Grounded Futures Show

Season 4, ep 26: Weirding Time! with: Uli, Jams, carla joy, and a Time Talks History segmentIn the season four opener, Uli, carla, and jams introduce some dreams for season 4, ruminate about other projects on the horizon, and reflect on their year off from making the Grounded Futures Show, and more! Plus, we will hear the first Time Talks History segment about the Doctrine of Discovery. Thanks for listening!

The Grounded Futures Show, Episode 25: Remaining Unbroken, with chris time steele “I've always been a rapper, since I was 12. So that's what I do. And it's the way I communicate best and most vulnerable.” In their last episode of the season, Uli and carla share a wonderful talk-about with the always inspiring chris time steele!  A dreamer, writer, and poetic historian, chris' digs into many topics, from Hip Hop to basketball to community organising to breaking apart propaganda to the philosophy and beauty of anime. We also play a game, talk about the importance of curiosity, care, and listening alongside being fearless as we break open and let go. There's also some impressive freestyle and a fabulous song.  Show notes: IG + Twitter chris' podcast: Time Talks   chris' Bandcamp  Time | Spotify Whose Dystopia?  Joy James book Time's song about Sun Ra  ALL THE DREAMS I EVER HAD | calm.  chris' new book “Acknowledging Radical Histories” with Gerald Horne (out later in 2023) Recommendations: Mushi shi Saul williams: Neptune Frost Henry  Dumas -Ark of Bones Interview with Sun ra Trust Kids!  Alexis Pauline Gumbs Prison writings by Bobby Sands Psalm One Atlanta (Show)  Cambatta Transcripts chris time steele is a co-learner, hip-hop artist, journalist, storyteller, videographer, and writer. steele has an MA and is a precarious teacher who seeks to work outside typical teaching styles experimenting with hip-hop and co-mentorship. steele contributes to Truthout, has co-authored works with Noam Chomsky, Joy James, and Gerald Horne, and is host of the Time Talks podcast. Through music, under the alias Time, steele has worked with Common, Mick Jenkins, Xiu Xiu & Psalm One  Music for our show by: Sour Gout The GF Show art by Robin Carrico Edited by Chris Bergman Thanks for listening!

The Grounded Futures Show, Ep 24: The Struggle is Real, with Noleca Radway & Lily Mercogliano Easton Uli and carla had a deep and vulnerable conversation with Lily and Noleca — two wonderful parents and educators — about the horrors of adult supremacy, the oppression of kids, and some pathways towards undoing adult supremacy and supporting youth freedom. They also talk about the joys and complexities of building trust within this power dynamic, the trappings of adulthood, what youth freedom looks like, and how this way of being in relationship with kids requires a profound resolve and devotion to care and love. There's so much here, lots of real talk with plenty of curiosity and good humour woven in! And no fear: they both provide some concrete tips, too!  #TrustKids Show Notes: Raising Rebels Podcast  Noleca's Instagram Lily's twitter Camp WA WA Segowea The Story Store Brooklyn Free School Trust Kids! Book Time Talks Podcast Recommendations: Lily's:  Raising Rebels Podcast  Abby Wambaugh (comedian) + IG Noleca's: Dear Mama: The Saga of Afeni and Tupac Shakur Finding our Way Podcast Transcripts Bios Noleca Radway is the Founder of Queer Media, a family production company specializing in audio and visual art through a Black Queer lens. She is the producer and host of the progressive parenting podcast Raising Rebels. Noleca is also the former Executive Director of the Brooklyn Free School, and now lives in Amsterdam with her partner and their three kids. Lily Mercogliano Easton is an educator who lives with her three kids and husband in Albany, New York. She grew up at the Free School in Albany and was Head of School at Brooklyn Free School for twelve years. Lily is the Camp Director at Camp WA WA Segowea, and finds the most thriving and joy through parenting and building a trusting relationship with her kids (and one that's imperfect in all the ways). Music for our show by: Sour Gout The GF Show art by Robin Carrico Edited by Chris Bergman Thanks for listening!

