Podcast appearances and mentions of erica butler

In this conversation, Sarah and Erica Butler, PhDc, LMFT, the founder and executive director of Blue Ridge Eating Disorder Care Center, discuss the role of families in eating disorder recovery. They highlight the importance of families being involved and invested in the treatment process. They also discuss the challenges that families face, such as navigating higher levels of care and dealing with treatment trauma. They emphasize the need for open communication, collaboration with the treatment team, and ongoing support for both the individual with the eating disorder and their family. Erica provides tips for families transitioning from higher levels of care to outpatient treatment and discusses the challenges and complexities of parenting a child with an eating disorder. Sarah and Erica emphasize the importance of empathy, support, and collaboration in helping families navigate this difficult journey. They also highlight the need for education and awareness about eating disorders, as well as the harmful impact of diet culture on individuals and families. TakeawaysFamilies play a crucial role in eating disorder recovery and should be involved and invested in the treatment process.Open communication and collaboration with the treatment team are essential for successful recovery.Families may face challenges such as navigating higher levels of care and dealing with treatment trauma.Ongoing support and involvement from the family are important for long-term recovery.Transitioning from higher levels of care to outpatient treatment requires careful planning and coordination with the treatment team. Parenting a child with an eating disorder can be challenging and distressing, and it requires empathy, support, and collaboration.There is a lack of education and awareness about eating disorders, which often leads to delayed recognition and intervention.Diet culture plays a significant role in the development and perpetuation of eating disorders, and it is important to challenge and change harmful beliefs and behaviors.Treatment for eating disorders should be person-focused and incorporate a health-at-every-size approach, focusing on overall well-being rather than weight or appearance.Support groups and therapy for partners and families are crucial in navigating the complexities of eating disorders and maintaining healthy relationships.Residential treatment centers like Blue Ridge provide specialized care for adolescents with eating disorders, offering individualized treatment plans and a supportive environment.Be sure to check out Erica and her team at Blue Ridge at https://www.blueridgetreatment.com/ and on Instagram at @blueridgetreatmentpaThanks for listening to Reclaim You with Reclaim Therapy!To learn more about Reclaim Therapy and how to work with a therapist on the team, head to https://www.reclaimtherapy.org.Be sure to comment, like and subscribe here, or on YouTube and come follow along on Instagram!

Erica Butler is a reporter for CHMA in Sackville.

Alexandre Boudreau, Erica Butler and Jamie Gillies discuss a possible early election, the ongoing flap over Policy 713 and the prospect of cost-of-living relief.

You have questions; we have answers!  Lauren Herell and Erica Butler join the VVV podcast for a live podcast recording where we answer burning questions from the audience. We cover questions around consent and lube, bringing up difficult conversations with partners, specific sex questions, and so much more! You can find Lauren Herell @ohyeahcoaching and Erica Butler @happesextalk on all socials. Enhance your self-awareness by acknowledging and understanding your behavior patterns, and foster a deeper connection with your inner self. Get the Unleashing My Power: A Women's Empowerment and Gratitude Journal to reclaim your personal power through the practice of daily gratitude and reflection. Learn more HERE. Follow Jordan D'Nelle on Facebook and Instagram. Email: JordanDnelle@VaginasVulvasandVibrators.com Support the Vaginas, Vulvas, and Vibrators podcast! Leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews help this podcast impact more lives! Subscribe to Vaginas, Vulvas, and Vibrators on iTunes if you haven't already! *Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and/or entertainment purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. jordandnelle.com  

Erica Butler is the news director at CHMA in Sackville. She's reporting on the closure and the reaction.

Erica Butler is the news director at CHMA in Sackville.

We'll talk about the Official Language Act and the idea of moving to privatize the school bus system and make it bilingual with this week's panelist Erica Butler, the news director at CHMA in Sackville, Michelle LeBlanc with Radio-Canada and CBC's Jacques Poitras.

