Podcast appearances and mentions of Mia Mingus

   Our guest on today's show is Ari, and we're talking about conflict in activist spaces and in community group settings.      Ari (they/them) is a community organiser, mediator and support worker who is passionate about exploring the transformative potential of generative conflict and accountability work. Working primarily in community organising settings, Ari believes that how we relate to each other directly impacts our political capacities, and that although large-scale political organising is vital, most change happens at the relational and community level. Their work is informed by abolitionist and transformative justice frameworks, which are ways of being and organising rooted in indigenous knowledge and BiPoc communities in which there have historically been other ways of dealing with conflict than the models white supremacy culture teaches us today. Authors and organisers who have inspired them greatly are Andrea Ritchie, adrienne maree brown, Mia Mingus, Mariame Kaba, Dean Spade and many more. When not organising workshops or supporting comrades in conflict resolution, they enjoy learning about generative somatics, dancing and moving their body and supporting community events. They grew up in Germany and are currently living on unceded Wurrendjeri Woi-Worrung Land.    Links: A really helpful resource is the booklet Working with conflict in our groups: A guide for grassroots activists produced by Seeds for Change UK. You can download the guide as a PDF file here https://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/downloads/conflictbooklet.pdf  Ari's workshop in Naarm/Melbourne at Black Spark Cultural Centre is on Sunday June 15 between 3.00-6.00pm. Registration is required as it's limited to a small group. Please complete the registration form if you're interested.  https://tinyurl.com/accountabilityws   Please note that for copyright reasons we cannot include the songs played on the show in the podcast. The songs have been added to the Freedom of Species Spotify playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3TJQujKYjGFoFP6LhBbaTS?si=bfcb55c3f7634f0e     The music we played on the show:   Trans 101 (Scarim) by Bobby Sanchez https://open.spotify.com/track/2qlHAUxjsB0mBpGOKSqNx3?si=4nyByc0tRmud5kNL1-rR4A        Cavaliers by Mansfield TYA  https://open.spotify.com/track/07F8ojojIcr19BWqHJFLyo?si=-x8qtJzcTc6oMpGKMD8rzw&nd=1&dlsi=eb00fc0e895541d3      A Bigger Cage is still a Prison by Cistem Failure https://open.spotify.com/track/29Klq6FWTjZg22v8eei9sZ?si=w1hftqycSxyIrqwfk5ERLw&nd=1&dlsi=3bbccd65c29f4e96    June is Radiothon month at 3CR Community Radio. The station needs your support to keep going and by donating you are investing in the future of 3CR.  Please tune in next Sunday June 15 at 1pm for Freedom of Species' Radiothon Animal Trivia show. We invite listeners to text in their answers to the trivia questions on 0488 809 855. If you would like to donate to Freedom of Species' 2025 Radiothon target of $1500, our GiveNow page is here: https://www.givenow.com.au/cr/freedomofspecies?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2jsVKFa8k    Thank you for listening and please feel free to contact us and share any feedback with us at freedomofspecies@gmail.com  

Our brains are one of the most adaptable and dynamic parts of the body. Brain injuries, however, can disrupt all facets of our lives from personality to relationships to how we move through the world. Even a minor concussion can have lingering effects to mood and executive functioning and attention that can slip under the radar. On this episode, I'm joined by a lived experiencer of traumatic brain injuries, Kayleigh Stack. She shares her story, not sparing any of the ups and downs and talks about managing pain and easing the nervous system.In this episode we discuss:the lesser known impacts of traumatic brain injuriesthe importance of nervous system regulationtypes of treatments for TBIhyperbaric oxygen treatmentdealing with chronic painthe power of story and resisting reductionist narrativesBioKayleigh is an activist, artist, community steward, and medicine woman. Over the past ten years, she has orchestrated spaces for people to share recorded audios of poignant histories and stories oriented around critical social and political narratives to be presented in an Oral History Performance Initiative: The Community Storytelling Composition Project. Above all else, she believes that sharing personal stories has the power to restore humanity and resuscitate life back into one another when in need. Because “if we don't share your stories, Who will?” (Mia Mingus 2018)Most of her work focuses on socio-political discourse, drawing upon performance as a subversive tool to generate conversation around a particular poignant or charged subject. Her educational background spans degrees in Sociology from Hunter College, NY, Anthropology from SUNY New Paltz, NY, a Masters in Traditional Chinese Medicine at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine where she became a Licensed Acupuncturist, and Masters of Oral History at Columbia University. Professional accomplishments include getting onto the Cirque du Soleil roster of Circus artists in 2014, Dance Oral Historian Assistant in New York Public Library's Library of Performing arts, Production Stage Manager with Roll the Bones Theatre at Dead Letter No. 9, Network Director of Zen Peacemakers International, and administration for a variety of reputable arts nonprofits. Currently she is Creative Learning Manager for the international civic production company, Forklift Danceworks. Outside of work, Kayleigh is often escaping into other worlds through reading, writing, or walking quietly in nature. Nowadays, mostly the latter.LinksKayleigh's  Linktreehyperbaric oxygen meta-analysis for tbi https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10072-015-2460-2 & https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/neu.2017.5225Resources:Find videos and bonus episodes: ⁠DEPTHWORK.SUBSTACK.COM⁠Get the book: ⁠⁠Mad Studies Reader: Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health⁠Become a member: ⁠The Institute for the Development of Human Arts⁠Train with us: ⁠Transformative Mental Health Core CurriculumSessions & Information about the host: ⁠⁠JazmineRussell.com⁠⁠Disclaimer: The DEPTH Work Podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Any information on this podcast in no way to be construed or substituted as psychological counseling, psychotherapy, mental health counseling, or any other type of therapy or medical advice.

Episode Notes On E377, I sit down with creator of "Access Intimacy" Mia Mingus. We talk about what access intimacy is, what it feels like; the links between abled supremacy and white supremacy, disability justice + so much more. Enjoy! Follow Mia Mingus at www.miamingus.com Episode Sponsors Clone-A-Willy or Clone-A-Pussy all your own and get 20% off sitewide by using coupon code DISABILITYAD20 at Checkout. www.cloneawilly.com Get 15% off your next purchase of sex toys, books and DVDs by using Coupon code AFTERDARK at checkout when you shop at trans owned and operated sex shop Come As You Are www.comeasyouare.com Join the Patreon and get the show days early and ad free at www.Patreon.com/disabilityafterdark This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Alice Wong is an acclaimed disabled activist whose work and writing has shaped the modern conversation around disability. As the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, her work foregrounds the stories of those living with disabilities and paints a vibrant picture of disability media and culture. In her latest book, Disability Intimacy, Alice uses her distinctive voice to highlight and curate stories of intimacy. More than sex, more than romantic love, the pieces in her stunning and illuminating new anthology offer broader and more inclusive definitions of what it can mean to be intimate with another person. * In this episode, Alice is joined in a conversation with writer, educator and trainer for transformative justice and disability justice Mia Mingus. Their conversation about Alice's life and work will free your thinking, invigorate your spirit, and delight your desires. * This episode was recorded during a live online event on June 18th, 2024. You can also watch it on the CIIS Public Programs YouTube channel. A transcript is available at ciispod.com. To find out more about CIIS and public programs like this one, visit our website ciis.edu and connect with us on social media @ciispubprograms. * We hope that each episode of our podcast provides opportunities for growth, and that our listeners will use them as a starting point for further introspection. Many of the topics discussed on our podcast have the potential to bring up feelings and emotional responses. If you or someone you know is in need of mental health care and support, here are some resources to find immediate help and future healing: * -Visit 988lifeline.org or text, call, or chat with The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline by dialing 988 from anywhere in the U.S. to be connected immediately with a trained counselor. Please note that 988 staff are required to take all action necessary to secure the safety of a caller and initiate emergency response with or without the caller's consent if they are unwilling or unable to take action on their own behalf. * -Visit thrivelifeline.org or text “THRIVE” to begin a conversation with a THRIVE Lifeline crisis responder 24/7/365, from anywhere: +1.313.662.8209. This confidential text line is available for individuals 18+ and is staffed by people in STEMM with marginalized identities. * -Visit translifeline.org or call (877) 565-8860 in the U.S. or (877) 330-6366 in Canada to learn more and contact Trans Lifeline, who provides trans peer support divested from police. * -Visit ciis.edu/ciis-in-the-world/counseling-clinics to learn more and schedule counseling sessions at one of our centers. * -Find information about additional global helplines at befrienders.org. * LINKS * Podcast Transcripts: https://www.ciispod.com/ * California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) Website: https://www.ciis.edu/ * CIIS Public Programs YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ciispublicprograms * CIIS Public Programs Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ciispubprograms/ * Mental Health Care and Support Resources: https://988lifeline.org/ https://thrivelifeline.org/ https://translifeline.org/ https://www.ciis.edu/ciis-in-the-world/counseling-clinics https://befrienders.org/

