S2 Ep12: The Importance of Fun, Joy, and Pleasure in Advancing Justice and Human Rights with Geetanjali Misra

What does pleasure have to do with human rights? How do we incorporate play and joy into our work of challenging violence and discrimination? To explore the topic of how we create movements that challenge structural exclusion while expressing diverse forms of desire and pleasure, I’m joined by Geetanjali Misra.   Tune in this week to discover how to use play, joy, fun, and pleasure in the fight for sexual rights. We’re discussing how we can help people not just accounting for the harm they face, but also focusing on diverse sources of pleasure they want to experience, and how we can bring these two ends of the spectrum together.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://mallikadutt.com/s2e12 Leadership Moves is supported by the BUILD program of the Ford Foundation Podcast music composed by Devadas, (c) Mallika Dutt, LLC 2021  Production team: Mallika Dutt, Kiani Ned, Loubna Bouajaj, and Digital Freedom Productions Sign up for Mallika’s email newsletter at mallikadutt.com/join   Follow Mallika: Twitter: twitter.com/mallikadutt   Instagram: instagram.com/mallikadutt   Facebook: facebook.com/mallikadutt   YouTube: youtube.com/c/MallikaDutt-IC

How does the loss of a family member to a tragedy like 9/11 affect your ability to lead? How can you stay grounded in love when working on challenging issues like abortion and HIV/AIDS? Terry McGovern, chair of the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia’s Public Health School is here to explore the realities of staying accountable to the communities you serve and letting them lead the way.   Tune in this week to discover the resilience and focus it takes to survive personal tragedy and continue serving the most marginalized people in your community. Terry is sharing the most significant things she’s learned in her fight for reproductive and health equality and how we need to ground our leadership in these turbulent times.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://mallikadutt.com/s2e11 Leadership Moves is supported by the BUILD program of the Ford Foundation Podcast music composed by Devadas, (c) Mallika Dutt, LLC 2021  Production team: Mallika Dutt, Kiani Ned, Loubna Bouajaj, and Digital Freedom Productions Sign up for Mallika’s email newsletter at mallikadutt.com/join   Follow Mallika: Twitter: twitter.com/mallikadutt   Instagram: instagram.com/mallikadutt   Facebook: facebook.com/mallikadutt   YouTube: youtube.com/c/MallikaDutt-IC

How would your life change if care became the central organizing principle of how you do your work? As a co-founder of the Mesoamerican Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders (IM-Defensoras), Lydia Alpízar Durán faced this exact question, and she is here to explore how we can build collective capacity for our wellbeing in the face of increasing oppression.   Lydia has led the way in terms of diverse leadership and integrating diversity, care, and sustainability for the WHRDs who are fighting oppression, so tune in to discover the realizations and perspective shifts she has had over the years, and the practical steps she has implemented in her organization to bring people together and build a collective capacity to respond.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://mallikadutt.com/s2e10 Leadership Moves is supported by the BUILD program of the Ford Foundation Podcast music composed by Devadas, (c) Mallika Dutt, LLC 2021  Production team: Mallika Dutt, Kiani Ned, Loubna Bouajaj, and Digital Freedom Productions Sign up for Mallika’s email newsletter at mallikadutt.com/join   Follow Mallika: Twitter: twitter.com/mallikadutt   Instagram: instagram.com/mallikadutt   Facebook: facebook.com/mallikadutt   YouTube: youtube.com/c/MallikaDutt-IC

Are you considering a significant work transition? Perhaps you’re a founder looking to leave your beloved organization in search of new challenges. Or maybe the baton of an organization and mission is being passed to you. What does it take to succeed a charismatic leader? Here to discuss these topics are Lisa VeneKlasen, the founder of JASS, and Shereen Essof, JASS’s new leader.   Join us this week to discover how to carry out big leadership changes with breath, love, and grace, even during times of global crises. We’re discussing the reality faced when a founder decides to leave an organization, and how to bring forth leadership from within so that an organization can continue to move forward and do the important work of social justice.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://mallikadutt.com/s2e09 Leadership Moves is supported by the BUILD program of the Ford Foundation Podcast music composed by Devadas, (c) Mallika Dutt, LLC 2021  Production team: Mallika Dutt, Kiani Ned, Loubna Bouajaj, and Digital Freedom Productions Sign up for Mallika’s email newsletter at mallikadutt.com/join   Follow Mallika: Twitter: twitter.com/mallikadutt   Instagram: instagram.com/mallikadutt   Facebook: facebook.com/mallikadutt   YouTube: youtube.com/c/MallikaDutt-IC

What is the importance of women’s stories? How do we learn the art of listening with humility and respect for storytellers? Feminist independent publisher Urvashi Butalia is here to answer these questions, and give us an insight into publishing exclusive stories, practicing intergenerational leadership, and getting on a bicycle before you turn 70.   Tune in this week to discover the power of challenging yourself to listen in situations that make you uncomfortable. Urvashi Butalia is discussing her experiences of sharing the stories of women over the past four decades, and of accepting that now is the time for her organization to take the path of the next generation of leaders and changemakers.     Get full show notes and more information here: https://mallikadutt.com/s2e08 Leadership Moves is supported by the BUILD program of the Ford Foundation Podcast music composed by Devadas, (c) Mallika Dutt, LLC 2021  Production team: Mallika Dutt, Kiani Ned, Loubna Bouajaj, and Digital Freedom Productions Sign up for Mallika’s email newsletter at mallikadutt.com/join   Follow Mallika: Twitter: twitter.com/mallikadutt   Instagram: instagram.com/mallikadutt   Facebook: facebook.com/mallikadutt   YouTube: youtube.com/c/MallikaDutt-IC

