🌐 welcome to the everyday podcast
For the inaugural season of The Everyday Podcast, we will spotlight the feminist practice of former Residents of The Digital Everyday! Each week, a new guest will shed light on various facets of the course that helped them think more deeply about their work and their relationship with everyday digital technologies. Subscribe to our channel on Spotify now!
Episode 1
We kick off the first season with Dakshayani Suresh, an educator (and resident of Class of 2023), in conversation with POV’s Riddhima Sharma. A firm believer in “learning about the world from how one relates to it”, Dakshayni recounts her own postgrad research on women’s auto-narratives about home cooking on Instagram, and reflects on how, for her, feminist pedagogy means no power in the classroom!
Episode 2
Move over Tortured Poets Department and make way for our Paranoid Poet Gurpreet Kaur. Researcher, writer, and resident of Class of 2023, Gurpreet speaks to POV’s Afrah Umapathy in this episode. Listen to this affirming conversation on beauty standards, validation economy, and the productivity culture as it plays out in the digital, ft. Gurpreet’s poem about paranoia as a tech user from the Digital Everyday lexicon!
Episode 3
Zoya, a library organiser and resident of Class of 2023, talks to POV's Yashita about "making the road by walking" ft. the place of literature and collective reading in resistance, about discovering the power of protest libraries at Shaheen Bagh, how internet has and has not levelled access to knowledge, and the importance of intentional listening and learning that The Digital Everyday offered.
Episode 4
Kenny Bhatia, a teaching fellow in Kashmir and resident of Class of 2023, talks to Riddhima about teaching and learning WITH each other at The Digital Everyday. Tune in for an introspective chat about data and bodies, logic versus emotions, power and solidarity on the internet, and the beauty of audio delays on Zoom!
Episode 5
In this episode, former resident and PhD scholar Shraddha Sharma talks to POV's Afrah about her research on caste and match-making websites, what negotiations are permissible on dating apps, how caste remains encoded in the world of modern online dating, and how The Digital Everyday revealed what being queer or disabled in these spaces meant.