notes on loving knowledge ft Melz Owuzu

Exploring the process and portrayal of love in his work, Aliyah speaks with award winning filmmaker, artist and writer IGGYLDN. Emerging at the height of the post-Moonlight cultural zeitgeist, IGGYLDN’s films are emotionally dense and touch on themes of identity, community and coming of age.

Aliyah chats to Tania and Haja, who both feature in the short film ‘Loving’. They chat about growing through love, being eldest daughters and love in the creative industry. Tania is an actor, director, poet and co-founder of Black in the Day, and Haja is a curator, writer, and researcher and co-host of the HOME Impressions podcast.

Aliyah chops it up with Founder of the Free Black University, Melz Owusu. They explore Melz' love of academia, and love as spiritual practice and its effects on interpersonal relationships. What does spiritual hygiene mean to you?

Aliyah dives into the practice of loving with clinical hypnotherapist Alex Holmes. Alex is a master at getting people to the core of themselves. He works supporting men through fatherhood, boyhood and the transitional moments we need to learn to love and accept our elders. 

Notes on loving is a podcast looking at perspectives of implementing love into everyday practice. Hosted by self proclaimed lover gyal, curator & director Aliyah Hasinah.Following the Black radical feminist tradition of looking to embody and practise an ethic of loving, as an active choice and lifestyle, over this season we’ll talk about all the types of love and how we can embody this as babes based in the belly of the beast aka Babylon Britain.