(Interview starts at 1.53) Welcome to Season Four of the Untaming Podcast! It is currently the New Waking Moon here in the Southern Hemisphere. Erica Butler is a sexual health educator, speaker, and advocate working to educate her community about sexuality in a healthy, affirming, and honest way. She has been in the sex ed field since 2005, and obtained her Masters in Human Sexuality Education from the Center for Human Sexuality Studies at Widener University. Erica is the founder of happesextalk, a company with the philosophy that medically accurate, affirming and comprehensive sex education is a basic human right. Further Information: Erica's IG: @happesextalk Happesextalk Website: https://www.happesextalk.com/ Happermations Website: https://happermations.com/ Erica's FB: happesextalk Erica's Email: erica@happesextalk.com Untaming Contact: FB: https://www.facebook.com/Untaming-396582437559159/ IG: @untaming_podcast Twitter: @UntamingP Email: untaming.podcast@gmail.com https://anchor.fm/emily033

​​​​Where is New Brunswick health care headed? We ask our political watchers, one week after the big shake-up. Khalil Akhtar speaks with Jamie Gillies and Erica Butler.

Where is New Brunswick health care headed? We ask our political watchers, one week after the big shake-up. Khalil Akhtar speaks with Jamie Gillies and Erica Butler.

Where is New Brunswick health care headed? We ask our political watchers, one week after the big shake-up. Khalil Akhtar speaks with Jamie Gillies and Erica Butler.

On the latest episode of Take Control Podcast Brandi and Kim sit down with Educator and founder of Happ E. SexTalk, Erica Butler. We break down what it means to give consent, being a progressive parent when it comes to sex and what it means to truly enjoy yur sexual experiences as women. You can follow Erica on instagram,https://instagram.com/happesextalk?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= follow Happermations https://instagram.com/happermations?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Our political watchers Erica Butler and Jamie Gillies chat with Vanessa Vander Valk about the federal Conservative leadership debate and check in at home as the NB legislature resumes sitting.

[Icon Photo: Victim Doris Roberts]Continuing the hard-fought battle for justice on behalf of victims Sonora Allen, Doris Roberts and Erica Butler, we will hear in Part 2 more about:·         The testing of untested sexual assault examination kits using grants·         Victim Erica Butler is found dead in 2006·         Bizarre behavior in a suspect interview that seems to shore up his involvement·         Another DNA sample that did not hit and in fact aided in exoneration·         “Congratulations, my friend, you have a serial killer” Marcie Adkins·         Feeling the heat on the investigation get turned up in the PD·         A witness provides a broad description of a suspect·         A 1993 kit is processed where an 83 year old woman was raped in her home.  She provides a more narrow suspect description·         Another suspect is identified and launches an in depth investigation that included detail cleaning an entire parking lot, with a crazy endingShow Notes, and Transcript are HERE.Smells Like HumansLike spending time with funny friends talking about curious human behavior. Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Garden Basics with Farmer FredThe healthiest food you can eat is the food you grow yourself. We have the tips!Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifyGo to the Murder Police Podcast Merch Store HERE

Comprehensive, medically accurate, pleasure-based sex education is something we all need but rarely have access to. Join Dr. Meghna Mahambrey in exploring this topic with Erica Butler, founder of Happ E. Sextalk who has been using her voice to educate her community about sexuality in an open and affirming way. In addition to touching on how sex education can be used to combat health disparities within the black community, Erica sheds light on some of the many things lacking in traditional sex education: accurate portrayals of consent, discussions about self-pleasure, learning how to advocate for your own sexual health, and how outdated standards for sex education persist even in medical school.Hosted by Dr. Meghna Mahambrey. To learn more about all the cool things we do at SPARK including public workshops, one-on-one relationship coaching, corporate/private events, and guest speaking, visit https://www.sparkwithmeghna.com/

There's a lot of news this week for our panel of politics watchers panel to talk about, as MLAs prepare to return to the legislature on Tuesday. Jacques Poitras, Erica Butler and Jamie Gillies join us.

