Internet Burnout with Seyi Akiwowo (Re-Release)

I Weigh with Jameela Jamil

Jameela Jamil

Society & Culture, Jameela Jamil, Storytelling, Disasters, Personal Journals, Comedians, Comedy Interviews, Conversation, Stand-up, Comedy, Funny, True Stories, Shame, Embarassing

4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

With everything happening right now in the world, it's a good time to revisit Jameela's conversation with Seyi Akiwowo, Founder and Executive Director of Glitch, an organization committed to ending online abuse by educating people on how they can engage positively, respectfully and justly in all digital spaces. They discuss what it means to be a "digital citizen," being trauma-informed not trauma-led, self-care for black women, the ways both Seyi and Jameela have learned from their own internet mistakes, and Glitch's work in training women how to be safe online, as well as challenging giant social media corporations to take more ownership of what happens on their sites. You can find Seyi and more about Glitch here glitchcharity.co.uk and IG @glitchuk_ You can find transcripts from the show on the Earwolf website I Weigh has amazing merch – check it out at podswag.com Jameela is on Instagram @jameelajamil and TikTok @jameelajamil And make sure to check out I Weigh’s Instagram, Youtube and TikTok for more!

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm
0:02.0	Jamele Jamil a podcast against shame.
0:04.0	I hope you're well and I regret to inform you that I am not and I've been in and out of hospital in the past week
0:10.0	so I haven't been able to record you a new episode and I'm so sorry
0:13.0	but I do have a brilliant one from before that feels especially poignant right now.
0:17.3	It is with my friend Shayakowo-Woe who is a founder and executive director of Glitch
0:22.3	which is a
0:23.7	founder and executive director of Glitch which is a organization that is built to protect people from online bullying
0:28.8	and all of the toxic behavior online that leads to real mental health issues in other people and they
0:34.4	hold big tech accountable to make sure that our digital spaces are as safe as possible not just
0:39.6	for children but for everyone engaging online because we are all vulnerable and we all have some
0:46.7	form of fragility that can be exploited by social networks that aren't careful with the safety of its population.
0:54.0	And given how horrific the online discourse has been this week
0:58.0	with what's happening in the Middle East
1:00.0	and how I think a lot of us feel quite stunned to see the hyper-normalized oversimplification of a huge
1:07.8	subject and the way it's being weaponized to harm other people and we're seeing the real life
1:11.4	consequences of that of how if you learn
1:13.8	how to dehumanize people and shrug and look the other way when they're suffering
1:17.1	then that enables those in power to make them suffer even more and we're not going to do anything about it and we're not paying enough
1:24.4	attention and then awful monstrosities can happen right on our watch because we've learned how to dehumanize one
1:29.4	another. I'm not going to get into that right now because I'm on a lot of painkillers and I don't want to speak out of turn but anything I have thought with a clearer head is on my Instagram on my IG highlight under Israel and Palestine.
1:42.0	Right now is not the time to get into it for my brain because I'm just a big old
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