Posts in Decolonization
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
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
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. MIMI KHÚC on Claiming Unwellness /304
Dr. MIMI KHÚC on Claiming Unwellness /304

Mimi’s work is grounded in the question: “How do we find new ways to talk about what hurts?” Flipping diagnosis on its head, Mimi guides us to find new ways to name what we feel and to decolonize the language of feeling itself.

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Decolonization, Radical Imagination, The Cost of Capitalism, Theory Scholarship, Spirituality TheologyFor The WildMimi Khúc, Mimi Khúc Georgetown, Mimi Khúc Open in Emergency, Asian American Literary Review, Disability Justice, Mental Health, Hacked DSM, Care, Collective Care, Spoon Theory, mimi, khuc Comment
CLAUDIA SERRATO on Earth-Centric Gastronomy /302
CLAUDIA SERRATO on Earth-Centric Gastronomy /302

Claudia digs deep into food and the memories around it– from ancestral memory, to the way tastes for food are passed down through the womb. Claudia explains what it might mean to eat for the next seven generations, and how such future visions are tied to a greater decolonial project, as decolonizing the body and the landscape also means decolonizing the kitchen.

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Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Food Sovereignty, Indigenous Sovereignty, Plant Intelligence, Sexual Body LiberationFor The WildCaludia Serrato, Claudia Serrato Chef, Claudia Serrato UW, Womb Ecology, Food Sovereignty, Indigenous Womb Ecology, Indigenous Ecofeminism, Ecofeminism, Ecosensuality, Ecosexulaity, decolonization, ancestral memory, food work, claudia, serrato, gastronomyComment
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
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
ROWEN M WHITE on Seed Rematriation and Fertile Resistance [ENCORE] /291
ROWEN M WHITE on Seed Rematriation and Fertile Resistance [ENCORE] /291

An ode to this “talisman of adaptation and creativity,” our interview with Rowen circles Native seeds, the myth of individual self sufficiency, the cultural dimensions of biodiversity, biocolonialism and safeguarding agricultural heritage against patenting, seed work as slow work, and reweaving cultures of belonging.

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Decolonization, Plant Intelligence, Food SovereigntyFor The WildSeed sovereignty, seeds, seed keeping, seed stewardship, food security, food sovereignty, heirloom seeds, agricultural industry, Native seeds, plant medicine, cultural revitalization, GMO, genetically engineered, privatization of seeds, reciprocity, climate resilience, seed revitalization, Sierra Seeds, Indigenous Seed Keeper Network, rematriation, biocolonialism, biopiracy, patenting, seed bankComment
TIOKASIN GHOSTHORSE on the Power of Humility [ENCORE] /290
TIOKASIN GHOSTHORSE on the Power of Humility [ENCORE] /290

Tiokasin shares about the savior mentality that can arise when we act to address the many issues that threaten Earth and kin at this moment. Rather than being guided by solutions and salvation, we acknowledge where we are at in this consciousness and how we can challenge ourselves to give back to the Earth without intrusion.

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Decolonization, Cultural Strategy, Wisdom Keepers, Transition Transformation, Spirituality Theology, Deep Ecology, Indigenous SovereigntyFor The WildTiokasin Ghosthorse quotes, Tiokasin Ghosthorse wiki, Tiokasin Ghosthorse radio, Tiokasin Ghosthorse youtube, earth language definition, earth language meaning, earth language settings, traditional ecological knowledge (tek), traditional ecological knowledge vs western science, traditional ecological knowledge and climate change, traditional ecological knowledge and western science, decolonize language, Indigenous Languages As Cures of the Earth Comment
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