The Decolonizing Medicine Podcast

Micknai Arefaine (she/they) is a cultural organizer, educator, chef, and birthworker. She is the owner of Za Gualay Consulting, where she works with organizations that are looking for deeply transformative and holistic experiences that center justice, equity, belonging, healing, and dismantling the systems of oppression. She designs and facilitates experiences that help empower collaborators to dream up and co-create alternative ways of living, laboring, loving, shaping spaces and time, and inhabiting the land together. She enjoys cooking for her business Habesha Flavor, organizing with the BlaQ Qiln Collective, talking to plants, strolling around Baltimore, and nerding out on science fiction. This episode's community shoutout goes to Sea Mason (@sea_arte). Check Sea out and show some love! Venmo: SEA-MASON

Ka-Bang Lauron, @ka_bangbang, (all pronouns) is a disabled, queer, genderfluid, mixed race filipinx multimedia artist with a love for book arts, print, and decolonial art. They graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 2020 with a degree in Feminist Studies and Art, and currently work as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. Their work centers around personal narrative, queer temporalities, and ethnic studies. They have a special love in their heart for camping, martial arts, and their pet snake Chumby.This episode's community shoutout goes to Ka-Bang's good friend Travis Jones! He and his family have recently fallen on hard times since the pandemic started, and have been surviving homelessness for the last 6+ months. Venmo: @Travis-Jones-197. Linkshttps://ko-fi.com/kabangbangart/gallery instagram.com/ka_bangbangvenmo.com/u/Travis-Jones-197Jamee-pineda-lac.com

Cuán Sabino McCann (he/him), @bmorebata, is a white trans person of Irish and Italian descent, a big old homo, and a teacher of Irish martial arts. He's a certified Level 4 Coach in the Doyle family style of bataireacht ("BAH-tair-acht"), a traditional Irish martial art where folks use walking sticks (known as shillelaghs) for community defense. Cu teaches in-person classes through Bmore Bata in DC & Baltimore (and soon, online classes worldwide!). His classes center trans & queer folks but are open to all who fight at our side. Cu trains under Bernie Leddy, the founder of the Fighting Hares Faction and the current Chieftain of the Doyle family style worldwide.This episode's community shoutout goes to past guest @Recoveryfortherevolution who is currently fundraising for their book, Answering the Call of the Ancestors.Linkshttp://linktr.ee/bmorebatahttps://www.instagram.com/bmorebata/ https://www.instagram.com/recoveryfortherevolution/Jamee-pineda-lac.com

Rebecca Mendoza Nunziato (she/ella/ya) is a Xicana master's of divinity candidate at Harvard Divinity School, and co-organizer of the Harvard Nahuatl language group. She is a graduate of the University of Oregon with experience working in community organizing, advocacy, education, and storytelling in Denver, Colorado. Broadly, Rebecca's scholarship centers Indigenous philosophy and religion, specifically how rituals create kinship among humans, plants, animals, ancestors, and land in the Americas. Her focus on Mesoamerican and Chicanx cosmovision is guided by decolonial methodologies. Over the summer, Rebecca was a Research Fellow in the Pre-Columbian Studies program at Dumbarton Oaks with additional support by the Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project. This episode's community shoutout goes to @Alex_purple and @wocsistercollective_. Check them out and show some love!

This might be one of the most playful conversations I have ever had - an absolute delight. I hope you enjoy this interview as much as me.@party.noodles (they/them) is a celebrant, a shapeshifter, often in a transition of sorts.류 [ryoo] means: to stay, to be with, to leave behind (a message, a mark), to accept (a gift), to allow to grow.경 [kyung] means: fortune, blessing, wealth, auspicious, good luck, ceremony, celebration.They currently support humans whose very existence disrupts the status quo by way of celebration that honours their sacred uniqueness. Through their creative 1:1 work with folks, they bring a sense of ease, wonder, and playfulness into their healing containers.This episode's community shoutout goes to two guests that have been on The Decolonizing Medicine Podcast: @raw__movement and @tabernaclelife because they're just that good. Don't forget to check them out and show them some love.

