Podcast appearances and mentions of aurora levins morales

Join us for a special worship service at First Unitarian Church of Dallas, where we are honored to welcome writer, artist, historian, and activist Aurora Levins Morales as our guest minister. Aurora Levins Morales is a Puerto Rican author, artist, activist, and historian. Her writing and activism persistently imagine a world in which the personal is understood as political and vice versa, the complexities of identity and heritage are explored rather than erased, and structures of oppression (racism, classism, sexism, imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, etc.) are recognized as interlocking, such that they must be simultaneously challenged to be dismantled. Her contributions have been critical to third wave feminism and its evolution, Puerto Rican and Latinx feminism, disability justice, radical Judaism, climate change activism, and grassroots organizing. First Unitarian Church of Dallas is devoted to genuine inclusion, depth and joy, reason and spirit. We have been a voice of progressive religion in Dallas since 1899, working toward a more just and compassionate world in all of what we do.   We hope that when you come here your life is made more whole through experiences of love and service, spiritual growth, and an open exploration of the divine. Learn more at https://dallasuu.org/   New sermon every week. Subscribe here: https://tinyurl.com/1stchurchyoutubesubscribe Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1stuchurch/ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1stUChurch Watch the livestream on Sundays at 9:30am, 11am, & 7pm CST: https://dallasuu.org/live/ Œ

In this sermon, acclaimed poet, activist, and historian Aurora Levins Morales shares how she practices hope in an age of despair. “We were made for these times,” she reminds us, quoting Clarissa Pinkola Estés. As corporate greed escalates and injustice deepens, Aurora draws on her Puerto Rican Jewish ancestry, liberation theology, and the global struggles of oppressed peoples to offer her vision: Another world is not only possible, it is necessary. Aurora Levins Morales is a Puerto Rican author, artist, activist, and historian. Her writing and activism persistently imagine a world in which the personal is understood as political and vice versa, the complexities of identity and heritage are explored rather than erased, and structures of oppression (racism, classism, sexism, imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, etc.) are recognized as interlocking, such that they must be simultaneously challenged to be dismantled. Her contributions have been critical to third wave feminism and its evolution, Puerto Rican and Latinx feminism, disability justice, radical Judaism, climate change activism, and grassroots organizing.

In Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-Of-Color Writing (Duke UP, 2025), Jina B. Kim develops what she calls crip-of-color critique, bringing a disability lens to bear on feminist- and queer-of-color literature in the aftermath of 1996 US welfare reform and the subsequent evisceration of social safety nets. She examines literature by contemporary feminist, queer, and disabled writers of color such as Jesmyn Ward, Octavia Butler, Karen Tei Yamashita, Samuel Delany, and Aurora Levins Morales, who each bring disability and dependency to the forefront of their literary freedom dreaming. Kim shows that in their writing, liberation does not take the shape of the unfettered individual or hinge on achieving independence. Instead, liberation emerges by recuperating dependency, cultivating radical interdependency, and recognizing the numerous support systems upon which survival depends. At the same time, Kim demonstrates how theories and narratives of disability can intervene into state-authored myths of resource parasitism, such as the welfare queen. In so doing, she highlights the alternate structures of care these writers envision and their dreams of life organized around reciprocity and mutual support. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award Jina B. Kim is Assistant Professor of English and the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Smith College. Kim is a scholar, writer, and educator of feminist disability studies, queer-of-color critique, and contemporary multi-ethnic U.S. literature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

In Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-Of-Color Writing (Duke UP, 2025), Jina B. Kim develops what she calls crip-of-color critique, bringing a disability lens to bear on feminist- and queer-of-color literature in the aftermath of 1996 US welfare reform and the subsequent evisceration of social safety nets. She examines literature by contemporary feminist, queer, and disabled writers of color such as Jesmyn Ward, Octavia Butler, Karen Tei Yamashita, Samuel Delany, and Aurora Levins Morales, who each bring disability and dependency to the forefront of their literary freedom dreaming. Kim shows that in their writing, liberation does not take the shape of the unfettered individual or hinge on achieving independence. Instead, liberation emerges by recuperating dependency, cultivating radical interdependency, and recognizing the numerous support systems upon which survival depends. At the same time, Kim demonstrates how theories and narratives of disability can intervene into state-authored myths of resource parasitism, such as the welfare queen. In so doing, she highlights the alternate structures of care these writers envision and their dreams of life organized around reciprocity and mutual support. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award Jina B. Kim is Assistant Professor of English and the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Smith College. Kim is a scholar, writer, and educator of feminist disability studies, queer-of-color critique, and contemporary multi-ethnic U.S. literature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-Of-Color Writing (Duke UP, 2025), Jina B. Kim develops what she calls crip-of-color critique, bringing a disability lens to bear on feminist- and queer-of-color literature in the aftermath of 1996 US welfare reform and the subsequent evisceration of social safety nets. She examines literature by contemporary feminist, queer, and disabled writers of color such as Jesmyn Ward, Octavia Butler, Karen Tei Yamashita, Samuel Delany, and Aurora Levins Morales, who each bring disability and dependency to the forefront of their literary freedom dreaming. Kim shows that in their writing, liberation does not take the shape of the unfettered individual or hinge on achieving independence. Instead, liberation emerges by recuperating dependency, cultivating radical interdependency, and recognizing the numerous support systems upon which survival depends. At the same time, Kim demonstrates how theories and narratives of disability can intervene into state-authored myths of resource parasitism, such as the welfare queen. In so doing, she highlights the alternate structures of care these writers envision and their dreams of life organized around reciprocity and mutual support. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award Jina B. Kim is Assistant Professor of English and the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Smith College. Kim is a scholar, writer, and educator of feminist disability studies, queer-of-color critique, and contemporary multi-ethnic U.S. literature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

In Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-Of-Color Writing (Duke UP, 2025), Jina B. Kim develops what she calls crip-of-color critique, bringing a disability lens to bear on feminist- and queer-of-color literature in the aftermath of 1996 US welfare reform and the subsequent evisceration of social safety nets. She examines literature by contemporary feminist, queer, and disabled writers of color such as Jesmyn Ward, Octavia Butler, Karen Tei Yamashita, Samuel Delany, and Aurora Levins Morales, who each bring disability and dependency to the forefront of their literary freedom dreaming. Kim shows that in their writing, liberation does not take the shape of the unfettered individual or hinge on achieving independence. Instead, liberation emerges by recuperating dependency, cultivating radical interdependency, and recognizing the numerous support systems upon which survival depends. At the same time, Kim demonstrates how theories and narratives of disability can intervene into state-authored myths of resource parasitism, such as the welfare queen. In so doing, she highlights the alternate structures of care these writers envision and their dreams of life organized around reciprocity and mutual support. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award Jina B. Kim is Assistant Professor of English and the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Smith College. Kim is a scholar, writer, and educator of feminist disability studies, queer-of-color critique, and contemporary multi-ethnic U.S. literature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/lgbtq-studies

In Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-Of-Color Writing (Duke UP, 2025), Jina B. Kim develops what she calls crip-of-color critique, bringing a disability lens to bear on feminist- and queer-of-color literature in the aftermath of 1996 US welfare reform and the subsequent evisceration of social safety nets. She examines literature by contemporary feminist, queer, and disabled writers of color such as Jesmyn Ward, Octavia Butler, Karen Tei Yamashita, Samuel Delany, and Aurora Levins Morales, who each bring disability and dependency to the forefront of their literary freedom dreaming. Kim shows that in their writing, liberation does not take the shape of the unfettered individual or hinge on achieving independence. Instead, liberation emerges by recuperating dependency, cultivating radical interdependency, and recognizing the numerous support systems upon which survival depends. At the same time, Kim demonstrates how theories and narratives of disability can intervene into state-authored myths of resource parasitism, such as the welfare queen. In so doing, she highlights the alternate structures of care these writers envision and their dreams of life organized around reciprocity and mutual support. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award Jina B. Kim is Assistant Professor of English and the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Smith College. Kim is a scholar, writer, and educator of feminist disability studies, queer-of-color critique, and contemporary multi-ethnic U.S. literature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, host Justice Shorter interviews renowned writer, artist, historian, and activist Aurora Levins Morales. Morales discusses the importance of funding and supporting disabled elders, who hold rich histories and perspectives that are often overlooked. She shares her "homemade theories" for getting through tough times, emphasizing the power of collectivizing struggles and sharing stories. Morales also talks about the critical work of preserving marginalized histories and preventing their erasure, calling on funders to support local, community-led projects. She expresses gratitude for the recognition she has received, while also candidly sharing her need for financial support to sustain her work and living situation. Morales' insights offer a compelling vision for how we can cherish and uplift the wisdom of disabled elders.Our podcast theme music is by Andre Louis and Precious Perez. Thank you to Recording Artists And Music Professionals With Disabilities (RAMPD) for connecting these talented disabled musicians with the Disability & Philanthropy Forum.Support Aurora: https://www.patreon.com/auroralevinsmorales

In this special episode Sascha sits down and talks with Jojo Donovan about trust and invitations. Jojo is good and wise and kind and perfect, as we find her always. Sascha (who is also good and kind and wise and perfect) feels lucky to be in a circle with jojo and the magic she pulls.You can follow Jojo's work online at sevenstonestarot.com; on Substack at sevenstonestarot.substack.com; and on Instagram @sevenstonestarot. You can book a Wayfinding session here.Referenced during the podcast:"Summons" by Aurora Levins Morales"Ready," song by Ahlay Blakely. You can learn about Ahlay's offerings at healingattheroots.com

  Join us as we delve into the powerful storytelling of Aurora Levins Morales, a writer, activist, and artist. Explore how her work amplifies marginalized voices, advocates for justice, and celebrates the resilience of oppressed communities. Reflect on the role of art in activism and its potential to inspire social change. This sermon is part of our Artists Who Inspire series – a journey into the world of artistic brilliance and spiritual resonance. We are delving into the lives, works, and philosophies of five remarkable artists who have left an indelible mark on the canvas of human expression. First Unitarian Church of Dallas is devoted to genuine inclusion, depth and joy, reason and spirit. We have been a voice of progressive religion in Dallas since 1899, working toward a more just and compassionate world in all of what we do.   We hope that when you come here your life is made more whole through experiences of love and service, spiritual growth, and an open exploration of the divine. Learn more at https://dallasuu.org/   New sermon every week. Subscribe here: https://tinyurl.com/1stchurchyoutubesubscribe Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1stuchurch/ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1stUChurch Watch the livestream on Sundays at 9:30am, 11am, & 7pm CST: https://dallasuu.org/live/ Œ