The Grounded Futures Show, Ep 23: Queer Brilliance, with Lindz Amer “I hope that I can put a little bit of healing out into the world because I think we just need a lot more of that. There are a lot of hurt people out there.” We had a pretty healing and joyful conversation with the fabulous writer, educator, and performer, Lindz Amer!  We talked about the importance of creating queer affirming media for little Kids (and their adults), joyfully stitching back together intergenerational connections within the LGBTQ+ communities, and traversing non-affirming spaces. We also get into the muck and nuance of tough topics and realities, such as anti-trans, transmisogyny, the many genders, sexuality, gender performance, power & privilege, socialisation, smashing the cis-hetero-patriarchy, and so much more. Let's join Lindz in Spreading Queer Joy! Show Notes Lindz IG and twitter Lindz website Lindz podcast Lindz book: Rainbow Parenting  Disclosure Documentary  Recommendations: YA Queer books: Jonny Garza Villa "Felix Ever After" by Kacen Callender Steven Universe Astrology: the chani app Astrology for Writers A league of our own (reboot) Doc McStuffins  Vampirina Spirit Ranges Blues Clues and You Sailor Moon Uli's Bluey Studio Ghibli Movies Anime Series in general (Pokemon) carla's Little Bear TRANSCRIPTS Lindz Amer creates LGBTQ+ and intersectional social justice media for kids and families. They created their beloved LGBTQ+ family webseries Queer Kid Stuff in 2016 which now has 4M lifetime views and counting! Their debut book "Rainbow Parenting: Your Guide to Raising Queer Kid and Their Allies" publishes on May 30, 2023 with St. Martin's Press. Currently, they host the Rainbow Parenting podcast, and perform at schools and libraries across the country, while also writing and consulting for children's television. They worked with Nick Jr on the Webby award-winning Blues Clues & You “Pride Parade” music video, The Fabulous Show with Fay and Fluffy,  an upcoming episode of an extremely paw-pular show, and more! You can watch their TED Talk on why kids need to learn about gender and sexuality now with more than 2.5 million views!  Music for our show by: Sour Gout The GF Show art by Robin Carrico Thanks for listening!

The Grounded Futures Show, episode 22: Dreaming a Future, with carla and Uli                   Delighting  in our Friends! Uli and carla spend episode 22 delighting in pals, AKA celebrating awesome artists, storytellers, and musicians who range in ages 3 - 63.  This is an uplifting episode where they share wonderful songs, swoon over friends, and weave in other musings — including how they each find thriving in the everyday! Happy Palentines!      

The Grounded Futures Show, Ep 21: Sparks In-Between, with Scott Branson  “thinking alone is not as exciting as thinking together” Scott Branson, a Jewish transfemme anarchist writer, and artist, joined carla and Uli for an inspiring virtual walk to think (and feel) together. They go deep into Trans worlding and talk pathways to gender abolition, discovering voice, embracing not knowing, sampling ideas, learning through play and making mistakes, practical anarchism, and more! This joyful conversation covers a lot of ground, including a poetry reading! TRANSCRIPTS Show Notes: Scott's webpage Scott on IG: Scott on Twitter  Practical Anarchism: A Daily Guide  Gay Liberation after May 68 The Abolition of Prison How I Became a Genre Bender and Found a Voice Women on the Edge of Time The Dispossessed   The Earthsea Trilogy  Witch Hat Atelier  “We study with any person who can teach us.” -- Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time Favourite quote by Ursula K, Le Guin:  “But he had not brought anything. His hands were empty, as they had always been.” -- the Dispossessed  Recommendations: I, Tituba Black Witch of Salem, by Maryse Condé Akata Witch Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy Scott's Poem: where had we left you? a long necked white creature bobbing in the distance on the lake it was clear we had overlooked the mysteries of the world so white i wondered how it kept clean in polluted waters i can't wear white pants without staining the sun doesn't cause waves but lets us see them and the lake ripples into this white protuberance a child's drawing of a sea dinosaur smiling so happy to be here where had we left you? but that's the best we could have done on the pier no one sees she swims unnoticed except by me, in my quick glance, and i decide to avert my eyes and let her be * ​​Scott Branson is a Jewish transfemme anarchist writer, teacher, organizer, musician and artist. Scott is also a co-host on the anarchist radio show/podcast The Final Straw Radio. Their book, Practical Anarchism: A Daily Guide, just published by Pluto Press, offers ways to infuse everyday life with ideas of mutual responsibility and collective liberation, combining anarchist and queer/feminist approaches to relationships, work, and living. Their translation of the queer theorist and gay liberation militant Guy Hocquenghem's second book, Gay Liberation after May 68, was published in April 2022 through Duke University Press's Theory Q Series. Scott wrote a critical introduction that situates Hocquenghem's queer anarchism in relation to current liberation movements. Scott translated longtime prison abolitionist, anarchist, ex-prisoner, and psychologist, Jacques Lesage De La Haye's The Abolition of Prison (AK Press, 2021). Their edited volume, Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies will be published by PM Press in January 2023.  Music for our show by: Sour Gout The GF Show art by Robin Carrico Thanks for listening!

