Posts in Activism Allyship
ISMAIL LOURIDO ALI, J.D. on Post-Prohibition Realities /309
ISMAIL LOURIDO ALI, J.D. on Post-Prohibition Realities /309

Ismail guides listeners through an overview of where we are in our relationship with drugs in the American context, and how this relationship is indicative of our relationship with the Earth and with humanity broadly encouraging us to move beyond the black and white view that some drugs are medicine while others are criminal.

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Activism Allyship, Radical Imagination, Political Ideology, Racial Equity Justice, The Cost of Capitalism, Transition TransformationFor The WildIsmail Lourido Ali, J.D., Ismail Ali, MAPS, Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies, Psychedelics, Cannabis, Drug Research, Traditional Medicine, Psilocybin, Peyote, Ayahuasca, Mass Incarceration, Drug reform, pharmaceuticals, ismail, Ismail, Ali, aliComment
Dr. BRETT STORY on How We Belong to Each Other /303
Dr. BRETT STORY on How We Belong to Each Other /303

Brett shares how mass-incarceration and climate change are not crises of the individual, but of our culture. The abolitionist imagination may be the key to a collective future– as Brett reminds listeners that one can be both practical and utopian.

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Activism Allyship, Colonial Violence, The Cost of Capitalism, Political Ideology, Racial Equity Justice, Transition Transformation, Theory ScholarshipFor The WildBrett Story, Brett Story Prisonland, Brett Story The Hottest August, Brett Story documentary, Brett Story filmmaker, Brett Story Ryerson, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes Summary, abolition, abolitionist, abolitionist works, prison abolition, Brett, StoryComment
Dr. CLINT CARROLL on Stewarding Homeland /299
Dr. CLINT CARROLL on Stewarding Homeland /299

Dr. Carroll pushes back against dominant settler histories about Cherokee migrations and relations to homeland and provides insight into what audience members ought to glean from Indigenous philosophies imparting practices of deep reciprocity, responsibility, and relationship to the land and each other.

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Activism Allyship, Climate Change, Climate Solutions, Colonial Violence, Conservation Restoration, Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Deep Ecology, Design+Strategy, Food Sovereignty, Indigenous Sovereignty, More Than Human Kin, Multispecies Justice, Political Ideology, Racial Equity Justice, Radical Imagination, The Cost of Capitalism, Theory Scholarship, Transition TransformationFor The WildDr Clint Carroll Roots of Our Renewal, Dr Clint Carroll, Clint Carroll, Dr Clint Carroll Cherokee Nation, Dr Clint Carroll Boulder, Dr Clint Carroll CU Boulder, Dr Clint Carroll Colorado, Ethnobotany, Cherokee Environmental Governance, Cherokee Nation, Cherokee Environmental Leadership Program, Knowing the Land, Land Education Program, Cherokee Medicine Keepers, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, Society for Applied Anthropology, Center for Creative Climate Communication and Behavior Change, National Science Foundation, Indian Land Tenure Foundation, Indigenous land education, community-based conservation, Indigenous ethical frameworks, climate change, traditional use plants, wild plants, tribal self-determination, tribal lands, grounded normativity, grounded relationality, ecological knowledge, land conservation, Indigenous wellbeing, natural resource management, settler-colonialism, forced displacement, homeland, Appalachia, Tahlequah, Eastern Band, Northeastern Oklahoma, old settlers, Keetoowah, Buffalo National River, gathering agreements, kinship, Trail of Tears, forced relocation, forced removal, forced migration, settler colonialism, settler colonial violence, white supremacy, racism, Land BackComment
ALEXIS SHOTWELL on Resisting Purity Culture /298
ALEXIS SHOTWELL on Resisting Purity Culture /298

Alexis elucidates that it is only through the messy process of owning up to these broken relations throughout time and seeing how we might participate in and take on culturally appropriate relations of repair, responsibility, friendship, and comradeship in the struggles for liberation that we can survive these times.

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Activism Allyship, Cultural Strategy, Direct Action, Multispecies Justice, Spirituality Theology, Transition Transformation, Theory ScholarshipFor The Wildpurity culture, white supremacism, complicit locations, implication, imperfection, mistakes, repair, broken relations, repairing relations, resisting purity politics, friendship, comradeship, curiosity, Alexis, Alexis Shotwell, Shotwell Comment
Dr. JAMAICA HEOLIMELEIKALANI OSARIO on Reclaiming Aloha /297
Dr. JAMAICA HEOLIMELEIKALANI OSARIO on Reclaiming Aloha /297

Dr. Osorio guides us into a fuller understanding of aloha by returning the commodified phrase to the more extensive understanding of aloha ‘āina, wherein the possibilities for other worlds are not only born but remembered and recalled from the long history of sovereign Hawai’i and traditional Hawaiian teachings and lifeways.