My guest today is Clinical Counsellor, relationship therapist, and fat activist, Dawn Serra. Dawn offers trauma-informed, weight-neutral, radical mental health care, particularly for those in larger and marginalized bodies. I super enjoyed this conversation about fatphobia, anti-Blackness, ableism, disability, perimenopause, Ozempic and cultivating a kinder relationship with our ever-changing bodies.   Connect with Dawn at tendandcultivate.com   Follow her on Facebook and Instagram     Referenced in this episode   Mia Mingus, disability rights activist and contributor to Octavia's Brood with her story, Hollow   Gloria Lucas of Nalgona Positivity Pride    Sabrina Strings and her book, Fearing the Black Body    Da'Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast    Sonalee Rashatwar @thefatsextherapist   Tressie McMillan Cottom, THICK and Other Essays   Culture Work on TikTok and Substack   Betty Martin   Dr. Asher Larmie, The Fat Doctor   (their Ozempic masterclass is listed here)   Zena Sharman, The Care We Dream of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health   Ep229: What it Feels Like For A Girl with Emelia Symington Fedy on sex and pressure   Ash of The Fat Lip - A Fat Liberation Podcast came up with the infinifat classification - details about the history are here: --- https://fluffykittenparty.com/2021/06/01/fategories-understanding-smallfat-fragility-the-fat-spectrum/ --- https://cherrymax.medium.com/community-origins-of-the-term-superfat-9e98e1b0f201   Covid PSA:   WHO technical document   University of Bristol study   Elevator Covid transmission study   ☎️ Leave feedback for this episode! ☎️    Check out The Spirited Kitchen: Recipes and Rituals for the Wheel of the Year   Learn more about The Numinous Network

After several weeks of hearing from others about how they think about self-care given their particular experiences of life, we turn our attention today to thinking about the community. Who do we turn to when we need help? And fo that matter, do we believe that we can turn to others? Or do we tend to live with the feeling that we have to do it all alone? Join us as we talk about how being both givers and receivers of care has been not only life-giving but absolutely life-changing. Additional ResourcesPodcast: Ep 156 Self-Care for…Medical ProfessionalsPodcast: Ep 157 Self-Care for…Clergy/Spiritual LeadersPodcast: Ep 158 Self-Care for…Businesses Meditation: Interspiritual Meditation by Ed BastienHashtagsMia Mingus, Interdependence, Therapist, Peer Groups, Henri Nouwen, Melissa Harris Perry, Squad CareSign up for our newsletter here: https://foundrysc.com/about/newsletter