Erica Butler and Jamie Gillies look at the changes the province has made in addressing the pandemic, including bringing back the emergency order. They also touch on the federal election results.

Jacques Poitras, Erica Butler and Jamie Gillies look at the final week in the federal election campaign, and the Higgs government's change in pandemic policy this week.

Jamie Gillies, Erica Butler and Jacques Poitras talk about the only English language debate of the federal campaign and the ridings to watch here in New Brunswick.

For the very LAST episode of Season One, The Okay Keep It SexE! host, Erica Butler (@happesextalk) had the phenomenal Chris Crump (@christhecurator_; @mrsstrands) on the show to talk about the realities of sex scenes in media, the oversaturation of twerking, porn in relationships, pressures in the Black community to perform a certain way sexually to “keep ya man,” the social construct of virginity, differences in sex drives, and of course sexual pleasure! We hope you enjoy the episode as much as we did choppin it up with one another! Thanks for hangin in for the first season! Make sure to stay connected to know when Season Two drops! Okay y’all, until next time, keep it SexE!

The topics such as STIs (sexually transmitted infections), birth control, sexual fantasies, and lack of sexual enjoyment can all be difficult conversations to have with our partners….but it doesn't have to be. Join The Eavesdrop as we interview sexual educator, Erica Butler as she gives us tips on how to speak to our partners about important sexual health topics, and even how to have the conversation with children as well! This is a very informative session…don't miss out! Follow Erica Butler on IG@happesextalk follow the Eavesdrop @ therealeavesdrop_podcast

A dramatic week in New Brunswick politics comes to an end -- but not before we convene our political panel. Erica Butler, Jaime Gillies and Pascal Raiche-Nogue join us to go through the top stories.

OKIS podcast host, Erica Butler, has Laurel Gourrier (@lgdoula) on the show! She’s a doula, a breastfeeding advocate extraordinaire, co-founder of the Birth Stories in Color Podcast (@birthstoriesincolor), mama of 2, wife & just an overall dope human being! Since we recorded this episode on Vagina Appreciation Day, discussions of the proudest moments of our vagina’s definitely kick things off, we also talk about the messages about our bodies we received growing up, orgasms (specifically just how many there are – trust me you’ll be surprised!), having open and honest communication about sex within our relationships, any first bad sex/relationship “mistakes” and lessons learned, and last but not least….Pelvic Floor Therapy & Kegels! We kinda cover a lot of things, but it’s an amazing conversation and hopefully, you learn something new! Be a part of the conversation and leave your comments below! Let us know how you’re feeling while listening and let us know what you want to hear from us in future episodes! Please continue to come back for new episodes every week, become a Sex E. Patron by subscribing monthly to our Patreon for exclusive content, merch and other products! Don’t forget to follow us everywhere with the handle @happesextalk! Make sure to like, share & subscribe to the podcast on Apple and Spotify, as well as the YouTube Channel for video recordings of the episodes! Okay y’all, until next week….remember to Keep it SexE!

In this brief episode, OKIS podcast host, Erica Butler, is talking sex toys, lube & the newest Happ E. Sextalk team members! Erica gives 4 things to consider about sex toys for yourself before talking to your partner(s) about them, ways to introduce sex toys not only into your relationship but in the bedroom! The two highly recommended vendors include Goody Howard with @askgoody at www.askgoody.com/adult-toy-store and Linnea Marie with @exx.xiteme at https://exxxiteme.com/shop (who also sells the lube referenced in the episode). I hope you find this content helpful, please leave your comments and questions for us to respond to! Make sure to follow @happesextalk on social media & check out additional ways to support us at https://linktr.ee/happesextalk!! Until next time, Keep it SexE y’all!!

