Surviving Society Productions

Surviving Society Productions

We produce award winning podcasts focused on sociology, politics, holistic knowledges and neurodiversity Out Mondays and Tuesdays Presenter: Dr Chantelle Jessica Lewis Executive Producer: George Ofori-Addo Design: Evelyn Miller

Episodes

April 30, 2026 27 mins

Elaine, Mumtaz and Sara go deep into their experiences at work and the toll taken on their identities from constant masking. Navigating sensory overload, under-stimulation and exhaustion, as well as colleagues who see them as 'weird', too direct because of being so literal or and unreliable. How experiences of exclusion at school continue at work. The many short term jobs. The constant flux. They discuss the pros and cons o...

Listen
Watch
Mark as Played

Heartwork with Elaine and Mumtaz unpacking internalised shame. The weight of masking neurodiversity under white supremacy and capitalism.

As Black women we do not get to be fragile, we've never been able to be fragile.

ADHD has become trivalised and glamourised on tiktok and insta, just when we started to stand in ourselves.

From our bodies showing us patterns, to speaking out loud to regulate, we share tools we learned to navi...

Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
April 2, 2026 34 mins

Elaine, Sara and Mumtaz, continue their conversation about the impacts of schooling, taking a deeper dive into the physical and verbal violence of racist teachers. From being grabbed, denied the right to go the toilet, police called on them for eating in a library (when white children are doing exactly the same) to gendered fatphobia from male teachers. Education for liberation remains the horizon.


OVERLOOKED

Brought to you by Su...

Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
March 19, 2026 27 mins

Elaine, Sara and Mumtaz share their experiences of primary school.

From zero tolerance policies, adultification and repression of creativity, to daily detentions and being told to ‘just eat better’ when struggling and asking for support.

Undiagnosed dyslexia, dyspraxia and ADHD under Babylon's schooling system saw them labelled as ‘nasty’, ‘disruptive’ and ‘never going anywhere’. Learning to re-learn and re-love who they are is...

Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
March 5, 2026 31 mins

Introducing Overlooked: a podcast about Black neurodiverse girlhood. Reflecting the experiences of your presenters Elaine, Mumtaz and Sara in school, work, relationships and life.

We're finding healing in sharing and in community that sees us and loves us as we are. We're the ones now, that we needed to hear when we were growing up. We hope that this podcast falls on the ears of those who most need it.


OVERLOOKED

Brought ...

Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
February 26, 2026 38 secs

OVERLOOKED

Brought to you by Surviving Society Productions in collaboration with No More Exclusions.

Available on all platforms this March

Presented by

Elaine

Mumtaz

Sara


Executively produced by

Ewa Jasiewicz


Edited by

George Ofori-Addo


Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
November 3, 2025 24 mins

 In this series finale Nivi speaks with Dr Jackquelin Frost.

Jack is a poet and historian and currently based at the University of Paris, London.

Her articles have appeared in The Global South, The Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies, Historical Materialism and Third Text, and she is currently finishing a book on anti-colonial figures, one of whom is Jean Genet.

Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
October 27, 2025 29 mins

Nivi speaks with Dr Manjeet Baruah and discuss the work and legacy of Temsula Ao.

Manjeet is an Assistant Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi specializing in cultural History, and northeastern Indian literature.

He is the author of multiple books, most recently of Hunter, Peasant, Rebel: Colonialism and the British Assam Frontier, Published last year by Routledge.

Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
October 20, 2025 30 mins

Nivi speaks with Dr Delio Vasquez about the rich work of Huey P Newton.

Delio is an Assistant Professor at NYU working on political thought, Black studies and questions of colonialism and capitalism.

His book Huey P. Newton: I am We is an intellectual biography of Huey Newton forthcoming imminently with Polity Press.

 

Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
October 13, 2025 28 mins

Nivi speaks with Professor AnaLouise Keating about Gloria Anzaldua.

AnaLouise is professor of Multicultural Women's and Gender Studies at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas. She has written extensively on pedagogy, women of colors theories and post-oppositional thought.

Alongside Gloria Anzaldua she edited ‘this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation’, and has also published a set of detailed intervie...

Listen
Watch
Mark as Played

Poetics Of Revolution

Brought to you by Surviving Society Productions

Available on all platforms this October


Executively produced by

Nivi Manchanda


Edited by

George Ofori-Addo

Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
September 1, 2025 56 mins

This special episode is hosted by Dr Hannah Yelin, Oxford Brookes University, and Dr Laura Clancy, Lancaster University.

