Posts in Colonial Violence
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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Colonial Violence, Decolonization, Cultural Strategy, Racial Equity Justice, Radical Imagination, Political Ideology, Special Episode, Spirituality Theology, Theory Scholarship, Transition TransformationFor The WildFTW, The Edges in the Middle I, Othering and Belonging Institute, Democracy and Belonging Forum, The Edges in the Middle, UC Berkeley, Bayo Akomolafe, john a. powell, OBI UC Berkeley, Bayo Akomolafe quotes, john a. powell quotes, Othering and Belonging Institute Berkeley, Othering and Belonging Institute events, Othering and Belonging Youtube, Bayo Akomolafe podcast, john a. powell podcast, Bayo, Akomolafe, john, powellComment
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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Colonial Violence, Climate Solutions, Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Design+Strategy, Activism Allyship, Indigenous Sovereignty, Radical Imagination, The Cost of Capitalism, Theory Scholarship, Transition TransformationFor The WildTyson Yunkaporta, Tyson Yunkaporta podcast, Tyson Yunkaporta sand talk, Tyson Yunkaporta Wikipedia, Tyson Yunkaporta twitter, Tyson Yunkaporta quotes, sand talk how indigenous thinking, sand talk by Tyson Yunkaporta, indigenous thinking examples, indigenous systems thinking, Australia indigenous people, Australia genocide, identity politics, social media bad effects, social media bad for relationships, critiques of post-left, postmodernism, post-colonial criticism, tyson, yunkaporta, 328 Comment
MORGAN CURTIS on Transmuting Ancestries of Exploitation /327
MORGAN CURTIS on Transmuting Ancestries of Exploitation /327

Ayana and Morgan dive into the need for repair, healing, and acknowledgement as we face the historical roots of modern inequity. This heartfelt and expansive conversation calls for us to unlearn the ways racial capitalism has taught us wealth should be passed down.

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Activism Allyship, Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Radical Imagination, Racial Equity Justice, Spirituality Theology, The Cost of Capitalism, Transition Transformation, Political IdeologyFor The Wild327, Morgan Curtis, For The Wild, Morgan Curtis Podcast, Morgan Curtis Ancestors, Morgan Curtis Harvard, Morgan Curtis wealth, Morgan Curtis Coaching, Resource Generation, Morgan Curtis Reparations, Morgan, CurtisComment
GABES TORRES on Journeying Together /326
GABES TORRES on Journeying Together /326

Gabes lucidly describes the ways our individual health and well-being is dependent upon our connections and the structures of the societies in which we reside, bringing us into conversation about interdependence and the abundance that our communities can foster when we move beyond a scarcity mindset based in individualism and profit. 

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Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Sexual Body Liberation, Spirituality Theology, The Cost of CapitalismFor The Wild326, Gabes Torres, For The Wild, Gabes Torres Yes! Magazine, Gabes Torres Therapy, Gabes Torres Writing, Gabes Torres Podcast, Collective Healing, embodiment, BIPOC Therapy, Yes Magazine Social justice, mental health, abolition, racial trauma and healing, Gabes Torres booking, Gabes Torres music, gabes, torresComment
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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Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Design+Strategy, Globalization, Media Art, Radical Imagination, Theory Scholarship, The Cost of Capitalism, Transition TransformationFor The Wild324, Malcolm Harris, Malcolm Harris Author, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism and the World, Malcolm Harris Palo Alto, Palo Alto Book review, Kids These Days The MAking of Millenials, Shit is Fucked up and Bullshit, Malcolm Harris articles, California capitalism, Palo Alto history, malcolm, harrisComment
SAMUEL BAUTISTA LAZO on Handmade Futures /322
SAMUEL BAUTISTA LAZO on Handmade Futures /322

Samuel Bautista Lazo brings listeners into an insightful conversation on the value of craftwork that connects us to the past and plants seeds for the future emphasizing the radical act of creating connection and meaning with the objects we need to sustain life.

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Cultural Strategy, Colonial Violence, Decolonization, Design+Strategy, Indigenous Sovereignty, Media Art, Radical Imagination, The Cost of Capitalism, Wisdom KeepersFor The Wild322, Samuel Bautista Lazo, Dixza Rugs, Samuel Bautista, Weaving, Oaxaca México, Craftwork, Zapotec, Indigeneity, Dixza Rugs and Organic Farms, Craftsmanship, Zapotec Weaving, Samuel Bautista Rugs, Dixza, Sam, Bautista, samComment
JOSUÉ RIVAS on Throwing a Glitch in the Social Media Matrix /320
JOSUÉ RIVAS on Throwing a Glitch in the Social Media Matrix /320

Josué invites us to challenge extractive and colonial lenses by embracing the overwhelming force of the creative urge. How might we break apart from the constant pressure of social media to envision the new modes of creation and creativity that these stories need in order to be told? 

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Activism Allyship, Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Indigenous Sovereignty, Media Art, Radical Imagination, The Cost of Capitalism, Transition TransformationFor The WildJosue Rivas, Indigena, Josué Indigena, Indigena photography, Indigena Nike, Indigena music video, Josué Rivas photography, decolonization, Indigenous futurism, Josué Rivas indigenous photography, Josué Rivas ndn collective, ndn collective changemaker, Radical Imagination, Josué Rivas Tedx, josue, riva, Josue, Riva, 320Comment
TRICIA HERSEY on Deprogramming from Grind Culture /318
TRICIA HERSEY on Deprogramming from Grind Culture /318

Tricia Hersey joins Ayana to unwind the complicated ties of exhaustion and exploitation. Tricia’s words serve as incantations against the brainwashing of grind culture as she and Ayana investigate the systems that benefit from keeping us stagnant. 

