ISMAIL LOURIDO ALI, J.D. on Post-Prohibition Realities /309
ISMAIL LOURIDO ALI, J.D. on Post-Prohibition Realities /309

Ismail guides listeners through an overview of where we are in our relationship with drugs in the American context, and how this relationship is indicative of our relationship with the Earth and with humanity broadly encouraging us to move beyond the black and white view that some drugs are medicine while others are criminal.

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Activism Allyship, Radical Imagination, Political Ideology, Racial Equity Justice, The Cost of Capitalism, Transition TransformationFor The WildIsmail Lourido Ali, J.D., Ismail Ali, MAPS, Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies, Psychedelics, Cannabis, Drug Research, Traditional Medicine, Psilocybin, Peyote, Ayahuasca, Mass Incarceration, Drug reform, pharmaceuticals, ismail, Ismail, Ali, aliComment
SLOW STUDY: Bayo Akomolafe's We Will Dance With Mountains: Into the Cracks!
SLOW STUDY: Bayo Akomolafe's We Will Dance With Mountains: Into the Cracks!

This Slow Study Course is a series of lectures and practice prompts from Bayo’s 2021 edition of We Will Dance With Mountains: Into the Cracks! wherein 1000+ people gathered. It is a carnivalesque course in postactivism, a matter of fissures, fault lines, cracks, openings, seismic shifts, endings, and fugitive marronage.

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LARK ELODEA on Appalachians Against Pipelines /308
LARK ELODEA on Appalachians Against Pipelines /308

Lark shares about the relentless and direct activism Appalachians Against Pipelines has been doing to stop the pipeline, build community resistance, and advocate for the needs of their communities in the face of developers, oil and gas advocates, and a continued disregard for Appalachian voices.

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TUSHA YAKOVLEVA on the Invitation of Invasive Plants /307
TUSHA YAKOVLEVA on the Invitation of Invasive Plants /307

We are challenged to think about our capacity, or willingness, to know invasive plants - Tusha queries listeners, “Do we know their reasons for making home in unfamiliar soils? Or what gifts and responsibilities they carry?” We are left with much to think about in the realm of curiosity and acceptance.

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Climate Change, Climate Solutions, Deep Ecology, Food Sovereignty, Grassroots Herbalism, More Than Human Kin, Multispecies Justice, Plant IntelligenceFor The WildWeeds, invasive plants, ethnobotany, wild food, food sovereignty, Edible Weeds on Farms, wild edible plants, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Japanese knotweed, Phragmites, botany, Tusha, Yakovleva, tusha Comments
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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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
Dr. BRETT STORY on How We Belong to Each Other /303
Dr. BRETT STORY on How We Belong to Each Other /303

Brett shares how mass-incarceration and climate change are not crises of the individual, but of our culture. The abolitionist imagination may be the key to a collective future– as Brett reminds listeners that one can be both practical and utopian.

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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
ANG ROELL on the Relations of the Beehive /301
ANG ROELL on the Relations of the Beehive /301

Ang reveals the complex relations within the hive and the multitude of lessons if we listen rather than impose. Rooting into the rich history of beekeeping and the folk traditions of their ancestors, Ang reminds us of the deeply interconnected world humans and bees share and the reciprocity inherent in right relationship.

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More Than Human Kin, Multispecies Justice, Food Sovereignty, Conservation Restoration, Climate Solutions, Climate ChangeFor The WildAng Roell, Apiary And Beekeeping, Ang Roell Radicalize the Hive, Ang Roell Consultant, They Keep Bees, Beekeeper, Mainspring Change Consultants, Ang Roell book, Radicalize the hive manifesto, Ang Roell art, Ang Roell education, Equity consultants, honey bees, the hive, ang, roell, apiaryComment
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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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
ALEXIS SHOTWELL on Resisting Purity Culture /298
ALEXIS SHOTWELL on Resisting Purity Culture /298

Alexis elucidates that it is only through the messy process of owning up to these broken relations throughout time and seeing how we might participate in and take on culturally appropriate relations of repair, responsibility, friendship, and comradeship in the struggles for liberation that we can survive these times.

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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
Dr. MAX LIBOIRON on Reorienting Within a World of Plastic [ENCORE] /294
Dr. MAX LIBOIRON on Reorienting Within a World of Plastic [ENCORE] /294

Ayana and Dr. Max Liboiron explore the notion of plastic as kin, oil and petrochemical subsidies, the body burden of plasticizers, the historical construction of disposability, the appropriation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in academia, the feasibility of recycling, and more.

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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
RICHIE RESEDA on Dismantling Patriarchy [ENCORE] /292
RICHIE RESEDA on Dismantling Patriarchy [ENCORE] /292

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.

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Indigenous Sovereignty, The Cost of Capitalism, Cultural Strategy, Colonial Violence, Racial Equity JusticeFor The Wildprison industrial complex, school-to-prison pipeline, police brutality, Success Stories, Charles Berry, Richie "Reseda" Edmond-Vargas, Richie Reseda, dismantling patriarchy, Initiate Justice, incarceration, mass incarceration, criminal justice policy, California, felony disenfranchisement, The Feminist on Cell Block Y, bell hooks, prison politic, for-profit prisons, Valley Fever outbreaks, Allyship Guide 1Comment
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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