00:00 – Intro

00:49 – Being privileged doesn’t make you immune

02:35 – if you find yourself in an environment in which you beg for validation

04:30 – Javayria about Code Switching

06:38 – Using power to include others

07:40 – Metacolonialism: when code-switching becomes permanent

12:32 – Extravert vs Intravert

16:15 – How I got manipulated to give someone £3,000 to be accepted

18:31 – Confidence vs Arrogance and why arrogance gets people ahead

20:02 – Blending and staying safe vs being yourself and filtering out people?

22:01 – What about Muslims working in structures that openly practice racism?

23:43 – What is considered as “normal” is changing: how IQ became obsolete

25:28 – People we seek validation from also seek validation, and create harmful spaces

27:00 - How to tell the difference between someone solid and someone who’s hot air?

29:55 - Three Cs: Compassion, Critical Thinking and Commitment.

32:43 - The most beautiful people are those who overcome the most difficult things in life

36:33 - How not to wake up when you’re 40 and realise you’ve wasted your life

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WHO ARE WE?

William is a Sociology Researcher at the University of Warwick working on Muslim experiences in Europe and North America.Javayria works in Higher Education and has a History degree from SOAS in South Asian History

REFERENCESBulhan, Hussein A. 2015. “Stages of Colonialism in Africa: From Occupation of Land to Occupation of Being,” Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 3(1): 239–56.Friedman, Sam, and Daniel Laurison. The Class Ceiling : Why it Pays to be Privileged, Bristol Policy Press, 2019.