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Colonial Violence, The Cost of Capitalism, Activism Allyship, Cultural Strategy, Racial Equity Justice, Radical Imagination, Spirituality TheologyFor The WildTricia Hersey, Tricia Hersey Podcast, Tricia Hersey Quotes, Tricia Hersey Nap Ministry, Tricia Hersey Rest Is Resistance, Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto, The Nap Ministry, The Nap Ministry Book, Rest, Grind Culture, Resistance, Grind Culture Toxic, Tricia Hersey Nap Bishop, tricia hersey, nap ministry, napComment
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
THENMOZHI SOUNDARARAJAN on Annihilating Caste Systems /314
THENMOZHI SOUNDARARAJAN on Annihilating Caste Systems /314

Speaking to the ways that carrying the trauma of caste manifests within the body, Thenmozhi emphasizes the importance of slowing down to process the grief and pain caused by mindless oppression. She offers important context to the conversation about caste, emphasizing the ways caste discrimination manifests within global schemes of technology and power distribution.

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Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Globalization, Racial Equity Justice, Political Ideology, Activism AllyshipFor The WildThenmozhi Soundararajan, Thenmozhi Soundararajan Berkeley, Thenmozhi Soundararajan instagram, Thenmozhi Soundararajan book, Thenmozhi Soundararajan The Trauma of Caste, The Trauma of Caste, Equality Labs, Equality Labs Caste, Equality Labs Founder, Equality Labs Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Equality Labs Google Caste, Thenmozhi Google, thenmozhi, soundararajan, Thenmozhi, SoundararajanComment
Dr. VANDANA SHIVA on Diverse Expressions of a Living Earth /311
Dr. VANDANA SHIVA on Diverse Expressions of a Living Earth /311

Vandana and Ayana piece apart the threads of our global culture that lead to exploitation and extraction - focusing on the policies of division and distraction that keep us from each other. The divisions that world-leaders focus so much time on are created in order to dominate and exploit the nature on which the earthly community depends.

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Climate Solutions, Colonial Violence, Decolonization, Food Sovereignty, Global South, Globalization, Multispecies Justice, The Cost of CapitalismFor The WildDr. Vandana Shiva, Vandana Shiva, My Life in a Biodiversity of Movements, The Seeds of Vandana Shiva, biodiversity, commons, GMOs, seeds, Navdanya, Earth School, food, earth, life, food sovereignty, Indigenous food sovereignty, diversity, Monsanto, health, peasant movements, farming, farmers movements, gardening, collapse, capitalism, health under capitalism, health under colonialism, climate change, colonialism, vandana, shiva, Vandana, ShivaComment
YOALLI RODRIGUEZ on Grief as an Ontological Form of Time /306
YOALLI RODRIGUEZ on Grief as an Ontological Form of Time /306

Yoalli brings us to the Chacahua-Pastoría Lagoons in Oaxaca, Mexico, to investigate deep connections with land, ongoing colonial violence, and the grief that comes alongside loving a place; a heartening conversation about the importance of ecological grief, rage, and sadness.

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Colonial Violence, Decolonization, Indigenous Sovereignty, More Than Human Kin, Multispecies Justice, Racial Equity Justice, Shore Ocean Communities, Theory Scholarship, Sacrifice ZonesFor The WildYoalli Rodriguez, Mestil Yoalli Rodriguez, Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera, Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera, yoalli rodriguez biografia, Yoalli Rodriguez Grieving Geographies, Critical Geography, Anthropology, Chacahua-Pastoría Lagoons, Mexico Lagoons, Yoalli Rodriguez Professor, Yoalli Rodríguez Mexico, Yoalli, yoalli, rodriguez Comment
ANTONIA ESTELA PÉREZ on Uncovering Plant-Human Intimacy /305
ANTONIA ESTELA PÉREZ on Uncovering Plant-Human Intimacy /305

Antonia dives into the tension that exists in living in and caring for lands that have been violently colonized, calling listeners to understand plants both in the ways that colonization has affected their legacies, and within anti-colonial structures that suggest there are other ways to engage with the plants around us.

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Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Plant Intelligence, More Than Human Kin, The Cost of Capitalism, Wisdom Keepers, Grassroots HerbalismFor The WildAntonia Estela Perez, Antonia Perez, Antonia Perez Herbalism, Antonia Perez Herban Cura, New York Herbalists, Chilean Herbalists, Plant Intelligence, Plant Worlds, Native Plants, Ethnobotany, Medicinal Plants, Antonia, Perez, PLants, herbalismComment
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. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Coming Alive to Other Senses /300
Dr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Coming Alive to Other Senses /300

Bayo Akomolafe guides listeners on a journey to lose oneself and leave behind the ties that bind us to world views that do not serve humanity’s wholeness. Bayo challenges us to lean into the “political un-project” that is fugitivity, blurring societally-imposed binaries, in order to better understand the human territory and to make more-than-human sanctuary through post activism.

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Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Globalization, Political Ideology, Racial Equity Justice, The Cost of Capitalism, Theory Scholarship, Transition Transformation, Wisdom KeepersFor The Wildbayo akomolafe, bayo akomolafe podcast, bayo akomolafe quotes, trickster philosophy, diaspora, bayo akomolafe books, the times are urgent, bayo akomolafe the times are urgent, bayo akomolafe youtube, bayo akomolafe emergence network, bayo akomolafe poetry, yoruba, yoruba religion, critical race theory, post activism, indigeneity, politics, the sacred, right relationship, post modernity, decolonial futures, environmental justice, bayo, akomolafe, Slow Study 1Comment
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
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