Posts in Colonial Violence
LINDA BLACK ELK on What Endures After Pandemic [ENCORE] /293
LINDA BLACK ELK on What Endures After Pandemic [ENCORE] /293

Ayana and Linda discuss what will be left in the wake of COVID-19, how will we tend to the wounds of disposability? What systems will endure? What must we dismantle and what will we grow? How can we deepen our actions so that they are not just a response to fear, but are rooted in the promise of collective wellbeing?

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Plant Intelligence, The Cost of Capitalism, Colonial Violence, Decolonization, Food Sovereignty, Grassroots Herbalism, Indigenous Sovereignty, Transition TransformationFor The WildCOVID19, novel coronavirus, coronavirus, pandemic, food sovereignty, food security, traditional medicine, traditional foods, plant medicine, herbs, healing, restoration ecology, prairie grasslands, Linda Black Elk, victory gardens, decolonization gardens, sacred medicine, ethnobotany, United Tribes Technical College, Right Relationship, Black Elk, Linda, Covid, Pandemic, Indigenous food sovereigntyComment
RICHIE RESEDA on Dismantling Patriarchy [ENCORE] /292
RICHIE RESEDA on Dismantling Patriarchy [ENCORE] /292

Richie and Ayana examine how harmful patriarchy is to us all, why we must let go of our limited understanding of crime, the geography of prisons, and meaningful and revolutionary organizing in prisons.

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Indigenous Sovereignty, The Cost of Capitalism, Cultural Strategy, Colonial Violence, Racial Equity JusticeFor The Wildprison industrial complex, school-to-prison pipeline, police brutality, Success Stories, Charles Berry, Richie "Reseda" Edmond-Vargas, Richie Reseda, dismantling patriarchy, Initiate Justice, incarceration, mass incarceration, criminal justice policy, California, felony disenfranchisement, The Feminist on Cell Block Y, bell hooks, prison politic, for-profit prisons, Valley Fever outbreaks, Allyship Guide 1Comment
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
InTheField: NUSKMATA (Jacinda Mack) on the Gold Rush That Never Ended [ENCORE] /287
InTheField: NUSKMATA (Jacinda Mack) on the Gold Rush That Never Ended [ENCORE] /287

This episode braids together the history of the Gold Rush and colonization in B.C., the state of salmon, the practice of free, prior, and informed consent, dirty mining for a “clean” energy revolution, and the urgent necessity of reform.

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Colonial Violence, Decolonization, Sacrifice Zones, In The Field, Indigenous SovereigntyFor The WildMount Polley Mine disaster, Imperial Metals, Secwepemc, Nuxalk, Williams Lake, Fraser River, Fraser River Watershed, British Columbia, Canada, First Nations Women Advocating Responsible Mining, mining, mining laws, mineral tenure, salmon, toxic spill, seven generations, sacrifice zone, UNDRIP, UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, clean water, responsible mining, Gold Rush, water contamination, toxic accumulation, environmental assessment, resource extraction, colonization, boarding schools, gold fever, just transition, living libraries, climate change, renewable energy, clean energy, zero-emission energy, rare earth metals, luxury, earth connection, potlatch, Indigenous bloodline, free, prior, and informed consent, consent, professional reliance, environmental protectors, earth defenders, water guardians, the Palmer Project, Constantine Metal Resources, Chilkat territory, Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, love story, revolutionary love, In The FieldComment
Dr. KIM TALLBEAR on Reviving Kinship and Sexual Abundance [ENCORE] /284
Dr. KIM TALLBEAR on Reviving Kinship and Sexual Abundance [ENCORE] /284

Dr. TallBear and Ayana confront western science’s continued appropriation of Indigenous sexuality, ancestry, and creation while unearthing our universal desires for love and belonging.

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Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Sexual Body Liberation, Theory ScholarshipFor The Wildsexuality, intimacy, kinship, decolonization, decolonizing sexuality, decolonizing intimacy, decolonizing family structure, colonial project, biopolitics, genomics, Indigenous erasure, Indigenous appropriation, nonmonogamy, polyamory, monogamy, heteronormativity, nuclear family, technoscience, liberal multiculturalism, more than human kin, caretaking, caregiving, community, Donna Haraway Inspired, Right Relationship Comment
Dr. VANDANA SHIVA on the Promise of the Commons /280
Dr. VANDANA SHIVA on the Promise of the Commons /280

Dr. Shiva warns that the ruling class operates from a place of fear of any being alive and free on their own terms. We end this conversation with a call to a paradigm shift away from capitalism, control and fear to one of partnership with the earth.

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Climate Solutions, Colonial Violence, Decolonization, Food Sovereignty, Global South, Multispecies Justice, The Cost of CapitalismFor The Wildbiodiversity, commons, GMOs, seeds, seed saving, Dr. Vandana Shiva, Vandana Shiva, Navdanya, Earth School, food, earth, life, food sovereignty, Indigenous food sovereignty, diversity, India, reclaiming, health, Monsanto, Gates, microbiome, toxins, glyphosate, GMO, globalization, late-stage capitalism, peasant movements, farming, farmers movements, gardening, collapse, capitalism, health under capitalism, health under colonialism, climate change, colonialism, Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Indigenous Wisdom, and the Rights of Mother Earth, Philanthrocapitalism and the Erosion of Democracy: A Global Citizens’ Report on the Corporate Control of Technology, Health, and Agriculture, reclaiming the commons bookComment
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
ELLA NOAH BANCROFT on the Intelligence of Our Intimacy [ENCORE] /276
ELLA NOAH BANCROFT on the Intelligence of Our Intimacy [ENCORE] /276

Ella traces the powerful connection between our ability to go against mainstream capitalist ways of being and our capacity for deep connection with ourselves and each other. We interrogate how much of identity is our truth, and how much of it is the echoing trends of dominant culture.

