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15th Sep 2020

Safe Spaces

Safe space as 'a place or environment in which a person or category of people can feel confident that they will not be exposed to discrimination, criticism, harassment or any other emotional or physical harm'.

This can be emotional, physical, psychological, in the sense that where someone can bring an issue or concern to the table without your reaction being the one thing they are concerned about.

In the context of what we aim to accomplish with Uncomfortable Conversations, we want a space for us to be as honest as we can, to be as vulnerable we would like to be, one free of criticism, and as free of harassment as possible.

Yet as men, we realize that we have the privilege of creating and owning a lot of spaces that are safe for us, but not safe for women, and in the context of this conversation black women.

Host: Funmilade Taiwo

Guest: Seyi Laja

Produced by: Funmilade Taiwo & Folarin Odunayo

Shot by: NUMOODS

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About the Podcast

Uncomfortable Conversations
About getting us -black men - to sit up and pay attention to the black women around us. How do we know they are loved? Safe? Cared for? Wait...how might we be the problem? Or better yet, how can we work towards a solution.
Through a series of uncomfortable conversations, our host and select black men will have honest discussions about how we can and have been complicit in harming the black women in our lives, and what we NEED to do to change that.

Your host: Funmilade Taiwo
Your Producer: Folarin Odunayo

About your hosts

Funmilade Taiwo

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Product (UI/UX) designer with a background in digital mental health and the food industry. Two seemingly diverse worlds, but there’s as much empathy in feeding people as there is in creating loveable digital experiences. I’m obsessed with both!

Folarin Odunayo

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Hi, I’m Flo. I’m a financial planning expert, small business strategist, speaker, and multidisciplinary creative based in Toronto. I have a passion for storytelling and a deep curiosity about how we can build spaces for openness and vulnerability, particularly for young black men.