As we embrace this month's theme of humility, we are called to reflect on our individual needs within the vast expanse of community life. Join us at First Universalist this Sunday for a journey that promises to deepen our collective wisdom, cultivate understanding and love, and reinforce our community's bonds. This series is not just a retelling of age-old stories but a dynamic engagement with the themes that have shaped humanity's spiritual journey across millennia. Opening Hymn- Love Will Guide Us- Aimee K. Bryant, Paolo Dubuque (:29) Words of Welcome- Rev. Jen Crow (2:40) Building Community- Building Bridges- Aimee K. Bryant, Paolo Dubuque (7:54) Singing Together- Come and Go With Me- Aimee K. Bryant, Paolo Dubuque (12:25) Prayer and Meditation- Rev. Ashley Harness (14:18) Practice of Giving and Receiving- Rev. Ashley Harness, Lynn Broaddus (24:14) Offertory- Aimee K. Bryant, Paolo Dubuque (31:49) Readings- If bell hooks wrote I Corinthians by Tess Baumberger (34:42); poem by Aurora Levins Morales (36:47)- Lynn Broaddus and Rev. Jen Crow Anthem- No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim- Aimee K. Bryant, Paolo Dubuque (38:52) Message- Willing Love- Rev. Jen Crow (42:18) Benediction- Rev. Jen Crow (1:03:11)

Welcome to the first episode in our 2024 Winter Season, where we're exploring our vast connections. What does it mean that your body is composed of over 50% water? What do you already know about what it means to be hydrated, fierce, fluid, and purifying? Why are things so arid in our culture? This is some of what we explore in today's episode! To learn more about the upcoming workshop series on Caliban and the Witch, my 1:1 program, or other offerings, visit https://awildnewwork.com/ If you enjoyed this episode, please help get it to others by subscribing, rating the show, or sharing it with a friend! You can also pitch in to support the show once or monthly at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/meganleatherman Resources: About King Tides: https://www.oregonkingtides.net/ King Tides Fact Sheet: https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2014-04/documents/king_tides_factsheet.pdf Quote by Aurora Levins Morales, from her book “Silt: Prose Poems”: “This is the ceremony of our cells, each one a sip of water, a tiny ocean, a bubble on the bloodstream, inside our skins, beading up on our faces, trickling down our sweaty backs, dripping from our weeping eyes, offerings to the world. Then let the water in you call to the water in me. Let the water in our veins call to the water in the world, one river, one ocean, one rainstorm gathering over the dry places, ready to pour down quenching relief for the thirsty, and we are all of us thirsty.”

Listen to — or read along in the episode transcript — Jewish, Christian, and Muslim poems by Palestinians and their supporters. Poetry empowers us to imagine liberation that we can then work towards, together. Some pieces explore the Nativity story through this lens: Christmas joy must break bread with pain, birthing solidarity with all oppressed peoples. Talking Points: (0:00) Ross Gay on mixing pain and joy to birth solidarity; poetry as resistance (7:11) Aurora Levins Morales on the history of antisemitism + envisioning solidarity & interdependence in “Red Sea” (12:30) Najah Hussein Musa dispelling anti-Palestinian myths in “Bethlehem” (14:42) Avery Arden — “Christ is Barred from Bethlehem”  (17:48) Basman Derawi — memorializing a fun-loving friend killed in an airstrike in ”His Name Was Essa” (19:52) Hiba Abu Nada, killed in an airstrike, longs for safety in “I Grant You Refuge” (23:30) Rev. Munther Isaac & Avery Arden — Christ born into rubble (28:10) Refaat Alareer & Ibtisam Barakat — poetry helps us imagine the liberation we can then fight for (33:36) Avery Arden & Ainsley Herrick — “O Come O Come Emmanuel” rewritten for Palestine's plight Visit the episode transcript for all links to the various poems; here are some key resources: Rev. Munther Isaac's sermon "God Is under the Rubble in Gaza" Aurora Levins Morales' article "Latin@s, Israel and Palestine: Understanding Antisemitism" Fady Joudah's article "A Palestinian Meditation in a Time of Annihilation" The "We Are Not Numbers" project Refaat Alareer's lecture on poetry For shareable versions of my poems / song, visit binarybreakingworship.com. This show's theme song is "Aetherium" by Leah Horn. Find more episodes & resources at blessedarethebinarybreakers.com.

Episode 36 of The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast is available now!https://www.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/ It's called “Autobiography and MCS.”  It features a conversation with Sofia Varino, Ph.D. Sofia is a professor at the University of Potsdam in Germany. They specialize in gender studies, cultural studies and the environment.You'll hear Sofia explore how two writers, Aurora Levins Morales and Peggy Munson, as well as singer and  filmmaker Susan Abod document their personal experiences with the illness.  Thank you for listening! Please share your feedback with us. We love hearing from you.Sofia Varino, Ph.D. Chapter by Varino: Pathogenic (Auto)Ecologies: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Mechanisms in Environmental AutobiographyAurora Levins MoralesSusan AbodPeggy Munson Support the showIf you like the podcast, please consider becoming a supporter!Thank you very much! Support the podcast. Find the podcast on Patreon. If you like, please buy me a coffee. Follow the podcast on YouTube! Read captions in any language. Follow for all updates on social media:FacebookTwitterInstagramTikTok