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Activism Allyship, Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Indigenous Sovereignty, More Than Human Kin, Political Ideology, Racial Equity Justice, Radical Imagination, Sexual Body Liberation, The Cost of Capitalism, Theory Scholarship, Transition Transformation, Wisdom KeepersFor The WildJamaica, Osorio, Jamaica Osorio Kumulipo, Jamaica Osorio Maunakea, Jamaica Osorio dissertation, Jamaica Osorio documentary, Dr. Jamaica Osorio, Jamaica Osorio Hawaii, Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio This Is the Way We Rise, Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio Poems, Jamaica Osorio White House, Jamaica Osorio Kaona, Jamaica Osorio UH Manoa, Jamaica Osorio University of Hawaii, Jamaica Osorio Slam Poetry, Jamaica Osorio PBS, Jamaica Osorio Remembering Our Intimacies, Jamaica Osorio spoken word, Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Politics, Lilikalā Kame’elehiwa, Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua, “(Re)membering ’Upena of Intimacies: A Kānaka Maoli Mo’olelo Beyond Queer Theory”, Remembering Our Intimacies: Mo’olelo, Aloha Āina, and Ea Comment
Dr. LARRY WARD on Healing the Colonial Mind /296
Dr. LARRY WARD on Healing the Colonial Mind /296

Covering the neuroscience of trauma, the habit of racism, and various typologies of systemic trauma, Dr. Ward provides insight into how we might consciously choose to activate our neuroplasticity toward justice rather than collectively rewarding our neuroplasticity for violence and oppression.

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Activism Allyship, Climate Solutions, Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Multispecies Justice, Racial Equity Justice, Radical Imagination, Spirituality Theology, Transition TransformationFor The WildDr Larry Ward Americas Racial Trauma, Dr Larry Ward, Larry Ward, Larry Ward books, Ward, Dr Larry Ward the Earth Gate, Dr Larry Ward the Wind Gate, The Lotus Institute, Larry Ward the Lotus Institute, Plum Village, Zen master, Zen activist, Thich Nhat Hanh, disconnection and reconnection, trauma, Earth, energy, habit, mindfulness, collective healing, Buddhist mindfulness, interconnectivity, suffering, karma, racial karma, Americas racial karma, learning, healing, healing trauma, fight or flight, neuroplasticity, neuroscience, spiritual practice, spirituality, enchantment, disenchantment, neurobiology, more than human, apocalypse, dystopia, intergenerational trauma, personal trauma, racism, vulnerability, Buddhism, healing and racism, healing and colonialism, healing intergenerational trauma, neuroscience and Buddhism, history of colonialism, history of slavery, LarryComment
KYLE WHYTE on the Colonial Genesis of Climate Change [ENCORE] /295
KYLE WHYTE on the Colonial Genesis of Climate Change [ENCORE] /295

We 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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Colonial Violence, Decolonization, Sacrifice Zones, Climate Change, Climate Solutions, Shore Ocean Communities, Theory Scholarship, Activism AllyshipFor The WildLine 5, Line 3, Enbridge, Great Lakes, Michigan, Kyle Whyte, allyship, settler colonialism, colonialism, environmental justice, ecological tipping point, relational tipping point, climate justice, climate change, climate science, DAPL, Back Forty MineComment
K’ASHEECHTLAA - LOUISE BRADY on Restoring the Sacred [ENCORE] /288
K’ASHEECHTLAA - LOUISE BRADY on Restoring the Sacred [ENCORE] /288

K’asheechtlaa shares the oral history of herring abundance in context to what a typical herring harvest looks like today, industry’s inability to act with reverence, and how Herring Protectors are working to protect the herring and the culture tied to them.

