- A State of Change
- Activism Allyship
- Ancient Ice
- Climate Change
- Climate Solutions
- Colonial Violence
- Conservation Restoration
- Cultural Strategy
- Decolonization
- Deep Ecology
- Deeply Rooted
- Design+Strategy
- Direct Action
- Earthly Reads 1
- Fat of The Land
- Food Sovereignty
- For The Forests
- Global South
- Globalization
- Grassroots Herbalism
- Homage
- Homebound
- Illuminating Worldviews
- In The Field
- In the Company of Humpbacks
- Indigenous Sovereignty
- Media Art
- More Than Human Kin
- Multispecies Justice
- Plant Intelligence
- Plants Are Political
- Political Ideology
- Racial Equity Justice
- Radical Imagination
- Sacrifice Zones
- Sexual Body Liberation
- Shore Ocean Communities
- Spirituality Theology
- The Cost of Capitalism
- Theory Scholarship
- Transition Transformation
- Wisdom Keepers
In Chronological Order–
TARA HOUSKA & RUTH BREECH on Divesting from Toxic Capitalism /133
Join us as Tara, Ruth, and Ayana navigate the worlds of man camps and resistance movements, track money trails, meet face to face with European banking leaders, and enter the boardrooms of America’s wealthiest shareholder meetings.
RACHEL HEATON & ROXANNE WHITE on Funding, Fossil Fuels and Femicide /132
This week’s episode seeks to shed light on the ongoing, urgent crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls or MMIWG that remains largely invisible in public life and mainstream media.
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.
PUA CASE on the Heart of a Mountain ⌠ENCORE⌡ /130
This week we rebroadcast Pua Case’s interview in honor of the heart of a mountain and the rising of a Nation.
CINTA KAIPAT on the Militarization of Pågan and Defending Island Sovereignty /129
In the Northern Marianas, communities are resisting a future in which aerial bombardments become the norm, where amphibious-assault trainings sever communities from key fishing grounds and decimate aquatic ecosystems, and shelling, artillery, and mortars destroy sacred land.
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.
KURT RUSSO on the People Under the Sea ⌠ENCORE⌡ /127
This episode is a call to the human heart. The impassioned Kurt Russo, speaking on behalf of the qwe 'lhol mechen, is one that will imprint itself on your memory as a cold hard look into the mirror of humanity.
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 …
EXTINCTION REBELLION on Mobilizing Mass Dissent /125
Extinction Rebellion has become the biggest civil disobedience campaign in modern British history, taking over the peace movements of the 1980s. In this podcast, Ayana speaks with three core members of the mass movement, Extinction Rebellion, a response to governmental inaction towards our climate and ecological crisis.
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.
ROB GREENFIELD on Confronting Convenience /123
Take a moment to drop in this week and meditate on your own practices as you listen to Rob and Ayana’s insightful reflections on growing food and foraging, reimagining wealth and de-monetizing your life, how to hold and move through hypocrisy, and the importance of addressing intersectionality and structural oppression in this work.
CHRIS HEDGES on Deflating the Ruling Elite through Civil Disobedience /122
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.
MICHAEL MARTINEZ on Transforming Waste Relations /121
Michael and Ayana discuss our widespread culture of disposability, the ecological services and benefits of healthy soil, the beauty of decay and decomposition, the necessity of circular economies, the importance of individual responsibility and community action, and the lessons that compost teaches us about humanity, value, and reverence for what we cannot see.
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.
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.
Dr. VANDANA SHIVA on the Emancipation of Seed, Water and Women ⌠ENCORE⌡ /118
Dr. Shiva explores how systems of domination have been artificially constructed, the pervasiveness of GMOs in our food, the roots of violent agriculture, the importance of seed saving, cultures of violence, economies of care, and the role of women in changing paradigms.
JAMES BALOG on The Human Element /117
James candidly speaks of the simultaneous beauty and horror of documenting the Anthropocene, on the complicity of industries like the arts and entertainment in contributing to fossil fuel emissions, and the importance of language and imagery in mobilizing climate momentum.
KERRY KNUDSEN on Lichen and Life after Capitalism /116
Ayana’s conversation with Kerry spans the dreamiest of worlds, from the surreal and psychedelic presence of lichens to the magic of creating life post-capitalism.
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.
Dr. DAVID WAGNER on the Ever Indispensable Insect /114
Ayana and Dr. Wagner discuss insects as biological controls, insect decline in relation to political and economic destabilization, how cultural understandings of insects influence the field of entomology, and the main drivers behind insect decline.