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Colonial Violence, Decolonization, Cultural Strategy, Sexual Body Liberation, Radical Imagination, Transition TransformationFor The WildElla Noah Bancroft, Ella Noah Bancroft Instagram, Ella Noah Bancroft podcast, The Returning Byron Bay, the returning gathering, Yhi Collective, It takes courage to tell the truth podcast, Bundjalung artists, decolonizing sexuality, localized economies, self care, localization, sexual wellness influencers, sexual wellness examples, sexual wellness podcasts, women's sensuality evening, sex positivity podcastComment
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
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
BATHSHEBA DEMUTH on a More-Than-Human History /264
BATHSHEBA DEMUTH on a More-Than-Human History /264

Bathsheba joins us to consider a future outside of apocalyptic visions, rooted in the understanding that the shape of the world today is neither permanent nor pre-destined.

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Colonial Violence, Decolonization, More Than Human Kin, Political Ideology, Radical Imagination, Sacrifice Zones, The Cost of Capitalism, Indigenous SovereigntyFor The WildBathsheba Demuth, Environmental History, Historian, Bathsheba Demuth Floating Coast, Communism, Capitalism, USSR, Whales, Bowhead Whales, Mining, Hunting, Whaling, History, Coal, Arctic, Bering Strait, Apocalypse, Yupik, Iñupiat, Chukchi, Russia, Consumption, Energy, Colonization, Bathsheba Demuth Brown University, Ways of Knowing, EcologyComment
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
ANTONIO LÓPEZ on the Colonization of Our Attention /261
ANTONIO LÓPEZ on the Colonization of Our Attention /261

Lopez begins with the material dimensions of our digital footprint, then moves into a deeper conversation around media and tech monopolies, desensitization in media, sensory stimulation, and the correlation between fake news, climate denial, white nationalism, and petro-masculinity.

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Colonial Violence, The Cost of Capitalism, Sacrifice Zones, Multispecies Justice, Design+Strategy, Global South, Media Art, Theory ScholarshipFor The WildAntonio López, ecomedia, Mediacology: A Multicultural Approach to Media Literacy in the 21st Century, The Media Ecosystem: What Ecology Can Teach Us About Responsible Media Practice, Greening Media Education: Bridging Media Literacy with Green Cultural Citizenship, Ecomedia Literacy: Integrating Ecology into Media Education, Communications and Media Studies, mass media, Information and Communications Technology, digital information, environmental impacts of the cloud, ecological footprint of media, ecological footprint of technology, conflict minerals, the internet of things, e-waste, the global cloud, AI, data mining, platform capitalism, petro masculinity, fossil fuel industry and media, slow media, decomputerizationComment
Dr. RUPA MARYA and RAJ PATEL on Deep Medicine /259
Dr. RUPA MARYA and RAJ PATEL on Deep Medicine /259

Dr. Rupa Marya and Raj Patel discuss the biological impacts of oppressive social structures. We are left with the resounding reminder that inflammation is an indicator that we must change our collective ways in order to heal …

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Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Sexual Body Liberation, Racial Equity Justice, Radical Imagination, The Cost of Capitalism, Transition TransformationFor The WildRaj Patel, Dr. Rupa Marya, Rupa Marya, Raj Patel Inflamed, Ral Patel Austin, Raj Patel Stuffed and Starved, Raj Patel MD, Raj Patel books, Raj Patel agroecology, RupaComment
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
DALLAS GOLDTOOTH on Responding to Toxic Masculinity [ENCORE] /255
DALLAS GOLDTOOTH on Responding to Toxic Masculinity [ENCORE] /255

We talk with Dallas about toxic masculinity, accountability, and dismantling patriarchy. So often, conversations around gender wounds quickly deteriorate into oversimplifications of, and accusations towards, one gender or another – failing to realize how we are all hurting under patriarchy.

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The Cost of Capitalism, Colonial Violence, Decolonization, Cultural Strategy, Transition Transformation, Sexual Body LiberationFor The WildDallas Goldtooth, Dallas Goldtooth actor, Dallas Goldtooth reservation dogs, Dallas Goldtooth movies, Dallas Goldtooth Indigenous Environmental Network, toxic masculinity, toxic masculinity quotes, toxic masculinity and gender roles, toxic masculinity articles, toxic masculinity and feminism, podcast about patriarchy, patriarchy definition, patriarchy examples, patriarchy vs matriarchy, patriarchy and feminism, patriarchy and capitalism, patriarchy and colonialismComment
JOSEFINA SKERK on Sámi Lifeways /254
JOSEFINA SKERK on Sámi Lifeways /254

Josefina shares her vision for truly sustainable living, what climate change means for Sámi livelihoods, the ways in which many Europeans have severed themselves from Indigenous histories both willfully and forcibly, and the importance of reconciliation processes across the Nordic region.

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Colonial Violence, Decolonization, Cultural Strategy, Ancient Ice, Multispecies Justice, Indigenous Sovereignty, Climate Change, Sacrifice ZonesFor The WildJosefina Skerk, Josefina Skerk sametinget, Sami, Sami people, Sami Sweden history, Samie Sweden language, Sweden Sami rights, Sami Sweden discrimination, Sweden climate change policy, Sweden climate change effects, Sweden climate change action, Sweden climate change problems, Sweden climate change strategy, Sweden mining, Sweden mining industry, Sweden uranium mining ban, Sapmi map, Scandinavian Indigenous peoples, reindeers and climate change, Norway mining, Sijti JarngeComment