The Grounded Futures Show, Ep 20: Alchemizing Futures, with Shaunga Tagore “My desire is for everything in my life to be rooted in thriving, or the timeline of thriving.” The magical episode where carla and Uli receive some deep healing via their wonderful guest, the quantum communicator, storyteller, weaver, and creatrix, Shaunga Tagore. Shaunga talks about their paradigm shifting project: Otherworldly Giants, as well as embracing ancestral connections, grief as love, communing with the cosmos and land, and of course, some Buffy! Enter into this magical portal with us, and feel and hear so much more! Show Notes Shaunga's Otherworldly Giants: https://shaungatagore.com Shaunga's podcast: https://shaungatagore.com/channel/ Recommendations: Buffy the Vampire Slayer She-ra: the Princess of Power +  the 80s version  Transcript Bio: Shaunga Tagore is a queer, prizmatic (non-binary) theatre artist, writer, speaker, cat mama & Buffy enthusiast. (And they weren't kidding when they called her, well, a witch.) Her witchy powers and ancestral roles include, but are not limited to: quantum communicator, creatrix, death doula, time keeper & grief worker. Shaunga is the founder of Otherworldly Giants, a creation company and storytelling school where we create and study stories that serve as altars for building a new world paradigm. Shaunga has spent the last decade working as an astrologer, cosmic coach, artist, and producer, primarily in queer, racialized, survivor, and disability justice oriented communities. Music for our show by: Sour Gout The GF Show art by Robin Carrico Thanks for listening!

The Grounded Futures Show, Ep #19 Liberated Care, with Zena Sharman “I think about care as a process, as an ongoing act of weaving — that it is this active thing that we do, that happens in relationships, that happens in communities.” Zena Sharman joins the show to talk casting spells and weaving webs of care beyond institutions. This episode is all about intergenerational solidarity, and queering kinship and care in the everyday. Zena is a writer, speaker, strategist and LGBTQ+ health advocate and our conversation goes deep into the radical possibilities for care as an ongoing, consensual process — from grief care to ageing and dying, to gender open parenting, to centring pleasure and disability justice in health care. Show Notes Follow Zena on Twitter Zena's two books: The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health  The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care Photo of Zena for show is by K. Ho Recommendations:  Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's books Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice and The Future is Disabled Megan Linton's Invisible Institutions podcast Hil Malatino's book Trans Care (the free open access version is available here) Jules Gill-Peterson's article Doctors Who? Radical lessons from the history of DIY transition I didn't mention it during the interview, but this podcast interview The Legend of the Orchi Shed with Guest Eilís Ni Fhlannagáin is another wonderful example of an oral history about trans DIY health care The book Trans Bodies, Trans Selves (second edition) Katie Batza's book Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics in the 1970s Dean Spade's mutual aid course syllabus, which includes Katie Batza's book alongside other health-related titles like Alondra Nelson's book Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination and the history of the Young Lords' health organizing, which is also covered in Mia Donovan's Dope is Death podcast and documentary Interrupting Criminalization's brief We Must Fight In Solidarity With Trans Youth: Drawing the Connections Between Our Movements Transcript Zena Sharman is a writer, speaker, strategist and LGBTQ+ health advocate. She's the author of three books, including The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health (published by Arsenal Pulp Press in the fall of 2021). Zena edited the Lambda Literary award-winning anthology The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care. She's also an engaging speaker who brings her passion for LGBTQ+ health to audiences of health care providers, students and community members at universities and conferences across North America. You can learn more about Zena and her work at https://zenasharman.com/ Music for our show by: Sour Gout The GF Show art by Robin Carrico Thanks for listening!  

