Brought to you by Foundation for Liberating Minds, DreamRadically Podcast highlights community leaders, organizers, educators, artists, students, and more to imagine a future of liberation and uncover what is necessary in the present to create that future
The final episode of season 2 of DreamRadically podcast brings Dr. Adam Feltz joining Dana Mahmoud to discuss the future of water access across the globe. Enjoying the podcast? Continue dreaming with us on Patreon today: www.patreon.com/foundation4lm Learn more about FLM's work on our website www.foundationforliberatingminds.org and on all social media platforms @foundation4lm A special thank you to Jacque Braun for producing this podcast!
What is crime? Who is criminal? In this episode FLM Co-Founder aurelius francisco unpacks these questions around criminalization. aurelius argues for those interested in justice to think beyond the limiting and oppressive category of crime to reimagine how we relate to one another and address harm and violence in our community, without state violence. This episode is an abolitionist intervention on mainstream narratives pertaining to crime and the larger criminal punishment system. Enjoying the podcast? Continue dreaming with us on Patreon today: www.patreon.com/foundation4lm Learn more about FLM's work on our website www.foundationforliberatingminds.org and on all social media platforms @foundation4lm A special thank you to Jacque Braun for producing this podcast!
In this pandemic world, public health inequities have only grown in their disparity and urgency to be addressed. In Episode 18 hosted by Christine Thomas, Columbia public health student Mareyba Fawad shares more about minority health experiences and her dream for change. Enjoying the podcast? Continue dreaming with us on Patreon today: www.patreon.com/foundation4lm Learn more about FLM's work on our website www.foundationforliberatingminds.org and on all social media platforms @foundation4lm A special thank you to Jacque Braun for producing this podcast!
Dr. Megan Sibbett, professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Oklahoma joins the podcast this week to discuss the revolutionary project of queer theory. Dr. Sibbett and aurelius discuss the theory's critiques of heteronormativity, patriarchy, and whiteness and delve into the ways that queering the status quo works to radically transform our society. Enjoying the podcast? Continue dreaming with us on Patreon today: www.patreon.com/foundation4lm Learn more about FLM's work on our website www.foundationforliberatingminds.org and on all social media platforms @foundation4lm A special thank you to Jacque Braun for producing this podcast!
Episode 16 brings Nayifa Nihad to the podcast to discuss the experiences of BIPOC in higher education spaces. Enjoying the podcast? Continue dreaming with us on Patreon today: www.patreon.com/foundation4lm Learn more about FLM's work on our website www.foundationforliberatingminds.org and on all social media platforms @foundation4lm A special thank you to Jacque Braun for producing this podcast!
Kelli and Dhara discuss the ways that higher ed is not extended to the general public, and often results in alienation from one's community. Sometimes what we learn in higher ed doesn't help the community, and sometimes the community doesn't want or need our help. However, the need for higher ed remains. Enjoying the podcast? Continue dreaming with us on Patreon today: www.patreon.com/foundation4lm Learn more about FLM's work on our website www.foundationforliberatingminds.org and on all social media platforms @foundation4lm A special thank you to Jacque Braun for producing this podcast!
Today's Food for Thought: How is food sovereignty intrinsically tied to our personal and public health? On episode 14 of the podcast hosted by Christine Thomas, GW/NYU public health student Mileena Zafra shares about the need for food justice and her dream for change. Enjoying the podcast? Continue dreaming with us on Patreon today: www.patreon.com/foundation4lm Learn more about FLM's work on our website www.foundationforliberatingminds.org and on all social media platforms @foundation4lm A special thank you to Jacque Braun for producing this podcast!
Your friend's favorite sexual health educator Sara Raines joins the podcast to discuss a plethora of topics that are fundamental to creating a healthy community despite our society rendering them to the margins of obscenity. Sara drops knowledge on the ongoing HIV epidemic, drug use, harm reduction, and comprehensive sex education and shares how changing our outlook on these things helps us build a world where all people can thrive. Enjoying the podcast? Continue dreaming with us on Patreon today: www.patreon.com/foundation4lm Learn more about FLM's work on our website www.foundationforliberatingminds.org and on all social media platforms @foundation4lm A special thank you to Jacque Braun for producing this podcast!
The second part of our spotlight on Decolonizing Education brings Dr. Shotton to the podcast! In this episode, Kelli talks with Dr. Heather Shotton about who has access to educational spaces and whose epistemologies are represented and respected in education. They talk about disrupting educational spaces through Indigenous approaches, values, and lenses. Enjoying the podcast? Continue dreaming with us on Patreon today: www.patreon.com/foundation4lm Learn more about FLM's work on our website www.foundationforliberatingminds.org and on all social media platforms @foundation4lm A special thank you to Jacque Braun for producing this podcast!