In this episode, host Erica Butler, talks about Dwayne Wayne and his unwavering support for his daughter Zaya, Lil Mama’s response to trans youth existing in this country and her subsequent launch of a heterosexual rights movement. In response to that, Erica discuss the difference between sex and gender. In this week’s report of Fuck Boi News, you already know Derrick Jaxn, Kevin Samuels and Steve Harvey are on the chopping block. If you’re unfamiliar, I’m talking about the black men who have self-proclaimed their roles as dating and relationship “gurus” while receiving notoriety and fame off the insecurities of Black women. Erica breaks down how the collective behaviors of these men are predatory. Be a part of the conversation and leave your comments below! Let us know how you’re feeling while listening and let us know what you want to hear from us in future episodes! Please continue to come back for new episodes every week, become a Sex E. Patron by subscribing monthly to our Patreon for exclusive content, merch and other products! Don’t forget to follow us everywhere with the handle @happesextalk! Make sure to like, share & subscribe to the podcast on Apple and Spotify, as well as the YouTube Channel for video recordings of the episodes! Okay y’all, until next week….remember to Keep it SexE!

Listen to the host, Erica Butler chop it up with her friend and overall dope person, Tiffany Williams of ModernBlendedLife! We start with a round of “rapid fire” questions that cover things like funniest sexual experience, most interesting sex fact, favorite sexually liberated icon, first porno experience, strongest sexual asset, and so much more! We also dive into finding yourself as a sexual being after pregnancy and childbirth, motherhood, maintaining moments of intimacy and pleasure with ourselves and within our relationships (especially during COVID), and the orgasm gap phenomenon! As always, check out our Patreon Page and become a Sex E. Patron to get exclusive content among many other perks! Okay, Keep it SexE until next week y'all! Thanks for listening!

In our debut episode you meet the host Erica Butler, learn The "Okay, Keep It SexE!" Podcast was created because she wanted a space to speak freely, provide un-filtered and un-censored dialogue about sex, sexuality, pleasure, and all the great things. Erica hopes to create an atmosphere that makes you feel like you're in the room, kickin it, yellin back at her and swapping stories! Make sure to visit the shiny new website AND patreon page, where you can subscribe for exclusive content and goodies! Okay y'all, Keep it SexE in these streets! Come back next Friday for our next episode, featuring a very special guest!

In this episode of the Knowledge Cast, EK CEO Zach Wahl speaks with Erica Butler, Senior Manager of Knowledge Management at Mountain America Credit Union. Erica has worked at Mountain America Credit Union (MACU- a federally chartered credit union headquartered in Utah) since 2017, where she leads a Knowledge Management team in a forward-looking digital space. Capitalizing on her passion for visual and written content paired with an innovative, human-centered approach, MACU developed a revolutionary resource for knowledge sharing across their dispersed workforce, connecting people with crucial information. Focused on data analytics, Erica and her KM team have proven real ROI with correlated impacts on business outcomes. Prior to joining MACU, Erica excelled in a number of communications roles within the Healthcare and Finance industries. While working at General Electric (GE Capital Financial), she earned a Green Belt in Six Sigma process improvement methodology. She received a Bachelor's of Science from Westminster College. Erica is a Master's of Interdisciplinary Studies candidate at Southern Utah University and just completed her Remote Work Leadership professional certificate.

Erica Butler, founder, and Sex Educator for Happ E. SexTalk, an education consulting company focused on challenging the media and cultural messages pertaining to female sexuality, body image, and sexual pleasure – specifically the historically negative and hypersexualized images of Black female sexuality. Erica shared her birth story with us, discussed her work and its importance in reproductive health and justice.Erica opened up about both of her pregnancies. The first pregnancy was without complications and only mild nausea but eventually led to an emergency surgical birth. Her personal connection to a local doula organization, ROOTT, allowed her and her husband to envision birth with a new lens during her second pregnancy. She found herself healthily losing weight as she shifted her diet with her doula's support and recommendations. She managed a gestational diabetes diagnosis with her diet as well. Identifying stressors during pregnancy helped Erica to understand how her body worked. Despite her best plans and she was met with placenta previa that would lead to a scheduled surgical birth. The delivery went well, but the postpartum experience was met with low blood sugar levels, lactation issues, medical provider issues, and anxiety. Erica and her husband, David, leaned into their own strength and village for support to help them.Resources:Sex Positive Families | education and resources that help families raise sexually healthy children using a shame-free, comprehensive, and pleasure-positive approachAMAZE | provides young adolescents around the globe with medically accurate, age-appropriate, affirming, and honest sex education onlineGuttmacher | leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the United States and globallyBedsider | free birth control support network for women ages 18–29Dr. Lexx Brown-James l couples clinician and sex educatorSponsors:Restoring Our Own Through Transformation (ROOTT) | reproductive justice organizationROOTT is a collective of concerned Black families, community members, advocates & interdisciplinary professionals dedicated to decreasing Black maternal & infant mortality in Ohio. ROOTT's mission is to comprehensively restore our collective well-being through collaboration, resource allocation, research & re-empowerment, in order to meet the needs of Black parents & families. If you and your family are planning, pregnant, or in your postpartum period, please reach out to ROOTT at www.roottrj.org. Financial assistance is available. You can also connect with ROOTT at 614-398-1766 or email general-info@roottrj.org

