Feral Visions

Tune in to our sequel episode "Grieving, Zombies, & Power" with Dr. Lewis Gordon. Dr. Gordon is Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at UCONN-Storrs; & Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies. He previously taught at Brown University, where he founded the Department of Africana Studies, and Temple University, where was the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy and founder of the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies and the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought.

Dr. Lewis Gordon & I talk about Imhotep, suppressed Kemetic intellectual histories, the healthiness of suffering under oppression, white supremacist narcissism in nutrition & education, & so much more. Dr. Gordon is Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at UCONN-Storrs; & Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies. He previously taught at Brown University, where he founded the Department of Africana Studies, and Temple University, where was the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy and founder of the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies and the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought. For more support in unlearning, remembering & imagining (including online classes), check out liberationspring.com. facebook: www.facebook.com/LiberationSpring twitter: twitter.com/libspring youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCKskexpXNUKU1O16qWxL0Sw instagram: www.instagram.com/liberationspring

Let’s talk about Q Anon, the Democrats, & dis-info to watch out for. I’m a political scientist, philosopher, & professor 4 those who don’t know me. Buckle up cuz I’ve got some potentially uncomfortable gems! PS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so we can spread discernment in these deadly times. Your support is legit the only way I can keep up this insurgent education! If you found anything I shared useful, consider coming thru plz : ) PPS- please share widely to help our loved ones make meaning of this moment in a grounded way. I haven’t heard anyone assess the situation in the way that I do here. And since we’re swirling in sloppy hot takes & propaganda, I want you to be exposed to substance and rigor. Patreon: www.patreon.com/liberationspring Paypal: www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_dona…2egif%3aNonHosted More at: liberationspring.com

Nonconformity can be life-giving AF. In a time when omnicide is normal, our very instinct to survive is nonconformist. Having ethics becomes renegade. Caring about your neighbor is countercultural. These are the times we find ourselves in. Let’s talk about it! So sorry that I got cut off at the end, by the way! So offensive

What do zombification, trauma responses, professionalization, & representative politics have in common? They can all breed the kinda apathy that’s currently plaguing millions of our loved ones. Let’s talk about it. Feel free to share if you know anyone who could benefit from this discourse! Feel free to share any questions, ideas, or feedback you have about the discourses afterwards, too. I encourage you to be in touch! PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. PPS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so I can get this book published asap to support our discernment in these deadly times. Thanks. Patreon: www.patreon.com/liberationspring Paypal: www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_dona…2egif%3aNonHosted More at: liberationspring.com

Is your understanding of consent individualistic? Is it species-ist? If you value consent, let’s talk about robust, stronger understandings of this practice than the way it’s typically talked about within the colonial status quo. Plz share if you know anyone who could benefit from this discourse! And I would love your feedback! Let me know what you found evocative in the comments… PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. PPS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so I can get this book published asap to support our discernment in these deadly times. Thanks. Or throw down this week for Tiny House Warriors! Patreon: www.patreon.com/liberationspring Paypal: www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_dona…2egif%3aNonHosted More at: liberationspring.com

My Dad worked w/ the Taliban in the 90s when we lived in Sugarland then New Delhi. Let’s talk about how militarism turns our loved ones into native informants, obedient soldiers, cannon fodder … & liberation loving activists. If you hear people use the word ‘decolonization’ who aren’t actively de-militarizing & de-nuclearizing, come thru for a smart space to learn what’s up. From Fiji to Kaho‘olawe to a neighborhood near you… Feel free to share if you know anyone who could benefit from this discourse! PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. PPS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so I can get this book published asap to support our discernment in these deadly times. Thanks. Patreon: www.patreon.com/liberationspring Paypal: www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_dona…2egif%3aNonHosted More at: liberationspring.com

Direct action may be the seed of all seeds for us to plant. Let’s learn from Fred Hampton, Elaine Brown, Paulo Freire, Moraga, Marx, & more. Feel free to share if you know anyone who could benefit from this discourse! PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. PPS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so I can get this book published asap to support our discernment in these deadly times. Thanks fam. Patreon: www.patreon.com/liberationspring Paypal: www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_dona…2egif%3aNonHosted More at: liberationspring.com

