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Meeting each other's needs
Recorded today (5 March) Morning Tinto podcast, episode 7
Chris Musei-Sequeira
March 05, 2025
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How do we take care of each other when “democracy” is undemocratic?
Morning Tinto Episode 7: Meeting each other’s needs
Recorded today, my friend Heather Luna of keduzi and I discuss the nature of electoral politics in the context of USA President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address (which neither of us watched) and recent political events in the country of Colombia where Heather resides. She and I talk about how people can meet each other’s needs even in challenging and dark times. Heather speaks extensively about her work helping meet people’s needs, with specific examples from her time in the United Kingdom.
Take a listen, subscribe, and hit “REPLY” in your email app to let us know what you think!
Previous Morning Tinto recordings: Click here
Episode 1: The Trump Administration and DEI (23 minutes and 59 seconds)
Episode 2: Do not obey in advance. (21 minutes and 16 seconds)
Episode 3: An illiberal intervention (23 minutes and 7 seconds)
Episode 4: Who Are “We, the People”? (19 minutes and 22 seconds)
Episode 5: Off the spectrum? (32 minutes and 1 second)
Episode 6: The mask is off (28 minutes and 58 seconds)
Where to find the perspectives you’ve been missing
FIRST: Subscribe to the Morning Tinto podcast, where my friend Heather Luna and I use the lenses of oppression and resistance to talk about events that happen right before recording.
SECOND: Subscribe to our professional offers-and-needs networking events announcement list. Heather and I regularly host FREE online events where professionals can offer help (free or paid) and ask other professionals to meet their needs.
THIRD: Follow these awesome folks on LinkedIn:
Heather Luna of keduzi: workshopping pro-connectedness and anti-oppression as a way of life
Lavinia Muth: deconstructing the (un)sustainable fashion industry
Dr. Vidhya Shankar, Ph.D: decentering whiteness in evaluation of non-governmental organization projects
FOURTH: Forward this issue to people you know who are doing decolonial and anti-oppression work.
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Image source: File:Tonarigumi, The neighborhood mutual-aid association 1941 Japan.jpg - Wikimedia Commons. (1941). Last accessed 5 March 2025 from LINK.
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My position
My name is Chris Musei-Sequeira, and I use he/him pronouns. My mother was born in Trinidad and Tobago as a descendant of African slaves brought to the islands during the time of European colonization. She came to the United States of America (USA) at the age of 10. My father is Goan and was born in India, in Mumbai, and raised Catholic and English-speaking. He came to the USA for his graduate studies, where he met my mother.
My sister and I were born in the USA and lived a middle-class life in the suburbs of multiple American cities. I studied aeronautical engineering and technology policy in university, then worked at the Federal Aviation Administration and as an aviation consultant. I've lived in cities up and down the USA East Coast since the age of 18; I now reside in Queens, New York with my wife.
I thank Heather Luna and Lavinia Muth for showing me the importance of publicly expressing our positions. Because of our positions, all of us are very familiar with some aspects of the world while having no idea of other aspects. Positionality expresses how our individual positions affect our relationships with other people and with the world as a whole.