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Speaking Through My World with Rosie Motene
"Speaking truth through an African feminist lens—amplifying our voices through impactful artivism rooted in ancestral wisdom and healing."
Speaking Through My World with Rosie Motene
Rosie Motene is driven by three core passions: womxn, Africa, and the arts. As a Pan-African queer feminist, writer, activist, speaker, and media proprietor, she draws on over 30 years of experience in media and more than two decades in feminist and LGBTQI+ activism. Rosie is also a certified counsellor and life coach, currently completing postgraduate studies in Drama Therapy and Psychology.
Her podcast, #SpeakingThroughMyWorld, explores urgent and underrepresented issues across gender-based violence, queer rights, the arts, and the African experience. It offers bold, intersectional conversations rooted in advocacy, healing, and creative resistance.
Listen on Buzzsprout, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Google Podcasts.
To sponsor or collaborate, email: rosie@rosiemotene.biz
Episodes
67 episodes
Episode 7: Daily Regulation Rituals
This episode explores how small, consistent practices can support nervous system regulation over time. Rather than focusing on perfection, listeners are invited to notice what helps them feel a little more grounded in daily life.&nb...
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Episode 6: Guilt, Boundaries, and the Nervous System
In this episode, we explore how guilt often arises when we begin to set boundaries and change familiar patterns of relating. Through a nervous-system lens, guilt is reframed not as a sign of wrongdoing, but as a response to doing so...
Episode 5: Breathing Before Responding
In this episode, we explore how urgency is often a nervous system response rather than a true need for speed. You are gently invited to notice where quick reactions may be rooted in protection, not choice. Through simple...
Episode 4 Boundaries as Nervous System Protection
In this episode, we explore boundaries through a nervous-system lens, not as rules or walls, but as signals of safety and self-respect. You’re invited to consider how clear, compassionate boundaries can reduce overwhelm and support ...
EPISODE 3 How Dysregulation Shows Up in Daily Life
In this episode, we explore how nervous system dysregulation can quietly show up in everyday moments, through overthinking, people-pleasing, shutdown, or a sense of urgency. Rather than labeling these patterns as problems, this epis...
EPISODE 2 Breathing as a Signal of Safety
In this episode, we explore breathing as a gentle way to communicate safety to the nervous system. Through simple explanation and slow, optional practices, you’re invited to notice how the breath, especially the exhale ca...
Regulating The Nervous System- Breath, Boundaries, and Safety
This series is a gentle invitation to slow down, notice your body, and reconnect with your nervous system. Over ten short episodes, we explore simple, practical tools—breathing, reflection, and boundaries, to help you feel more grou...
Radical Futures: Ndiilokelwa Nthengwe on Justice, Identity & Change in Namibia
In this episode, I travel to Namibia to speak with Ndiilokelwa Nthengwe, a fearless activist, author and tech entrepreneur. Ndiilokelwa’s work spans LGBTQ+ rights, reproductive justice, youth leadership, and social advocacy, and th...
Sitahen: Sudan’s Women, War, and Solidarity
In this episode of Speaking Through My World, Rosie Motene turns the spotlight on Sudan, a country whose ongoing war and humanitarian crisis remain underreported and overshadowed. While the world rightly raises its voice against ...
Conversations on the Spirituality of the Land, Women, and Reclaiming What Is Ours, with Michelle Festus
In this episode of Speaking Through My World, titled “Conversations on the Spirituality of the Land, Women, and Reclaiming What Is Ours,” we journey deep into the soil, into our roots, and into the enduring wisdom the land holds for us as A...
Inside the Open Book Festival: The Past, The Crisis, The Future
In this episode, I sit down with Frankie Murrey, the heart and programme coordinator behind the Open Book Festival, a space that, since 2011, has created room for brave, bold, and necessary conversations through literature.We explore the...
Speaking Through Trouble. Episode 1: JAIL SOLIDARITY with Céline Lebrun-Shaath
Speaking Through Trouble — Series Introduction Speaking Through My World has joined forces with the powerful TROUBLEMAKERS podcast, a global space that celebrates creative resistance, radical imagination
Amplifying Activist Voices Through Writing with Amber French
Amplifying Activist Voices Through Writing with Amber FrenchIn this episode, we are joined by Amber French, Senior Editorial Advisor at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), Managing Editor of the Mind...
Zoey Black- Gamut 1
I am in conversation with Zoey Black, a queer renaissance and culture documentarian based in Cape Town, South Africa. Her work is focused on telling authentic and engaging queer stories through film and photography.Zoey is the founde...
Marylize Biubwa- The co-founder at The Queer Republic.
Marylize is a Kenyan intersectional feminist and activist, whose focus is on gender inequality, while their feminism is intersectional and directed towards human rights. They are black and a non-binary lesbian and use they/them pronouns....
Beautiful Trouble with Ashley Waudo
Beautiful Trouble- A book, strategy card deck, online toolbox, and creative campaign incubator.An international network of artist-activist-trainers helping grassroots movements become more creative and effective.I am in ...
MONICAH KAMANDAU
I am in conversation with MONICAH KAMANDAU- The Social Movements Learning Specialist with the MOVE team at MS TCDCMS TCDC is a renowned Pan-African training centre situated in Arusha, Tanzania. It is unique in its dedication to high-qua...
Dr menzi
I am in conversation with Dr Menzi Mkhize.Dr. AM Mkhize is a medical doctor who qualified at the University of KwaZuluNatal. He has both critical care and rural medicine experience but decided topour his passion into public health.<...
RISHA PATAK-HARIE from I-lead self-defense.
RISHA PATAK-HARIE from I-lead self-defense.As South Africans, we face various forms of violence. Our government has shown its position on combatting GBV, which looks progressive on paper only. As we operate in territories we are fam...
School Ties
MNET has a new series called School Ties, debuting 16 May 2024 at 21:00. School Ties is a ground-breaking and harrowing four-part documentary seriesabout the grooming and sexual abuse of learners at some of South Afric...
Stop protecting perpetrators in religious institutions.
TRIGGER WARNING Confirmation of Sa'ar Shaked expelled from The South African Association Of Progressive Rabbis.Expelled Rabbis:Sa’ar Shaked had been charged with violating Ethics Code Section V (Sexual Boundar...
Feminists in Kenya
Feminists in Kenya is a Black feminist movement organizing and amplifying feminist discourse and practice and building solidarity across other feminist movements.In 2018, SA feminists, activists, advocates, and the public rallied to...
KISUMU FEMINISTS SOCIETY
Their mission is “Redefining feminism in African Womxn’s views through the Celebration of African feminists in spaces that are inclusive, inter-sectional and Afrocentric.”Kisumu Feminist Society was legally registered in 2018 by a group...