Have you ever sensed that ‘Science’ fronts as objective at the expense of the very humility that legit knowing is contingent upon? Coming from your *most logical and wise self, not some anti-intellectual cop-out. If you’ve been sleeping on all the decolonial feminist scholarship on the philosophy of science that’s proliferated in the past quarter century, let’s get you caught up on some gems. If you’ve ever seen someone weaponize the language of logic, reason, objectivity, or science in a way that you sensed was sketchy but didn’t quite have the language to name, let’s go there. PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. PPS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so I can get this book published asap to support our discernment in these deadly times. plz

We’re surrounded by trite clichés about following our hearts. And spaces where people allege to be into emotional intelligence that are then utterly intolerant of oppressed peoples expressing feelings. Feelings, by the way, that Eurocentrism judges as ‘negative’ in a fake binary that lots of people still adhere to. Or the same wannabe influencers who speak softly about the wisdom of our feelings then turn around and treat ethical indignation as a state to ‘process’ and ‘move past’ as quickly as possible. While unironically privileging a performance of social media-ready happiness as a superior emotional state. Contradictions much? What anti-intellectualism! Now, respecting physiological cues can be literally life-saving. Yet, feelings can also be Islamophobic. And classist. And transphobic. And otherwise oppressive. You see, our interpretations of our feelings are mediated by our minds. So when are our feelings trustworthy? When aren’t they trustworthy? How can we relate to our feelings in a way that doesn’t just smuggle our uninterrogated biases into some mystified realm that’s allegedly beyond reproach? Let’s talk about it. PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. PPS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so I can get this book published asap to support our discernment in these deadly times

What if the least reliable people about spirituality are those who call themselves ‘spiritual?’ Let’s talk about the new (c)age psy-op and how to unlearn it. PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. PPS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so I can get this book published asap to support our discernment in these deadly times. Thanks fam. Patreon: www.patreon.com/liberationspring Paypal: www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_dona…2egif%3aNonHosted More at: liberationspring.com

One of the greatest gifts that you could give your imagination is learning about the abolitionist movement (and getting involved). While oppressive injustice would have us in-fighting over toxic crumbs, abolitionism invites us to have standards, respect, and dignity. Previously impossible within this nightmarish empire. Let’s talk about it. PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. PPS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so I can get this book published asap to support our discernment in these deadly times. Or you could make any offerings this week out to Critical Resistance plz

How does our knowing get impacted by subjectivity, values, & identity? Find out thru this talk on feminist & indigenous epistemologies & so much more. Plz lemme know in the comments what you found evocative- I’d love to hear. Also plz be forewarned that I nerd out on theory a lil’ in the intro, but then it gets less jargon-y : ) PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. PPS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so I can get this book published asap to support our discernment in these deadly times. Thanks fam. Patreon: www.patreon.com/liberationspring Paypal: www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_dona…2egif%3aNonHosted More at: liberationspring.com

Co-optation: Weed 5 What is co-optation? Let’s talk green-washing, diversity & inclusion campaigns, misunderstanding decolonization, land acknowledgements, & more. PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. PPS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so I can get this book published asap to support our discernment in these deadly times. Thanks fam. Patreon: www.patreon.com/liberationspring Paypal: www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_dona…2egif%3aNonHosted More at: liberationspring.com

Have you noticed that the term ‘conspiracy theory’ (& ‘conspiracy theorist’ too) gets weaponized in all kinds of directions? By myriad actors, agents, & entities. Then millions of people obediently look the other direction. How sad to move thru the world like that. Disrespecting your capacity to gauge what’s valid independently from what the matrix’s thought leaders + influencers sold you. Bullshit meters atrophying cuz you’d never wanna be judged as that ‘out there.’ Yet wisdom allows no such bypassing. Guess what? We don’t need to write ideas off by default when we’re discerning. Who’s afraid of a conspiracy theory? Let’s put our awareness to good use and talk about the limiting function the term conspiracy theory performs. I dare you to give no fucks about the smoke & mirrors show & to, instead, perceive with eyes open. When we get the corporate propaganda, PR, & academic fads outta our lives, where might decolonial feminist reads on ‘conspiracies’ take us? I’ll take you thru how I vet a few currently trending so-called ‘conspiracy theories.’ For folx who are intellectually & perceptually confident, a friendly philosophical experiment or two wouldn’t be too intimidating, no? And if the idea of joining me down this rabbit hole feels scary, well- it’s Halloween. PS- Yes, I’ll be sharing excerpts from my book Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment. Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. PPS- Please help us on Patreon or Paypal so this book can support our discernment in these deadly times. Patreon: www.patreon.com/liberationspring Paypal: www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_dona…2egif%3aNonHosted More at: liberationspring.com