Grounded Futures Show, Ep #18:  Feels Real Good, with Khari McClelland “To be human is to be creative, and to allow yourself that privilege is where it is at…" Khari McClelland, an award-winning musician and creative facilitator, joined us to launch season three! In this episode, Khari speaks about creating with and for community through time, what it means to be a just person, and the importance of growing and tending all our relations, while also embracing humility and the possibilities of being wrong — walking and falling and rising up together. Show Notes: Moving the Centre (Khari's book) Khari's music Facilitation/Courses Talk about sailing and water with Khari on IG: @igobykhari Quote from episode: “Boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and me simultaneously.” — Prentis Hemphill Lucille Clifton: Blessing the Boats Bio: Imaginative. Bold. Genuine. Hopeful.  Khari Wendell McClelland is an award-winning musician and creative facilitator who uses the arts and experiential activities for transformational learning.  Based in Vancouver, Canada, Khari has worked with communities across Africa, Australia, Europe, North America and the Caribbean.  In a world with increasingly complex societal challenges, the need for values-based creative solutions is paramount.  ​Khari helps youth and adults explore core values and creativity as a means to self-actualization, community building and problem solving.   His approach is warm, insightful and engaging. Transcript  Music for our show by: Sour Gout GF show art by Robin Carrico Thanks for listening!

Grounded Futures Show, Ep #17: Feeling and Building More, with Eleanor Goldfield “We need to connect to what feels like justice, what feels like freedom, and not just what sounds like it.” The fabulous creative radical, Eleanor Goldfield joins us to talk about the importance of amplifying censored stories and radical ideas, rights vs Justice, the limits of language, the inherent violence of the state, finding ways to embrace pockets of thriving alongside despair, and so much more!  Links Eleanor's Website: ArtKillingApathy.com HardRoadofHope.com RadIndieMedia.com Song: Floodlight  LeeCamp.net Common Censored Project Censored Episode on Roe vs. Wade Silver Threads Podcast Shout Your Aborotion  Act Out Book recommendations: Sentient  Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are By John Kaag Transcripts Music for our show by:Sour Gout Logo art by Robin Carrico Thanks for listening! 

Grounded Futures Show, Season 2 - Ep #16 This is part one of our mini series on: Schooling, Education, and Finding Your Way “I just have such a joy and a heart for helping parents to be what they really want to be with their kids, and really help that relationship flourish and move forward.” Uilliam and carla sat down with Meghan Carrico, a long time participant and educator in creating alternate pathways to learning in community, including schools. We talk about finding joy while learning, the importance of community, and supporting the entire family to thrive. She also demystifies some of the misleading information about what it takes to get a highschool diploma,and other myths about youth finding their way into postsecondary institutions, career paths, and much else. Resources Final Straw Meghan's website Victoria School of Innovation and Inquiry Pacific School of Innovation and Inquiry Island Discovery SelfDesign Transcripts Thanks for Listening! 

Grounded Futures Show, Season 2 Episode #15 “Gathering people around food is a big part of what everyday thriving looks like in my life. And, even as the world falls apart, we will still probably have to eat dinner.” We sat down with the wonderful Tahia Ahmed, a full-spectrum birth worker who connects birth, land, and racial and climate justice together in new and beautiful ways. We dive into conversations about our interdependence, the discipline of showing up for each other, centering trust, and the importance of deprofessionalizing care and love, and so much more!  Tahia Ahmed IG Nesting Doula Collective We Do This 'Til We Free Us Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba  Joy James work Thrutopia, coined by Rupert Read  Book Recommendation: How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community Book by Mia Birdsong Delighting in our Friends: Sour Gout (Zach Bergman) The album is here: “Movements in a Dead City" transcripts

