In this episode, we discuss a piece titled "Dear African Abroad: Home Is Not Waiting For You" by Takondwa. We talk about our blind spots and how they impact the ways in which we continue to interact with the places we call home.  The sound quality is a bit shambolic but please bare with us as we work our way through that. We promise it will improve as we continue on this journey.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/socialexperiment/message

Hey loves, in this episode, Kai and Siye discuss some of the challenges they have faced when it comes to maintaining long distance relationships. Stay safe and please do enjoy. Don't forget to let us know what your thoughts are after listening. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/socialexperiment/message

Our friend NK joins us for a discussion of after graduation expectations vs. reality.  Kai and NK share how they've tried keeping their heads up while struggling with finding employment during the pandemic. The episode ends in a discussion about free will, please do enjoy and let us know what you think.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/socialexperiment/message

We cannot thank you all enough for rocking with us for a whole year. Wow! We're truly grateful.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/socialexperiment/message

In this episode Kai and Siye have a conversation about representation and visibility, focusing mostly on their college experiences and the media. Please do keep in mind that these are opinions and not fact, and that people's experiences may or may not be the same all around. We hope you enjoy this episode and that you find parts of it meaningful. Please continue to take care of yourselves throughout this challenging time. Sending some good energy your way.  Social media deets: IG:...

This week we are joined by Simone and Shirleyka for a fun and honest discussion on the impacts of internalized fatphobia in our personal lives. We hope you enjoy the conversation.  Feel free to engage with us on our socials: Insta: @socialex_podcast Twitter: @SociaEx_Pod --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/socialexperiment/message

We’re discussing some of the stuff we’ve been seeing on the internet lately, specifically on BLM, solidarity politics and our faves upcoming new film. We hope you are all keeping your heads up and taking care of yourselves. 💛 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/socialexperiment/message

In this episode we continue our discussion on salient identities, specifically gender and sexuality. We appreciate each an every one of you. Stay safe! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/socialexperiment/message

Hey loves, as promised, we managed to bring some of our friends together and had a very fruitful discussion on identity and belonging. This is part one of our Identity and Belonging segment, we hope you enjoy. Stay safe and remember that Black lives matter and always will. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/socialexperiment/message

Hey Lovelies, this episode is about the broke college life and we share with you guys a couple of things that help us get by. We hope you enjoy. Please remember to leave us a comment or share this with your friends. We would also like to know how you guys are handling your money, or maybe even balling out of control. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/socialexperiment/message

Happy New Year Beloved! May all your manifestations come to life this year. In this episode we catch up about our holiday spent with family and friends. We also share some of our plans and goals for 2020. We hope that you enjoy. Let us know what you are also hoping to achieve this year. We are all rooting for you!  Follow us on Twitter @SocialEx for any Social Experiment updates. We hope to here from you soon. x --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/socialexperiment/message

In this episode we talk about our 2019 highlights and lessons learned. We wish you all a lovely festive season and we hope this break is kind to all of you. We would also like to know how 2019 has been for you so feel free to let us know. Merry Christmas and many blessings for 2020! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/socialexperiment/message

This week's episode is focused on how we manage winter and deal with the change of seasons in our lives (in the physical and metaphoric sense). We were joined by 3 beautiful women, Fiki, NK and Alexa, who also shared their own experiences with dealing with tough seasons. This was a fun, heartwarming conversation and we hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed recording it. Most importantly, we hope that the season is kind to you and that you are taking good care of yourselves....

In this week's episode, we've decided to talk about our self care journeys and struggles, before and while we are in college. We feel that we all need to start taking better care of ourselves in order to participate fully in our everyday lives. We also recognize that with school, some moments are tougher than others, and that so often taking care of ourselves ends up taking the back seat. However, we think if we work together, we can be of better help to each other.  Feel free to leave us...

Our friends, Zola and NK, have joined us for an exciting episode about transitioning from high school to college. This episode touches on culture shock, fitting in, forming new relationships and much much more. Feel free to leave us a comment and remember to subscribe and share this with all of your friends.  NB, The team would like to address the misuse and overlook of the term cisgender. The proper term in this case is cis-het men, men who are cisgender and heterosexual. The use of just...

This is the summer recap/wrap up we've all been waiting for! In episode 2, our lovely trio share some thoughts on the challenging past couple of weeks and what Hot Girl Summer looked like for them. Tune in for a hearty conversation and remember to subscribe and leave a comment!  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/socialexperiment/message

Happy New Year! We are back with a catch up and reflection episode. We have a whole lot of exciting ideas for this new year and we are so pleased to be back recording and sharing content. Hope you are all keeping safe and taking good care of yourselves.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/socialexperiment/message

Happy new season!!! We’re back and we’re better —well at least trying to be. Here’s a little chit chat about what’s been happening and what we’ve been up to. Please stay safe and take care of yourselves during these trying times. We love and appreciate you all. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/socialexperiment/message

In this episode we talk about how we’re (not) coping but still trying to make sense of this new normal. Let us know what steps you’ve taken to find your center during this chaotic time. And if you’re still working on that, don’t worry, we are too. Sending you love and strength. We shall all get through this. We love and appreciate all of you for listening to us time and time again. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/socialexperiment/message

Hey Lovelies, welcome to the Identity Series where we try to explore and think critically about who we are and how we navigate different social spaces. In today's episode, we look at our African identity; what it means to be African and who gets to pick that identity. We discuss the different ways in which we perform our identities in on campus and whether or not this leads to the perpetuation of stereotypes. We hope you enjoy, feel free to send us any thoughts and comments that you might...

Do we need to be more forgiving towards Black womxn who choose to date outside of their race? In this episode, we are joined by our beautiful friend Simone Hadebe. We talk about our experiences with forming intimate relationships in predominantly white spaces and how the politics of desirability come into play. We acknowledge that our experiences may be unique to everyone out there and that this is a very loaded topic (there is still a lot of things that we need to unpack). However, we do...

We decided to be cute!!! This episode is about the few things that we are grateful for. We kept it short and sweet but we hope you all don't mind. School hasn't been that cooperative lately and the its getting colder by the day. We hope that you are all staying warm and fighting a successful fight against academics, mental health, and all the other battles that you might be facing. We definitely want to see all of you come out on top and hope this episode reminds you of some of the little...

This episode, we talk about why we are tired of everyone who protects and makes excuses for men. Why would you ever do that? We also talk about the fact that colleges aren't paying college students their worth, or at least minimum wage. Most importantly, we try to figure out why there is such a lack of engagement when it comes to issues of marginalization groups. We would love to hear from you so be sure to leave a comment below. Follow us on our favorite social media platform; Siye:...

In episode 1, Siye, Kai and Nipho introduce themselves and discuss how this podcast came to be. This is a light and fun episode to help the audience get familiar with these voices. They are later joined by two of their friends; Sindi and Lydia, in a fun game of Yes I've Done That.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/socialexperiment/message