TRICIA HERSEY on Deprogramming from Grind Culture /318

Tricia Hersey joins Ayana to unwind the complicated ties of exhaustion and exploitation. Tricia’s words serve as incantations against the brainwashing of grind culture as she and Ayana investigate the systems that benefit from keeping us stagnant. 

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END OF YEAR UPDATE (2022)

Beginning in January all episodes released to the public via our website, digital streaming services, and radio syndicates will be standard episodes under an hour. Episode that exceeds an hour in length will be available on Patreon…

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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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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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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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MAYA KHOSLA on What the Forest Holds /313

Maya introduces listeners to the science behind forest fires and urges us to see fire as not simply “destructive,” but rather as one of the many cycles of earth. From practices of cultural burning to current studies on post fire diversity, the creative and regenerative power of the forest cannot be overlooked.

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SOPHIE STRAND on Myths as Maps /312

Sophie invites us to embrace rot and decay, to welcome our demons to the dinner table, and to prepare for uncertain futures with tenderness. Sophie provides a route to overcome the death-trap that is self-righteousness, instead prioritizing humble complexity and surrender to relationality.

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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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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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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

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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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 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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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 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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