Welcome to Episode 21 of the Social Justice Salon.

In this fascinating and important episode, we learn about the work of Circles-UK. Circles of Support and Accountability are community initiative designed to reduce sex offending among high-risk perpetrators. The CEO of Circles UK, Riana Taylor joins Marianne to discuss their work.

Prior to joining Circles in 2016, Riana was the Director of Operations for two Community Rehabilitation Companies and the Deputy Chief/Director of Strategy for Thames Valley Probation in 2002. She has worked as a consultant in China and Vietnam for the UNDP and Rego Foundation and was formally part of Nelson Mandela’s first democratic government in South Africa as Chief Director of the Department of Safety and Security.

Marianne and Riana discuss the risks that can lead to sexual offending, how they can be prevented, and go into detail about the practicalities of Circles-UK’s work. Riana sets out the ways in which Circles-UK and their providers and volunteers prevent sexual abuse in high-risk sexual offenders through these innovative talking circles. Circles-UK’s work shows that high-risk sexual offenders can be helped to take accountability and stop offending with community support.

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Music by Luke Fraser at The Tonic and Artwork was by Marianne

Welcome to Episode 20 of the Social Justice Salon.

In this episode, we learn about the amazing Women’s Revolution that emerged in Rojava in Syria during 2010s. We discuss how the Kurdish women set up an egalitarian society at the same time as fighting the forces of ISIS. Marianne is joined by Rahila Gupta who has been to Rojava and learned all about this region first hand

Rahila is an author and activist. She is a patron of Peace in Kurdistan and on the management committee of Southall Black Sisters. She has authored a huge range of books, articles, short stories, poetry, essays, screenplays and plays for theatre, for names such as The Guardian, New Internationalist, Feminist Dissent, The Independent on Sunday, Asian Times, Spare Rib, Disability Now, The Lancet, and Poetry Salzburg. Most recently, with Beatrix Campbell, she has authored the book Planet Patriarchy a continent-crossing panorama of women’s rights, women’s oppression and women’s politics in the twenty-first century.

Marianne and Rahila discuss the context that the Rojava women’s revolution emerged in, the hideous threat that ISIS posed to women in the region, and how this new society instigated new values, new institutions and a new way of life in northern Syria. It is an episode not to miss.

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Buy Rahila’s latest book Planet Patriarchy

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Music by Luke Fraser at The Tonic and Artwork was by Marianne

Welcome to Episode 19 of the Social Justice Salon.

In this solo episode, Marianne talks about ways of knowing and how the ideology behind our knowledge systems affects our work in social justice.

Marianne discusses how the men of the Scientific Revolution in 16th & 17th century set in stone the dominant ways of knowing that still impact how research and consultancy is done today. She outlines how certain methodologies have been given more respect and status and that this has influenced the way we all see the world.

Countering the dominant narratives are feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonial and queer methodologies which expose the power structures inherent in our accepted ways of knowing and propose new ways of doing things. Marianne takes us through these approaches and outlines practical ways to make sure social justice research is done in an equitable and ethical way.

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Music by Luke Fraser at The Tonic and Artwork was by Marianne

Welcome to Episode 18 of the Social Justice Salon.

In this episode, we explore how women in the Uk today have to navigate their public sexuality: as we exist in public places and online. Marianne is joined by the fantastic Fiona Vera Grey who gives us a rich insight into this with findings from her extensive research.

Fiona is a professor of sexual violence, activist and campaigner working on violence against women and girls. She comes from a practice-based background, working for over a decade in the Rape Crisis movement before moving into academia. She has authored three books including: The Right Amount of Panic: How Women Trade Freedom for Safety and Women on Porn. She is currently Co-Director of the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit at London Metropolitan University

Marianne and Fiona discuss the ‘safety work’ that women do to avoid sexual harassment and harm, the different intersecting barriers that demand us to be sexual but not too sexual, and the impact of the rise of hardcore porn and how it is shaping our desires.

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Buy her book The Right Amount of Panic

Buy her book Men’s Intrusion, Women’s Embodiment

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Music by Luke Fraser at The Tonic and Artwork was by Marianne

Welcome to Episode 17 of the Social Justice Salon.

In this episode, Marianne is joined by the titan of financial and economic activism Nicholas Shaxson. We delve into predatory finance, tax havens and his latest research into monopoly power.

Nicholas Shaxson is a journalist, author, and activist focusing on finance & economics, and their relationships to people and societies. He’s written for numerous publications including the Financial Times, the Guardian, the Economist, and the New York Times and has written a number of fantastic books: Poisoned Wells (2007), about oil, politics and conflict in West Africa; Treasure Islands (2011), about tax havens; and The Finance Curse (2018), about the domestic impacts of oversized financial sectors. He was a foundational member of the global tax justice movement and in 2021 co-founded the Balanced Economy Project (BEP), the first general international anti-monopoly NGO of the modern age. He is currently writing a new book on monopolies.

We focus on the history and impact of monopolies, how pervasive and dangerous they are to our financial and overall health, and how it is actually very possible to curb their control and revitalise our local economies.

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Follow Nicholas Shaxson on LinkedIn

Buy his book The Finance Curse

Buy his book Tresure Islands

Buy his book Poisoned Wells

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Music by Luke Fraser at The Tonic and Artwork was by Marianne

Welcome to Episode 16 of the podcast which has had a rebrand! We are now called the Social Justice Salon.

In this episode, we are discussing how we can eliminate nuclear weapons. Susi Synder of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) joins hostess Marianne Moore to discuss everything about their campaign and why, 80 years after they were first tested, nuclear weapons finally need to be stopped.

Hello!

We're back and with a rebrand.!

Justice Studio Sessions is now the Social Justice Salon with me, Marianne Moore.

And I'm very very excited about Season 2 of this podcast.

We've got some really really cool guests and interesting topics.

We will have monopoly power with Nicholas Shaxson, public sexuality and how women navigate it, how we can eliminate nuclear weapons, and so much more.

I hope you will enjoy the new look Social Justice Salon.

Welcome to episode 15 of Justice Studio Sessions. In this concluding episode of series one, we have a frank discussion about what it means to run a consultancy focused on social justice. In this episode we discuss the challenges of running a small values based business in an industry that favours the big boys.

For this episode Marianne Moore, foundress of Justice Studio, is joined by Dr Irum Ali a social scientist and consultant who runs the organisation Inclusive Growth with her co-founder. Irum has nearly two decades of experience in both the academic and charity fields, working on a range of projects across research, policy and evaluation areas. Her current areas of interest lie in diversity, equity and inclusion in the charity sector, the impact of poor public service provision on marginalised communities and race equality policy.

In this no holds barred episode, Irum and Marianne talk about their personal experiences and frustrations running a consultancy committed to social justice and equity in a capitalist world. We hope the topics raised will resonate with other consultants and small business owners and can be a force for more community rather than competition amongst us.

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Visit her website: www.inclusivegrowth.co

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