Episode Summary This week on Live Like the World is Dying, Margaret and Leah talk about disability, preparedness, and covid. Guest Info Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (They/She) is a writer and structural engineer of disability and transformative justice work. Leah can be found at brownstargirl.org, on Instagram @leahlakshmiwrites, or on Bluesky @thellpsx.bsky.social Their book The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs can be found: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-future-is-disabled-prophecies-love-notes-and-mourning-songs-leah-lakshmi-piepzna-samarasinha/18247280 Their book Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice can be found: https://bookshop.org/p/books/care-work-dreaming-disability-justice-leah-lakshmi-piepzna-samarasinha/16603798 Host Info Margaret (she/they) can be found on twitter @magpiekilljoy or instagram at @margaretkilljoy. Publisher Info This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. Transcript Leah on Disability and Preparedness Resources Mentioned: StaceyTaughtUs Syllabus, by Alice Wong and Leah: https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/05/23/staceytaughtus-syllabus-work-by-stacey-milbern-park/ NoBody Is Disposable Coalition: https://nobodyisdisposable.org/ Power To Live Coalition: https://www.powertolivecoalition.org/ Disability Visibility Project article about Power to Live : https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2019/10/26/call-for-stories-powertolive/ Power to Live survival skillshare doc: http://tinyurl.com/dissurvival Long winter crip survival guide for pandemic year 4/forever by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Tina “constant tt” Zavitsanos https://www.tinyurl.com/longwintersurvival Pod Mapping for Mutual Aid by Rebel Sydney Rose Fayola Black: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-QfMn1DE6ymhKZMpXN1LQvD6Sy_HSnnCK6gTO7ZLFrE/mobilebasic?fbclid=IwAR0ehOJdo-vYmJUrXsKCpQlCODEdQelzL9AE5UDXQ1bMgnHh2oAnqFs2B3k Half Assed Disabled Prepper Tips for Preparing for a Coronavirus Quarantine. (By Leah) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rIdpKgXeBHbmM3KpB5NfjEBue8YN1MbXhQ7zTOLmSyo/edit Sins Invalid Disability Justice is Climate Justice: https://www.sinsinvalid.org/news-1/2022/7/7/disability-justice-is-climate-justice Skin Tooth and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People (A disability justice primer): https://www.sinsinvalid.org/disability-justice-primer DJ Curriculum by Sins: https://www.sinsinvalid.org/curriculum Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies: https://disasterstrategies.org/ Live Like the World is Dying: Leah on Disability & Preparedness **Margaret ** 00:15 Hello, and welcome to Live Like the World is Dying, your podcast for what feels like the end times. I'm your host, Margaret killjoy. And I always tell you that I'm excited about episodes, but I'm really excited about this episode. It put me in a better mood than when I started the day that I get to record this episode. Because today, we're going to be talking about disability and preparedness. We're gonna be talking about Covid abandonment. And we're gonna be talking about a lot of the questions that... a lot of the questions that people write us to talk about that they have about preparedness and I think that we can cover a lot of those. Not me, but our guest. But first before the guest, a jingle from another show on the network. Oh, the network is called Channel Zero Network. It is a network of anarchists podcasts and here's a jingle. [sings a simple melody] **Margaret ** 01:08 Okay, and we're back. So, if you could introduce yourself with your name, your pronouns, and then I guess just a little bit about how you got involved in thinking about and dealing with disability and preparedness. **Leah ** 02:00 Sure. Hi, my name is Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. She and They pronouns. Right now I live in Pocomtuc and Nipmuc territories in Western Massachusetts. And that is a great question. I will also just plug myself briefly and be like I'm a disability justice and transformative justice old sea-hag, aging punk of color who has written or co-edited ten books and done a lot of shit. Okay, so when I was sitting on the toilet thinking about "What do I want to tell Margaret when we get on the show?", I was actually thinking that my disability and my preparedness routes are kind of one in the same because... So I'm 48 [years old] now and I got sick when I was 21-22. So like back in 96-97. And, it was the initial episode that I got sick with chronic fatigue, ME, and fibromyalgia. And I was just super fucking ill and on the floor and was living in Toronto as somebody who was not from Canada. And, you know, I was just sick as hell, like crawling to the bathroom, like sleeping 18 hours a day. The whole nine. And I'd been really really deeply involved in anarchist of color and prison abolitionist and antifascist organizing and lots of stuff. I had a community, but it was 1997, so most of my community was just like, "What you're sick? Why didn't you make it to the meeting? We have to write all the prisoners with the [untranslatable]." And I was just like, "I just.... Okay, great." Like it was a really different time. There was no GoFundMe, mutual aid, Meal Train, someone brought me some soup. Like, know you, we weren't really doing that. And people really did not have a consciousness around, "You can be a 22 year old brown, nonbinary femme and be really, really sick and be disabled." So something I think a lot, and I've said before, is that disabled people are really used to the concept that no one is going to save us and we are really not surprised when state systems abandoned us because we live in that all the time. And so I was just like this little 22 year old sicko weirdo who'd read my Octavia Butler--and, in fact, that was part of the reason why I was like, "Toronto, great, there's gonna be more water and less heat." Okay, wasn't totally right about that. But, you know, I mean, I really had to save myself and I kind of was like, "Alright, I don't have..." Like, I'm working off the...I'm working under the table. I have hardly any money. I'm gonna make my own herbal medicine. I'm gonna grow a lot of what I eat from my backyard. I'm going to store water. I'm going to run a credit card scam and get a lot of dried goods and live off of those for like a year. [Margaret Hell Yeahs] Yeah, stuff like that. I feel like from there, over the last, you know, 26 years like it's....like, that's the route. The route was, you know, similar to a lot of people, I think of my generation, we were like on the cusp of looking at the current crises of like hot fascist war, hot eugenics war, hot climate crisis, and being like, "It's coming," and I started being like, "Yeah, like don't...don't think that it's all going to work out okay and that somebody else is going to fix it for you." So, I would say that's where my initial route--and then do you want to jump in? Or can I jump ahead like 20 years or something? **Margaret ** 05:10 Honestly, you could jump ahead 20 years later. I'm gonna come back and make you talk more about Octavia Butler. But we'll do that later. **Leah ** 05:16 Let's talk more about Octavia Butler because I have a lot of stuff about Octavia Butler and how she thought of--and I think sometimes misused--like nowadays [this is probably not the word but it's untranslatable] and also about disability. [Margaret "Oooohs" curiously] I know. We can get to that. Okay, so that's one route. And then, you know, I mean, I was always kind of like a little weirdo, where it's like, yeah, I grow most of my own food--or as much as I can--and it's not a fun green hobby. It's like, I'm broke as fuck and I need to grow a lot vegetables that fucking, you know, I can mulch and that can stay growing into December, you know? I stashed stuff. Something I also think a lot, is that as disabled people--and we talked about this a little bit when we're emailing--I think we're always prepping whether we call it that or not. Like most disabled folks I know just do shit. Like if you get a prescription and you have extra, you store it, you know? Like, if you can get a double dose, you put that aside. And then maybe you have it for yourself. Or, there's so many disabled mutual aid networks I've been a part of where someone's--I mean, before Facebook clamped down, this is really common on a lot of Facebook disabled groups--someone would be like, "Yo, does anyone have an extra five pills of such and such?" and I've seen total strangers for 15 years of disability justice be like, "Yep, what's your address? I do. I'm gonna mail it to you. I have my old pain meds. I've got this. I've got that." But, um, yeah, like doing the jumping forward that I promised you, so for people who don't know, disability justice as a movement was founded around 2005 by a group, a small group of disabled Black, Asian, and poor and working class, white disabled folks, who were all pretty, you know, gay, trans, and radical. And they were like, "We want to bring a revolutionary intersectional out of our own lives and experiences and issues. We want to create a disability movement that's for us and by us that's not just white, single issue, often cis, often male, often straight." Like, we want to talk about the fact that 50% of bipoc folks who were killed by the cops are also disabled, deaf, neurodivergent, etc... just to give one example. So, you know, that was '05 in Oakland, you know, Patti Burn, LeRoy Moore, Stacy Milbern, Ely Claire, Sebastian Margaret, Stacey Milbern Park, you know, the six. And I was living in Toronto and I moved to Oakland in '07 and I was kind of around for some of the beginnings of it. There's two stories I want to bring in. One actually predates my move. It was right when I was getting ready to leave Toronto, I got invited to go to this reading by a bunch of queer--I think all white--disabled radical folks. And I was just like, "Oh?" And I did the whole, like, "Am I really disabled enough?" and then it was like, "Oh, it's gonna be really depressing." And then it was really awesome. And I was like, "Whoa, disability community. Life saving." But it was kind of one of my moments of being brought into the disability community because there was this writer who was there who, their reading series was actually a choose your own adventure where there's four disabled, queer, and trans folks who are having a sex party and the zombie apocalypse happens. And then they have to figure out how to survive it without abandoning each other. And it was all like, "Okay, you all get to the van, but then there's no ramp. What do you do? Oh! You get this accessible ramp, but it smells like perfume and somebody has NCS. What do you do? And I was just sitting there with my mouth open--and it was also interwoven with like, 'Yeah, and then somebody's fucking somebody else with like, you know, a dildo strapped to their prosthetic,'" and I was like, wow, I fucking love disability. Like, sign me up. But I gotta say briefly, that was one of my first examples of like, you know, there's a really important phrase in Disability Justice, which is, "No one left behind, " right? Like, that's one of the core organizing principles. And that was kind of.... Before I even heard that phrase, I was like, "Fuck like this is..."--because I'd been around antiauthoritarian, quasi prepper, like "shit's gonna happen, we have to get ready." But I was always kind of quiet in the corner closeting my disability being like, "Well, shit, like, what if I don't have my meds? Or what if I'm too.... What if I can't run away from, you know, the Nazis or the zombies because I have a limp and I walk with a cane? Like, what if?" And that was my first example of this cross disability fantasy space of like, "We're going to escape together and we're not going to let anyone get eaten and it's going to mean really being creative about access stuff." Okay so jump ahead to, right, then I moved to Oakland and then I ran into actual Disability Justice community through Sins Invalid, which is an incredibly important foundational Disability Justice group, and through a lot of friendships I started making with other QTBIPOC disabled folks and my really, really good friend Stacy Park Milbern, who, people should totally know her work. She's incredible. She was one of the best movement organizers that the movement has ever seen. And we met online. And she was living in Fort Bragg, North Carolina with her family on the base because her family's military. And she was a queer southern, working-class, Korean and white, you know, physically disabled organizer from when she was really young. And then she was like, "Okay, I love my family, but I'm literally hiding my gay books in the wall because my mom's Pentecostal." So, yeah, and she's like--I literally realized she tells the story a lot--she's like, "Yeah, like, I realized I hadn't really left the house for a couple months and like, this is gonna be it," and she's like, "I was literally watching Oprah. And Oprah said, 'No one's coming to save you.'" And she was like, okay. She's 21 years old. And then through online, disabled, queer of color community there was this--or she organized--this initiative called To the Other Side of Dreaming where she moved crosscountry with Mia Mingus, who's another queer Korean organizer who was a friend of hers, ad moved to the Bay Area. And so that was around 2010-2011. And then in 2011, what happens but the Fukushima nuclear accident, right, disaster? And we're all on the West Coast--and it's completely ridiculous bullshit, looking back on it now--but all of these Bay Area folks were like, "Oh my God! Radiation!" And some people pointed out, "Look, you know, we're not.... There's...it's a big ocean. The people who really have to worry are in Japan and areas around it, so whatever?" But it was one of those times where we were like, fuck, this is a really big nuclear accident and we are sort of close and it's making us think about disaster. And I remember just going to fucking Berkeley Bowl, which is this big, fancy, organic supermarket and people had bought out all of the burdock all the fucking seaweed. And I was like, "Oh, my God, these people." But out of that, Stacy started having conver--and I and other people who were in our organizing network of disabled, majority BIPOC--were like, "What are we going to as disabled BIPOC if there is an earthquake, fascism, like another big disaster? And Stacy said, really bluntly, she's like, "You know," and she was a power wheelchair user. She used a ventilator. You know, she's like, "Yeah, I am supported by electricity and battery dependent access equipment." And she's like, "Well, I'm going to be really honest, my plan has always been, if something happens, I'm just going to lay down in my bed and die, because I don't think that any emergency services are going to come save me and the power is going to run out in 48 hours. And then we were like, "Okay, that's super real. What if, through our amazing collective access stuff we're doing, we could figure out something else?" And we had this meeting at Arismendy bakery, which for folks who know, is like a worker owned co-op chain, Our friend Remedios worked there. It's wheelchair accessible. We met there after hours. And it was just like, 12-15 of us who started just sitting there and being like, "What are the resources we have? What are the needs we have? And we made this map, which I still have, which I think I shared with you, which is just like, "Apocalypse, South Berkeley/Oakland Map 2011," where we were like, "Okay, you know, when the power goes down, the communication goes down. We're gonna meet at this one traffic circle because people who are wheelchair users can roll up. And we're gonna bury note paper in a mason jar with pens and we're gonna leave notes for each other. But we're also going to agree to meet there the day after at noon." And I was like, okay, my collective house, the first floor is wheelchair accessible. We have solar, we have a landline. And we have a lot of space. So like, let's meet there. And then someone was like, "We've got the one accessible van. And we know, it's only supposed to fit 4 people, but we can fit like 12 in there." And we started.... Like, I just think about that a lot because it's, I think it was a really important moment where it was important...the stuff that we did like that--you know, the actual strategies and the resources we started talking about--but it was also that it was the first time in my life that I was like, "Okay, we're not--not only are we not going to just die alone in our beds, I'm also not going to be the one person who survives. Like, I can actually survive with, and because of, other people. And we're all disabled BIPOC with a couple of disabled white folks. And we can actually collectively strategize around that. And this will be my last leap forward, because I see that you're like, "I want to ask you stuff." So, you know, eight years go by, and in that time we all do an incredible amount of Disability Justice organizing and strategizing. And, you know, in 2019.... And a lot of it started to be around climate disaster on the West Coast. Like, I moved to Seattle in 2015. The wildfires started being really bad a year or two later. A lot of us were involved in mask distributions, just spreading information about smoke safety and survival. And then 2019 was the infamous year where the wildfires came back and Pacific Gas and Electric, in all of its fucking glory, which is the main--for people who don't know--it's the main utility electrical company in Northern California. They announced two days before wildfires were going to really impact the Bay, they were like, "Oh, so we've decided that our strategy is going to be that we're just going to shut down all the power in Northern California. **Margaret ** 14:52 No one uses that. [Sardonically] **Leah ** 14:53 No one uses that. And they're like, "Oh, if you have a medical need, call this number, and we'll make sure to leave it on at your house." and Stacey was, "Okay." She had just bought her house, the Disability Justice Culture Club in East Oakland, you know, which was her house but also a community center, de facto community center, that housed a lot of disabled folks of color. And she was like, "I was on the fucking phone for eight hours. Like, I never got through." And she and some comrades started this campaign called Power to Live where they were like.... It started out as, "Okay, we can't save everybody, but we're not going to just lay down and die. What do we do?" So it started out as like, okay, let's identify who has housing that still has power. There's some people in Richmond, there's some people in this neighborhood, but then it also developed into this thing where it was just this amazing crowdsource survivalist resource where it was everything from, she's like, "Here's a number. Here's an email. If you need something, text us, call us, email us. We have a team of eight people. We'll figure it out. If you have something to offer, do it too." And then some of it was that people were sharing everything from generator information, to generator shares, to people in different areas-- like I was in Seattle and we were like, "Okay, we will mail you generators and air purifiers, because it's obviously all sold out in the Bay, but we can get it here and get it to you." The thing that always stands out to me is people being like, "Oh, yeah, here's how you can use dry ice and clay pots to keep your insulin cold if refrigeration goes down." And there's a lot more I could say about that action and how amazing it was. But for me, when I think about the through line, I'm like, that moment in 2011, when we all got together, and were like, "What do we do?" we were prepping for what we couldn't fully predict, you know, the exact manifestation of eight years later. We're there and we're like, "Okay, there's wildfires, there's smoke, there's no fucking power, and we've not only built our organizing base, we built our relationships with each other so that we can actually trust each other and more or less know how to work together when this shit actually is hitting the fan to create something that's really life giving. Okay, I'll shut up. That was a lot. **Margaret ** 16:52 Now I have so many questions about all of it. **Leah ** 16:53 Yeah, ask me all the questions. **Margaret ** 16:55 Because there's a couple...there's a couple of questions and/or feedback that we get with Live Like, the World is Dying a lot. And some of them are very specifically disability related, and you covered most of them, but I want to highlight some of them. Like a lot of people write and are like, "Well, I rely on the following thing that is provided by civilization. So my plan is to lay down and die." Right? This is a--and I know you've kind of answered it--but I.... I want to ask more. Okay, I'll go through all the things. Okay. So to talk more about what "No One Left Behind," means? And then the other thing that really stands out to me is that, you know, when