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MERLIN SHELDRAKE on Embodied Entanglements /365
MERLIN SHELDRAKE on Embodied Entanglements /365

“An account of life that doesn't include fungi is an account of life that doesn’t exist.” Our relationship with fungi is non-negotiable. Merlin invites listeners to pay attention to what this relationship means and how it shapes not only our lives, but the entanglement of life across the world.

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SKY HOPINKA on What We Pass On /364
SKY HOPINKA on What We Pass On /364

Weaving together the ephemeral worlds of emotion and Indigenous identity with the grounding power of shared values and reciprocity, Sky reminds us that art is meant to provoke, inspire, and make the space needed for feeling to emerge.

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Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Activism Allyship, Indigenous Sovereignty, Media Art, Radical Imagination, Theory ScholarshipFor The Wild364, Sky, Hopinka, sky, hopinka, film, indigenousComment
OTHERING & BELONGING with Udi Raz, Yasmeen Daher, and Cecilie Surasky
OTHERING & BELONGING with Udi Raz, Yasmeen Daher, and Cecilie Surasky

Speaking on the theme “Turning Towards Each Other, Not Against Each Other: Bridging in Times of Crisis” the panelists address what it means to build towards co-liberation in difficult times – especially in the context of the war on Gaza.

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Colonial Violence, Decolonization, Cultural Strategy, Political Ideology, Racial Equity Justice, Radical Imagination, Special Episode, Theory Scholarship, Spirituality Theology, Transition TransformationFor The WildOBI, UC Berkeley, Cecilie Surasky, Yasmeen Daher, Udi Raz, Palestine, Gaza, OtheringComment
The Edges in the Middle, VII: Báyò Akómoláfé, Sa’ed Atshan, Cecilie Surasky
The Edges in the Middle, VII: Báyò Akómoláfé, Sa’ed Atshan, Cecilie Surasky

Bayo, Cecile, and Sa’ed explore how honoring each other’s grief may allow us to reclaim each other’s humanity and perhaps shed light on a path forward to belonging in Israel-Palestine, for Muslims, Jews, and Christians, and for all people around the world.

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The Edges in the Middle, VI: Báyò Akómoláfé, Madhulika Banerjee, and Minna Salami
The Edges in the Middle, VI: Báyò Akómoláfé, Madhulika Banerjee, and Minna Salami

Envisioning other ways of creating democracy,  Báyò, Madhulika, and Minna describe festival democracy, democracies of contestations and dancing, and democracies of the more-than-human.

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STEPHEN JENKINSON on a Lucid Reckoning /349
STEPHEN JENKINSON on a Lucid Reckoning /349

Ayana and Stephen contemplate vital questions about the value of tradition, the importance of strangerhood, the possibility of reckoning, and the meaning of ancestry. Stephen’s questions disrupt and unsettle the status quo, and perhaps lead us to the lessons we so deeply need.

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Cultural Strategy, Spirituality Theology, Theory Scholarship, Transition Transformation, Wisdom KeepersFor The WildFor The Wild, 349, Stephen Jenkinson, Stephen Jenkinson Interviews, Stephen Jenkinson Reckoning, Stephen Jenkinson Kimberly Ann Johnson, Stephen Jenkinson books, Nights of Grief and Mystery, Orphan Wisdom, Die Wise, A Generation’s Worth, Come of Age, How it All Could Be, Money and the Soul’s Desire, stephen, jenkinson, Stephen, Jenkinson, Lucid, Reckoning, StrangerhoodComment
ABDOUMALIQ SIMONE on Urban Entanglements /348
ABDOUMALIQ SIMONE on Urban Entanglements /348

Ayana and AbdouMaliq meditate on how the design of our environments shapes us. Considering how to make marginalized places and groups more visible but not more vulnerable, AbdouMaliq offers a nuanced perspective of the “global majority.”

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The Edges in the Middle, V: Báyò Akómoláfé, Naomi Klein, and Yuria Celidwen
The Edges in the Middle, V: Báyò Akómoláfé, Naomi Klein, and Yuria Celidwen

Speaking about climate grief and hope, Báyò, Naomi, and Yuria build together to consider the value in tapping into the depth of emotion as we feel it, not as we are told we should feel it.

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Dr. BÁYÒ AKÓMOLÁFÉ on Ontological Mutiny /338
Dr. BÁYÒ AKÓMOLÁFÉ on Ontological Mutiny /338

Ayana and Báyò dance together through questions of crisis, identity, and rupture. As we attempt to break from the monoculture that cements us as citizen subjects of empire, Báyò suggests that we need an ontological mutiny. 

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The Edges in the Middle, IV: Báyò Akómoláfé and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The Edges in the Middle, IV: Báyò Akómoláfé and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

What if justice gets in the way? Báyò and Keeanga consider how our quest for justice shapes us and is simultaneously shaped by systems of power and control. They ask: how can we move justice out of the existing political paradigm and move beyond a normative sense of justice and reform? 

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The Edges in the Middle, III: Báyò Akómoláfé and Indy Johar
The Edges in the Middle, III: Báyò Akómoláfé and Indy Johar

Indy and Báyò consider our modern crisis as one of the self – a particular version of the objective and singular self that creates space for violence and waste. If we perceive the world through dead and objective things, as Indy supposes, then that is what we become.