This episode is the final conversation on 'Lessons From Half Dome.' I want to thank my guests, Robina Bennion, Erica Butler, and Brenda and Brandon Hawkins. Get ready for them to inspire you that some of our best discoveries are on the other side of our fear. www.humanswithfaith.com 

Welcome to the very first installment of Teach Me How To Love You Better. This is a segment presented by Dergobj and Change The Subject. The purpose of this is to create a safe space for women to keep it real with men. But the beauty of this is that men are NOT being argumentative in this space. We are actually here to listen, encourage, and support our queens in a conducive way. And in turn, we learn something about the women we intend to love. Our first host is a queen by the name of Erica Butler. She has branded herself and a movement called The Brown Girl Experience. This woman is an incredible mind who shared so many things about herself, her sisters, and the honorable men she has encountered in life. We spoke on so many subjects...like her experiences with having a chronic illness called Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS). She talked dating men with a chronic illness, and how it effects her relationships with men. And then...we got into her constructive criticisms of men. Luckily for men...it wasn't as harsh as we thought. The focal point of Erica's views were centered around Identity. How men tend to place margins on women with various excuses and tactics that actually have nothing to do with them. She even addresses things that women do to women, in terms of identity. The conversation was very healthy and informative...and Erica does an exceptional job at getting her points across without making men or women feel uncomfortable or persecuted (which she also talked about as well)... There are so many great points in this hour long installment. I truly hope that the people enjoy this....and that this is a step in the right direction for reconnecting and communication between men and women. Without further ado...here is Lesson 1: Identity by Erica Butler "The Brown Girl"

Author(and former Coast columnist) Lezlie Lowe is in studio chatting about her new book, No Place To Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs. Then journalist Erica Butler drops by to dissect HRM's Regional Plan and its impact on the city. All this plus fast ferries, stolen deer head sculptures and publisisters. The Coast presents: 25 for 25. A year-by-year audio archive. Through the lens of the city's alt-weekly, editors Jacob Boon and Tara Thorne bring you the stories that shaped Halifax over the past quarter-century The Coast Twitter: @TwitCoast The Coast (online) thecoast.ca Tara Thorne twitter: @thorneyhfx Jacob Boon twitter: @RWJBoon