The first of a two-part series on Decolonizing Ed, episode 11 centers on students' perspectives. In this episode, Kelli, Alham, and CJ talk about their experiences as students in different educational spaces. They explore the differences between charter schools, private schools, public schools, and universities, how their classes were taught, and what they learned from these experiences. Enjoying the podcast? Continue dreaming with us on Patreon today: www.patreon.com/foundation4lm Learn more about FLM's work on our website www.foundationforliberatingminds.org and on all social media platforms @foundation4lm A special thank you to Jacque Braun for producing this podcast!
As women continue to pursue their dreams and feminism is rising during the Third Wave, people continue to berate women for moving further away from patriarchal standards that just aren't working for us. Sheeren Kotb, an instructor at University Canada West and Columbia University in Vancouver and volunteer with West Coast Leaf, joins host Dana Mahmoud to read tweets about women defying the patriarchy. Inspired by celebrities read mean tweets, we will read posts targeted at the “modern woman” and have a laugh while discussing the contents of these posts. Enjoying the podcast? Continue dreaming with us on Patreon today: www.patreon.com/foundation4lm Learn more about FLM's work on our website www.foundationforliberatingminds.org and on all social media platforms @foundation4lm A special thank you to Jacque Braun for producing this podcast!
Oklahoma City rapper, community activist, and leader Jabee joins the podcast on episode 8 in conversation with aurelius to discuss hip-hop as a form of protest. They unpack the art form, its history, and how hip-hop inherently resists the status quo. Enjoying the podcast? Continue dreaming with us on Patreon today: www.patreon.com/foundation4lm Learn more about FLM's work on our website www.foundationforliberatingminds.org and on all social media platforms @foundation4lm A special thank you to Jacque Braun for producing this podcast!
Episode 8 of DreamRadically Podcast is hosted by FLM Director of Global Vision, Youssef Kamel who is joined in discussion with Lupita Gonzalez to discuss the complexity of queer identity and religion. Enjoying the podcast? Continue dreaming with us on Patreon today: www.patreon.com/foundation4lm Learn more about FLM's work on our website www.foundationforliberatingminds.org and on all social media platforms @foundation4lm A special thank you to Jacque Braun for producing this podcast!
Episode 7 is hosted by FLM Creative Director Christine Thomas who is joined in conversation with elementary school teacher Natalie Baugh to discuss childhood trauma, ACE scores, and their impact on society. Enjoying the podcast? Continue dreaming with us on Patreon today: www.patreon.com/foundation4lm Learn more about FLM's work on our website www.foundationforliberatingminds.org and on all social media platforms @foundation4lm A special thank you to Jacque Braun for producing this podcast!
Episode 6 is hosted by Dana Mahmoud, FLM's Director of Mentorship and Global Vision Specialist, who is joined by Marwan Abdelhamid to discuss the Palestinian diaspora. If you enjoyed this episode continue dreaming with us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/foundation4lm Learn more about FLM's work on our website www.foundationforliberatingminds.org and on all social media platforms @foundation4lm A special thank you to Jacque Braun for producing this podcast!
Episode 5 is hosted by FLM's Director of Global Vision, Youssef Kamel who is joined by Eduardo Campbell to discuss post-colonialism. Continue dreaming with us: www.patreon.com/foundation4lm Learn more about FLM's work on our website www.foundationforliberatingminds.org and on all social media platforms @foundation4lm A special thank you to Jacque Braun for producing this podcast!
Episode 4 features a conversation between Kelli Alvarez and Joumana Asfour, focusing on trauma, broadly speaking. They talk about trauma post 9/11, during political conflict, and in the classroom. Continue dreaming with us: www.patreon.com/foundation4lm Learn more about FLM's work on our website www.foundationforliberatingminds.org and on all social media platforms @foundation4lm A special thank you to Jacque Braun for producing this podcast!
Episode 3 brings Reddit employee Lauren Kabelitz to the podcast to join host Christine Thomas, FLM's Creative Director, to discuss all things social media. You know it, you(probably) love it, and you maybe spend too much time on it, so let's talk more about social media from the perspective of the user and the company - its uses for potential good and the traps many fall into. If you enjoy this podcast continue connecting with us through Patreon: www.patreon.com/foundation4lm Learn more about FLM's work on our website www.foundationforliberatingminds.org and on all social media platforms @foundation4lm A special thank you to Jacque Braun for producing this podcast!
Episode 2 brings AC Facci to the podcast to join aurelius in discussing carceral feminism, gender-based violence, and prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition. AC discusses their journey to abolition and shares valuable lessons in the difficult work of moving from carceral feminism to abolition feminism, and in radically shifting the ways our communities address violence and harm, without the PIC. Letter to the Anti-Rape Movement: https://issuu.com/projectnia/docs/letter-to-the-antirape-movement Continue dreaming with us: www.patreon.com/foundation4lm Learn more about FLM's work on our website www.foundationforliberatingminds.org and on all social media platforms @foundation4lm A special thank you to Jacque Braun for producing this podcast!
