Saltwater Reasonings

Currents of care, struggle, and knowing otherwise—in and across the Global South

Saltwater Reasonings is a space for critical conversation, reflection, and collective knowing. This listening library hosts podcasts and audio essays rooted in resistance, and in deep dialogue with thinkers, practitioners, and communities across the Global South.

Grounded in the Caribbean tradition of reasoning—relational, embodied, and insurgent—this space brings together students, scholars, and community collaborators who are reimagining what it means to teach, research, and practise from sites of struggle and care.

Built on the belief that knowledge lives in community, in the body, and in the questions we carry between us, Saltwater Reasonings holds space for dialogue on research justice, trauma-informed praxis, and the unfinished project of decolonial education.

We don’t just cite theory—we live it and remake.

From student-led projects to critical academic reflections, from grassroots wisdom to institutional critique, this space holds the brilliance and burden of our collective grappling. It is for those who know that knowledge is never neutral—and that the Caribbean, like many parts of the Global South, has always had its own way of thinking out loud.

We speak across waters—between disciplines, generations, and geographies of resistance—to honour knowledge that is accountable, situated, and alive.

Grounded and Becoming: Critial Student Conversations

Grounded and Becoming is a podcast that centres the voices, visions, and struggles of social work students as they navigate the layered terrain of practice, politics, and care. Rooted in trauma-informed praxis and inspired by radical traditions of knowledge-sharing across the Global South, this series brings together student reflections, fieldwork narratives, and critical conversations on what it means to learn through doing in spaces marked by inequality, grief, hope, and transformation.

Each episode invites listeners into grounded dialogue—between students, mentors, and community collaborators—offering insights on social work education that are honest, embodied, and relational. From field placements and research projects to moments of doubt, resistance, and growth, we hold space for stories that are often unheard in institutional settings.

Whether you are a student, educator, or practitioner, Grounded and Becoming is an invitation to listen deeply, learn collectively, and practice with more care.