When it comes to environmental justice, are environmental organizations listening? Are we willing to change in the ways that we are being asked? Environmental justice movements define our environment more broadly than the mainstream environmental movement, recognizing the interconnectedness of the social and ecological crises we are facing. Centring the voices of Black, Indigenous and people of colour, environmental justice works to resist and reshape the ways that race, space and power intersect. These grassroots advocates have also repeatedly called on mainstream environmental organizations to address environmental racism, elitism in the movement, and lack of diverse representation on their staffs and boards. As questions around diversity, decolonization, and justice begin to gain more traction in mainstream social movements, environmental organizations are beginning to respond. But the path is messy and uncertain. As Ecology Action Centre‘s Joanna Bull describes: “We don’t actually even see what were being asked to do yet, I don’t think. We being the environmental movement. I don’t think we fully understand what is seen as problematic about the way we are now. And I think a lot of those things that are problematic are really deeply entrenched with the structure of how we exist.” In this episode we’re going to explore some of the ways that the environmental movement has responded to the challenges presented by environmental justice, including some stories of Ecology Action Centre’s own journey here in unceded Mi’kmaq territory. We’ll be asking some uncomfortable questions as part of this work to explore our complicity with the oppressive systems we are fighting. We’ll be practicing listening to environmental perspectives from outside of our bubble. And we’ll be wondering about our own roles and responsibilities when it comes to a just future here in Mi’kma’ki and beyond. We don’t have any answers, but we want to share the questions we have been asking so far, in the hopes that more of us can begin to share this messy work of shifting from good intentions to good practice. As Dr. Carolyn Finney suggests, these questions are just the beginning: “Maybe what we need to do is to be asking different questions. Maybe what we need to do is to restructure the way we’re in relationship to one another across difference. And that is a lot more work. It might change everything we’re doing.” We hope you’ll tune into this Shades of Green podcast episode, “Listen Up: On Building Relationships Across Difference in the Environmental Movement.” Stay curious with us as we dig into some juicy questions that challenge us to step up to the work of building a just future together. Featured Voices: Joanna Bull Eriel Deranger Dr. Carolyn Finney Barbara Low Randolph Haluza-Delay Lynn Jones Stephen Thomas Dr. Ingrid Waldron Quotes have been condensed here for clarity and brevity. Huge thanks to every one of the ears and voices that made this episode possible. Further thanks to Joanna Brenchley, Erica Butler, Cintia Gillam, Jen Graham and Peter Lane. Our theme was composed by the incredible Nick Durado. We are also grateful for permission from Ansley Simpson to excerpt from her lovely song A Mixture of Frailties. This project has been supported by Ecology Action Centre and the Community Conservation Research Network Subscribe on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, or Feedburner. And follow us on Twitter! Further Reading: https://shadesofgreenweb.wordpress.com/2018/03/01/listen-up-building-relationships-across-difference-in-the-environmental-movement/

This week, we talk with Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler about all things transit. Also: Linda Pannozzo’s latest investigative piece about plans to pipe effluent from the Northern Pulp Mill into the Northumberland Strait, and Jennifer Henderson on the rights of people with mental disabilities.

"We are all Treaty people". It's a phrase we're hearing more often these days. But what does it really mean, here in Mi'kma'ki? And what does it have to do with environmental justice? Most settlers don't think about the Treaties much. Even here in unceded Mi'kmaq territory, many of us imagine them as one-time transactions in the deep past. However, as we'll hear in this episodes of Shades of Green, many Mi'kmaq rights holders understand the Peace and Friendship Treaties as sacred, living agreements. As Sipekne’katik District Warrior Chief Jim Maloney puts it: “I agree that we are a treaty people, and I have heard the Premier say that. His Treaty is on paper. My Treaty is on land. My tracks on my ground: that’s my signature, not on a piece of paper.”   In this episode of Shades of Green, we spend time with frontline Water Protectors resisting the Alton Gas project at the Truckhouse and Treaty Camp along the banks of the Sipekne'katik River. Alton Gas is proposing to dump massive quantities of mined salt waste into the river, which would pose serious risks to the river ecosystem along with the health, livelihoods and rights of Mi’kmaw communities. Water Protector and Treaty Scholar Michelle Paul sums up what has brought folks to the front lines:  "There is no recipe for water. It is that simple. When water is gone that's it. From water is life, and without water there is no life." This Mi'kmaw-led resistance has asserted the Peace and Friendship Treaties in ways that are at once spiritual, political, and deeply practical. As Kukuwes Wowkis describes, "Last year when we built the Truckhouse seven of us from seven different districts threw our eel traps in the water. So right there, Alton Gas had to stop what they were doing with the brine because in our treaties, it’s our right to hunt and fish wherever we feel we can do that on Mi’kmaw territory.” We hope you’ll tune into episode three of our Shades of Green podcast series, “Peace, Friendship and Environmental Justice."  Join us at the treaty camp to get a taste of what it's like on the front lines of a movement that is so much bigger than stopping a single project. Let's listen and reflect on what what stopping a natural gas storage project has to do with Indigenous self-determination, how the Peace and Friendship Treaties might help us understand how to build just relationships with the land and each other, and what it means to be a Treaty person. Note: explicit language Featured Voices: Michelle Paul Kukuwes Wowkis (Madonna Bernard) Giju Muin (Paula Isaac) Catherine Martin Jim Maloney Quotes have been condensed here for clarity and brevity. Huge thanks to every one of the ears and voices that made this episode possible, and particularly the Water Protectors holding down the Truckhouse and Treaty Camp against Alton Gas. You can support this Mi'kmaw-led resistance here. Further thanks to Erica Butler and Peter Lane. Our theme was composed by the incredible Nick Durado. We are also grateful to Jeremy Dutcher for his rendition of the Honour Song.  Kepmite'tmnej, the Mi'kmaw Honour Song, was received in a sweatlodge by singer-songwriter George Paul in the 1980s.  This project has been supported by Ecology Action Centre and the Community Conservation Research Network Subscribe on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, or Feedburner.  And follow us on Twitter! Further resources available at: https://shadesofgreenweb.wordpress.com/2018/02/15/peace-friendship-and-environmental-justice/

