- 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
- 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–
JADE BEGAY & JULIAN BRAVE NOISECAT on Restorying Power for a Just Transition /143
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.
SEFRA ALEXANDRA on Seed Remembrance /142
Sefra and Ayana look into the culture of seed saving, the importance of diversity in the global food supply, the grave impacts of seed relief on local agro-economic systems, undermining seed oligarchies, and the ways in which being in relationship with seeds offer us a deeper connection to all dimensions of life
ELSA SEBASTIAN on Loving the Last Stands of the Tongass /141
Fall in love with the Tongass, as Elsa shares stories from the field, communities where boom and bust industry have torn people apart, and her personal journey as a second-generation activist.
BRONTË VELEZ on the Necessity of Beauty, Part 2 /140
brontë and Ayana’s ripe conversation explores topics including appropriating propaganda and memetics, reorienting ourselves away from the spectacle of terror, tending to erotic energy and sensual spaces, and the nuances around beauty and aesthetics in dominant culture.
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.
RAJ PATEL on Cheapness in the Age of Capitalism /137
Raj and Ayana discuss cheapness in relation to the prison industrial complex, the invisibility of domestic labor and care work, the fallacies of fair trade, and the enclosure of the commons.
COREY LESK on Warming Winters and Southern Pine Beetle Migration /136
Ayana and Corey discuss the implications of southern pine beetle expansion, how forest structures will shift, the threat to native biodiversity, the importance of cold winters, and how forestry measures are not the solution.
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.
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.
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.