Four journal prompts for you...Links & Resources… Big thanks to Monsieur Mo Rio for the music. To hear more: https://monsieurmorio.bandcamp.com/I share an excerpt of this poem, V'ahavta by Aurora Levins Morales: http://www.auroralevinsmorales.com/blog/vahavtaJoin the next New Moon Writing Gathering and support the Regarding Dew Letters here: https://regardingdew.substack.com/p/newmoonWriting Dash! (November 29-December 3) *free community offering* https://www.regardingdew.com/writing-dashRoot to Blossom Sessions: https://www.regardingdew.com/root-to-blossomGrowing a Writing Practice Pre-sale now open: https://www.regardingdew.com/growing-a-writing-practiceYoutube! https://www.youtube.com/@regardingdew

Washington was the city of my formation. It's where I arrived as an undergrad with a box of scribbled journals and a smoking habit. Also, where I smoked my last cigarette. It's where I met my husband and landed my first job, among many other firsts.Now that I've resided among the juniper and chamisa of the Southwest as long as I resided among the cherry blossoms, even a quick visit to the District is a swirl of tactile reconnection. I teach a philosophy workshop in the studio where I spent a decade studying the craft. I check in on my people. They check in on me. We scan each other's faces for how life's really been going. We grieve for the world together. I feel a private sense of relief when the owner of the teahouse still remembers me.Walking down the alphabetized streets of my old neighborhood feels meaningful in a way that's difficult to explain. I walk slowly, searchingly, in solitude. Things have changed in the years since I left. The brownstone's been painted. The streets seem weathered, which I attribute to a profusion of political protests of late. But there's muscle memory here. I find small signs of a previous life inside the life that's here. Here, a familiar maple tree; here, how shadow falls across the park at a certain time of day.Perhaps you have places you carry, too — places that invite your senses to return. Interestingly, the word “nostalgia” is from the Greek compound nostos (meaning ‘return home') and algos (meaning ‘pain'). To come home is to feel our way back. Somewhere in my body, a spool of memory begins to loosen. I sense the girl who lived here — who, for safe-keeping, tucked parts of herself away in apartments once shared with lovers and friends.“There is a common superstition that ‘self-respect' is a kind of charm against snakes, something that keeps those who have it locked in some unblighted Eden, out of strange beds, ambivalent conversations, and trouble in general. It does not at all. It has nothing to do with the face of things, but concerns instead a separate peace, a private reconciliation.” - Joan Didion, Slouching Towards BethlehemThe Latin root of respect means “to look again.” Joan Didion's treatment of self-respect eschews appearances and, instead, points to a quiet fortress of self-regard and forgiveness: “a separate peace, a private reconciliation.”David Keplinger, beloved poet and friend, describes Is and Was as “the first sparring gods.” A return to the country of Was is a sacred invitation to reckon with the parts we may have left behind. As we retrace our path, our practice is to notice, step by step — and, thereby, to integrate the emergence of what Was (or what wasn't or what could have been) in the light of what Is.We are speaking of the practice of inner reconciliation. Gandhi is often misquoted as encouraging us to “be the change we want to see in the world.” His actual teaching — the one from which the misquote derived — reads as follows:“We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.”Reconciliation, simply, is the restoration of relations. It can refer to past and present, private and public, or to the parts of a thing as they relate to the whole. In the absence of agreement, it's a commitment to the possibility of peaceful co-existence.We may feel powerless against the abject failures of humanity pouring out through our screens all day every day, but we are not. We but mirror the world, Gandhi says. This is not to say that centuries of collective trauma can be bypassed. They cannot. It's only to share a reminder that our own healing work does matter in service to the world in which we live together. We need not wait to see what others do, Gandhi advises. Even a pixel of change matters.Love remains our private mandate if we are to remember the just and necessary arch of our mutual fate. When we make room for our own human experience, we bring ourselves into the circle. When we pay attention with vital presence (which will also let us know when we need to shore up our own nervous systems against empathic overload), we train our humanity in thought, word, and action. Only then, rather than fear or de-humanization, love can fuel our advocacy, diplomacy, and service. Love can put all the posters up, rather than tear any of them down.In closing, a poem that paves a path for the imagination by Puerto Rican Jewish poet and activist Aurora Levins Morales:We cannot cross until we carry each other,all of us refugees, all of us prophets.No more taking turns on history's wheel,trying to collect old debts no-one can pay.The sea will not open that way.This time that countryis what we promise each other,our rage pressed cheek to cheekuntil tears flood the space between,until there are no enemies left,because this time no one will be left to drownand all of us must be chosen.This time it's all of us or none.- Aurora Levins Morales, “The Red Sea”Thank you for reading The Guest House. You're welcome to add your voice to the conversation with a comment or share this essay with a loved one. Get full access to The Guest House at shawnparell.substack.com/subscribe

Host Emiliano Lemus reviews the basics on herbal medicine making. Tune in for a how-to episode focusing on medicinal teas, tinctures, and oils. Emiliano shared resources for listeners seeking to be in support of Gaza, including Jewish Voice for Peace's calls to action and Build Palestine's Trusted Organizations to Donate to Palestine. Aurora Levins Morales' Patreon can be found here. The Bay Area Herbal Response Team's workshop “The Prepared Herbal Protester” can be found here. Follow The Herbal Highway on Facebook and Instagram @theherbalhighway. The post Medicine Making 101 – October 24, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