Grounded Futures Show, Season 2 Episode #14 “I love people, I'm just like that. I think that's what the motivation for the work is.” We had a lot of fun talking with Dean about so many ideas and actions -- and we took a lot of passion paths together! You'll hear about his early days of talking back to power, to building queer and trans solidarity, working across differences, to finding concrete ways to accompany each other during hard times, and embracing an ethos and the actions of promiscuity as a way to deepen mutual aid, and so much more! This is an episode you won't want to miss!   Link to Transcripts   music by Sour Gout  

Grounded Futures Show: Season 2 (Bonus episode) In this short bonus episode, Liam and carla take a moment to celebrate the Grounded Futures Platform by sharing some jingles for two new shows: Resonant Rest and Mentorship in Motion! You'll hear from Oceaan Pendharkar, Melissa Roach, Jamie Leigh Gonzales, and Rebecca Peng... and some other news! Music for the Grounded Futures show:Sour Gout Music for Resonant Rest: Oatmeal Queen Music for Mentorship in Motion: Nadya Geta Link to all the shows at Grounded Futures: https://groundedfutures.com/shows/ Transcripts Logo art by Robin Carrico

Grounded Futures: Season 2, Episode 13 “Neuroqueer is both an adjective and a verb. And so, automatically, the word has multiplicity built into it. And it invites you to play with the idea that who you are can also be an action.” We are thrilled to welcome Kitty Sipple back to the show to talk about the roots and lineages of sanism, neuroqueerness, and Madness. Weaving them together in profound and powerful ways, Kitty also shares theirs and other folks' stories of resistance and thriving, and much more! Twitter @fungi_femme Link to Transcripts and more show notes  Delighting in our Friends Segment:  Hari Alluri !   Dragon Shoots Its Whispers aka The Lightning Speaks!   Music for our show by:Sour Gout Logo art by Robin Carrico  

Grounded Futures Season 2, episode 12 “We learn love in the presence of a fully loving environment," Christina Rryder joins the show to talk about the importance of animating our activist and creative spaces with embodied mutualista (mutual aid), organic play, and radical care. How the threads from  Occupy Denver to Social Justice Theatre led to cosplay. We also dive into living with neuro-difference and depression, science and climate change, the queerness in Sailor Moon, gatekeepers in Cosplay, wholesome anime's, making time for your passions, and much more! IG: @scientista_cosplay Music for our show by:Sour Gout Delighting in our Friends is all about Eleanor Goldfield and we played her song: Tangled from ehr EP  No Solo Links to Eleanore's work Link to Transcripts and more show notes 

Grounded Futures Season 2, episode 11 “As radicals we need to be offering a different exit from middle class life.” Season two begins with a joyful bang! Liam and carla talk with the wonderful Nick Montgomery about radical exit plans, the limits and problems of “rights”, generational myths, the importance of cultivating alternatives, finding joy and humour amid disasters, and more Music for our show by: Sour Gout Links from our segment: Delighting in our Friends!  The song by Time is, Barrel of a Pen (produced by AwareNess) This song is an Exclusive GF song (for now) Time's work AwareNess' work Time Talks Podcast Transcripts and more resources

For the final episode of Season 1,  we were thrilled to talk with Paloma Pendharkar. Not only are they super rad, they are Grounded Futures' new Resident! In this episode, Paloma talks about being open to new pathways to learn new things, find their own desires, and how to do all of that while finding ways to thrive amid capitalism. Paloma radiates a beautiful composition of humility and joy, and we had a great time talking with them!

One of our organizing values is that we eschew the unrealistic pressures of capitalist productivity and instead embrace the notion of Procrastithriving! And, because of this core value, we don't have a new episode of Grounded Futures for May. This is our bonus episode that originally aired dec 31, 2020. Or, check out any of the inspiring episodes with any of our previous guests. We will be back in June with a new episode! Pro(crasti)thriving, a verb, is when your core principle of cultivating every day thriving is anchored in anticapitalism - whereby y'all  support the wellbeing of each other,  as together we aim to create a more just world for all. 