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The Edges in the Middle, II: Báyò Akómoláfé and V
The Edges in the Middle, II: Báyò Akómoláfé and V

Báyò and V dance and reveal portals of possibility that edge us towards deep change. Discussing the Congo as both place and portal, Báyò and V focus on V’s work with City of Joy, a transformational leadership community for women survivors of violence.

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JOHN A. POWELL on Institutions of Othering and Radical Belonging [ENCORE] /329
JOHN A. POWELL on Institutions of Othering and Radical Belonging [ENCORE] /329

john a. powell explores the frameworks of “othering and belonging” and "targeted universalism," as well as ideologies of supremacy, global dislocation, rethinking citizenship, and lastly, how we can co-create shared visions and practices of humanity that bring us back into belonging.

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Activism Allyship, Cultural Strategy, Globalization, Political Ideology, Racial Equity Justice, Transition Transformation, Theory ScholarshipFor The Wildjohn powell, john a. powell, Othering and Belonging Institute, University of California, Berkeley, othering, belonging, citizenship, civil rights, civil liberties, john, powell, 329, encoreComment
The Edges in the Middle, I: Báyò Akómoláfé and john a. powell
The Edges in the Middle, I: Báyò Akómoláfé and john a. powell

Articulating both the harsh realities of modern day division and the simultaneous reality of our connection to each other and to the earth, Báyò and john examine what it means to be “other” and to invite in the “monstrous” and the “strange.”

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TYSON YUNKAPORTA on Unbranding Our Mind [ENCORE] /328
TYSON YUNKAPORTA on Unbranding Our Mind [ENCORE] /328

Tyson calls us to unbrand our minds and deeply interrogate where we are sourcing our thoughts from, the ramifications of becoming a trauma-obsessed society, and how to identify environments for emergence.

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MALCOLM HARRIS on the Globalization of Forgetfulness /324
MALCOLM HARRIS on the Globalization of Forgetfulness /324

Malcolm offers well-rooted thought touching on the history of Stanford University, the internet, Palo Alto’s military connections, and reveals the values of understanding our material realities and the structures that support society as it stands.

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VEDA AUSTIN on Water as Source /317
VEDA AUSTIN on Water as Source /317

Veda calls us to investigate our liquid selves – the tears and sweat that make us human, the rituals of baptism and bathing that connect us to that which lies beyond. As Veda states, water is always in search of itself. How might understanding water begin to help us in our search for ourselves?

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Media Art, Spirituality Theology, Theory ScholarshipFor The WildVeda Austin, Veda Austin Water, Veda Austin The Secret Intelligence of Water, Water Research, Ice Crystals, Hydroglyphs, Veda Austin Healing, Water Healing, Liquid Intelligence, Consciousness, Science, Art, Gerald H. Pollack, The Water Cycle, The Fourth Stage of Water, veda, austin, veda austin Comments
TIFFANY LETHABO KING on The Black Shoals [with brontë velez], Part Two /316
TIFFANY LETHABO KING on The Black Shoals [with brontë velez], Part Two /316

Part two of the conversation between brontë and Tiffany spans further inquiry into shoals, the physical desire to belong to Earth, agency, eros, spiritual correction, the pleasure and potential of failure, and that which cannot be translated, but instead has to be experienced or co-witnessed to be understood.

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Activism Allyship, Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Indigenous Sovereignty, Racial Equity Justice, Radical Imagination, Spirituality Theology, Transition Transformation, Theory Scholarship, Wisdom KeepersFor The WildDr. Tiffany Lethabo King, The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies, brontë velez, Lead to Life, Can I Get A Witness, Afro-Indigenous Relations, Genocide and slavery in the United States, Black and Indigenous feminism, CIGAW, Can I Get A Witness?, can i get a witnessComment
TIFFANY LETHABO KING on The Black Shoals [with brontë velez], Part One /315
TIFFANY LETHABO KING on The Black Shoals [with brontë velez], Part One /315

brontë and Tiffany explore sacred laughter, Black and Indigenous feminism, sexuality, liberation, ceremony, and protocol. This simultaneously intimate and expansive dialogue allows us to rethink the stories and structures we’ve been told regarding Black and Indigenous relations.

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Activism Allyship, Cultural Strategy, Colonial Violence, Decolonization, Indigenous Sovereignty, Racial Equity Justice, Radical Imagination, Spirituality Theology, Theory Scholarship, Transition Transformation, Wisdom KeepersFor The WildDr. Tiffany Lethabo King, The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies, brontë velez, Lead to Life, Can I Get A Witness?, Afro-Indigenous Relations, Genocide and slavery in the United States, Black and Indigenous feminism, CIGAWComment
MAYA KHOSLA on What the Forest Holds /313
MAYA KHOSLA on What the Forest Holds /313

Maya introduces listeners to the science behind forest fires and urges us to see fire as not simply “destructive,” but rather as one of the many cycles of earth. From practices of cultural burning to current studies on post fire diversity, the creative and regenerative power of the forest cannot be overlooked.

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