This week, we put Tu B'Shevat, the Jewish New Year of the trees, in conversation with AI (artificial intelligence) technologies like ChatGPT and Lensa AI. We weigh in on this debate (or socratic seminar, as April calls it) and think about our pacing as AI becomes an increasingly bigger part of our lives. Explore ChatGPT: https://chat.openai.com/chatFind Jo Kent Katz' website here: https://www.jokentkatz.com/Learn more about Ricardo Levins Morales: https://www.rlmartstudio.comLearn more about Aurora Levins Morales: http://www.auroralevinsmorales.com/Listen to our episode titled “Slow, deep, irreversible”: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1146023/11710644Discussion and reflection questions:What in this episode is new for you? What have you learned and how does it land?What is resonating? What is sticking with you and why?What feels hard? What is challenging or on the edge for you?What feelings and sensations are arising and where in your body do you feel them?Visit https://joyousjustice.com to learn more about Joyous Justice, LLC, our team, and  get connected &  involved in our community!Join our online community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/590922415522750Submit a question, insight, or topic or guest suggestion at https://joyousjustice.com/connectFind April's TikTok videos here: https://www.tiktok.com/@aprilavivabaskinFollow us on Instagram (@joyous.justice), Twitter, (@JoyousJustice), or Facebook (www.facebook.com/joyousjustice365)

We dig into a phrase (attributed to Ricardo Levins Morales) that we can and should apply to social justice movements and our lives more broadly: slow, deep, and irreversible. Mainstream American/Western society often prioritizes speed and urgency. This conversation gets into why that's often ineffective and can even be harmful. Anchoring in the “slow, deep, and irreversible” is immensely beneficial in our lives and in our movements toward decolonization and collective liberation. We also want to hear from you: what does slow, deep, and irresistible in your work and in your living look like for you?Register for our live online workshop, Roadmap to Resilience: https://joyous-justice.mykajabi.com/roadmapVisit https://joyousjustice.com to learn more about Joyous Justice, LLC and our team, or to get involved in our community.Reach out to us and submit a question, insight, or topic or guest suggestion at https://joyousjustice.com/connectLearn more about our podcast at https://joyousjustice.com/podcastCheck out our offerings and join one of our programs! https://joyousjustice.com/coursesFind April's TikTok videos here: https://www.tiktok.com/@aprilavivabaskin Follow us on Instagram (@joyous.justice), Twitter, (@JoyousJustice), or Facebook (www.facebook.com/joyousjustice365)Support the work our Jewish Black & Cherokee woman-led vision for collective liberation here: https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-workLearn more about Aurora Levins Morales: http://www.auroralevinsmorales.com/about-me.htmlLearn more about Ricardo Levins Morales:https://www.rlmartstudio.com/about/about-the-artist/Discussion and reflection questions:What in this episode is new for you? What have you learned and how does it land?What is resonating? What is sticking with you and why?What feels hard? What is challenging or on the edge for you?What feelings and sensations are arising and where in your body do you feel them?

So, we've reached the final chapter of our land series. An exploration that has taken us on a journey from movement on land, to belonging to land, to healing from land. And we're ending by daring to dream big! By pushing the boundaries of what our current society offers us, we're investigating what our world would look like if everyone in it had access to enough. By rejecting notions like exclusivity, division, conflict and suffering, we're proposing that Earth is an abundant land that can, and should, be shared. To do this, we reimagine ownership, challenge capitalism (as always) and even get a bit spiritual! With help from Guests Rachel Solnick from Miknaf Ha'aretz and Beth Stratford from London Renters Union, who together strike a beautiful balance between the ideological, the creative and the practical solutions we need. ---------- Learn - what is abundance? (4 mins 15 secs) Discuss - Beth Stratford, London Renters Union (12 mins) find them on Twitter/ Twitter (personal)/ Facebook/ Instagram Rachel Solnick, Miknaf Ha'aretz (45 mins) find them on Twitter (personal)/ Facebook/ Instagram Share - what can we all do? (1 hour 19 mins) ---------- Things we mentioned: Democratic Housing Episode; Interactive Map of the UK; Land for the Many Report; The UK's Path to a Doughnut-Shaped Recovery Report; Right to Roam; London Renters Union; Living Rent (Scotland); Acorn the Union; Greater Manchester Housing Action; Guide to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; Aurora Levins Morales; The Colors of Jews; There is nothing so whole as a broken heart; Positive Money; The Social Guarantee; Countryside and Rights of Way Act - gov.uk, Wikipedia; Land for Who Phase 1 Findings To discuss what you've listened to, head to our website (Untelevised.co.uk), Twitter, Instagram (both @untelevised_tv) or write to talk2untelevised@gmail.com

This week, we're bringing you Tracie and Joyous Justice's wisdom from a recent presentation at a colloquium entitled “Jewish Responses to the Loneliness Epidemic.” These past few years have seen a layering of multiple pandemics: Covid exacerbated and made plain so many injustices. Grappling with the weight of the world's sickness, grief, and trauma creates a specific kind of loneliness that compounds both inherited and personal trauma and has many of us believing we can only rely on ourselves. How can we counter isolation and our own scared-active urgency to do the holy, communal work of planting and tending the seeds that we want to grow, even when we're not physically gathered together?Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.comLearn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner.: https://joyousjustice.com/Support the work our Jewish Black & Cherokee woman-led vision for collective liberation here: https://joyousjustice.com/support-our-workRead about “scared active” in Cherie Brown's article “The Intersection of Racism and anti-Semitism: The ‘hook'”: https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/the-intersection-of-racism-and-anti-semitism-the-hook/Learn more about Aurora Levins Morales and read her poetry: http://www.auroralevinsmorales.com/

The healing justice movement is an intersectional and organized resistance to the state and state violence, but why is it so often misunderstood as simply an opposition to grind culture? In this episode, we discuss ableism, disability, healing justice, and the book Kindling by Aurora Levins Morales with one of our sheroes and teachers, Shira Hassan, co-founder of Just Practice and former Executive Director of the Young Women's Empowerment Project. This is a rich episode with so many gems of wisdom and raw vulnerability. It's one to listen to again and again (and again)! Listener's Note: This conversation includes mentions of sexual violence and abuse. Please listen with care. Transcript and key questions explored in this episode can be found at thelitreview.org.