Unlearning the illusion of hyper-individuation is easier said than done for those of us in deeply capitalist contexts like the settler colonial US. Alas, atomization is as American as apple pie. Hyper-individualism is a result of having been divided and conquered. As a matter of fact, that mentality dovetails nicely with a common military strategy. It separates communities and individuals who could be coming together to end oppression and move the fuck on with this miracle that is life. This mentality encourages competition instead of cooperation. And here’s one part of the divide and conquer individuation scam that’s even more insidious. It divisively classifies how we understand oppression to begin with! Into silos. We’ve gotta be able to connect the dots, tho, to begin to deepen understanding. Unless we’re doomed to stay small and disparate, that is… What do LSD, perseverance porn, & the 1968 Beatles song ‘Revolution’ have in common? Have a listen to this discourse on hyper-individualism to find out : ) PS- Yes, I’m sharing excerpts from my book Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment. Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. PPS- Please help us on Patreon or Paypal so this book can support our discernment in these deadly times. Patreon: www.patreon.com/liberationspring Paypal: www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_dona…2egif%3aNonHosted More at: liberationspring.com

What is lunacy? How does the label lunatic gets weaponized and mis-used? Learning from postcolonial psychology & activist traditions, let’s talk about it. Lunacy is one of the most potent counters to the limitations of respectability politics that’s available to us. Respectability politics pressures us to ceaselessly pander to oppressive audiences. Oppression sets the terms of the debate. You show up & are pressured to conform to the language of oppression, dress the way the status quo told you to, leave your family’s religion and values at the door, & more generally aspire to be as basic as possible to fit in with the baseline of unjust mediocrity around you. Lunacy, on the other hand, offers a way out of that hamster wheel of death. We know that the most substantial critiques regularly get de-legitimated as allegedly ‘crazy.’ This political dimension is at the core of how sanism operates. And if millions of people continue hedging around the standards set by an omnicidal death cult…well, we’re done for. Give thanks that we can resist, though. Reconnecting with what we know that we may have suppressed in a violently ignorant culture. If you’ve ever censored yourself because you were concerned that you might be labeled crazy, this seed is for you. Or if you see people unyieldingly calling corrupt politicians ‘lunatics’ and sense that there’s a lot to unpack there, please listen! PS- Please help us on Patreon or Paypal so this work can support our discernment in these deadly times. Patreon: www.patreon.com/liberationspring Paypal: www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_dona…2egif%3aNonHosted More at: liberationspring.com

What is vampirism? Have a listen to find out : ) (By the way, the video got cut off in the last few minutes.) PS- Yes, these are excerpts from my book Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment. Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. PPS- Please help us on Patreon or Paypal so this book can support our discernment in these deadly times. Patreon: www.patreon.com/liberationspring Paypal: www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_dona…2egif%3aNonHosted More at: liberationspring.com

What is techno-skepticism? One of the most vital seeds that we could plant today! One of the clearest extensions of a colonial progress narrative throughout the planet today is the pathetic belief in Silicon Valley and its tech-bros. Indeed, perceiving arrogant criminals like Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, or Jeff Bezos as innovative leaders is one of the clearest signs of the profound misunderstanding that currently afflicts millions of our loved ones. If you’re concerned about extractivism, did you notice that it’s technology that’s enabled extractivism? This is important to observe. If you’ve ever heard someone talking about climate change who says ‘technology will save us!’ while failing to recognize that technology is a principle factor for what got us into this mess to begin with, this seed is for you. Let’s break it down. PS- Yes, I’m sharing snippets of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. PPS- Plz donate so we can continue sharing this labor; thx! Patreon: www.patreon.com/liberationspring Paypal: www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_dona…2egif%3aNonHosted More at: liberationspring.com