Why are there so many garbage dumps close to African Nova Scotian communities? Why do Mi’kmaq communities experience food insecurity on their unceded territory? Who defines what counts as environmental racism? The roots of environmental racism run pretty deep in Nova Scotia. About 500 years deep. On this episode of Shades of Green, we get curious about the forces that have shaped how we relate to the land and to each other here in unceded Mi’kmaq territory. Colonization has wrapped the histories of Mi’kmaq rights holders up with communities of Acadians, Scots, Black Loyalists, Maroons, Planters, and more recent immigrant communities. These displacements and migrations set the scene for the environmental racism that we see here today. Before European colonizers arrived on these shores, Mi’kmaq communities had long been caring gently for these lands and waters. We talked to Roger Lewis about the violent disruption that colonial settlers brought with them. Roger is the Curator of Ethnology at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History and a member of Sipekne’katik First Nation: “Environmental racism, really, dates back to those Indian reserves. They go from the whole province of Nova Scotia to tiny reserves; from like 1,200 acres instead of 40,000 square miles. So they’re on the river in Shubenacadie because it’s the most productive area, and then all of a sudden they’re up in Shubenacadie (Reserve)with no access to rivers.” Some European settlers brought enslaved African peoples to Mi’kma’ki. After the American Revolution, colonial governments also promised freedom, equality and land to Black Loyalists and other Black refugees coming northwards. Spoiler alert: these promises were broken. As activist and Lincolnville resident James Desmond described the origins of his small African Nova Scotian community: "(Black Loyalists) were promised land after they landed here, and were granted 3000 acres. But not too long after the French Acadians arrived and the 3000 acres was re-granted to the French Acadians. That was a loss of our good fertile land and our economic base because of the attachment to the fishery.” In 1974, a large municipal dump opened one kilometre away from Lincolnville. Since then, the community has been concerned about the potential impacts of various contaminants, including cadmium, phenol, and toluene. When it closed in 2006, a large second-generation landfill almost immediately opened in the same location. Sadly, Lincolnville’s experience is echoed across African Nova Scotian and Mi’kmaq communities. These disproportionate impacts are part of a larger racist pattern of displacement and blocked access to land and resources. Join us as we pull back and take a bit of a long view, exploring some of the histories of colonization on these lands and how these severed relationships with the land connect to the environmental racism we see today. Thanks to the ears and voices that made this episode possible. Further thanks to Erica Butler and Jen Graham. This project has been supported by Ecology Action Centre and the Community Conservation Research Network Subscribe on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, or Feedburner. And follow us on Twitter! Further reading etc here: https://shadesofgreenweb.wordpress.com/2018/02/08/s2ep2/

