Posts tagged paradigm shift
BRONTË VELEZ on the Necessity of Beauty, Part 2 [ENCORE] /274

brontë and Ayana explore topics including appropriating propaganda and memetics, reorienting ourselves away from the spectacle of terror, tending to erotic energy and sensual spaces, and the nuances around beauty and aesthetics in dominant culture.

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BRONTË VELEZ on the Pleasurable Surrender of White Supremacy, Part 1 [ENCORE]/273

Ayana and brontë delve into topics surrounding authentic expression, the distortion of feminine and masculine powers, beauty and aesthetics, queerness, dominatrix energy, and power as agency.

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Lama ROD OWENS on Liberatory Rage /191

Together with Owens, we explore anger’s purpose in liberation. Rather than denying and feeling guilty over our anger, or policing and demonizing the anger of another, how can we allow it to alert us to imbalance and injustice?

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TEJU ADISA-FARRAR on Remapping Our World /177

Teju discusses how gentrification originates through the calculated and supremacist devaluation of place, its environmental impacts, and urbanization and urban futures in response to climate and economic migration and changes.

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KYLE WHYTE on the Colonial Genesis of Climate Change /154

Ayana and Kyle discuss Kyle’s body of work on dystopia and fantasy in climate justice, the reproduction of settler structures, Indigenous science, vulnerability discourses, and “decolonizing allyship.” Kyle concludes with the ever present reminder that our work must be rooted in consent, reciprocity, and trust.  

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CAMILA THORNDIKE on Carbon Pricing /104

Camila Thorndike shares how the tax code can address societal ills, the difference between cap and trade and carbon tax, how policy arrangements reflect our values, and how we can create a price on carbon that is inclusive, progressive, and benefit communities that are often exploited by the so-called green market.

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LYLA JUNE on Resistance and Forgiveness in the Final Years of Patriarchy /43

Lyla June retraces the origins of oppression of European women, men and earth-based cultures through to recent histories of genocide, inter-generational trauma, and the enduring forces that seek to destroy Indigenous women and the earth.

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LYLA JUNE on the Endangered Diversity of Language and Life /42

Lyla June was raised in Taos, New Mexico and is a descendent of Diné (Navajo) and Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) lineages. Her personal mission in life is to grow closer to Creator by learning how to love deeper.

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STEPHEN HARROD BUHNER on Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm, Part Two /14

We return with Stephen to explore these questions… What has the role of psychedelics been in human and plant evolution? What is the ecological function of art? How is science changing as it moves out of reductionism? What do the heart, the brain, and the gut have in common?

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STEPHEN HARROD BUHNER on Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm, Part One /13

Stephen is the senior researcher for the Foundation for Gaian studies, described as a bardic naturalist, he is the award-winning author of 19 books, including The Lost Language of Plants, The Secret Teachings of Plants, and Sacred Plant Medicine.

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