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Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Food Sovereignty, Indigenous Sovereignty, More Than Human Kin, The Cost of Capitalism, Shore Ocean Communities, Wisdom Keepers, Multispecies Justice, Activism AllyshipFor The WildHerring fish, alaska herring season, alaska herring eggs, alaska herring run, alaska herring fishing, southeast alaska herring fishery, herring in alaska, herring protectors sitka, herring rock water protectors, K’asheechtlaa, Louise Brady, Pacific marine ecosystems, pacific ocean ecosystem food chain, fishery mismanagement, history of herring fishing, sitka sac roe herring fishery, sitka sac roe herring fishery 2021, sitka sac roe, sac roe fishery, Yáa at Wooné, Alaska Board of Fish, alaska board of fishering, alaska board of fish meeting, Sitka Tribe of Alaska herring, subsistence fishing alaska, subsistence fishing examplesComment
ALOK on Unruly Beauty [ENCORE] /286
ALOK on Unruly Beauty [ENCORE] /286

ALOK shares how challenging the gender binary is not only in service to our collective wellbeing but is a reverential offering in acknowledging our true celestial expansiveness that has been dimmed under binarism, heteronormativity, and colonialism.

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Decolonization, Cultural Strategy, Wisdom Keepers, Transition Transformation, Spirituality Theology, Sexual Body Liberation, Radical Imagination, Activism Allyship, Design+Strategy, Racial Equity JusticeFor The WildAlok, Alok V Menon book, Alok V Menon quotes, Alok V Menon instagram, Alok V Menon poetry, Alok V Menon beyond the gender binary, gender binary system, gender binary articles, gender binary and capitalism, gender binary and colonialism, what is a gender binary, feminism post colonialism, transgender Indigenous, Femme in Public, Beyond the Gender Binary, spiritual crisis, spiritual crisis and psychosis, spiritual awakening crisis, environmental justice, LGBTQ issues, LGBTQ environmental justice, LGBTQ environmental organizations, transcestors, gender fluidity, gender fluid and non binary, non binary celebrities, non binary art Comment
RUTH ŁCHAV'AYA K'ISEN MILLER on Relations of Reciprocity [ENCORE] /283
RUTH ŁCHAV'AYA K'ISEN MILLER on Relations of Reciprocity [ENCORE] /283

Ruth shares how tending to the future must center Indigenous values and lifeways and shares the ways in which a just transition can be understood as a cyclical movement inspired by kinship, care, and reciprocity

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Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Direct Action, Transition Transformation, Sacrifice Zones, Multispecies Justice, Radical Imagination, Indigenous Sovereignty, Activism Allyship, Climate Solutions, Climate ChangeFor The WildRuth Łchav'aya K'isen Miller, Ruth Miller Alaska, Bristol Bay Alaska, Bristol Bay Salmon Run, Pebble Mine Alaska, Pebble Mine News, Pebble Mine News 2021, Native Movement, Native Movement staff, Native Movement facebook, Native Movement Alaska, Defend the Sacred Alaska, just transition framework, just transition examples, just transition definition, just transition principles, just transition ak, just transition and climate change, the green new deal, the green new deal 2021, climate change policy, climate change politics, the green new deal definition, a green new deal without growth, climate policy initiative, climate policy jobs, climate policy news, climate policy analysis, UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, UN Youth Climate Summit, colonization in Alaska, Department of the Interior secretary, Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior definition, Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management, Deb Haaland Department of the InteriorComment
PRENTIS HEMPHILL on Choosing Belonging [ENCORE] /281
PRENTIS HEMPHILL on Choosing Belonging [ENCORE] /281

In recognition of the tremendous intricacies of our experiences when it comes to our collective histories, forced severances, and the manipulation of trauma in our society, Prentis shares how embodiment is a resource that allows us to connect with the Earth, recognize grief as an entry point, and shape the impossible into possible.

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Cultural Strategy, Wisdom Keepers, Transition Transformation, Sexual Body Liberation, Racial Equity Justice, Activism Allyship, Radical ImaginationFor The WildPrentis Hemphill, Prentis Hemphill boundaries, Prentis Hemphill podcast, Prentis Hemphill Embodiment Institute, Prentis Hemphill Finding Our Way, Prentis Hemphill Generative Somatics, Prentis Hemphill Letting Go of Innocence, the Embodiment Institute, Embodiment Studies, Embodiment practices, Embodiment research, generative somatics centering, generative somatics and healing, somatics therapy, embodiment therapyComment
SII-AM HAMILTON on Respect-Based Futures [ENCORE] /279
SII-AM HAMILTON on Respect-Based Futures [ENCORE] /279

In this powerful conversation with land defender Sii-am Hamilton, we are invited to discuss futuristic ways forward in recognition that Indigenous communities have been practicing creative resistance against colonialism and capitalism for hundreds of years.