we were talking, when we were talking about what we were going to talk about on this on this episode, I was saying, okay, we can talk about, you know, making sure that preparedness is inclusive and open and includes disabled folks, or whatever, and you pointed out, really usefully, the, the necessity to reframe it. And I think that the story you just gave is a really beautiful example of this, where it's less about, like, "Hey, make sure to pay attention to the people who need canes," you know, or whatever, right? Like, you know, "make sure you keep track of folks based on disability." And more than like the thing you just described, is the thing that we're always trying to push, which is that you need to make a list of all the resources and needs within your community and then figure out how to meet those needs and instead of assuming that we can't meet those needs, figuring out how to actually do it. And so I love that it's actually like.... It's actually disability justice movements that we should be learning from, I mean, or participating in, depending on our level of ability, or whatever, but I just find that I find both of those things really interesting. And so I wonder if you have more that you want to say about alternatives to laying down and dying, and specifically, to tie into the other thing that I get asked the most or that I get the common feedback is--because we talk a lot about the importance of community for preparedness on this show--a lot of people don't feel like they have community and a lot of people write to be like, "I don't have any friends," or "I don't know any other people like me," or, you know. And so, I guess that's my main question is how do.... [Trails off] Yeah, how do? **Leah ** 19:22 So how do you make community when you don't have community? Alternatives to lying down and dying? And was there a third one in there? **Margaret ** 19:28 I was just highlighting how cool it is that y'all sat there and made a list of resources and needs, which is exactly what.... Instead of deciding things are impossible, just being like, "Well, let's just start doing them." You know? **Leah ** 19:40 And I think.... Okay, so I'll start there. Like I think that like.... You know, Corbit O'Toole, who's like a, you know, Disability Rights Movement veteran and like older Irish, disabled dyke, you know, in Crip Camp, the movie, she's like, "Disabled people live all the time with the knowledge that the society wants thinks we're better off dead," right? Like one...back in the day, you know, there's a--I think they're still active--one of the big Disability Rights direct action organizations was called Not Dead Yet, right? [Margaret Hell Yeahs] I think this is the thing is like I think that sometimes abled people or neurotypical people are not used to sitting down and making the list. And I think that even if disabled people aren't preppers, we're used to being like, "Okay, what do I need? Fuck, I need somebody to help me do my dishes. Oh, I can't bend over. I need to figure out what is the access tool that will allow me to pick up something from the floor when my that goes out? Like, if my attendant doesn't show up, can I have a..." You know, like, my friends always like, "Yeah, I've got a yogurt container by the bed in case my attendant doesn't show up so I can not piss the bed. I can lean over and piss in the yogurt container." Like there's a--and I think that.... God, I mean, there's been so many times over the years where I've done or been a part of doing like Disability Justice 101 and me and Stacy would always talk about crip wisdom and crip innovation and people will just look blank like "What are you talking about? You guys are just a bunch of sad orphans at the telethon." It's not just about making the list, it's also about how disabled disability forces you to be innovative. Like, Stacy would always share this story where she's like, "Yeah," like, she's like "Crip innovation is everything from," she's like, "I save a lot of time sometimes by pretending I can't talk when people come over and want to pray over me. You know, I just act like a mute and they fucking leave and they go on with their life," and she's like, "You know, I realized one day, if I took my sneakers off, I could ramp a step if it's just two steps. I could just put them there and I could roll up." Or I mean, there's a million examples.... Or like, because I think it's about prepping and about making the lists and it's also about whatever you prep for, there's always going to be the X Factor of "Oh, we didn't fucking expect that." And I think that's where a lot of prep falls apart is people have their "Dream Bunker." They're like, "Oh, okay, I know exactly what the threats are going to be." And then of course, it doesn't fucking happen that way. I really hope I can swear on your show. **Margaret ** 21:46 You can. Don't worry. **Leah ** 21:47 Great. So, I mean, one example I could give is I'm remembering at, you know, a Sins show when we were in rehearsal, where everyone drove over from Oakland in Patty's wheelchair accessible van, and then the ramp broken wouldn't unfold. So we just were like, alright, who do we know who has welding equipment? Who do we know has lumber? Like, I think we ended up going to a bike repair shop and then they had tools. And then we're like, okay, we'll just bring the rehearsal into the van and do it that way. Like, you have to be innovative. And that's a muscle that I think society doesn't teach you to flex and that often, I think that even people who.... I think there can be a lot of eugenics in prep, you know, whether people are overtly fascist or not, there's a real belief of like, "Oh, only the strong and smart," --which looks a certain way-- "survive," and that "We should use rational thinking to make it all work out." And I think a lot of crip intelligence or wisdom is actually knowing that shit can go sideways 48 different ways and you have to adapt. And you have to just kind of be like, "Well, let's try this." So I think that's one thing. And I think, you know, one thing I'll say is, yeah, just speaking to kind of the reframing we were talking about, I think it's less like, "Oh, remember the people with canes," but, I mean, that's good, but also knowing that we're already doing it and that abled people actually have a shit ton to learn from us. But also, I mean, something.... I mean, the title of my last book is "The Future is Disabled," and it comes from something--it's not unique thinking to me--it's something that a lot of disabled people have been thinking and saying throughout the pandemic is that we were already at like a 30% disabled world minimum and we're pretty close--we're probably at majority disabled right now. Because what, 2% of the world didn't get Covid? Like, how many people have Long Covid? How many people have complex PTSD? We're all sick, crazy, and, you know, needing access equipment. Disability is not out there. It's in here. Like there's no such thing as doing prep that's like, "Oh, only the three Uber Mensch are gonna survive." Like fuck that. And that actually--I mean, sorry, this might be a side note, but a lot of people have probably seen The Last of Us. And I'm just gonna SPOILER ALERT it. You know that famous episode three of those two gay bear preppers in love? Yeah, I loved a lot about it. I was so pissed at the ending, which I'm just going to spoil. So you know, the more artsy, non-prep guy....[interrupted] **Margaret ** 21:47 Yeah, they don't survive. **Leah ** 22:47 Well, no, but like, not only did they not survive but one of them gets chronically ill. And I was just like, grinding my teeth because it's like, "Oh, he's in a wheelchair. Oh, his hand tremors." And then they end up deciding to both kill themselves rather than do anything else. And I was so furious at it because I was like, these are two people who are so innovative. They have figured out all kinds of problem solving. They have an entire small city for themselves. And it's all like, "Oh, no, he can't get up the stairs." And I'm like, really? There was no accessible ranch house you couldn't of fucking moved to? **Margaret ** 24:38 Or like build a bedroom on the fucking ground floor. **Leah ** 24:40 Or youcouldn't get meds? You couldn't? I mean, when his hand was shaking, it was like, "Oh, it's so sad. He's being fed." I'm like, there's tons.... First of all, it doesn't suck to be fed. A lot of things that seem like a fate worse than death are not when you're in them. And also, there's like all kinds of adaptive utensils that they could have fucking raided from medical supply if he wants to feed himself. Or I'm sorry, there's no cans of Ensure? They absolutely have power. They couldn't have made smoothies? Like, what the fuck is this? But beyond that--and I think that a lot of people who have talked about that episode did, I think, have some good analysis of it where, you know, the whole way they set up their prep was they were like, "Oh, it's just the two of us," and the one super prepper guy was like, "I don't even want friends to come over." And the other guy was like, "Hey, actually, we need to make alliances because there's things they have that we don't. And we also need more than just the two of us because I love you, but I'm gonna kill you." And I think that's something to think about is really moving away from the idea that just your little you know, the utopic queer rural community that so many fucking city queers fantasize about or, you know, lover are going to be enough, because it's not. So that actually leads me to, "I don't have community. Where the fuck do I get it?" And I'm like, yeah, that's super real. Right? And I think it's something I actually wrote about in "The Future is Disabled" is that I have people be like--when I write about different crip communities, just even when I talk about stuff on Facebook.... Like my friend, Graham Bach, it's going to be his second year death anniversary in like two weeks, and he was like, you know, white, psychiatric survivor, super poor, amazing sweetheart of a human being, he died.... I mean, he died in his, you know, rent to your income apartment because he was really afraid to go to the hospital and he had cardiac stuff going on. And he was an anarchist, he was amazing, kind, complicated human being. And, I was writing about, like.... I'm going to tell the story and there's a couple things I want to pull out of it. So I was writing about meeting Graham when I was in my early 20s through radical Mad people community, and somebody was reading it and was like "That sounds so great." And I was like, "Yeah, it wasn't utopic. Like, I had to yell back at Graham because he would scream at me and I'd be like, "Shut the fuck up!" Like, there was so many fights. There was so much racism. There were so many older white cis dudes who had electroshock who were jerky or gross, you know? And I guess that was the thing is, I was like, they're like, "Well, how did you find each other?" And I was like, it wasn't perfect. Also, it was very analog working class. Like my friend Lilith Finkler, who is an amazing Moroccan, Jewish, working-class queer femme psych survivor, she would just go to the donut shop where everybody poor hung out and would talk to everybody who wass there who wass crazy who no one wanted to talk to and be like, "Hey, do you want to come hang out at this meeting at the fucking legal clinic? We have a room. We have a snack plate. I'll give you tokens. Let's organize." So I think that's the first thing is that it's not--and I don't mean this in a finger-wagging way--it's not automatic. And also, one of the really big ways that community is often ableist, and that a lot of us get cut out from it, is that a lot of us who need it the most are not particularly easy to love in ableist neurotypical worldview. It's like we're cranky, we're wounded, we're in a bad mood, we're weird. So a lot of the time, I think it's thinking about, first of all, what's one step, one move you can take towards it. Like, can you make one fucking acquaintance and build it. And really think about what it would mean to build some kind of relationship. I think the other thing that I really want to highlight is that a lot of the communities that I see that keep each other alive, that I'm lucky to have been a part of making and being supported by in disabled community, they're not static and they're not perfect. Like, I have networks with people who piss me the fuck off and who, you know, I've sent 20 bucks to people who I'm just like, "I really don't like you, but I can see that you really don't have food," you know, and we're not going to be friends and we're not going to like each other, but I don't want you to die. And that's not...I mean, it's bigger.... There's also people who I'm like, "Okay, you're my ex-abuser. I'm not gonna give you $5. Someone else can give you $5. **Margaret ** 28:42 There's this person who puts a lot of their effort into talking shit on me on the internet and I...they're also broke and have a lot of chronic health issues and I send them money every month. And every now and then I'm like, could this like...could you stop talking shit now? **Leah ** 29:03 I think this is the thing sometimes is like, hey, how about this is the deal, like maybe just say "Thank you," or maybe just talk shit even like 20% less? Because you know, I'm really doing we keep us safe here. I just really want a "thank you." **Margaret ** 29:16 I don't want you to die. Like, I don't want you to starve to death, but I really wish you would be a little bit more open minded to people having different opinions on yours. **Leah ** 29:26 Oh yeah, nuance, right? Yeah, it'd be fucking nice. **Margaret ** 29:29 God forbid. Anyway. **Leah ** 29:31 No, it's good. I guess my TLDR would be to start where you are and start with "what's one thing you can do? What's one person you can reach out to?" And I think, you know, I don't know if this is true for everyone who reaches out to you and it's like, "Well, I don't have anybody," but I think that social media and online connectivity is a real double-edged sword because for some of us who are isolated, it can create both online communities that can sometimes become in-real-life community and, either way, can be sources of some community or support. But I think.... I mean, you know, I'm a Generation X'er and I've just seen social media get more and more chokehold and just turn into fucking the panopticon meets a mall, you know? [Margaret laughs] And I think it's hard because 12 years ago I was part of really early online disabled spaces, which were great because so many people were like, "Well, I'm so isolated in my small town or in my city," or "I can't leave bed, but this is great. I'm meeting with other people and we're building these connections and it's actually more accessible for me to be real about my stuff from like my bed with a heating pad." And now I just think it's so chokeholded that it's hard for us to find each other. So it's much more common for people to be like, "Wow, I'm seeing all these people who have millions of followers and a shiny brand and I just feel like even more of an isolated loser." And then at the same time, I think people are like, "Well, how did people meet each other before this?" And I was like, "Yeah, like, you go to the coffee shop or the donut shop. You put up a flier. You go to the library. You like, I don't know. I mean, I just remember people I met on the food stamps line, you know, when we got there at six in the morning. And not everything's gonna stick, but maybe something sticks. And I also think about like, I'm going back to 13 years ago in early Disability Justice community spaces where--I mean, I think back to [untranslatable] when I went back to Toronto--which, yeah, big city--but I remember I had so many people come to me and be like, "You're..."--because I was starting to be more out about disability, cuz I was like, "I'm in the Bay and there's these wild people who talk about it and they're not all white people." and so I have so many, especially Black and brown disabled femmes be like, "Hi, you don't really know me, but I have fibromyalgia too," or "I have Lupus too. And like, no one I know talks about that. How do you do it?" And I'm specifically thinking about this time that this person I'm no longer in touch with--but we used to be friends--who's like, you know, queer, brown nonbinary person was like, "Let's just have a meet up of other chronically ill femmes of color," which is how we were identifying a time, and it was four of us, four heating pads, a bottle of Advil, and just very tentatively starting to share things about our lives. And I was like, "Yeah, that was four people." But a lot of that hang out then rippled outward. And it was like, I think it's also important to be like, it's scary to build community. Some tools I want to shut out like, so Mia Mingus, who I mentioned before, she has a lot of really great writing on her blog Leaving Evidence and she created this tool a long time ago now--that some people might be familiar with but for folks who aren't--it's, you know, it's her tool that she calls Pod Mapping. And she actually created it as part of a collective she founded called the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective that was working on doing transformative justice interventions into intimate violence, specifically childhood sexual abuse a lot of the time, and she had this framework that I find really helpful. She's like, "A lot of..." she was talking about in community accountability, transformative justice spaces and she made a really good point where she's like, "Sometimes we talk about like, 'Yeah, bring in the community. Like, everyone has a community.'" And she's like, "Most people don't have a fucking community, let alone one that can interview in childhood sexual abuse." So she created this tool where she's like, "Let's broaden the idea of what community is." Like, maybe it's that one cousin, that you only talk to once a year, but you could call them in a jam, or it's this hotline, or it is like, yeah, they're a weird church, but you really like their food banks. She's like, "You have to really bring in.... Like, start where you are and do the resource mapping we were talking about" I really liked that tool a lot as a place for people who are like, "What's my community?" because I think it's a big word and really being like, "What does that even mean to me?" and like, "What's one place that can start building it?" And I also want to shout out, Rebel Sydney Black, who's a friend of mine who passed this June, at the beginning of the pandemic, he created this tool called Pod Mapping for Mutual Aid that was specifically aimed at disabled folks who were trying to pod map during Covid--and we can provide the link and stuff like that--but I would say that those are two places to start and then I want to get to alternatives to lying down and dying. And then I'll stop. **Margaret ** 34:04 Okay, wait, wait, before we get to that I want to talk more about the building community thing. **Leah ** 34:08 Yeah, please. **Margaret ** 34:09 I think you brought up a lot of really interesting points. And one of the things that I really like about it, you know, talking about having like...you're broadening the idea of what counts as community, which I think is really useful. And one of the things I realized is that a lot of times when I was younger, I was like, "Y'all say 'community' and you just mean the people that you like," right? And that didn't make any sense to me. Community seems like the people where you have a shared interest, whether the shared interest is you live on the same block, or whether the shared interest is an identity, or whether the shared interest is an interest that you're trying to see change, or whatever. It doesn't mean people you like. It's a different thing. Friends are the people I like, right? Well, mostly. I'm just kidding. I love all of you. I mean, there's a lot of people I love that I don't always like. Anyway, so I don't know, and so I think that one of the things that stuck out with me about what you're gonna say and I want to highlight is the idea that--or maybe I'm misreading it--but like "pick issue to work" around seems like a good useful way. Especially if you struggle to just have friends, right? That's not like the thing that you're good at. But maybe there's a thing that you want to work on? Or having that meetup where it's like, oh, all the following people who have the following things in common, let's meet up and talk about it. Or honestly, activism is a really good way to meet people and work closely with people about things. And it doesn't necessarily have to mean these are now your friends. But they can be people where you rely on each other. And that doesn't have to be the same. I think about it a lot because I live in a fairly isolated and rural environment where there's not a lot of people around me who are culturally.... Whatever, there's not a lot of out, queer people where I live. There's not a lot of punks. And I'm like, that's okay. I talk to my actual neighbors instead. I