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

How things are made determine who they attract, including this podcast.

Before we dive into this mini series interviewing international activist/artists or "artivists" on the ground, we talk with Founder & Executive Director Tom Block to understand what The International Arts Movement is, how these artists came to find it, and what we might stand to learn from them.

An episode for any stuck arts maker who wants to not just create opportunities, but a beacon for change when change feels a little impossible right now.

Listen as host katie MACK (creative & deflated activist) chews on the question, "Can art ACTUALLY matter"?

Guest: Tom Block

Host: katie MACK

Producer: Somehow9am Productions & katie MACK

Sponsor: The International Human Rights Art Movement

http://humanrightsartmovement.org

Trailer for Art Force, a new Arts & Culture Podcast.

Welcome to Art Force, where we amplify the voices of ⁠The International Human Rights Art Movement⁠ (IHRAM) artists making work in spite of adversity & life-threatening geopolitical situations.

Join nomadic, US passport holder, ⁠katie MACK⁠ (she/her), as she bridges the global gap from a millennial Western perspective, learning from eight IHRAM artists how to shout for social change by making art that can actually cause it.

⁠The International Human Rights Art Movement⁠⁠

Hosted by ⁠⁠katie MACK⁠

More information & support: ⁠humanrightsartmovement.org