Learn from Dr. Margo Okazawa-Rey about feminist resistance to the U.S. military industrial complex, why we have to see the connections between domestic policy & foreign policy, & the Combahee River Collective’s approach to intersectionality. *Apologies that the audio gets choppy from minute 13-19. The content during those minutes is great, though, so please try … Continued
“How do you move beyond sharing about your trauma to healing it?” asks our guest Aishah. What say you? #LoveWITHAccountability – LoveWITHAccountability.com NO! The Rape Documentary – NOtheRapeDocumentary.org Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective – batjc.wordpress.com The Living Bridges Project – LivingBridgesProject.com The Heal Project – www.igrivera.com/the-heal-project.html Children of Combahee – childrenofcombahee.org/ Black Latinidad: Love in Sisterbrotherhood – www.vidaafrolatina.org/child-sexual-abuse Mirror Memoirs – mirrormemoirs.com Impact Justice … Continued
Learn from Dr. Sarah Hunt about resurgent cultures of consent, consensual allyship, decolonizing the roots of rape culture, & bodily sovereignty & sex sovereignty! Brought to you by liberationspring.com. Some of the resources she shared in our dialogue: o Violence on the Land, Violence on our Bodies: Building an Indigenous Response to Environmental Violence report … Continued
In this episode, we speak with Heaven Celeste Thunder, a mother and medicine maker about her journey into ancestral medicine and motherhood. Heaven’s current education in traditional Chinese medicine and traditional Mexican medicine began alongside her involvement with Aztec dance and ceremony. She entered a formal Master’s program in Traditional Chinese Medicine and an informal … Continued
In this episode, we speak with birthworker Jenny Silva to explore more specifically what it looks like to weave ancestral medicine into our lives and birth work. How can ancestral medicine support our wellness as birthworkers? Why is it important to decolonize birth and stay connected to ancestral traditions? What could our birth offerings look … Continued
Sheryl Kaller, director, and Pamela Gray, playwright of “A Walk on the Moon,” a world premiere musical at A.C.T. Geary Theatre, June 9-July 1, 2018, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. “A Walk in the Moon” is based on the 1999 film with a screenplay by Pamela Gray. Sheryl Kaller is a Tony-nominated director whose most recent Broadway play was “Mothers & Sons” by Terence McNally in 2014. And among Pamela Gray’s other screenplays are “Music of the Heart” and more recently, “Megan Leavey.”
KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Howard Crabtree’s When Pigs Fly,” at New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco through June 10, 2018
In this episode, we dive into the subject of ancestral medicine with healer, community worker, and Curandera, Batul True Heart. Batul has dedicated her life to keeping the traditional healing practices of her ancestors alive in order to heal herself, her community, and the earth from the devastating effects of colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy. Walking … Continued
Host Eri Guajardo Johnson jumps into the meaning and vision behind The Birth Bruja Podcast. We talk about birth as a powerful place for healing and transformation, the need for intersectional and liberational approaches to birth work, the reason behind using the term “Bruja”, and more. Scholar May Elawar joins us to talk about reclamation … Continued
Tayari Jones, whose latest novel is “An American Marriage,” is interviewed by host Richard Wolinsky. “An American Marriage” deals with a marriage torn apart by the unjust arrest and imprisonment of the husband after an accusation by a white woman at a motel, and how both spouses deal with the following few years. “An American Marriage” is a 2018 Oprah’s Book Club Selection.