mean, some of them, not all of them, but most of them, you know, they're who I would rely on in a crisis, because they're right there. It doesn't mean that we have the same ideas about a lot of stuff, you know? But we have similar ideas, like, "Let's not die," right? And so that's enough sometimes. Anyway, I just wanted to.... **Leah ** 36:12 No, I really appreciate it. And I mean that makes me kind of think about, when you were talking, I was like, yeah, you know, there's friends, there's communities, and then there's survival networks, which can include contacts, right? Because I just think about what would I do right now, if some should happened? And I was like, I've got long distance kin and long term friendships and relationships ofvarious kinds and I also have--because I moved to where I live, which is like semi-rural, but definitely more rural than where I've lived before--and I'm just like, yeah, I have a small number of friends. But there's like people who I know who I can...who are neighbors who like, maybe we don't know a shit ton about each other but I could be like, "Hey, this thing?" or "Hey, do you have water?" or, "Hey, let's do this." I think it's a lot about thinking about what are your goals? Is your goal intimacy? Is your goal survival? Is your goal friendship? Because you need different levels of trust and commonality depending on those things, right? I also think, and this is the thing too, I think something.... I think a lot of times because I've had people be like, "Well, I don't have community," also, I've heard that. And I think that a lot of times the context, I hear it in is people being like, "Well, I have care needs, but I don't have any community." So then there's also the really big thorny question of "need" and like being cared for is actually very complicated. It's very risky. It's very vulnerable. It's not safe a lot of the time. It may feel a lot easier to just be like, "I don't have any fucking needs." And so there's a lot, I will just say that there's a lot of unpacking that needs to do around like, "What would I need to be cared for? What are my lower risk needs that I need help with? What are my higher risk needs?" right? Like, there's people who I can.... There's some needs I have where I'm like, I don't need to trust you super, super deep politically or on an intimate level to let you do that. There are certain needs where I'm like, that's only going to be people where we've really built a lot of fucking trust because if this goes sideways you could really stuck with me. Right? And I think that when you're starting from nowhere, I think often where people get stuck is like, "Where I am feels like I have nobody and nothing. And I want to get to like the thing I've read about in your topic science fiction, where you know, it's Star Hawk and everybody loves each other. And how the fuck do I get from A to B." And I think the solution is like, yeah, you're not gonna get to fucking "Fifth Sacred Thing" right away--and that book is complicated. **Margaret ** 38:29 Yeah, It was very influential on my early.... **Leah ** 38:31 Oh yeah, when I was 18, I just wanted to fucking move there. And now I'm like, "Oh God, this is embarrassing. There's some shit in here." I'm like, "Wow, everybody's mixed race, but everyone's Black parents are dead." Wow. Cool. Nobody really thinks about race. I'm like, I'm gonna throw up. And like, you know, BDSM is just violent....Okay, sorry. We're not going to get into that. **Margaret ** 38:47 Oh my God, I don't remember that part. **Leah ** 38:49 Oh, yeah. No, where it's so violent. Like, "We're just loving." And I wrote a really no passion paper for school, because we actually had to read it in a college class I was in, and I was like, "Why are they not into leather sexuality?" And my professor was like, "Okay, 18 year old..." but yeah. **Margaret ** 39:04 I mean, legit. You 18 year old self had a legitimate critique. **Margaret ** 39:08 Yeah. **Leah ** 39:08 Yeah, no, there's a lot there. But, um, but jumping back, I guess it's just like, you know.... And I think this feels like disabled wisdom too, it's like, what can you do with the spoons or the capacity you have? Like, what's one move you can make that small? And then can you build on that? Yeah, but can I talk about alternatives to lying down and dying? **Leah ** 39:28 Yeah. Well, I think...I mean, this is the thing, is like, I'm a survivalist, but I'm not like anti-civilization in the ways that some people are. Like, I want meds, you know? And I think that's something that other crips I know talk about a lot, which is like, you know, we're really against this way that some people, including some people who would like align themselves with like Healing Justice who are like "We're like, oh, yeah, we just have to go back before colonialism and capitalism, and just everyone lived on herbs and it was great." and I was like, "Nah, bitch, I need surgery and meds." Like I want it all. Like, I love non-Western pre-colonial traditional healing. Absolutely. And I've had friends who died because they didn't get their surgeries on time. Like my friend LL died because nobody would give him a fucking kidney because they said he was too fat. And I'm just like, my good future involves.... I mean, and he's one of millions right? So like, my good future involves that we have surgical suites. And I'm just like, you know, honestly, also, a lot of times that worldview just seems so white to me, because I'm just like, listen, a lot of like, global south places figure out how to have field hospitals, right, in really dire and low-resource situations. So I'm sorry.... **Margaret ** 40:40 I mean, only Europoe's ever figured out surgery. No one else has done surgery until Europe showed up. [Said sarcastically implying the opposite] **Leah ** 40:45 Yeah, not fucking ever. [Also said sarcastically] **Margaret ** 40:46 Said the people who are like, "bite down stick and I'll saw your arm off." **Leah ** 40:49 Yeah, so I mean, I guess one thing I would just say is like, I would say that and I would say like, you know, really...I want to like lift up and encourage people to look at--and they can be hard to find--but look at cultures, look at organizing initiatives where people were like, "We can have our own ambulance, we can have our own like..." And when that's not there, to think about what it would mean to have medical care after the apocalypse, right? What would it mean to make hormones, make drugs, synthesize chemicals, and it's not impossible. I think that we're still in the in between of like, okay, we gotta figure out how to do that. But, um, you know, I'm thinking about, Ejeris Dixon, who's my friend and comrade, and, you know, we co-edited "Beyond Survival" together, which is a book we wrote that came out right at the beginning of the pandemic about stories and strategies from how people are actually trying to create safety without the cops. Ejeris always talks about how they were like, "Yeah, like, in Louisiana, you know, in the South, you know, like in the 50s, and 60s, and before I believe, there were all kinds of Black run ambulance and 911 services," because regular 911 wouldn't come to Black communities. Right? And they, I mean, something that I've heard them say a lot over the years is like, "We don't have the people's ambulance yet. But we could." And then it makes me also jump to some friends of mine who were in Seattle who were really active as street medic crew during the rebellions after George George Floyd was murdered by the police in, you know, 2020 in the summer, and specifically in, as some people remember, Seattle managed to have 16 square blocks break off from the city for a while, CHOP, Capitol Hill Organized Front. And so what people don't know is that the cops were like, "Okay, fuck you. We're not going to...If there's any 911 ambulance calls, we're not going to fucking let anyone go in there." So the street medic crew had to deal with a lot of really intense situations. And then after that, like a lot of us folks, like some folks were already nurses or EMTs and a lot of folks who were involved went to nursing school or EMT school and we're like--and I don't know where it's at now--but they were like, "We want to create,"--because right now in Seattle, there's, if somebody is having a crisis on the street, like a medical or a mental health crisis or an altered state crisis, there's no non-911 crisis response that you can call. There's either you go down the stairs to talk to somebody or there's the cops, right. And they were like, "We can get a van. We can get medical equipment from eBay." And you know, I don't know where they're at with that, but they were really organizing around like, "Yeah, we could get a defibrillator. We could get oxygen. We could get blood pressure cuffs. We could get fucking..." you know? And I think that that shit gets complicated in terms of insurance and regulation and the State and the medical industrial complex, but I want us to keep thinking about that. I also, and then I'll wrap up because we have other questions to get to, but it also makes me think about, I mean, I don't know if folks are familiar with Gretchen Felker Martin's amazing science fiction book "Manhunt," right, which is about.... **Margaret ** 43:50 I haven't read it yet. **Leah ** 43:52 It's so fucking good. Okay, so I won't give it away. But just for people who don't know, I'd say it's the one kind of gender sci-fi book where "Oh, a virus, you know, affects people with certain chromosomes or certain that dih-dah-dug that's not TERFy because it's a book that, you know, she's trans, and it's a book that centers trans women and nonbinary communities and there's like one or two trans masculine characters. But the two main trans femme, like trans women characters in the book, they're like, they have to, they're like, "Yeah, like, we're going on raids to get, you know, hormones, and, you know, different, like chemical drugs we need. And we're also figuring out how to synthesize them from herbs and different substances." And it's not easy. It's a struggle. But there are organized communities of trans women and allies that are fighting to do it. And I'm just like, yeah, and I mean, it's an amazingly well written book, and she's incredible, and I fucking loved it. And it's just beautifully written and really just--sorry, I won't gush too much but go read it, it's incredible--I just really also appreciated it because she was like, "Yeah, of course we're gonna get our hormones after the end of the world. Like of course it's possible." And I will also.... I have some criticisms of the ableism in it, but M.E. O'Brien and--fuck I'm forgetting the second author's name, but every you know, "Everything For Everyone," that book. I appreciated how in the good future society, they're like, "Our priority is making sure that insulin and chemical drugs and hormones are accessible and free to everybody." And I was like, I guess I would just push people towards there are ways of imagining the future where we can defeat capitalism but still have medical care of all kinds. We can have Reiki and acupuncture and we can also hormone surgery and transplants. And we might be doing it better because it's not controlled by fucking corporations and assholes. Sorry, that's my soapbox. Um, okay. I will say in terms of people being like, "That's really nice. But what about me?" I would be like, you know, I mean, right now in the war on trans America, there are so many people already who are like, "Yeah, I'm stockpiling meds. I like doing meds trading." I would say it goes back to what we started about, which is like, "Okay, what are your needs? What are the things that you're worried will not be there if the world ends?" Right? And we also need to recognize that the world's already ending and it's ended for some of us a bunch of times already. But I would be like, make that list and then really be like, "Alright, how do I get it?" You know, and if I can't specifically get it, are there like backups that I can get? And it may be stuff that you can research on your own. It also might be stuff where it's like, "Okay, are there trans [untranslatable], disability justice organizations, nationally, globally, locally, that you can hit up and be like, "What are folks thoughts about this? Are there ways that we can resource share?" Because I think it's about pills. I think it's also about durable medical equipment. So in terms of stuff that requires power to live, I think about generators and I think about generator shares. And I think about things like...there's a story when Hurricane Sandy hit New York 10 years ago, there were a whole bunch of us where...there's a guy Nick who's in community who, physically disabled guy, 13th floor, accessible apartment, you know, the lights went out, you know, really dependent on electricity to change out the batteries on his ventilator. There's a whole crew of disabled folks, like people walked up and down those fucking stairs every eight hours to take the spent batteries, figured out, "Hey, you know, what still has power, the fucking fire department." People were walking down recharging the batteries every eight hours. And it was allies, it was ambulatory, it was disabled people who could walk. It was fucking hard. But people were like, we're not.... Nick and his friends were like, "We're not just going to die. We're needed." So I wanna shoutout that and just for possibility modeling, I really want to, one other place I want to shout out, is an org that used to be known as Portlight but was now known as the Center for Inclusive Disaster Strategies, which is a disabled-led organization that is about like, yeah, when there's a climate or other disaster, they figure out ways of getting like accessible fucking evacuation methods to places because they know...we know, there's millions of examples of people who are just left to die in nursing homes or like, "Oops, the bus doesn't have a ramp," or, you know, I really want to name that during Katrina, some people might know about, you know, the situation with the nursing home that was there were a lot of folks who were wheelchair users or had high care needs were fucking killed by medical staff because the medical staff were like, "We're gonna actually euthanize these folks without their knowledge or consent." [Margaret exclaims] Yeah, no, there was actually a movie on HBO about it I think semi recently. Because "that's easier than figuring out how to fucking get people in the medivac ," right? Yeah, and so the Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies, I'm still getting to know them, but I have friends who are involved and they're like, "Yeah, we're aware this is an issue." So yeah, let's work with the fucking Cajun fucking Navy to like make sure that you can get folks with different bodies onto evac boats. Like let's figure out what disabled survival looks like. And I will just say, and this is the last thing I swear, for me, I mean, we all know water is important. Like, I can't lift 54 pounds. Guess what? So can't--which is, you know, a seven gallon right, like a five or seven gallon whatever--I'm just like, yeah, so I can actually have smaller jugs of water that I can lift. So yeah, I have a bug out plan, but I also have a real Shelter in Place plan because I'm just like, yeah, my apartment's accessible for me. So yeah, I got a shit ton of water right here and I'll be good for a while. And I also have a plan B for.... Okay, there's...I've got my filtration equipment, so when that runs out, I'm close to some water sources where I can go and I can filter that shit. And that's me thinking about what works for my body. Think about what works for yours and then plan out from that. Okay, I'll really stop talking now. **Margaret ** 49:44 No, no, but there's so much there. Even just like to go to the weight of water, right? The thing that I ran across that I'm like--I'm reasonably able-bodied and such like that, right--but I live alone and so obviously there's this specific thing where like.... Well, one, I mean, abledness is always a temporary position.... **Leah ** 50:04 Yeah, you're going to get disabled, you're gonna get sick and disabled. **Margaret ** 50:07 Like it literally happens to--unless you, I don't know, die very quickly, very suddenly, probably violently, you're gonna go through a period of disability in your life, you know? And so my argument is that machismo is anti-prepping. And one of the ways that I would say is that like, there's now, I think.... Okay, so cement bags, they come in 50 pound bags traditionally, right? But now there's more and more, I think, there seems to be more and more 30 pound bags, right? And I used to be like, "Oh, whatever, I can lift a 50 pound bag. So I should carry the 50 pound bag." And then I'm like, well, it was not a helpful way to look at it. It is far better for me to just have 30 pound bags of cement because they're easier to carry and I'll get tired less. And I, you know, at the time that I was pouring these bags, I lived up a hill about probably the equivalent of a seven storey walk up to this cabin that I was building, right. And so I had to carry each and every one. It was way nicer that I carry 30 pound bags. And if your preparedness doesn't include the fact that your level of ability will change in different situations, then it's not very good preparedness. And and so like, I don't know, I mean, like most of my water jugs are four or five gallon jugs. I use jerry cans. I think most of them are five gallon. And I hate the six gallon ones and the seven gallon ones. They're just heavy and annoying. And it's like I can give lift them but there's no reason why I should. Unless I'm specifically working on lifting weights. And then the other thing that you talked about that I really think about a lot, you know, is this idea, of does your version of disaster mean that every doctor dies? Or like, does your version of disaster mean everyone who's ever made insulin dies? Like, it's possible. Sure, you could have 90...if almost everyone on Earth dies, then everything is a little different. But most disasters don't actually..... Most disasters destroy ways of living and large numbers of people, but not the majority of people write. Most people survive most disasters. And, people are like, "Well, our organizational systems are what produce insulin," and like, no, people produce insulin and they use organizational systems with which to do it. But different organizational systems can also produce insulin. Like different organizational systems can use the same infrastructure sometimes and make the things that we rely on. And it came up with this like whole thing where people on the internet were like, "Ah, if you're an anarchist, you hate disabled people because in anarchy, you can't have insulin," **Leah ** 50:28 That's gross. **Margaret ** 52:40 It is a complete misunderstanding of anarchism. It is not a lack of organization, it is a different type of organization. **Leah ** 52:46 Anarchy is responsibility. **Margaret ** 52:48 Yes, totally. **Leah ** 52:50 Sorry, sorry. **Margaret ** 52:52 That's why people don't like it. People are afraid of it because they actually have to.... It's the accepting no one is coming to save us except us. You know? No, I love that way of framing and it also annoys anarchists when you tell them this too. **Leah ** 53:07 Okay, well, I mean, you know, so I worked at Modern Times books, which was, you know, is no longer around, but was a long time anarchists and anti authoritarian radical bookstore in the Bay. And we had the only public toilet in all of the Mission because everybody else was like, "No, you gotta buy something." and in my interview, they're like, "How will you make the store better?" And I was like, "I will make the bathroom not smell horrible." Because, you know, it was just like a bust, everyone was pissing in there. And so I taped up a sign that said "Anarchy is responsibility. If you spray the fucking toilet with urine, please wipe it up. Together we can have a toilet." And somebody called me out and was like, "That's capitalist." And I was like, "No, just wipe your piss up or we're not gonna make the revolution. Like, come on." But yeah, they got pissed at me about that. [Both laugh] But yeah, I mean, I think that's a really good point. And it's like, you know, I mean, I think that it does point to, you know, I think a structural problem in a lot of our movements, which is like, yeah, we don't we need more people who know some basics of chemistry and can synthesize stuff. Like, that's, you know, we need more people who've gone to some kind of science or engineering school who can figure out how sewage works and how you synthesize insulin and how you synthesize hormones and like, basic surgery. And I think there's a lot of hopefulness because I--maybe it's just the folks I hang out with--but I have a fair number of friends who are like, "Yeah, I'm gonna be a nurse practitioner. I can give you an abortion. I can sew up your wound. I can help you figure out this thing." And I'd love for there to be more of us who can go to PA school or

