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.

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.

Ayana and Chris discuss wealth inequality, deindustrialization and the rise of the gig economy, the birth of fascism and Christian fundamentalism, and the fusion of corporate and government power under the reigning umbrella of the security state.

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.

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.

Dr. Bevacqua discusses Guåhan’s incredibly layered history, as well as the CHamoru history that predates any colonial narrative by thousands of years. With an understanding of how Guåhan (Guam) ended up as a “territory” of the United States, Michael shares the current efforts to decolonize Guåhan and instill strong self-governance

Williams guides us to explore acts of the imagination as we shift into consciousness and expand our sense of family to both human and wild. As so many of us grapple with the omnipresent question of “what do we do?”, Terry provides us with salve through stories of the beauty and power of our gifts, and the living histories of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau.

We speak with artist, immigration lawyer, and activist Carolina Rubio MacWright on the ongoing travesty of family separations, the inherent trauma of U.S. detention centers, and how we can begin revamping our laws, values, policies, and systems when it comes to migration.

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.

Harsha shares why it is imperative to rid the concept of legal/illegal personhood in movements for the climate and environment. Harsha leads us in the deeply regenerative work of political imagination as we think about what our communities and livelihoods look like without imposed borders.

In conversation with Astra, we explore the messy and difficult endeavor that is democracy, why voter suppression has become so rampant, the anti-democratic nature of debt, and how we can create more democratic spaces in our everyday lives.

Explore the pervasiveness of debt, our temporal and spatial understandings of prisons, and the technological dimensions of surveillance and incarceration. We ask how we can resist the accession of predictive policing and what can digital carceral infrastructure reveal about the state’s growing surveillance apparatus?

Ayana, Julian, and Jade unpack the Green New Deal policy proposal, explore the creative potential of media and narrative production, and replant the seed of tending community power.

Ayana and Chris discuss wealth inequality, deindustrialization and the rise of the gig economy, the birth of fascism and Christian fundamentalism, and the fusion of corporate and government power under the reigning umbrella of the security state.