We sat down with Maya Motoi, an unschooled half “Japanese” half Dutch "Canadian" person who is queer, an anarchist, and a feminist who currently lives in Japan. We heard their story about moving solo from Japan to Vancouver at age 13, nerded out about Japanese culture, specifically animation, and the radical alternatives in Japan. The importance of  listening to your gut, being present with all the beauty, and picking the right “fruit!” We dove into  the intersections of work, social justice, sitting in the discomfort, and finding ways to thrive together in a capitalist world. “I’ve always been a really big fan of listening to other peoples stories” - Maya Motoi

We sat down with the Indigenous artist John Velten to talk about the importance of creating and learning with and for each other, finding anchors in actions and mentors, listening to your whole self and the land, the healing of pulling from all your lineages, and so much more “It’s a language in itself, this art form. And so, I’ve spoken, through formline design, my interpretation of our environment. And I feel like that’s where the art form stems from, for all these years too. “

The Grounded Futures hosts sat down with Lee Camp -- the intrepid political comedian and head writer and host of the hit show "Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp.” We talk with Lee about his teen years, how he got into comedy, the power of comedians in upending capitalism, the role of technology in creating a hopeful future, and the necessity of satire in busting open the corporate thought box. “Lee is the Che Guevara of comedy,” said Paul Provenza, and this conversation proves this to be true — that revolution can be joyful, fierce, and that laughter is crucial.

We’re opening 2021 with an incredible conversation our hosts had with Margaret Killjoy,  a transfeminine author, musician, and podcaster. In this episode we look at what it means to prepare for end times, the ethics of getting paid as an artist/anarchist/activist in a capitalist system, and so much more!

It’s a New Year’s Eve, 2020 Wrap Up, Bonus Episode of the podcast! The Grounded Futures crew comes together to reflect on the show so far, talk about the challenges of this year, and finding hope and ways to thrive through it all. They also look at their experiences as youth or younger kids and how that influences them now and the decisions they make.

Joey, Liam, Jamie-Leigh, carla and Kitty, dive into some magical and grounding ideas and stories. New terrain for some of us is covered, as we hear about what it means to be multiple. The conversation explores how to thrive amid COVID, vicarious joyful healing through community (in particular through youth), and they each choose their favourite word (for now)! This is the last episode of the Grounded Futures Show in 2020, and it’s a joyful close to the year!  

Joey, Liam, Jamie-Leigh, and carla sat down with Ruby Smith Díaz to talk about surviving the teen years, finding belonging and self through subcultures, the devastating impacts of capitalism and white supremacy on BIPOC bodies, the importance of movement joy and much else.

Deviating from the path that has been laid out by our culture and society can be an intimidating and liberating journey. This episode of the Grounded Futures Show brings MJ Brownlee, anarchist, anti-capitalist, and longtime friend of carla bergman, into conversation about his experiences with schooling, finding his own path, and being in relationship with himself and those he loves. He discusses how an anti-capitalist approach to schooling can open up experiences and create the ability to explore different trades, arts, skills and, ultimately, opportunities to build resilient, self-sufficient communities. He also touches on being a paramedic in the current COVID-19 pandemic, and how he is shifting his path once again in order to continue finding joy and thriving.

The Grounded Futures hosts are in conversation with community organizer Kian Cham. Youth hosts Liam Joy and Joey ask Kian about finding ways to thrive as a trans youth and adult under capitalism. Kian talks about turning to street culture and martial arts as a teen, the role of mentorship in his journey, and what it means to be an anticapitalist working towards a decolonial future. He also shares how he has been finding the sweetness in the everyday during the COVID-19 pandemic, and why this time of huge collective uprising gives him hope.

Meet Joey, Liam, Jamie-Leigh and carla! Co-hosts of the Grounded Futures Show! In this short promo trailer our co-hosts discuss what's to come for the upcoming pilot season of the Grounded Futures Show. They will talk about the dynamic of mentorship and skills sharing in the creation of the show; what themes will emerge this season; and how to stay in the loop on the latest Grounded Futures news.  More about the Grounded Futures Show: Our team work alongside youth to co-produce episodes on topics ranging from climate change to identity to how youth can gain new skills to engage meaningfully with current world events. The show will take a deep dive on these issues, and be in conversations with incredible guests!