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Colonial Violence, The Cost of Capitalism, Wisdom Keepers, Decolonization, Direct Action, Sacrifice Zones, Climate Solutions, Indigenous Sovereignty, Racial Equity Justice, Activism AllyshipFor The WildIndigenous Sovereignty, Canada, Land Back, Decolonization, Sii-am Hamilton, TMX, Trans Mountain, RCMP, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Elisapie, Sto:lo, Nuučaan̓uł, Land Defense, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Woman, Girls, and 2Spirit people, Kwitsel Tatel, Ron Hamilton, Environmental Justice, British Columbia, #IndigenousYouthForWetsuweten, Wet’suwet’en, Coastal GasLink, LNG development, Gidimt’en, TC Energy, Right RelationshipComment
CORRINA GOULD on Settler Responsibility and Reciprocity [ENCORE] /277
CORRINA GOULD on Settler Responsibility and Reciprocity [ENCORE] /277

Corrina reminds us that Ohlone territory still holds tremendous abundance and that the land can sustain us in a way that would provide for our wellbeing should we choose to really re-examine what it is we need to survive.

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Colonial Violence, Decolonization, The Cost of Capitalism, Wisdom Keepers, Cultural Strategy, Multispecies Justice, Indigenous Sovereignty, Transition Transformation, Activism Allyship, Conservation RestorationFor The WildCorrina Gould, San Francisco, Ohlone territory, Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, land rematriation, land back, Bay Area, Indigenous land trusts, Beth Rose Middleton, Bay Area shellmounds, settler colonial relationships, Indigenous-led stewardship, land tax, non-federally recognized tribes, Nels Nelson, Real Rent Duwamish, Indian People Organizing for Change, Shummi Land Tax, Planting Justice, Junipero Serra, Manna-hatta Fund, Right RelationshipComment
VIJAY PRASHAD on Capitalism’s Erosion of Morality [ENCORE] /268
VIJAY PRASHAD on Capitalism’s Erosion of Morality [ENCORE] /268

Vijay shares how our morality has eroded under the weight of capitalism and why the disappearance of dignified discourse is connected to calculated divestments from our social and state institutions. This moving episode pushes us to think about how we can organize movements that will truly address quality of life.

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Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Design+Strategy, Food Sovereignty, Activism Allyship, Global South, Racial Equity Justice, Globalization, Transition Transformation, Political IdeologyFor The Wildlithium battery, lithium mine, bolivia coup us, bolivia coup lithium, bolivia coup elon musk, green energy alternatives, green energy activists, pandemic covid 19, tricontinental magazine, tricontinental institute for social research, vijay prashad china, vijay prashad podcast, vijay prashad bolivia, agricultural revolution, socialism vs capitalism, socialism examples, socialism and communism, the mutual aid modelComment
CHIARA FRANCESCA on Embodied Care /266
CHIARA FRANCESCA on Embodied Care /266

We explore the emotional experience behind acupuncture, how a disability justice framework shapes Chiara’s work, the connection between Earth and bodily experienced trauma, and how to create a conducive environment for embodiment.

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Cultural Strategy, Activism Allyship, Media Art, Radical Imagination, Sexual Body Liberation, Transition TransformationFor The WildChiara Francesca, Chiara Francesca Healing Justice Practice Space, Chiara Francesca Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, Chiara Francesca Chicago Healing Justice Network, Allied Media Conference, Acupuncture, Body, Trauma, Disability, Justice, Disability Justice, Healing Justice, Movement, Healing, Art, Future of Healthcare, Embodiment, Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Racism, Italy, Immigration, Childcare, Healthcare, Culture Work, Structural Change, Queer Art, Queer Healthcare, Mental Health, Health and Capitalism, Racial Justice, Community Care, Chiara Francesca What could a more just healthcare and healing practice look like?, Healing Practices, Harm Reduction, Informed Harm Reduction, Working Class, Ethical Healthcare, Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective, the People's Movement CenterComment
SHA’MIRA COVINGTON on Healing the Fashion Industrial Complex /265
SHA’MIRA COVINGTON on Healing the Fashion Industrial Complex /265

Sha’Mira shares that the fashion industrial complex cannot simply be discussed in terms of environmental impact alone, it must be acknowledged as a loud echo of colonial conquest; not just in terms of extraction of labor and resources, or the outsourcing of pollutants and illness, but also in terms of culture and appropriation.


