In this episode of Saltwater Reasonings, Tracie Rogers speaks with clinical and community psychologist Cynthia Lubin Langtiw about Inter-logues: a framework that makes visible the researcher’s transformation through qualitative inquiry. Together they explore embodied knowing, Haitian cultural lineages of relationality, and why “making peace with the shaky places” is both a methodological and decolonial practice.

In this episode of Saltwater Reasonings, Tracie Rogers is in conversation with developmental psychologist Pamela Wadende of Kisii University, Kenya. Connected through the Pan-African Mental Health Research Network, they reflect on research as ethical responsibility rather than technical exercise. Pamela traces her journey from classroom teacher to multidisciplinary researcher, showing how curiosity, attentiveness, and respect for community knowledge shape her methodological commitments.

In this episode of Saltwater Reasonings, Shakeisha Wilson Scott explores affirming methodologies in social work and community-based research, centring dignity, cultural humility, and ethical responsibility. Moving beyond formal ethics approval, she examines what it means to practise an ethics of presence, where language, body, and relationship matter as much as protocol.

In this episode of Saltwater Reasonings, Tracie Rogers is in conversation with Debbie-Ann Chambers of The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, exploring autoethnography and narrative as Caribbean ways of knowing. The conversation centres vulnerability in research, the ethics of telling personal stories, and the tensions between authority and exposure in narrative inquiry.

This conversation examines visual research methodologies as acts of epistemic freedom. Joyanne De Four-Babb reflects on Caribbean knowledge production, institutional research cultures, and how visual methods allow researchers to see beyond singular narratives of marginalisation.

A reflective conversation with Archana Pathak on diasporic autoethnography as metaphor and method. The episode explores story, theory, and lived experience as relational, liberatory practices, staying with complexity, tension, and unansweredness across diasporic life.

In this episode, Deborah McFee and I explore the ethical and emotional complexities of researching violence against women in Caribbean communities. We discuss reflexivity, positionality, accountability beyond the field, and the moral courage required to work at the edge of trauma, harm, and community advocacy.

Esther Armah and I explore Emotional Justice as a transformational framework for healing the emotional legacies of colonialism, patriarchy, and anti-Blackness. We reflect on emotionality as political, the cultural labour Black women carry, and the possibilities that emerge when we centre repair, accountability, and global Black love.

A conversation with Adeola Dewis on mas, memory, migration, and how Carnival performance becomes method, healing, and self-representation across displacement.

In this episode, Zaira Simone and I explore how memory becomes a form of resistance and how grief—personal, ancestral, and collective—functions as a methodology of care. We reflect on remembrance as practice, refusal, and political intimacy, and consider what it means to grieve together, honour lineage, and carry memory as a form of healing.

In this episode of Saltwater Reasonings, I am in conversation with Adjoa Armah, artist, writer, and researcher whose work moves between Ghana, UK, and the wider diaspora. We speak about water, as body, boundary, and bridge, and how the sea holds memory for those of us whose histories are shaped by movement, rupture, and return.

In this episode, Professor Camille Nakhid joins Saltwater Reasonings to explore liming, ole talk, and the politics of listening—unpacking how Caribbean ways of knowing shape resistance, relation, and care across the diaspora.

In this opening episode of Saltwater Reasonings, I sit with Yentyl Williams to explore how Caribbean traditions of reasoning shape our approach to knowledge, scholarship, and activism. We speak about Frantz Fanon, collective responsibility, and the marks our generation must choose to leave on the world.