How do we practice Judaism from disabled bodies? In this episode Charlie and Jaime study disability justice texts from Leah Lakshmi, Mia Mingus, and Rabbi Elliot Kukla to explore the ways we show up in our spiritual and relational lives. Both hosts grapple with recent diagnoses, and share their processes of grief and rediscovery of lives centering disability.Sources in this episode include:Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (2018)Mia Mingus, "Access Intimacy: The Missing Link" (2011)Rabbi Elliot Kukla, "The Holiness of Being Broken: Trauma and Disability Justice" (2022)Cover art by Noa SkyeMusic by PixabaySupport the showTell us what you think on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jewqueeries/Love the show? Support us at: https://ko-fi.com/jewqueeries

Welcome to a new series within my podcast called Beauty Bites *insert chews*. This is an ode to and a home for the very many thoughts I have on Beauty politics and breaking the colonial Beauty paradigm. In today's episode we discuss an idea I learned from Jessica DeFino's Substack, The Unpublishable. It is the idea that the beauty we are sold (industrialized beauty) is not the beauty we actually yearn for or need as human beings on earth (spiritual beauty). I wanted to discuss Jessica's powerful idea further on the pod, so here it goes.  Sending all my love to you today, sunshine.  Key quote from episode:  “Nothing that makes a person hate themselves should be allowed to be called Beauty”  Time stamps (00:00): Intro to Beauty Bites *insert chews*  (05:35): Intro to The Unpublishable Substack (09:47): The cultural importance of spiritual beauty (11:24): Ask ChatGPT: Beauty industry and religious language (16:56): Reclaiming Beauty (22:44): Democratizing the access to spiritual beauty (29:00): Closing Sources mentioned:  The Unpublishable by Jessica DeFino Essay: Beauty, Appearance, Attraction, & Power The Ugliness of Beauty episode by me (Apple & Spotify)  Moving Towards Ugliness Ft. Mia Mingus episode by me (Apple & Spotify)  Join the community: ayandastood.substack.com please join me here! Follow me at @ayandastood on TikTok and @ayandastood on IG. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ayandastood/support

