Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book contextualises Shout FM in its local and national situation and moves to emphasise the importance of radio in the majority world and for the black community in the United States. It highlights radio as a political and empowering media, particularly in times of colonisation and crisis. The book then uncovers some of the barriers to women engaging with radio with heavy focus on the shortcomings of conventional education systems that reproduce an unequal, racial and gendered society. It also discusses the concepts of silence and voice and how silence does not protect women from misogyny but can worsen their oppression and offers understandings of intersectionality as an essential component of engaging women in broadcasting. The book reimagines radio activism in a COVID and the post-COVID world.