producer: Somehow9am Productions & katie MACK

Sponsor: ⁠The International Human Rights Art Movement

If democracy dies in darkness, what does that mean for a "democratic country" that no one is paying attention to in the middle of a 8 years long armed violent conflict between government forces and armed separatist groups?

Ask Dr. Geraldine, is desperately trying to shine a light for world to notice, complied interviews from displaced victims of the crisis in Anglophone Cameroon in her new book "Agonies of the Displaced".

Because putting hope that the government might change died in darkness when Paul Biya, the president of the last 40 years, changed the Cameroonian constitution to erase term limits. Paul Biya is 91 years old.

Guest: Geraldine

Purchase her book "Agonies of the Displaced"

Host: ⁠⁠katie MACK⁠⁠

Producer: Somehow9am Productions & katie MACK

Sponsor: The International Human Rights Art Movement

In the wake of US first amendment rights feeling fragile sixty-four days into this term, IHRAM'S prolific multi-media artivist, Sanaz (Tehran, Iran) accidentally teaches us how to find the middle of the pack in order to create influential work without attracting too much unwanted attention (read: being executed in Sanaz's case).

Click play to hear the literal work made by host Katie Mack, put into practice with the tools and perspectives gained from Sanaz in this episode.

Guest: Sanaz Haeri

Host: ⁠katie MACK⁠

Producer: Somehow9am Productions & katie MACK

Sponsor: The International Human Rights Art Movement

⁠http://humanrightsartmovement.org⁠