What does it take to go from a domestic worker to the director of an organization that represents thousands of Indigenous women in the public arena? Is that a journey of transformation you could imagine for yourself? Join me as I sit down with Tarcila Rivera Zea to learn how she overcame huge obstacles and emerged as a globally recognized mover and shaker.   Tune in this week to hear about what world leadership has to learn from Indigenous feminist leaders like Tarcila. Tarcila is sharing her harrowing story, how she found her calling in advocating for Indigenous women, and the adversity she had to work through so she could fight for the rights of herself and others.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://mallikadutt.com/s2e07 Leadership Moves is supported by the BUILD program of the Ford Foundation Podcast music composed by Devadas, (c) Mallika Dutt, LLC 2021  Production team: Mallika Dutt, Kiani Ned, Loubna Bouajaj, and Digital Freedom Productions Sign up for Mallika’s email newsletter at mallikadutt.com/join   Follow Mallika: Twitter: twitter.com/mallikadutt   Instagram: instagram.com/mallikadutt   Facebook: facebook.com/mallikadutt   YouTube: youtube.com/c/MallikaDutt-IC

How does one continue to serve when the government that is supposed to protect you decides to turn on you for being a human rights defender? How do you manage your own fear while standing for the thousands of migrants that have become victims of organized crime? Well, my guest this week has firsthand experience to share of exactly this.   Tune in this week for a riveting conversation with Ana Lorena about the realities of serving those navigating life-threatening issues, what it takes to keep going when you’re accused of the very thing you’re trying to eradicate, and how she takes care of herself and has resolved fears for her own safety.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://mallikadutt.com/s2e06 Leadership Moves is supported by the BUILD program of the Ford Foundation Podcast music composed by Devadas, (c) Mallika Dutt, LLC 2021  Production team: Mallika Dutt, Kiani Ned, Loubna Bouajaj, and Digital Freedom Productions Sign up for Mallika’s email newsletter at mallikadutt.com/join   Follow Mallika: Twitter: twitter.com/mallikadutt   Instagram: instagram.com/mallikadutt   Facebook: facebook.com/mallikadutt   YouTube: youtube.com/c/MallikaDutt-IC

How does one fight for equality while naming discrimination within the very philanthropic organizations that support their work? My guest this week has a powerful lesson on courage and serving others with bravery in the face of discomfort, even when you don’t have all the answers.   Tune in this week as Françoise Moudouthe walks us through the importance of taking a stance and tackling discrimination, even when it risks affecting your popularity or financial resources. We’re discussing how, as female leaders, we can address the issue of the colonization of philanthropy, avoid tokenism, and stand in solidarity and alliance with other organizations.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://mallikadutt.com/s2e05 Leadership Moves is supported by the BUILD program of the Ford Foundation Podcast music composed by Devadas, (c) Mallika Dutt, LLC 2021  Production team: Mallika Dutt, Kiani Ned, Loubna Bouajaj, and Digital Freedom Productions Sign up for Mallika’s email newsletter at mallikadutt.com/join   Follow Mallika: Twitter: twitter.com/mallikadutt   Instagram: instagram.com/mallikadutt   Facebook: facebook.com/mallikadutt   YouTube: youtube.com/c/MallikaDutt-IC

What can discrimination, hardship, and resilience teach us about navigating COVID with courage and grace? My guest this week is Rukka Sombolinggi, Secretary General of the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN)—the world’s largest Indigenous Peoples organization, and she’s here to discuss the complex answers to this question.   Tune in this week as Rukka shares her deep wisdom about how we can navigate pandemics, climate change, and other crises by focusing on the collective approach embodied by our planet’s Indigenous communities, and some why Indigenous communities have had the opportunity to thrive during the COVID pandemic.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://mallikadutt.com/s2e04 Leadership Moves is supported by the BUILD program of the Ford Foundation Podcast music composed by Devadas, (c) Mallika Dutt, LLC 2021  Production team: Mallika Dutt, Kiani Ned, Loubna Bouajaj, and Digital Freedom Productions Sign up for Mallika’s email newsletter at mallikadutt.com/join   Follow Mallika: Twitter: twitter.com/mallikadutt   Instagram: instagram.com/mallikadutt   Facebook: facebook.com/mallikadutt   YouTube: youtube.com/c/MallikaDutt-IC

My guest this week is an anthropologist who believes that the solutions to institutional and deeply-ingrained problems lie in the social sciences.   Tune in this week to discover the work Seteney Shami and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences are doing to bring academia and the humanities into the conversation around how to solve the challenges and crises the Arab world is facing.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://mallikadutt.com/s2e03 Leadership Moves is supported by the BUILD program of the Ford Foundation Podcast music composed by Devadas, (c) Mallika Dutt, LLC 2021  Production team: Mallika Dutt, Kiani Ned, Loubna Bouajaj, and Digital Freedom Productions Sign up for Mallika’s email newsletter at mallikadutt.com/join   Follow Mallika: Twitter: twitter.com/mallikadutt   Instagram: instagram.com/mallikadutt   Facebook: facebook.com/mallikadutt   YouTube: youtube.com/c/MallikaDutt-IC