Joy Tabernacle-KMT (@tabernaclelife), she/they/opulence, iz a Hoodoo, healer, mother, artist, ceremonialist, spiritual teacher, liberation mystic & opulence. She iz a guide to intense, passionate, powerful, Beings that carry big, wild, beautiful, mojo, medicine & magic that requires deep support, radical witnessing, courageous choice and resonant clarity for expansion and expression. This episode's community shoutout goes to @lovingblacksinglemothers - check them out and send some love!

@justinagrayman (she/her) is an artist who studies practices and processes for designing beautiful spaces of deep connection, home, family. With a BA in Psychology from Stanford University and a PhD in Psychology and Social Intervention from New York University, Justina's studies have always centered on understanding how we communicate with each other in ways that build power, connect, and mobilize us. Justina is currently developing @Raw_Movement. Justina's ultimate mission is to collaboratively create / transform entire communities into spaces of deep, divine connection. This episode's community shoutout goes to @party.noodles. Check them out and show them some love!Links:https://www.instagram.com/raw__movement/https://www.instagram.com/justinagrayman/Rawmovement.orghttps://www.instagram.com/party.noodles/jamee-pineda-lac.com

@richaelfaithfulfolkhealer (they/them/theirs) is a Black conjurer, folk healer, shamanic practitioner, and culture worker rooted in DC and Virginia. Since initiation in 2015, they have supported thousands of kindred, ancestors, and spirits in spiritual direction, energy medicine, divination, as well as magic and death doulaship. Their work has been featured in Colorlines, The Root, and other platforms. Richael weaves their mysticism into other work around healing justice strategy, conflict transformation, movement lawyering, and community organizing.This episode's community shoutout goes to @acorncenter4freedom. Check them out and show them some love!

Anna Balagtas (she/her) is a Queer + Pinay femme radical birthworker, educator, facilitator, energy worker, and pleasure advocate. Anna is the founder of @pocketdoula and supports emerging birthworkers in radicalizing their practice through heart-centered mentorships, facilitations, and community organizing. She houses her practice under the decolonization of birthwork and transformative queer care. Her deepest joys come from witnessing her communities thrive through community care, mutual aid, and abolition work.This episode's community shoutout goes to Anna's mentees: Tasha (@nexuscommunitycare) and MaryAnne (@ating.kamay). Consider joining my Patreon to support this podcast and captioning. Salamat!

Clarinda (she/her/hers) is the founder of #thematriarchalbusiness and course educator of the new Decolonizing Business unit at MBU, Clarinda Tivoli is a child of Oceania - an iTaukei and Samoan woman and mother, born in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, now living in the occupied Kingdom of Hawaii.Moved by the liveliness of Pasifika indigenous revival, Clarinda grows and evolves her personal business model and teachings from cultural wisdom about health, abundance and sustainability. Returning to the values and practices of many indigenous cultures in regards to land, economics, society and politics, Clarinda works actively to separate capitalism and colonialism from business, and has faith that this is being done in the growing, thriving collective movement to decolonize business.This episode's community shoutout goes to Timaima Clawson (@embrace801). Check out Timaima's work and consider supporting!

Rev Priestess Zionarrah (@thehoelistichealthcoach), The H.eaven O.n E.arth H.O.E.listic Health Coach is an ordained minister, founder of Taste and See Heaven on Earth Ministries, ancestral medicine keeper and holistic health coach, and educator, Bringing Heaven to Earth by Honoring Heaven Within,Educating at the intersection between science, spirit, sex & sensuality, Their practice centers Afro-Indigenous Pleasure Based Hoelistic Healing & Expressive Artistry through the Activation of Ancestral Cellular DNA with Mystical Nourishment, Sexological Shamanism, Creation And Play. They specialize in holistic, functional nutrition, intuitive somatic bodywork, hypnotherapy, sacred sexuality, and an original/channeled energy medicine modality called Vocal Toning Energy Massage, The H.O.E.listic health coach integrates modern access with ancient ancestral mystical traditions. Community shoutouts go to: @biotunes, @the9mindsradioshow, and @tabernaclelife.

