Episode 074 - Zines, AI and Nature with Nabila Cruz

New Year. New Season. 

Welcome back to The Earth Sea Love Podcast, as we celebrate our 5th year of production. 

We are so happy to be back with you all after our winter hibernation. Rest is important. Rest is a weapon. And we must use it.

Welcome back to our first episode of the season which is with our lovely guest and friend, Nabila Cruz.

Nabila Cruz is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Sheffield, specialising in critical AI studies with a focus on how generative artificial intelligence impacts trust in digital news media.

Within this episode we talk about: 

* Situating ourselves in the country and placing ourselves in nature nearby
* Situating ourselves through the seasons and having plant children 
* Learning to let go of control
* What you be/ who you be at this time? 
* Brazilian, Italian and Arabic mixness, and growing up in the UK, therefore British
* Mess in nature, mess in life, complicated realities
* PhD a source of joy and headache - generative AI affects trust in the news
* Expressing ourselves with whatever tools are at our disposal
* AI developments - critical study of the pros and cons
* Being curious and creative
* Zine making as research method
* Over Here Zine Festival  
* Peaks of Colour walkshop - Dal Kular facilitating 
* Access to nature, reclaiming it for belonging 
* Zine: a letter to nature from my inner child 
* The danger isn’t AI it’s the people behind AI
* Zines in the making 
* Future plans/ learning 
* AI with a more caring face, a human touch
* Self-care on the journey of the PhD
* Therapy as a thru line throughout life for free 
* Important for more people of colour to become therapists
* Mutual appreciation club

 

Bio: Nabila Cruz is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Sheffield, specialising in critical AI studies with a focus on how generative artificial intelligence impacts trust in digital news media. With a background in information science, she has worked in various roles in libraries and universities in the UK. She has taught university students, run training sessions, and organised events. She also leads creative workshops whenever possible. Born in Brazil with African and European heritage, Nabila moved to the UK as a teenager and found a sense of belonging in its diverse cultures. She writes short stories and poetry in her spare time and discovered zine-making recently. Her stories, poems and zines reflect her personal journey and act as a form of self-care. But she feels the most sense of healing in nature, when she goes for hikes or visits the sea.

 

Here are some of Nabila's zines  online:

• Living with PCOS https://heyzine.com/flip-book/c84b65bda3.html
• A Letter To Nature From My Inner Child https://heyzine.com/flip-book/f4276f2f18.html
• Herbie is my favourite person https://heyzine.com/flip-book/3a20638e30.html

Nabila's website: www.nabilacruz.com.

 

Also mentioned in the introduction of this episode is the Over Here Zine Festival mini pop up festival in collaboration with Dal Kular and Migration Matters.  

You can find out more information about this event happening on Saturday 28 June here.

* Sheree would like to express her apologises as she incorrectly states in the introduction of this episode’s that Nabila was born on the UK. As it says on the above bio, Nabila was born in Brazil. Please accept our apologies for the mistake.