We open Season 2 of the podcast by centering a core tenet of Foundation for Liberating Minds: amplifying young people's voices. Young people from Black Lives Matter OKC Youth League & The Root of Our Youth(based in Washington) share their radical dreams for the future. Continue dreaming with us: www.patreon.com/foundation4lm Learn more about FLM's work on our website www.foundationforliberatingminds.org and on all social media platforms @foundation4lm A special thank you to Jacque Braun for producing this podcast!
In this episode Season 1 host aurelius francisco is joined by Season 2 co-hosts Dana Mahmoud, Kelli Pyron, Christine Thomas, & Youssef Kamel; all members of the Foundation for Liberating Minds. Each co-host shares a bit about themselves and what brought them to the podcast. Continue dreaming with us: www.patreon.com/foundation4lm Learn more about FLM's work on our website www.foundationforliberatingminds.org and on all social media platforms @foundation4lm A special thank you to Jacque Braun for producing this podcast!
Welcome back to DreamRadically Podcast! In this episode host aurelius francisco introduces season 2 of the podcast and encourages listeners of the pod to support this work on FLM's Patreon: www.patreon.com/foundation4lm Learn more about FLM's work on our website www.foundationforliberatingminds.org and on all social media platforms @foundation4lm A special thank you to Jacque Braun for producing this podcast!
On the tenth and final episode of season one Miles is joined by Sheri Dickerson to discuss organizing through love of community. They discuss working towards and understanding the importance of healing, and showing up for the whole of a people. ------------------- Learn more about the work of FLM at our website foundationforliberatingminds.org and on all social media pages @foundation4lm ------------------- Special thanks to Jacque Braun of The Third Space Norman for producing this podcast.
On the ninth episode of DreamRadically Podcast Miles is joined by community organizer Cynthia Garcia to delve into immigrant justice. They discuss moving from the rhetoric of the dreamer to a vision of abolition of institutions of detention and policing. ----------------- Learn more about the work of FLM at our website: foundationforliberatingminds.org and on all social media platforms @foundation4lm ----------------- Thanks to Jacque Braun of The Third Space Norman for production of this podcast.
On the eighth episode of DreamRadically Podcast Erin Simpson joins Miles to discuss whiteness. They talk about white people unpacking their connection and complicity to and in white supremacy and institutional racism and moving to understand allyship as a continual process rather than a destination. ------- Learn more about the work of FLM at our website: foundationforliberatingminds.org and on all social media platforms @foundation4lm ------- Thanks to Jacque Braun of The Third Space Norman for production of this podcast.
On the seventh episode of DreamRadically Podcast Miles is joined by Dr. Rev. Eric Gill and Tevin McDaniel to talk about Black men's role in movements towards liberation. They talk about Black men moving to uplift and make space for Black women, queer and transgender people on our path towards freedom. ------- Learn more about the work of FLM at our website: foundationforliberatingminds.org and on all social media platforms @foundation4lm ------- Thanks to Jacque Braun of The Third Space Norman for production of this podcast.
On the sixth episode of DreamRadically Podcast, Miles is joined by Malika Cox. They dive into restorative justice as an entirely different theory of change in response to harm and violence in our communities than what is currently seen within our criminal punishment system. ------ Learn more about FLM at our website: foundationforliberatingminds.org and follow us @foundation4lm on all social media platforms. ------ Thanks to Jacque Braun of The Third Space for production.
On the fifth episode of DreamRadically Podcast host Miles Francisco is joined by Dr. Sabina Vaught. The two discuss prison industrial complex abolition in the current moment, the carceral state, and how the logic of incarceration seeps into many institutions within our society.
On part two of episode four of DreamRadically Podcast Miles continues his conversation with Rodney and Miles K. They discuss sexual violence, rape culture, consent and accountability. They also get into hip hop and complicating the legacy of Kobe Bryant.
On the fourth episode of DreamRadically Podcast Miles is joined by Miles Kelly and Dr. Rodney Bates to discuss normative masculinity, sexism and misogyny and the work of disrupting patriarchy and toxic masculinity to bring about an authentic masculinity in all.
On the third episode of DreamRadically Podcast Miles is joined by Tasneem Al-Michael to discuss politics, electoral organizing in a red state, and holding a progressive political ideology in today's societal climate.
On the second episode of DreamRadically Podcast Miles is joined by Rev. Lori Walke and FLM's Director of Global Vision Youssef Kamel who dive into the role of religion in politics and the use of this institution for justice and equity.
On the first episode of DreamRadically Podcast Foundation for Liberating Minds co-founders Alham Carter and Tevin McDaniel join host Miles Francisco for a discussion about the genesis of FLM and their vision of a more just world. Music from https://filmmusic.io "Notanico Merengue" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)