"4. Sex is a human right. Being able to safely and freely experience sexuality is a facet of basic human functioning. Sexual violence takes away this sense of safety, and affects many aspects of a person's overall well-being. However, it is important to remember that not having sex is an important part of a person's right to safe sexuality and self-determination. Asexual individuals may feel romantic love and develop intimate relationships without a desire to engage in sex – this is a valid sexual orientation like any other. When working with asexual survivors, it is important to not assume their identity is the result of trauma. These assumptions often emerge from limiting views about gender and sexuality. Let survivors narrate their own story and do not make assumptions. Remember, “sex” includes an incredibly wide variety of behaviors far beyond heterosexual intercourse, including: self-love, erotic breath work, touch, physical intimacy without penetration and so much more. Finally, as Audre Lorde and Aurora Levins-Morales point out, whether we participate in “sex” in any “conventional” sense is not really important. What matters is that we do not lose our internal sense of the erotic aliveness of our bodies and the world around us. When we awaken our souls and bodies to pleasure, the choice to have or not have sex or engage in sexuality is not the result of trauma, but rather, our own agency, self-knowledge, and desire." "Fantasies are images or scenes that produce enjoyable feelings - they can range from brief thoughts or images to stories with detailed plotlines. They may deal with actual past experiences, purely imagined experiences, or a mixture of both. They can be non-sexual – e.g. fantasising about becoming a millionaire or being a world-famous rock star, and they can be sexual – fantasising about kissing your favourite celebrity, about having sex with a colleague or a friend, and so on. Some people fantasise during sex about being out-of-control or being forced to have sex against their will. There are many theories as to why people have rape fantasies and it is an area that is still very much taboo and hushhush in society. Some people believe that having a rape fantasy means that the person fantasising wants to be raped, some people believe that fantasising about rape means you are masochistic, some people believe that a rape survivor should not find fantasising about rape sexually arousing. Many survivors working through their sexual healing who have rape fantasies experience a lot of shame and confusion – they may feel disgusted with themselves for having a rape fantasy, they may feel that enjoying fantasising about rape invalidates the trauma that they went through, they may question if they actually wanted to be raped and so on. This article will discuss some of the main questions about rape fantasies that a survivor of sexual violence may have and hopefully assist in helping the survivor to understand their fantasies without shame and judgment. Remember of course that human sexuality is highly individual and there is no one-size-fits-all approach to understanding why we fantasise about the things we do - it is unlikely that all people have rape fantasies for the same reason." --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/antonio-myers4/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/antonio-myers4/support

Aurora Levins Morales, in conversation with Dori Midnight, dives into the transformative power of poetry, storytelling and radical genealogy. Aurora shares of her Puerto Rican and Ashkenazi roots, her experience with chronic illness, and imagines what is possible in a world of protective reciprocity.

In this episode our host, Dr. Su'ad Abdul Khabeer talks with Siddeeqah Sharif Fichman an Afro-Native Muslim and community advocate and Hazel Gómez, a faith-based community organizer, about Being Muslim on Turtle Island. This deep discussion digs into questions such as What would make a Muslim a settler or indigenous to North America? How might settler thinking shape how we live as Muslims today? What are the responsibilities of Muslims, as a whole, to the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas? During the conversation, Hazel reads the poem “Child of the Americas” by Aurora Levins Morales (shared below) and Siddeqah introduces us to the song “Bilalian Man” by Sister Khalifah Abdul Rahman.* To the question, if Black Islam had a theme song what would it be? Hazel chose “Allah” by Khalil Ismail and Siddeeqah chose “Bilalian Man” as her Black Muslim theme song. The song excerpt in the episode is sung by Siddeeqah's mother, Sister Sabreen Sharif and full lyrics are below. Not sure what Bilalian means? Check out this article by Precious Rasheeda Muhammad. Also be sure to check out the music of Afro-Native Muslim performing artist Maimouna Youseff (Mumu Fresh). *Siddeeqah misspoke in the episode and this particular song is by Sister Khalifah Abdul Rahman. On the Square theme music was created by Fanatik OnBeats. Artwork was created by Scheme of Things Graphics. --- Courtesy of Maydan Podcast.