Ok, so maybe we've convinced you that Discord Builds Trust (No Really!). You're on board, you're practicing sitting with your learned beliefs, and you're cultivating curiosity. Now the moment arrives. There's disconnect, hurt, something went wrong. What do you do? How do you get out of this place and into the trust (no…really!)On today's episode of our mini-series, the question is "Why does my partner want me to just get over the hurt?" We start off flipping the question on its head and pointing out some unspoken feelings inside of that question, which takes us into picking apart the difference between toxic shame and remorse. Finally, we share some strategies for getting out of that shame pit and into a more relational space, ready for repair.Check out this framework for apology and accountability from Mia Mingus, which we reference in today's episode.Quotes:"Hurt is not a bug in relationships. Hurt is a feature in relationships.""Remorse is a trust builder."“If you feel bad about having a painful impact, that says something really good about your heart.""Accountability is not just about apologizing; it's about understanding the impact that your actions have caused on both yourself and others.""Be curious about what would help you move from this disrepair back into connection right now. Right now, not every single time this might come up in the future. Right this second."Share your questions with us at whydoesmypartner.com/contactIf you want to dive in deeper, consider attending our upcoming workshops. Learn more at whydoesmypartner.com/events

Contact, Learn More, Support Mia!Website: https://www.soiltjp.org/Blog: https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/ How can we navigate the complexities of Transformative Justice (TJ) while addressing the intersectionality of our identities? Join us for a powerful conversation with our guest, Mia, a queer disabled woman of color, a Korean adoptee, and a TJ and Disability Justice practitioner. In this episode, we dive into Mia's work, her passion for composting and vermicomposting as a way to care for the planet, and how she uses humor to bridge communities.Together, we explore the concept of pods, the people you would call upon if you were experiencing harm or violence, and the power of small actions, like asking for feedback, to create a culture of accountability. We also discuss the challenges of practicing TJ in conditions of trauma, violence, and toxicity, as well as the importance of building relationships and creating a healing culture in our own formations.With Mia's guidance, we examine the bravery and courage it takes to invite someone into a relationship and the potential benefits and risks of having those close to you as your pod people. We also emphasize the importance of inviting others to learn and practice TJ skills together, and not to conflate feeling unsafe with feeling uncomfortable. Join us for an inspiring and thought-provoking conversation as we tackle the practicalities of Transformative Justice and accountability in our lives.Support the showSend us feedback at media@amplifyrj.comJoin our Amplify RJ Community platform to connect with others doing this work!Check out our latest learning opportunities HERERep Amplify RJ Merch Connect with us on:Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok!SUPPORT by sharing this podcast, leaving a rating or review, or make a tax-deductible DONATION to help us sustain and grow this movement

