BRONTË VELEZ on the Pleasurable Surrender of White Supremacy, Part 1 /139

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.

THE BUREAU of LINGUISTICAL REALITY on Seeding New Language /138

Heidi, Alicia, and Ayana break through the limits imposed by dominant languages, and invite radical freedom of expression to enrich our unique identities, experiences, our relationships with each other and with the earth.

Decolonization, Direct Action, Radical Imagination, Cultural Strategy, Climate Change, Media ArtFor The WildSeptember 25, 2019Indigenous languages, language diversity, endangered languages, dominant languages, neologisms, environmental philosophy, anthropology, cultural revolution, traditional ecological knowledge, Anthropocene, Solastalgia Comments

PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA on Finding Uncommon Ground /135

Ayana and Pádraig explore the language of uncommon belonging; how we must learn from our shame and the danger of forgetting history, the life cycle of violence, the nature of colonial power, and how to confront the inheritance of privilege.

Decolonization, Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Radical Imagination, Spirituality TheologyFor The WildSeptember 4, 2019Joy Harjo, Conflict Resolution for Holy BeingsRichard Blanco, How to Love a CountryMarie Howe, MagdaleneFaisal Mohyuddin, The Displaced Children of Displaced ChildrenDanez Smith, Don’t Call Us Dead, Happy Heart Salve Bright Futures, padraigComment

RICHIE RESEDA on Dismantling Patriarchy /134

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.

DONNA HARAWAY on Staying with the Trouble /131

Ayana and Donna’s fascinating conversation this week winds through topics like the reclamation of truth and “situated knowledges,” the importance of mourning with others, the etymology of “Anthropocene,” the place of forgiveness in movement building, and the urgency of making non-natal kin.

Radical Imagination, Cultural Strategy, Theory ScholarshipFor The WildAugust 7, 2019theorist, multispecies studies, feminist theory, science and technology, human exceptionalism, hyper individualism, A Cyborg Manifesto, dualisms, technology relationships, technological domination, Donna Haraway Inspired Comments

Collective Liberation & Communal Gathering at LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE /128

This conversation explores the nature of festival culture, village living, and our inherent desire for community.

LYLA JUNE on Resistance and Forgiveness in the Final Years of Patriarchy ⌠ENCORE⌡ /126

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 and more …

MICHAEL MEADE on Cultivating Mythic Imagination /124

Michael explores the relationships between wounds and dreams, chaos and beauty, and meditates on his own journey of initiation and the archetypal ground of ancestors, as well as the potent nature of retelling stories.

Dr. MARY EVELYN TUCKER on Cosmological Re-inheritance /120

Ayana and Mary Evelyn explore how spiritual traditions can respond to environmental crisis, why it is so valuable to understand the emergence of the early universe as we navigate the Anthropocene, and how we can nourish stories of birth, inheritance, and long lineage between body and universe.

Cultural Strategy, Radical Imagination, Deep Ecology, Spirituality TheologyFor The WildMay 22, 2019creation stories, religion, religious traditions, origin stories, anthropocosmic beings, ecological histories, religion and ecology, world religions, structures of change, spritual tradtions, Anthropocene, environmental crisisComment

JOHN A. POWELL on Institutions of Othering and Radical Belonging /119

john and Ayana explore 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.

ADRIENNE MAREE BROWN on Pleasure as Birthright /115

Explore how the denial of pleasure contributes to our own oppression, how radical honesty and kindness can transform our relationships, moving through the limitations placed on radical imagination and desire, the importance of pleasure beyond sex, and how our pain and sorrow is a measurement of our pleasure and joy.

CHARLES EISENSTEIN & IAN MACKENZIE on the Age of Transition /112

Charles Eisenstein and Ian MacKenzie join Ayana to discuss what features are inherently built into this money system, how economics does not have to be a merciless system, the importance of universal basic income, what it looks like to step into gift giving, and how we can hold healthy boundaries in the process.

Cultural Strategy, Radical Imagination, Design+Strategy, Transition TransformationFor The WildMarch 20, 2019economy, Sacred Economics, emergent culture, Occupy Love, systems transformation, community transformation, universal basic income, gift giving, civilization, consciousness, money, human cultural evolutionComment

THE WILDFIRE PROJECT on Transforming Toxic Movement Culture /110

Joshua, BJ, and Michael weave strategy on handling disappointment and harm, stepping into our power, and the politics of collapse and rebirth.

ROOTS OF LABOR BIRTH COLLECTIVE on Decolonizing Birth /102

Explore ancestral legacies around birthing, how we can invest in reproductive rights outside of the current hetero-patriarchal capitalist white supremacist system, the womb space as a place of creation, and birthing support as a human right.

QUEER NATURE on Reclaiming Wild Safe Space /101

Join So and Pinar as they explore how tracking and trailing answer the call of our ancestral bodies and the land, what deep intimacy with the more than human world looks like, how place-based skills are tools of liberation, and how to heal community, we cannot solely be in reciprocal relationships, we must be in accountable ones as well.

DALLAS GOLDTOOTH on Responding to Toxic Masculinity /99

Join Ayana and Dallas Goldtooth in conversation about toxic masculinity, accountability, and dismantling patriarchy as a decolonial approach.

JOHN SEED on Deep Ecological Identity /98

Join us as Ayana and John explore topics of ecological identity, embodied wisdom, moving beyond the individual, the tenets of Deep Ecology, and the Rainforest Information Centre’s recent work in Ecuador with the Los Cedros Biological Reserve.

DUNE LANKARD on the Day the Water Died /86

Dune’s determination to take on lawsuits, with visionary alternatives to the status quo, has made the wildest possibilities of conservation happen in Alaska. He has turned cultural corners from the forced corporatization of native people’s relationship to their water, tree, and fish kin.

Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Radical Imagination, Racial Equity Justice, Transition TransformationFor The WildJuly 26, 2018disaster, conservation, environmental degradation, resource collapse, Exxon Valdez spill, Cordova, Alaska, Indigenous resource management, fossil fuels, environmental economics, A Love Song To Cascadia, Extractivism Comment

FAVIANNA RODRIGUEZ on Art & Migration Know No Borders/85

The effects of our collective greed are coming to a head at this time. What are we going to do in this time? What is the role of art now? Favianna stands in the heat of this fire and guides us to explore the intersection between culture, economy, climate change and pleasure activism.

Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Radical Imagination, Racial Equity Justice, Transition Transformation, Media ArtFor The WildJuly 19, 2018transdisciplinary artist, cultural strategist, art interventions, migratory culture, migration, economic inequality, gender justice, ecology, mass incarceration, immigration crisis, political instabilityComment

ADRIENNE MAREE BROWN on Emergent Strategy⌠ENCORE⌡/68

At the heart of adrienne marie brown’s, Emergent Strategy, is moving towards life and learning from the wisdom of nature to drive our social movements. Emergent Strategy asks of us to think about spirituality and transformative justice central to the resilient future we are imagining together.

Cultural Strategy, Radical Imagination, Transition TransformationFor The WildJune 21, 2018resilient future, conflict, horizontal hostility, social justice movements, Detroit, black liberation, Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity, generative somatics, Slow Study 1Comment

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