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SAHR

Reimagining Justice Podcast

SAHR means the first light that breaks the dawn. It signals awakening and hope.

As a community, we have done a lot and our collective histories - both the setbacks and successes - carries with it, a wisdom that we must pass on forward.

SAHR runs a video podcast titled Reimagining Justice, where advocates - be they authors, activists, or academics - can share stories at the frontlines of justice.

How do we advocate in times of war, battle with polarising ideas, collaborate with allies and drive change? How can we reimagine justice?​

In our episodes we go into the lives and works of advocates and explore how they are carving their own pathways to justice. The episodes will be intersectional, interdisciplinary and inspiring! It will also memorialise the work we have done as advocates, and, shape the work that's to come. 

Watch

Taking to Task: Institutional Sexual Harassment

Nadia Moynihan

  • ⚖️ Workplace sexual harassment is particularly egregious as it forces victims to tolerate and accept abuse in order to make a living.  👩🏻‍💼 Nadia Moynihan, lawyer and expert on harassment,  breaks down how to strategically take clients through the grievance process and safeguard their rights.

The Subversive Power of Literature

Azar Nafisi, best-selling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and Read Dangerously

  • 👥 📚 In these times, Azar Nafisi calls us to return to fiction and not surrender to the excitement of absolutist ideas.

    🕊️ 💡Literature by its structure, Nafisi says, is democratic as its multi-vocal and even, "the villain has a voice". ✨ By its nature it is democratic.  Reading literature is thus a resistance in itself.

What makes men evil?

James Dawes, author of Evil Men

  • 🪷 How did they bring themselves to commit atrocities? Why did they do what they did? Evil Men gets into the psyche of war criminals to under their psychological experience of being evil.

    ⚖️ For activists working with conflict, this podcast will shape how you choose to deal with and respond to war criminals, especially those who have come to power or have been reintegrated back into society.

Words as Influence & Activism

Pip Williams, Best-selling Author of The Dictionary of Lost Words, Reese Witherspoon bookclub pick

  • 📘 In The Dictionary of Lost Words, we go into the world of English words, when the first edition of The Oxford Dictionary was compiled under the backdrop of the women's suffrage movement in England.

    👩🏽‍🎤 As activists, we have invented new words such as genocide, we have given new meanings to words such as harassment, and we have claimed back words such as suffragette.

    ⚖️ The work of words ultimately is an act of influence - in each submission we write, in each position paper, declaration, in our articles, art and music - words is what we use to visibilise suffering, claim space, and posit new theories of how we can equalise our existence.

    ✨ We are having this conversation to get back in touch with our words, the words which have been discarded, the words which we must own and then - the words we are creating.✨

Watch more episodes of the Reimagining Justice Podcast on our YouTube channel.

Know someone for our podcast? Give us a shoutout. We are always looking for new voices.

When writing about Alice in Wonderland, Iranian-American author, Azar Nafisi, describes Alice being in a world “without passport or documentation” and where the “only requirement of entry into the wonderland was an open mind and a restless desire to know.”

​SAHR Justice Podcast is a convening for the open and restless.