In this week's episode, April and Tracie mark Sukkot and discuss themes around shelter, safety and security, and sacrifice, and the trade-offs that exist which this holiday helps to illuminate for us.Content warning: descriptions of animal slaughter/sacrificeCheck out our discussion/reflection questions for this episode:  https://joyousjustice.com/blog/jews-talk-racial-justice-ep-55Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.comLearn more about Joyous Justice where April is the founding and fabulous (!) director, and Tracie is a senior partner.: https://joyousjustice.com/Read more of Tracie's thoughts at her blog, bmoreincremental.comLearn more about Sukkot here:https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/sukkot-101/Check out, This is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared, by Alan Lew, here: https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/alan-lew/this-is-real-and-you-are-completely-unprepared/9780316739085/Learn more about the Shmita year here: https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/what-is-shemita-the-sabbatical-year/Learn more about MaNishtana (Rabbi Shais Rishon) here: https://manishtana.net/Check out Brené Brown's work on fragility here: https://brenebrown.com/April and Tracie talk about Aurora Levins Morales' forthcoming poem “Do Not Rise,” in which the poet unpacks the idea of “please rise” during worship and offers an alternate, earth-based, downward-striving spirituality. Learn more about Aurora Levins Morales here: http://www.auroralevinsmorales.com/

In this episode our host, Dr. Su’ad Abdul Khabeer talks with Siddeeqah Sharif Fichman an Afro-Native Muslim and community advocate and Hazel Gómez, a faith-based community organizer, about Being Muslim on Turtle Island. This deep discussion digs into questions such as What would make a Muslim a settler or indigenous to North America? How might settler thinking shape how we live as Muslims today? What are the responsibilities of Muslims, as a whole, to the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas? During the conversation, Hazel reads the poem “Child of the Americas” by Aurora Levins Morales (shared below) and Siddeqah introduces us to the song “Bilalian Man” by Sister Khalifah Abdul Rahman.* To the question, if Black Islam had a theme song what would it be? Hazel chose “Allah” by Khalil Ismail and Siddeeqah chose “Bilalian Man” as her Black Muslim theme song. The song excerpt in the episode is sung by Siddeeqah’s mother, Sister Sabreen Sharif. For more information see sapelosquare.com/onthesquare

In this episode our host, Dr. Su'ad Abdul Khabeer talks with Siddeeqah Sharif Fichman an Afro-Native Muslim and community advocate and Hazel Gómez, a faith-based community organizer, about Being Muslim on Turtle Island. This deep discussion digs into questions such as What would make a Muslim a settler or indigenous to North America? How might settler thinking shape how we live as Muslims today? What are the responsibilities of Muslims, as a whole, to the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas? During the conversation, Hazel reads the poem “Child of the Americas” by Aurora Levins Morales (shared below) and Siddeqah introduces us to the song “Bilalian Man” by Sister Khalifah Abdul Rahman.* To the question, if Black Islam had a theme song what would it be? Hazel chose “Allah” by Khalil Ismail and Siddeeqah chose “Bilalian Man” as her Black Muslim theme song. The song excerpt in the episode is sung by Siddeeqah's mother, Sister Sabreen Sharif and full lyrics are below. Not sure what Bilalian means? Check out this article by Precious Rasheeda Muhammad. Also be sure to check out the music of Afro-Native Muslim performing artist Maimouna Youseff (Mumu Fresh). *Siddeeqah misspoke in the episode and this particular song is by Sister Khalifah Abdul Rahman On the Square theme music was created by Fanatik OnBeats Episode Guests: Hazel Gómez graduated from Loyola University Chicago with double bachelor's degrees in Forensic Science and Biology. Currently, she is a faith-based community organizer with Dream of Detroit, a nonprofit that combines community organizing with strategic housing and land development to build a healthy community and empower a marginalized neighborhood; a neighborhood in which she also resides with her husband and children. In addition to being an advocate for women seeking traditional Islamic education, Hazel is studying the Islamic sciences with Rabata.org's Ribaat Academic Program under the tutelage of Shaykha Tamara Gray and other female shaykhas. She also dedicates her time as an advisor and board member to various nonprofits ranging from convert care and anti-racism work to bail reform. She is an avid reader of all things about Muslims in America and is interested in the research and creation of an authentic Latino Muslim experience. You can follow her on Facebook: Hazel Gómez Siddeeqah Sharif Fichman is the administrator for the Biophysics Research for Baltimore Teens program, an internship at Johns Hopkins University geared towards introducing scientific research to underserved youth in Baltimore City. She enjoys writing, traveling, and is an avid reader. Siddeeqah currently resides in Baltimore, MD, with her husband and three small children.

This week, we ponder creating your own separate traditions before returning to join the Jewish people, visions of angels and holy prosecuting attorneys, and calendars. Plus, some fun bonus stories of said prosecuting attorney messing with some rabbis. Full transcript here.Also, a neat fact that we didn't mention in the episode is that the Orit is the five books of the Torah, plus Joshua, Judges, and Ruth, written in Ge'ez rather than Biblical Hebrew; there's a picture here. Commedia dell'arte is an Italian theatrical genre popular in the 1400s, wherein the characters are stock caricatures that have the same names even in wildly different works. HaSatan doesn't map onto any of them particularly well, but does feel a little like Arlecchino. The Cheese Man appears in Buffy the Vampire Slayer s4ep22, "Restless." The stories of HaSatan come from Job, Kiddushin 81a, Bava Batra 16a, and Rosh Hashanah 16b. You can read Aurora Levins Morales' "V'ahavta" here. Also, here's Debbie Friedman's "Not By Might, Not By Power" and the lyrics to it.This week's reading was Zechariah 2:14–4:7. Next week's reading is Kings I 3:15–4:1.Our music is by the band Brivele. This week, our audio was edited by Lulav Arnow, and our transcript was written by Reuben Shachar Rose. Our logo is by Lior Gross, and we are not endorsed by or affiliated with the Orthodox Union.Support the show (http://patreon.com/kosherqueers)