What is political gaslighting? Columbus Day is a great example- let’s talk about it. Hope you enjoy this 2nd weed identification video in our “Weeds & Seeds” autumn series. See ya Saturday for some seeding! PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. PPS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so I can get this book published asap to support our discernment in these deadly times. Thanks fam. Patreon: www.patreon.com/liberationspring Paypal: www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_dona…2egif%3aNonHosted More at: liberationspring.com

What is critical media literacy? Wanna hear about some resources to support building that skill *and a critique of those sources too? Come thru for a decolonial feminist critique of @DemocracyNow and other independent media sources that I listen to w/ a grain of salt. Hope you enjoy this 2nd installation of our “Weeds & Seeds” autumn series. Hope to see ya Wednesday for some weeding! PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you- thx : ) PPS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so I can get this book published asap to support our discernment in these deadly times. Thanks fam. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/liberationspring Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_donations&business=liberationspring%40gmail%2ecom&lc=US&item_name=Liberation%20Spring¤cy_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHosted More at: https://liberationspring.com/

We don’t get free off bad intel, beloveds. Let’s take your focus back from the vampiric media outlets that infiltrate nervous systems & pollute minds 4 ratings & short-term gains. Their sellout pundits are so busy trying 2 get theirs that they’re forsaking any hope of vision, wisdom, or grounding. Let’s resist fear-mongering click-bait. And boundary ourselves from even more corporate talking points brainwashing us than has already happened. Freeing up attention 4 what we actually need 2 know 2 make informed decisions + generally know what’s up. Hope you enjoy this 1st installation of our “Weeds & Seeds” autumn series. Hope to see ya Saturday for some seeding! PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you- thx : ) PPS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so I can get this book published asap to support our discernment in these deadly times. Thanks fam. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/liberationspring Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_donations&business=liberationspring%40gmail%2ecom&lc=US&item_name=Liberation%20Spring¤cy_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHosted More at: https://liberationspring.com/

D'Juan Owens and I discuss the embodiment of revolutionary strategy. What does courage feel like? Is influencer culture or celebrity culture distorting your understanding of justice work? How do we disentangle getting free from popularity contests, tokenism, trends, and respectability politics? Tune in to find out. And plz let us know in the comments what you found evocative! Thanks family.

Tune in for this wonderful dialogue with the Mother-Daughter duo that is BabyMamaHood. Mama Juju and Zion Angeles help folks move beyond a one-size-fits all approach to parenting, Motherhood, & families & bring back the ceremony to birth. Juju & Zion are also the creators of A Love Adventure Project & Radical Childbirth. Learn about the important community work they’re doing and how you can get involved. For more info, please check out: www.babymamahood.com www.radicalchildbirth.org @babymamahood @_family_and_spirit_ www.poormagazine.org For more support in decolonizing your mind, including online classes, check out liberationspring.com. facebook: www.facebook.com/LiberationSpring twitter: twitter.com/libspring youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCKskexpXNUKU1O16qWxL0Sw instagram: www.instagram.com/liberationspring

Tune in for this wonderful dialogue with Dr. Jeffrey Acido and a group of young men from K-VIBE to learn about the liberatory work they’re doing at this visionary bike shop. Opened in 2005 as part of Kōkua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services' commitment to providing community-based health initiatives that honor the development of personal relationships and respect for cultural values, the Kalihi Valley Instructional Bike Exchange (K-VIBE) uses bicycling to promote physical and emotional well-being by fostering healthy and sustainable relationships between youth leaders, the community and the land. We discuss how this popular educational space builds self-awareness among youth in Hawai‘i on the island of O‘ahu. In particular, find out about the Nakem pedagogy they practice. It’s an Indigenous Ilokano approach to teaching that values land, body, & language. With this practice, they’re encouraging folks to live a holistic healthy life that involves self-love and even healing masculinities. For more information about K-VIBE & their parent organization, please check out the following websites: K-VIBE: http://k-vibe.blogspot.com Kokua: Kalihi Valley http://kkv.net *I especially invite folks to check out this episode on YouTube so that you see the video-recording of our dialogue on-site at K-VIBE: https://youtu.be/sCQF1K3eOZs

