Child Q case comes to light / Zainab Imran on poetry & identity
Episode notes
GVRNZ and Simran start off the episode by celebrating the good weather and summer approaching after what's felt like the longest winter. They also delve into examples of things that shouldn't work together, but miraculously do...
They then discuss the horrific case of Child Q that's come to light recently, in which a 15 year old girl was strip searched at school by Metropolitan Police after they incorrectly suspected her of being in possession of cannabis. As part of this discussion we cover the common adultification of black girls, by which they are often wrongly seen as being less innocent than their white counterparts from a young age.
We're then joined by local poet and performer Zainab Imran who tells us about their craft, identity, inspiration and more. She also delivers a performance of one of her pieces.
We end the episode with coverage of the upholding of a headscarf ban in Southern India, due to a ruling that wearing such is not "essential" to Islam.