Radio AvA is both a DIY community radio and a space for sex workers and their allies to reflect, critique, improve safety and celebrate. This link to their Episodes page lists their most recent shows.

Written and voiced by author and presenter Afua Hirsch, UK Black Pride founder Lady Phyll, Afrobeat dancer Princess K, Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo, and others, this podcast offers an eclectic collection of poems, stories and speeches that contemplate what it means to be a human.

SPACE’s latest open call offers a range of opportunities for artists based in the same borough as its London and Colchester studios: £5,000 grants and 12-month studio residencies with mentoring from John Akomfrah and others. Apply before the 1 December deadline with a short statement, CV and images or PDF of your work (follow the link for full application criteria).

Here Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley, tries to make sense of why 70 million US-Americans voted in support of what was essentially a totalitarian takeover attempt (the second highest number of votes for any US candidate ever). Butler cites one reason as being the ‘excited fantasy’ – that somehow by voting Trump shame could be overcome.

This is a thoughtful, historically accurate sketch of the multiple trajectories of nonfiction filmmaking over the last 100 years. It also foregrounds the contemporary intersection between film and performative practices which, in my view, makes this particular cinematic form one of the most pulsating and visually mesmerising languages of our times.