This podcast collaboration is funded by the Lancaster University Joy Welch Post-doctoral Fund

The Cultures of Digital Hate project is funded by the ISRF and The Sociological Review Foundation


Useful Links

Sky News interview:

 https://x.com/SkyNews/status/1074322922574176256

website: 

https://culturesdigitalhate.wordpr...

Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
August 28, 2025 25 secs

Brand new special episode - Cultures of Digital Hate

Brought to you by Surviving Society Productions

Executively produced by

Dr Hannah Yelin

Dr Laura Clancy

George Ofori-Addo


Edited by

George Ofori-Addo

Listen
Watch
Mark as Played

Welcome to I Am Well, Monday Meditation with Denise Marshall. I'm an integrative holistic therapist specialising in soul therapies and spiritual nourishments including crystals, sages, and bespoke aroma therapies.

Brought to you by Surviving Society Productions.

For more details on my practice at I am well and book free consultation please see contact details below.

E: ⁠⁠⁠denise_marshall@hotmail.co.uk⁠⁠⁠

Instagram : @iamwellholist...

Listen
Watch
Mark as Played

Welcome to I Am Well, Monday Meditation with Denise Marshall. I'm an integrative holistic therapist specialising in soul therapies and spiritual nourishments including crystals, sages, and bespoke aroma therapies.

Brought to you by Surviving Society Productions.

For more details on my practice at I am well and book free consultation please see contact details below.

E: ⁠⁠⁠denise_marshall@hotmail.co.uk⁠⁠⁠

Instagram : @iamwellholisticth...

Listen
Watch
Mark as Played

Welcome to I Am Well, Monday Meditation with Denise Marshall. I'm an integrative holistic therapist specialising in soul therapies and spiritual nourishments including crystals, sages, and bespoke aroma therapies.

Brought to you by Surviving Society Productions.

For more details on my practice at I am well and book free consultation please see contact details below.

E: ⁠⁠⁠denise_marshall@hotmail.co.uk⁠⁠⁠

Instagram : @iamwellholisticth...

Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
April 21, 2025 5 mins

Welcome to I Am Well, Monday Meditation with Denise Marshall. I'm an integrative holistic therapist specialising in soul therapies and spiritual nourishments including crystals, sages, and bespoke aroma therapies.

Brought to you by Surviving Society Productions.

For more details on my practice at I am well and book free consultation please see contact details below.

E: ⁠⁠⁠denise_marshall@hotmail.co.uk⁠⁠⁠

Instagram : @iamwellholisticth...

Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
April 14, 2025 8 mins

In this episode Chantelle talks to integrative holistic therapist Denise Marshall.


Denise's Monday Meditation series is available every week on Surviving society Productions platform

Listen
Watch
Mark as Played

Welcome to I Am Well, Monday Meditation with Denise Marshall. I'm an integrative holistic therapist specialising in soul therapies and spiritual nourishments including crystals, sages, and bespoke aroma therapies.

Brought to you by Surviving Society Productions.

For more details on my practice at I am well and book free consultation please see contact details below.

E: ⁠⁠⁠denise_marshall@hotmail.co.uk⁠⁠⁠

Instagram : @iamwellholisticth...

Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
April 7, 2025 49 mins

In this episode we are joined by Zahra Bei from No More Exclusions, Roxy Legane from Kids of Colour and J Yambuya to discuss the links between schooling, exclusions and UK prisons.

Links

https://www.maslaha.org

https://kidsofcolour.com

https://www.nomoreexclusions.com/

Summary

Our series with Maslaha is focused on the connections between prisons islamophobia and antiblackness in UK prisons and the criminal justice system.

This collaborati...

Listen
Watch
Mark as Played

Popular Podcasts

    Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.

    Dateline NBC

    Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com

    Stuff You Should Know

    If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.

    The Breakfast Club

    The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, And Charlamagne Tha God!

    Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

    Nancy Grace dives deep into the day’s most shocking crimes and asks the tough questions in her new daily podcast – Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Nancy Grace had a perfect conviction record during her decade as a prosecutor and used her TV show to find missing people, fugitives on the run and unseen clues. Now, she will use the power of her huge social media following and the immediacy of the internet to deliver daily bombshells! Theme Music: Audio Network

Advertise With Us
Music, radio and podcasts, all free. Listen online or download the iHeart App.

Connect

© 2026 iHeartMedia, Inc.

  • Help
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • AdChoicesAd Choices