What Takes Root: Stories of Resistance and Reclamation

society, culture · EN

What Takes Root: Stories of Resistance and Reclamation is a first-person podcast featuring changemakers from the Global South. From how Muslim girls learned to play soccer in India, to political music shaped by Kenya’s long history of resistance, to community radio reaching isolated Indigenous communities in Bolivia, these are intimate stories of people reclaiming power, voice, and possibility. Longer series description What happens when we stop talking — and start listening? What Takes Root: Stories of Resistance and Reclamation is a first-person storytelling series built around that question. Across nine episodes, changemakers from India, Africa and Latin America share stories of resistance, reclamation, and renewal – in their own words. Social justice leader Sabah Kahn, a formerly “puny” kid who had no interest in sports, explains how she helped launch a soccer program for Muslim girls in India. Musician and histor