Quill Violet Christie-Peters & I dialogue about decolonizing sexuality thru visual art in this episode. She’s an Anishinaabe arts programmer and self-taught visual artist currently residing in Thunder Bay. She is the creator of the Indigenous Youth Residency Program, an artist residency for Indigenous youth that relies on a radically relational praxis that allows youth to reclaim relationships to self, homeland, ancestors and community while exploring land-based arts practices. Quill holds a masters degree in Indigenous Governance on Anishinaabe art-making as a practice of falling in love and sits on the board of directors for Native Women in the Arts. In her free time, she paints and writes about self-love and self-pleasure as resistance to the settler colonial project and is very interested in exploring the body as a site of ancestors/homelands/creation. Please feel free to check out: https://www.quillviolet.com IG @raunchykwe http://gutsmagazine.ca/kwe-becomes-the-moon/

Tune in to hear about the Zapatista’s First International Gathering of Politics, Art, Sport, & Culture for Women in Struggle. I’m in dialogue with Carol Rojas about her experience at this historic event, including the somatics of anticapitalism, the importance of connecting with other freedom fighters who’ve devoted their lives to the struggle, the nourishment of separatist spaces, and the always invigorating inspiration of the companeras of the EZLN who’re throwing down as hard today as they’ve ever been for their land, liberation, & autonomy. Why sell out or give up when we could just overthrow capitalist patriarchy already?

Please tune in for this dialogue with Sakej Ward. We discuss various representations of warriors, the importance of developing strategic thinkers, the differences between warriors and soldiers, the dangers of cooptation & machismo, how to strengthen warrior spirits, the creation of indigenous revolutionary doctrines, & healing from trauma through materially engaging the process of decolonization. Sakej (James Ward) belongs to the wolf clan. He is Mi’kmaw (Mi’kmaq Nation) from the community of Esgenoopetitj (Burnt Church First Nation, New Brunswick). Having taught, organized, advised and led various warrior societies from all over Turtle Island down into Guatemala and Borike (Puerto Rico) Sakej has made warrior-hood his way of life. He has been on over a dozen warrior operations and countless protest actions. He dedicates all his time to developing warrior teachings and instructing warrior societies from all over. For more support in decolonizing your mind, including online classes, check out https://liberationspring.com. facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiberationSpring twitter: https://twitter.com/libspring youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKskexpXNUKU1O16qWxL0Sw instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liberationspring

What do South Asians think of what gets sold as 'yoga' in the US? Tune in to find out when my colleague Miloney Thakrar and I discuss the yoga industrial complex! We reflect on (POC-on-POC) cultural appropriation, neocolonialism, non-consensual extraction, entitlement, capitalist commercialism, poison fronting as medicine, healing and so much more... For more support in decolonizing your mind, including online classes, check out https://liberationspring.com. facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiberationSpring twitter: https://twitter.com/libspring youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKskexpXNUKU1O16qWxL0Sw instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liberationspring

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: http://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! For more support in decolonizing your mind, including online classes, check out https://liberationspring.com. facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiberationSpring twitter: https://twitter.com/libspring youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKskexpXNUKU1O16qWxL0Sw instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liberationspring

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 kalo (or taro) cultivation to improve the lives of today’s youth & build a healthy community. It’s a manifestation of Dean and Michele Wilhelm’s vision to create a gathering place for people in the community to connect with and care for the ‘aina (or land), perpetuate Hawaiian culture through the cultivation & preparation of kalo, & to be a place that would ultimately bring healing to people, especially at-risk youth. Since 2007, the Wilhelms along with a hui (or group) of collaborators & community volunteers have restored 7.6 acres to be abundant & productive. Today the lo‘i (or wetland taro patch) is an ideal outdoor learning environment for ‘āina-based education. For more support in decolonizing your mind, including online classes, check out https://liberationspring.com. facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiberationSpring twitter: https://twitter.com/libspring youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKskexpXNUKU1O16qWxL0Sw instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liberationspring

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 FB: cocina_manakurhini wombyn@gmail.com For more support in decolonizing your mind, including online classes, check out liberationspring.com. facebook: www.facebook.com/LiberationSpring twitter: twitter.com/libspring youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCKskexpXNUKU1O16qWxL0Sw instagram: www.instagram.com/liberationspring

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 Word: a Film about Native American-based sports mascots & the Washington Redskins." For more support in decolonizing your mind, including online classes, check out https://liberationspring.com. facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiberationSpring twitter: https://twitter.com/libspring youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKskexpXNUKU1O16qWxL0Sw instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liberationspring