What is environmentalism? What do we mean when we talk about “the environment” here on unceded Mi'kmaq territory? Who defines what's included in that meaning, and what's left out?  At Shades of Green, these juicy questions have led to... well, more questions.  The Canadian Encyclopedia tells us that the environmental movement got started in the early 1900s, "when conservationists aimed to slow the rapid depletion of Canadian resources in favour of more regulated management.”  It sounds like a time where settlers were beginning to sense that the forests of Turtle Island weren't as endless as they'd once seemed. When we talked to Mi'kmaq rights holder and land defender Barbara Low, she described the origins of environmentalism a little differently. “When settlers started showing up we were doing our best to show them how to be human beings, like us. 'We’re the human beings and this is how the human beings interact with the trees and the rocks and the beavers and the deer and the moose'. They wouldn’t listen... they were just going to go on their way. And so they went on their way. Now a few hundred short years later, they come around and they are like, 'We need to save the environment!' 'Join us!" Environmentalism has shifted and changed over time, but as we'll hear in this episode, the movement is still shaped by colonial thinking, including unacknowledged racism and paternalism. As Dr. Carolyn Finney told us: "A student asked me, ‘I don’t know how to say this... but it’s so interesting how in the environmental movement it seems people care so much about animals, but they don’t really care about black people. So what do we do with that?” I said, ‘well you just hit that on the head!’" We found that folks outside of the mainstream environmental movement tend to define “the environment” more broadly. Mi'kmaq artist and metal fabricator Tayla Paul summed it up like this:  "This is my environment too. Kjipuktuk. Halifax. This is where my ancestors are. This is where their bodies are buried in the ground. This is the environment. It’s not just about the trees and the undeveloped areas. It is definitely about those areas but it’s not just about those areas. It’s about the environment that we experience every day, and that includes the social environment." Environmental justice takes that expanded definition and works to highlight how race, space and power intersect in unjust ways across the land and in our communities. As poet and activist El Jones put it, "The environment isn’t unattached to police brutality, police shootings and mass incarceration of black people. For me, adding justice moves it beyond simply thinking in terms of land and environment to thinking about how space and race intersect and interact, and how poverty and space interact.” We hope you'll tune into our first Shades of Green podcast episode, "What is the Environment and Where is the Justice?"  Pause, listen and get curious with us as we explore some different ways of understanding ourselves, our environment, and our work to protect it.   Featured voices:  Dr. Julian Agyeman Eriel Deranger Dr. Carolyn Finney El Jones Mark Leeming Barbara Low Catherine Martin Tayla Paul Dr. Cheryl Teelucksingh Dr. Ingrid Waldron Quotes have been condensed here for clarity and brevity. Huge thanks to every one of the ears and voices that made this episode possible. Further thanks to Joanna Brenchley, Erica Butler, Jen Graham and Christen Kong. Our theme was composed by the incredible Nick Durado. We are also grateful for permission from Lido Pimiento to excerpt from her gorgeous song Humano.  This project has been supported by Ecology Action Centre and the Community Conservation Research Network Subscribe on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, or Feedburner. And follow us on Twitter!                        For further reading, visit the original post at ShadesofGreenweb.wordpress.com/Season2Ep1

It's your Favorite Brothers back with another episode.. Episode 47 to be exact. We have a Special guest The Host of "The Browngirl Experience" Erica Butler. Together we chop it up about Rob Kardashian, Power episode 2, Carmelo Anthony doesn't watch Lala Sex Scenes, The Fast and Furious might be losing a star, Jay-Z and More Email us: mybroandmepodcast@gmail.com https://twitter.com/Podcastbrothers https://twitter.com/The_Browngirl Merch: https://teechip.com/stores/podbros http://www.audibletrial.com/podbronet (get a free audiobook ) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/podbros/message Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-podcast-brothers/donations