  Welcome to a special turn of the decade episode of The Queer Witch Podcast! This episode features:   -A conversation with queer astrologer Ari Felix of Saltwater Stars about the details of how they became a professional astrologer, her predicitons for 2020 and their reflections on Libra Season 2019   -Anna Joy shares their 2020 prophecy - you heard it here first!   -Announcing The Queer Witch Challenge: 2020, a free challenge Anna Joy is running on instagram, Facebook and email starting December 27th 2019. For more details go to https://www.annajoyhealing.com/newsletter-subscription   -At the very end of the episode Anna Joy does a little read out loud storytime from Aurora Levins Morales' wonderful book Medicine Stories https://www.dukeupress.edu/medicine-stories special thanks to my Philadelphia host Tania for introducing me to Levins' work!   Links:   Ari Felix on instagram    Work with Ari    Anna Joy on instagram   The Queer Witch Community on Facebook   Join The Queer Witch Challenge: 2020

We spoke with Aurora Levins Morales about the Rimonim Liturgy Project, you can learn more & support at: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/rimonim-liturgy-project

On this episode, we spoke with Leo Ferguson and Aurora Levins Morales about the new resource, ‘Understanding Antisemitism: An Offering to our Movement,’ released in November by Jews for Racial and Economic Justice. We talked about the several-year process behind the resource, the monopoly the Jewish Right has had on this conversation, and why it's taken the Jewish left so long to offer this analysis. Show Notes: https://www.treyfpodcast.com/2018/04/04/36-understanding-antisemitism/

On this new episode of Murder Weather, Maritza and Audrey are thrilled to introduce Lexi Riese and the awe-inspiring rhythms of her vocal coords. Lexi sings two of her original songs for us: “Future’s Never Been Mine” and “In or Out,” ensuing a lively discussion about epigenetics, fate vs. free will and quoting Maritza’s Puerto Rican idol Aurora Levins Morales and, of course, because it’s Audrey, Harry Potter. We discuss personal stories of fear and rejection and how we've coped with not knowing what the future holds. Follow Lexi’s social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexiriesemusic/ Instagram: lexi.riese

Today on KPFA's Women's Magazine we talk to writer, artist, historian, chronic illness survivor and revolutionary activist and  healer Aurora Levins Morales about her work and her life.  Aurora has fought against chronic illness and toxicity of 21st century Capitalism for decades  and continues to tell stories with medicinal powers to shift our consciousness and change how we think about ourselves, each other and the world.  Her writing is lyrical and powerful.  Today we talk to her about her work and in particular her book “Kindling:Writings on the Body” where she explores the meanings of sickness and healing, suffering and pleasure, through the story of her own body, of all of our bodies,  of the body of the planet. The post Disability, the body and capitalism with Aurora Levins Morales appeared first on KPFA.

Introducing Letters from Earth, a new environmental justice podcast by Puerto Rican Jewish feminist writer Aurora Levins Morales, exploring the natural and social landscapes of our time.

We spoke with acclaimed author, activist, artist, and movement elder Aurora Levins Morales about her new podcast, Letters From Earth. We talked about her ongoing love affair with radio - from the feminist radio shows she produced in the 1970s, her time with the Third World News Bureau, and her contributions to Flashpoints on Pacifica. We ended with a preview of the show, a piece entitled Mothers. As of June 1, you can listen to Letters From Earth at https://soundcloud.com/auroralevinsmorales

On this episode, we took some time to reflect on changes in the Jewish political landscape following the US election. We spoke with Aurora Levins Morales about her recent article in the Nation, mentoring younger Jewish activists, and putting a Trump victory into historical context. We ended the show with our usual Shkoyach segment - David giving theirs to an anti-poverty group and Sam giving his to a Montreal neighbourhood. *EDIT: at the beginning of the show, David mentioned that 70% of Jews voted for Trump. They meant to say that this 70% voted AGAINST Trump. Show Notes: https://www.treyfpodcast.com/2016/12/02/24-aurora-levins-morales/

In this interview I am in conversation with poet and activist Amir Rabiyah. This is the first episode of "Waves Breaing," a podcast in which I, a lonesome transbaby, interview my contemporaries in trans and genderqueer poetry.    Help out Aurora Levins Morales at http://www.littlevehicleforchange.org/ and Amir Rabiyah's Hambidge Residency at https://www.gofundme.com/amirgoestohambidge

First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation is essential to the history and future of disability politics. Eli Clare's revelatory writing about his experiences as a white disabled genderqueer activist/writer established him as one of the leading writers on the intersections of queerness and disability and permanently changed the landscape of disability politics and queer liberation.  We interview Eli as the book is republished with a new introduction by Aurora Levins Morales. Loneliness and Its Opposite documents how two countries generally imagined to be progressive engage with the private realm of desire and sexuality for people with disabilities in very different ways. Denmark and Sweden are both liberal welfare states, but they diverge dramatically in these issues. In Denmark, the erotic lives of people with disabilities are acknowledged and facilitated. In Sweden, they are denied and blocked. We ask co-author Don Kulick, why these differences exist, and how do both facilitation and hindrance play out in practice? This is a fund drive program with Josh Elwood, Sheela Gunn-Cushman and Adrienne Lauby hosting.  Adrienne Lauby produces the program. Click Here to Donate to KPFA Today The post “Exile and Pride” – “Loneliness and its Opposite” appeared first on KPFA.