Ali Ali, Emma Grillo Kajava, Suvi Keskinen and Ameera Masoud-Jaakonaho introduce the podcast and the ideas behind it.
This episode introduces the concept of racial time, a concept which Ameera Masoud-Jaakonaho will explore and further develop as part of the Becomings project.
Racial time will be explored in greater depth in later episodes.
In this episode, we continue tracing anti-racist becoming. Emma Grillo Kajava interviews Ali Ali, who talks about his research on the political pedagogics and becoming that happens in the mundane and the intimate. Ali asks: how are everyday encounters and personal relations sites and theaters for encountering politics, recognizing the urgency for political action and alliance and acting collectively towards more just and liveable kinship and communal relations.
In this episode Emma Grillo Kajava discusses the politics of time in antiracist and anticolonial movements, exploring how activists reinterpret the past, present, and future to challenge dominant narratives that frame racism as a problem of the past.
Her work draws on activist knowledge and a “scavenging” methodology that engages with movement archives, cultural production, and lived experience to understand how these movements imagine alternative futures and inform both research and political practice.
In this episode, Suvi Keskinen interviews Nirmal Puwar about using creative methods and rethinking social research through collaboration with various communities. Nirmal tells about the work behind her remarkable projects, such as Noise of the Past, and the collectively written book Racist Tones. The episode shows how research designs and relationships provide possibilities to develop ‘contact zones’ of exchange that open up to dialogue, different modes of telling (or not telling) and reflexive practices for expanding places together.
In this episode, postdoctoral researcher Hansalbin Sältenberg talks about his new research project on Palestine solidarity in Finland and Sweden after October 7. Among other things, he points at connections being made between the colonial situation in Palestine and racial structures in the Nordic region.
In this episode, Ameera speaks with doctoral researcher, author, teacher of creative writing, and activist Koko Hubara about the inseparable connections between her personal life, research, and political engagement. Koko reflects on how experiences of motherhood, mixed-race identity, and interest in Black feminist thought have shaped her research, racism within the intimate sphere of the mother–daughter relationships.
She discusses founding Ruskeat Tytöt Media (Brown Girls Media) and the platform’s lasting impact on antiracist discourse, community-building, and conversations about race in Finland. Koko also shares how her political work has shifted to organizing in Palestine solidarity activism through Nahlieli – Jews for Justice in Palestine and Sumud – The Finnish Palestine Network. Throughout the conversation, she considers what meaningful activism looks like beyond performance, emphasizing the importance of unlearning, community work, and connecting research to personal experiences and political struggles.