Side Effects of Data as Revolution Part 2 (with Mona Chalabi)

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Amanda Seales

Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This week, we’re back with the second part of our conversation with award-winning writer, illustrator, and data journalist Mona Chalabi, to talk about letting go of the idea of comfort, why America has a lot to learn about revolution, and the ways journalists have failed the public.

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0:00.0	Small does sex.
0:04.5	Self help from the hit.
0:05.9	Small does sex.
0:07.1	We're talking at shit.
0:08.5	Small does sex.
0:09.8	And keeping it real.
0:11.0	Small does sex.
0:12.4	With me and in seals.
0:14.2	It's so funky.
0:16.7	Here we are for Data as Revolution part two with the incredible Mona Shalabi.
0:21.9	If you missed part one, we did a lot of talking about Mona's process into this space as a journalist who uses data, not just in writing, but in visual form to get across important necessary messaging.
0:36.4	In this part of the episode, we start really talking about where we are now as a people,
0:44.2	as resistance, as folks who are trying to toggle having knowledge of what is while also
0:54.0	not having knowledge of what to do next. And I think
0:57.0	a lot of us can relate to this. So let's get into part two of side effects of data as revolution
1:00.8	with Monash Lobby. Well, listen, sister, that is a necessary part of the work is to always be asking
1:07.9	what are we doing, right? Like if we get, people will say to me, like, why are you shocked by XYZ?
1:14.6	Or why are you surprised?
1:15.9	I'm like, because I want to retain my humanity.
1:18.1	I don't ever want to be desensitized to where I see absolute crazy, ridiculous terror.
1:26.1	And I'm just like, well, I expected that, you know, like, I don't
1:29.3	ever want to feel that way. I want to always have a certain level of, hold on now, that
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