Welcome to Feral Visions, a decolonial feminist radio hour brought to you by Liberation Spring! Tune in for consciousness-raising, analysis, current affairs, and unlearning from some of the most provocative visionaries in our movements. Please donate at liberationspring.com! Feral Visions is produced by the We Rise cultural production collective. Find our other podcasts on Area941, Birth Bruja and We Rise.
Please tune in to hear a phenomenal dialogue with Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi of San Francisco State University’s Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies (AMED) Program: amed.sfsu.edu. We discuss the state of critical scholarship on Palestine in the US today, Zionist repression of academic knowledge production and justice-centered praxis, Israeli settler colonialism, and so much more! … Continued
What do food sovereignty and decolonizing diets, both incredibly political & intimate ideas, really look like? Come learn from my dialogue with Uncle Dean Wilhelm, the co-founder & Executive Director of Ho‘okua ‘Āina. Nestled in the ahupua’a of Kailua at Kapalai in Maunawili on the island of O’ahu, this non-profit organization uses Hawaiian traditions of … Continued
Do you wonder what on earth it means to decolonize taste buds? And what does taste memory or womb ecology have to do with our collective liberation? Are you curious about Indigenous veganism or ancestral foodways? Come learn more thru this dialogue with my colleague Claudia Serrato. For more info, see: IG: cocina_manakurhini & Wombyn76 … Continued
What’s the history of settlers in the US, especially white ones, playing Indian? Some listeners may be new to conversations about this topic that are grounded in history, context, & an analysis of power. Learn more from my dialogue with Professor Philip Deloria, who you may have seen recently in the documentary “More Than a … Continued
Are you weirded out by the way that some folks talk about Indigenous spiritualities? On today’s episode of Feral Visions, we’re delving into the romantic idea of ‘Indian spirituality.’ Come learn from Dr. David Delgado Shorter about some of the power dynamics thru which it’s been imagined & maintained within the dominant, Eurocentric, settler colonial … Continued
Have you considered grad school, but heard horror stories from radical BIPOC activists about staggering debt, apathetic environments, & micro aggressions, let alone macro aggressions? For folks considering having anything to do with the academic industrial complex, this dialogue may support your doing so in as liberatory & as harm-reductionist of a way as possible. … Continued
How did our ancestors practice relationships and sexuality prior to colonization? Learn from Dr. Kim TallBear about moving beyond settler colonial sexualities! What’s a decolonial approach to the settler institution of monogamy? These are some of the topics we delve into. Here are some of the resources Dr. TallBear mentions: The Critical Polyamorist www.criticalpolyamorist.com Indian Dr. … Continued
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