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 US. We’ll discuss some material implications of generalizations about Indigenous spiritualities, including who & what benefits from them in our current neocolonial context. Join me as we bravely unlearn so we can then shift our practices & decolonize this society. To learn more about Dr. Shorter's work, visit: www.davidshorter.com. For more support in decolonizing your mind, including online classes, check out https://liberationspring.com. facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiberationSpring twitter: https://twitter.com/libspring youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKskexpXNUKU1O16qWxL0Sw instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liberationspring

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. Come learn from Dr. Carolina Prado about being a radical feminist BIPOC navigating grad school in the service of our collective transformation. If you decide to go to grad school or are currently navigating that system, what can you do to make your experience as liberatory as possible & to reduce harm to yourself & others while there? Feel free to leave your musings in the comments section below. For more support in decolonizing your mind, including online classes, check out https://liberationspring.com. facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiberationSpring twitter: https://twitter.com/libspring youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKskexpXNUKU1O16qWxL0Sw instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liberationspring

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 http://www.criticalpolyamorist.com Indian Dr. David Shorter http://frequencies.ssrc.org/2012/01/03/indian/ Native Youth Sexual Health Network http://www.nativeyouthsexualhealth.com Tipi Confessions https://www.facebook.com/tipiconfessions/ Indian Love Poems Tenille Campbell http://workingitouttogether.com/content/indianlovepoems-the-tease/ Virago Nation https://www.viragonation.ca What word(s) did your ancestors use to discuss sex and sexuality? Feel free to share in the comments section below. For more support in decolonizing your mind, including online classes, check out https://liberationspring.com. facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiberationSpring twitter: https://twitter.com/libspring youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKskexpXNUKU1O16qWxL0Sw instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liberationspring

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 to stick through it! Some of the resources that she shared include: • Peace Women across the Globe http://www.1000peacewomen.org/en/who-we-are/history-30.html • The International Women’s Network Against Militarism http://iwnam.org • Combahee River Collective https://we.riseup.net/assets/43875/combahee%20river.pdf For more support in decolonizing your mind, including online classes, check out https://liberationspring.com. facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiberationSpring twitter: https://twitter.com/libspring youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKskexpXNUKU1O16qWxL0Sw instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liberationspring

“How do you move beyond sharing about your trauma to healing it?” asks our guest Aishah. What say you? #LoveWITHAccountability - http://LoveWITHAccountability.com NO! The Rape Documentary - http://NOtheRapeDocumentary.org Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective - https://batjc.wordpress.com The Living Bridges Project - http://LivingBridgesProject.com The Heal Project - https://www.igrivera.com/the-heal-project.html Children of Combahee - http://childrenofcombahee.org/ Black Latinidad: Love in Sisterbrotherhood - https://www.vidaafrolatina.org/child-sexual-abuse Mirror Memoirs - http://mirrormemoirs.com Impact Justice - http://impactjustice.org/restorative-justice-project For more support in decolonizing your mind, including online classes, check out https://liberationspring.com. facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiberationSpring twitter: https://twitter.com/libspring youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKskexpXNUKU1O16qWxL0Sw instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liberationspring

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 & toolkit http://landbodydefense.org/uploads/files/VLVBReportToolkit2016.pdf o Native Youth Sexual Health Network http://www.nativeyouthsexualhealth.com o It Starts with Us http://itstartswithus-mmiw.com o Sisters in Spirit https://www.nwac.ca/policy-areas/violence-prevention-and-safety/sisters-in-spirit/ o No More Silence http://nomoresilence-nomoresilence.blogspot.com o http://indigenoussexsovereignty.tumblr.com o @ TheSarahHunt on Twitter For listeners, how can you expand your practice of consent after learning from this dialogue? (This could be internally, interpersonally, politically, when attempting allyship or accompliceship, ecologically, etc.) What can you do to create a context where consent is even a viable possibility in the first place? Let us know in the comments section below! For more support in decolonizing your mind, including online classes, check out https://liberationspring.com. facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiberationSpring twitter: https://twitter.com/libspring youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKskexpXNUKU1O16qWxL0Sw instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liberationspring