Rania El Mugammar sits down with host Sheldomar Elliott on this episode of Dignity and Joy, recorded live at FoodShare’s 2025 Annual General Meeting.

Their dynamic, far-reaching conversation touches on a host of topics from Toronto’s pettiness over patties to what we all ought to know about the dire humanitarian crisis unfolding in Sudan.

As many people’s ‘internet neighbour,’ the social media social justice educator and — let’s be real — icon, makes the case that building momentum for change isn’t glamorous; it’s ordinary people doing ordinary things.

Rania, Sudanese-Canadian artist and abolitionist, talks about the aunties who taught her that what we call mutual aid today has always existed in the form of doing what needs to be done for one another. She and Sheldomar discuss the price we pay when we aren’t accountable to our neighbours: unmet needs, isolation and loneliness, and the importance of finding your people and organizing with them, regularly.

Rania encourages the pod’s audience to look at solidarity not as a concept to believe in but a series of actions we take everyday to show up for our communities.