Joanna La Torre, LCSW (they/she/siya) is a gender / queer multi-ethnic Filipinx scholar activist from occupied Ohlone territory in California's Bay Area. She is a PhD student at the University of Washington's Indigenous Wellness Research Institute and is working on a culturally-embedded intervention for substance-misuse at a Native-American residential boarding school. Mx. La Torre's research focuses on the movements of decolonizing Filipino/x/a's in diaspora, disproportionate mental / health burdens of queers and people of color, and community-driven healing initiatives. Joanna's clinical practice centers on work with children and families, particularly teens and young adults, and she has worked within child welfare, carceral, and medical settings. In her most recent role at the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Oakland, Joanna supported youth that are transgender, commercially sexually exploited, as well as those chronically impacted by racist policies.This episode's shoutout goes to the Center for Babaylan Studies (@babaylanstudies)

CW: eating disordersAlex P. (they/them/dems) is Seattle-based and so Cali raised, doing healing and community organizing. Alex identifies as a Queer xicanx and they are not fucking with the gender binary. In this episode you're going to hear Alex talk about their ancestral medicine and their journey recovering from disordered eating. This episode's shoutout goes to Alex's Filipino crew, but more specifically:@anakabayanseattle@gabriellaseattle@malay.seattle@migranteseattleCheck them out and show them some love!

Have you ever heard of a Non-Compete Clause? In this episode I discuss what that is and why this replication of colonial values does NOT belong in medicine. This episode's community shoutout goes to @Decolonizing_Fitness. Decolonizing Fitness is an incredible educational resource for coaches, trainers, studio owners, and anyone who is interested in unlearning toxic fitness culture. Decolonizing Fitness as a practice is about providing a supportive environment to individuals who have historically not felt welcomed in fitness spaces i.e. BIack people, people in larger bodies, people with disabilities, people with chronic pain, people over the age of 65 and people who are part of the LGBTQIA+ community. Please check out Ilya's fantastic work and throw some cash their way.

CW: sexual assault, domestic violence, medical traumaKalei'okalani Matsui (she/her,in Hawaiian language, 'o ia / kona are non-gendered pronouns) is a Black, Japanese, Chinese, and Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) woman born and raised in Wai`anae, O`ahu and residing now in Des Moines, Washington. She is a proud descendant, wife, and new māmā. Kalei is the Ra'atira of Huraiti Mana, a Polynesian Dance Troupe practicing cultural empowerment through lessons in ‘ori Tahiti, hula, and lei. Kalei explores her multicultural identity and intersectionality through the lens of her ancestors as she continues her deeply personal and ongoing cultural journey. In this episode we talk about her experiences as a gestational parent, the impacts of colonization on her care, and her connection to ancestral wisdom. This is the first episode of a two part story.Community shoutouts: @ma_ressa (Maressa) a fellow 'ori Tahiti Ra'atira & new Māmā (Chamorro), Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians), Pasifika, Loina Wahine (feminine principle) Divine Femininity & birthing community, Pasifika/women-led local birthing center & services, @rainiervalleymidwives, and Dr. Sara Nichols at @pelvichealthclinic.

CW: sexual assault, domestic violence, medical traumaKalei'okalani Matsui (she/her,in Hawaiian language, 'o ia / kona are non-gendered pronouns) is a Black, Japanese, Chinese, and Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) woman born and raised in Wai`anae, O`ahu and residing now in Des Moines, Washington. She is a proud descendant, wife, and new māmā. Kalei is the Ra'atira of Huraiti Mana, a Polynesian Dance Troupe practicing cultural empowerment through lessons in ‘ori Tahiti, hula, and lei. Kalei explores her multicultural identity and intersectionality through the lens of her ancestors as she continues her deeply personal and ongoing cultural journey. In this episode we talk about her experiences as a gestational parent, the impacts of colonization on her care, and her connection to ancestral wisdom. This is the first episode of a two part story.Community shoutouts: @ma_ressa (Maressa) a fellow 'ori Tahiti Ra'atira & new Māmā (Chamorro), Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians), Pasifika, Loina Wahine (feminine principle) Divine Femininity & birthing community, Pasifika/women-led local birthing center & services, @rainiervalleymidwives, and Dr. Sara Nichols at @pelvichealthclinic.

