Stance is an independent award-winning arts and culture podcast run by journalist and curator Chrystal Genesis.

Stance Won Bronze for Best Current Affairs 2020 at British Podcast Awards after The Guardian and The Economist

“Consistently Smart”- The Financial Times

“Stance Podcast are a great source of creative sustenance“- Charlene Prempeh, British Vogue

“Razor Sharp Series” - Refinery29

“It’s really adding to my cultural landscape and I’m finding out about so many interesting artists, musicians, theatre makers and authors from all around the world.” - Reni Eddo-Lodge, The Guardian

Stance Won Best Arts & Culture Show and Rising Star 2018 Mixcloud Online Radio Awards

Top 9 Arts Podcasts - The Royal Academy of Arts

“Stance relays different stories to the prevailing ones we hear repeated over and over.” - Miranda Sawyer, The Observer

Guests so far include musicians Questlove, Four Tet, Jamila Woods, Tricky, Chassol, Róisín Murphy, Amber Mark, Caribou, Ebo Taylor, Ibeyi, Kaytranada, Jessie Ware, Kindness, Zakir Hussain & Nao, authors Yaa Gyasi, Elif Shafak, Saidiya Hartman, Sayaka Murata, Maaza Mengiste & Valeria Luiselli, lawyer & campaigner Gina Miller, politician Bobi Wine, poets Fatimah Asghar, John Cooper Clarke, Linton Kwesi Johnson & Kae Tempest, actors Adjoa Andoh, Desiree Akhavan & Riz Ahmed, Me Too founder Tarana Burke, writer and activist Janet Mock, choreographers Akram Khan, Deborah Colker, Last Yearz Interesting Negro and Hofesh Shechter, Performance Artists Scottee & Travis Alabanza, fashion designer Duro Olowu, Philosophers Kwame Anthony Appiah & Angie Hobbs, and visual artists Nari Ward, Shirin Neshat, Larry Achiampong, Antony Gormley, The Singh Twins, Hassan Hajjaj, JR & Juliana Huxtable.

Topics covered include The New Paris, Nightclubs: Counterculture & Resistance, Black in the Time of Corona, Manchesters LGBTQ+ Story, Politics: Failing Upwards, The Class Ceiling in the Arts, Modern Mumbai, Sex, The Female Prison Experience, Revolutionary Mothering, The Future of Drugs, Kids In Cults, Demystifying Yoga & Donald Glover’s Atlanta. Stance loves to explore and has visited locations including Mumbai in India, Colombo in Sri Lanka, Bergen in Norway, Kingston in Jamaica, Paris in France and New York, LA, SF & Philadelphia in the US in search of original stories and fresh perspectives.

Chrystal is a host, editor and arts & culture consultant from London now living in New York City. She runs and hosts Stance and has presented on BBC Podcast Radio Hour & BBC Front Row. She works as a Supervising Producer for Narrative at Lemonada Media and formally worked as a Producer for Sony Podcasts working with clients including Discovery, DatelineNBC, and iHeart Radio. Chrystal previously produced the launch of a podcast series for HuffPost UK and she worked at BBC producing multi-platform arts, news and current affairs content for shows on Radio 4, as well as BBC London, 6 Music, BBC 1, The World Affairs Unit, The Political Unit and BBC World in London and Washington DC.