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Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Activism Allyship, Design+Strategy, Globalization, Media Art, Racial Equity Justice, Radical Imagination, The Cost of Capitalism, Transition TransformationFor The WildFashion Industrial Complex, Racial Justice, woke washing, healing justice, natural fibers, organic cotton, greenwashing, sustainability, fashion industry, consumerism, Indigenous Sovereignty, Black Liberation, decolonization, globalization, Critical Race Theory, The Legacy of the U.S. Cotton Economy, Slow Factory Open Education: History of Cotton with Teju Adisa-Farrar, The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara, The Afrominimalist’s Guide to Living with Less by Christine PlantComment
Dr. PATRICIA KAISHIAN on Queer Mycology /262
Dr. PATRICIA KAISHIAN on Queer Mycology /262

Dr. Patricia Kaishian encourages us to think of mycology as a revolutionary and political practice. Diving into queer mycology, we see the ways that fungi challenge binaries of gender, family structure, and even traditional biological classification.

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Colonial Violence, Decolonization, More Than Human Kin, Climate Solutions, Climate Change, Sexual Body Liberation, Activism Allyship, Conservation Restoration, Theory ScholarshipFor The WildDr. Patricia Kaishian, Mycology, Queer, LGBTQ, Mushrooms, Foraging, Science, Ways of Knowing, Queer Science, Biodiversity, Binary-Breaking, Armenian, Queer Ecologies, Mushroom at the End of the World, Anna Tsing, Conservation, Purdue, SUNY, Queer Theory, Mycellium, Academia, Linneaus, Inquiry, Congress of Armenian Mycologists Comment
NIRIA ALICIA on Pockets of Joy in the Resistance /260
NIRIA ALICIA on Pockets of Joy in the Resistance /260

Niria Alicia guides us to think about ancestral instruction, precious purpose, rituals for liberation, and what it means to be human in this time. This warm and rich conversation looks at spiritual crisis in tandem with climate crisis, the allure of self-sabotage, and the problem with the many “solutions” we are offered …

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Activism Allyship, Cultural Strategy, Climate Solutions, Climate Change, Multispecies Justice, Racial Equity Justice, Radical ImaginationFor The WildNiria Alicia, Niria Alicia Garcia, Emerging Leader Award’ from GreenLatino, North American Association for Environmental Education, Young Champion of the Earth for North America SustainUS, climate justice, environmental justice, climate activist United States, Alameda fires Oregon, Alameda Fires Latinx Recovery Fund, Alameda Fire Update, Climate Change Pacific Northwest, COP26, Run4Salmon, Run For Salmon, NAAEE, migrant justice United States, Chicana activistsComment
CHRIS ZIMMER on a River Ethic /257
CHRIS ZIMMER on a River Ethic /257

Chris Zimmer invites us to imagine what clean, healthy rivers can bring us, and to propel love for these rivers towards ethical action. Calling into question international agreements, futures of mining, and responses to climate change, this enduring conversation unsettles and uproots our conceptions of borders.

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More Than Human Kin, Colonial Violence, Multispecies Justice, Sacrifice Zones, Transition Transformation, Activism Allyship, Direct Action, Design+Strategy, Conservation Restoration, Food Sovereignty, GlobalizationFor The WildChris Zimmer, Rivers Without Borders, Salmon, Acid Mine Drainage, Taku River System, Alaska, British Columbia, River Cleanup, Fish, Watersheds, Transboundary Rivers, Canada, Downstream Politics, Teck Mining, Tulsequah Chief, Mining, Gold, Silver, Copper, Coal, Ethic, Water Protectors, Green Energy, Toxins, Environmental Regulation, Green New Deal, FishingComment
SAMUEL GENSAW III on the Restorative Revolution /256
SAMUEL GENSAW III on the Restorative Revolution /256

Samuel, a Yurok fisherman and activist, guides us to explore the length of Klamath River restoration and the work that follows in the aftermath, both in terms of ecological restoration and the remediation of ancestral territories.

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More Than Human Kin, The Cost of Capitalism, Colonial Violence, Decolonization, For The Forests, Multispecies Justice, Sacrifice Zones, Food Sovereignty, Conservation Restoration, Activism Allyship, Indigenous SovereigntyFor The WildSamuel Gensaw, Samuel Gensaw III, Ancestral Guard, Gather film, Gather film netflix, Yurok tribe facts, Yurok tribe, Klamath River California, Klamath River basin, Klamath River dam removal, Klamath River salmon, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, UC Davis Yurok, California water, California drought, Indigenous sovereignty United States, Indigenous sovereignty movements, Nature Rights Council, Sanjay Rawal, food justice, food sovereignty, victory gardens, Yurok food sovereigntyComment