This episode is just me sharing about discovering that I am autistic, structural barriers to diagnoses and care, and how that overlaps with decolonizing medicine. The community shoutout goes to Audacious Autistics Podcast. They have a wealth of educational content about autism by autistics so check them out and consider joining their Patreon. To support The Decolonizing Medicine Podcast and to find out more about my work go to linktr.ee/jameepinedahealingarts.

kuwa jasiri Indomela (the one/elle/beauty) engages in international writing and speaking opportunities that affirm People Of Heritage (Of Colour). As an intersex, Ghanaian-Cuban the one is immersed in their Ancestral traditions, liberation and rest. The one is also the Founding Steward of Artistic Apothecary and currently resides on Taino territory, Borikén (Puerto Rico). In this episode we discuss the 7 types of rest, spirituality, and our connections with nature. If you are interested in learning more and supporting kuwa jasiri's work you can find the one on Patreon. Our community shoutout goes to the Indigenous Dine Supporters Network and Urbe Apie.Links:Patreon.com/AuthenticCreationsArtisticapothecary.orghttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAIfS-6_9yfDqP4yI2LpffAhttps://www.urbeapie.com/

In this episode Tiana Dodson (she/her) and I talk about diet culture, our bodies, and how capitalism and colonization shape our relationships to them. Tiana is a fat, queer, biracial (Black and Chamorro), parent. Her work as a Body Liberation Coach and Facilitator destroys the belief that you have to be skinny to be happy and healthy, loveable, or worthy. Through her work with the Fat Freedom programs, she guides people feminine-of-center to reconnect with their bodies, destigmatize fatness, and learn about the harms of health being a measure of worth...all while finding how they can live their best fat lives. Our community shoutout for this episode goes to Anuradha Kowtha of The Kowtha Constellation and the Sowing Post Capitalist Seeds.

In this episode I talk with Carolyn Collado (they/them), the founding steward of Recovery for the Revolution. They are a queer, non-binary Afro-Taino neurodivergent human in long-term recovery. They believe recovery from a decolonized, anti-oppression lens can point the collective towards liberation. We cover a lot of different topics in this conversation including what it means to be embodied, tips on how to practice embodiment, and why AA isn't for everyone. Our community shoutout for this episode goes to La Conextion and Sober Black Girls Club. Check them out and send them some love!

In this episode I talk with Christian Totty (she/her) from LOAM Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine about working with the breath as it relates to liberation and decolonization. Christian is of Black and Cusabo ancestry. She was born, raised, and currently resides on the traditional homelands of ​Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo), Shawandasse Tula (Shawanwaki/Shawnee) and Myaamia (Miami) relatives in the NW Ohio region. This episode's community shoutout goes to the Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust. Resources mentioned during our conversation include: Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor and Decolonization is Not a Metaphor by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang. You can also check out Christian's resource library on her website and @christiantotty on IG for more info. Other BIPOC and Queer breathwork practitioners Christian recommends are Chauna Bryant and Jennifer Patterson of Corpus Ritual. For more info on my work and how to support this show visit linktr.ee/jameepinedahealingarts.

In this episode, I ask Pooja Virani (she/her) about her journey with yoga, her ancestral practice, and what it means to decolonize it. You can find out more about Pooja's work on her website at www.poojavirani.com or on Instagram @poojaviraniyoga. This month's community shoutout goes to Jesal Parikh and Tejal Patel, co-hosts of the Yoga is Dead Podcast. Tejal also created ABCD Yogi to connect people with South Asian instructors. Show them all some love! For more info on my work and how to support this show visit linktr.ee/jameepinedahealingarts.

In this episode, Julz Bolinayen (they/them) and I discuss what it means to value practitioners of ancestral medicine. You'll also hear a bit of ear candy from Full Moon in Scorpio, a musical collab between Kimmortal and Julz. This month's community shoutout goes to herbalist and birthworker, Ale Abreu (she/her) of Canoe Journey Herbalists. For more info on my work and how to support this show visit linktr.ee/jameepinedahealingarts.

This is the inaugural episode of the Decolonizing Medicine Podcast. I'll be introducing myself, the work, and answering questions from community about this podcast. I'll also be highlighting No Justice No Pride. Please check out their work and show them some love. If you'd like to support this podcast via Patreon or for more information about my work visit: https://linktr.ee/Jameepinedahealingarts.