What does transformative justice look like in practice? What does it mean to teach transformative justice, so that we destroy the cops in our heads and hearts, and begin to build something new? In this episode, Mia Mingus -- visionary movement builder, transformative justice organizer, and human rights + disability justice educator -- dives into these questions and more. We discuss the educational experiences that inspired Mia to her current work, Transformative Justice (TJ) frameworks for community accountability and creative intervention, pedagogies of workshopping, and Pod Mapping as a tool for organizing and movement building. More about our guest:Mia Mingus is a co-founder of the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective: Building Transformative Justice Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (BATJC) and the founder and leader of SOIL: A Transformative Justice Project. Mia inspires us to consider words like dignity, love, compassion, care, and justice in ways that address harm and violence and also bring concrete repair and change. For Mia, the opening question of transformative justice is: “What are the conditions that allowed for that violence or that harm to be able to take place in the first place?” The focus is on dismantling oppressive systems and building new, liberatory structures. This justice work is done in intersectional and interdependent community. “Magnificence comes out of our struggle,” she writes. We think that Mia and the worlds she is building are magnificent, and we encourage you to check out her many published writings, many of which are collected on her blog Leaving Evidence.Credits:Co-hosted and co-produced by Tina Pippin and Lucia HulsetherAudio editor: Aliyah HarrisIntro music by Lance Hogan, performed by Aviva and the Flying PenguinsOutro music by Akrasis

How might one person manage their co-occurring chronic illnesses and disabilities, and have a fulfilling sex life? Meet Katherine Harlow the Park Avenue Pinup and discover how she strategizes her health, pleasure, and functioning. Learn some care tips and disability advocacy with us.2:00 endometriosis, pelvic floor disorder, narcolepsy, Autism, PTSD5:00 70% of people with pelvic floor dysfunction have TMJ7:00 tips for self care and immune system support9:00 some of us wanted to be adult entertainers 12:00 cis men have been born with endometriosis too15:00 strategy around chronic pain18:00 vaginismus is a symptom of larger pelvic floor dysfunction22:00 “admin drain” - @invalidart 25:00 more feedback on invisible disability 28:00 disabled people are accused of lying 31:00 self-advocacy and interviewing doctors33:00 how can partners help?37:00 tips for managing pain40:00 she's on the same sexting app as your host 45:00 Andew Gurza resources49:00 queer and trans people are more likely to be disabled53:00 burlesque is not sex work, true 55:00 more resources like Mia Mingus, @itswalela Sponsored by OpenEasier.com - research based non-monogamy resources.Find our guest on theparkavenuepinup.com Find your host on ellestanger.com See my $1 subscriber material Patreon.com/strangebedfellowsPlease rate and review this podcast :)

Mia Mingus is a writer, educator, and trainer for transformative justice and disability justice. She founded and currently leads SOIL: A Transformative Justice Project, which builds the conditions for transformative justice to grow and thrive. This week, Mia meets with adrienne to discuss quitting capitalism, practice, and climate catastrophe. Transcript found here.

This is it, right here, this is the final episode. And if you're here right now, and you've been choosing to return to this work again and again, I want to say, thank you. Cuz If we want alternative means to responding to harm other than the systems on offer from the state, we are the ones who have to invest time, energy, labor into learning, healing, imagining, practicing, remembering, and organizing to get there. As Black feminist revolutionary writer June Jordan said, “we are the ones we have been waiting for.” Now is the time to generously bring forth our gifts and throw down for our collective liberation. So again, thank you for choosing to be here.Let's dream forward.Episode transcript: Coming soon!Sogorea Te' Land Trust: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/Save the West Berkeley Shellmound: https://shellmound.org/June Jordan: http://www.junejordan.com/The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities, ed. Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: https://www.akpress.org/revolutionstartsathome.htmlDemocracy Now!, “Remembering Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015): ‘We Have to Change Ourselves in Order to Change the World'”: https://www.democracynow.org/2015/10/6/remembering_grace_lee_boggs_1915_2015Kim Tran: https://www.kimtranphd.com/ Kyra Jones: https://www.kyrajones.me/Adrienne Skye Roberts: http://therapywithadrienneskye.com/Mia Mingus: https://www.soiltjp.org & https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective: https://batjc.wordpress.com/For additional resources, including this episode's ASL video: https://www.weriseproduction.com/therealworkzAnda of DiaspoRADiCAL: @diaspo.radical on Instagram & https://soundcloud.com/diasporadicalConnect with us at weriseproduction[at]protonmail[dot]com, and follow us on Facebook & Instagram at weriseproduction, & on twitter at WeRiseProducers.

Last episode, we focused on the accountability part of community accountability. We explored how changing our behavior to live accountably is lifelong work, is violence prevention, takes building skills until they become muscle memory. Fortunately for us, Mia gave us many opportunities to practice. In this episode, we learn from this practice – and – we focus on the community part of community accountability. Mia emphasized that transformative justice is not about intervening in or saving someone else's community – TJ is responding to harm, violence, and abuse in our OWN communities. So as we built up fundamental TJ skills, she guided us to envision the changes we'd like to see in Bay Area theater.Episode transcript: Coming soon!Sogorea Te' Land Trust: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/Save the West Berkeley Shellmound: https://shellmound.org/Story F.4. “Surviving and Doing Sexual Harm: A Story of Accountability and Healing” from Section 4.F: Taking Accountability in the Creative Interventions Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Stop Interpersonal Violence: https://www.creative-interventions.org/toolkit/“What Is Accountability” panel recorded at Building Accountable Communities: A National Gathering on Transforming Harm on April 27, 2019 at Barnard College, NYC featuring Shannon Perez-Darby, Esteban Kelly, RJ Maccani, Mia Mingus, Sonya Shah, and Leah Todd, and moderated by Piper Anderson: https://bcrw.barnard.edu/videos/building-accountable-communities-what-is-accountability/Theater-Specific Case Study #1 - Abusive Rehearsal Room: https://f2606a71-bda8-4907-8ea6-d848e7fd6671.usrfiles.com/ugd/f2606a_5869addf765749b99d63019969bf0ceb.pdfTheater-Specific Case Study #2 - Award-Winning Director + Sexual Violence: https://f2606a71-bda8-4907-8ea6-d848e7fd6671.usrfiles.com/ugd/f2606a_310f018b45de437bb24639f478166068.pdfBATJC Case Studies: https://batjc.wordpress.com/resources/case-studies/Mia Mingus: https://www.soiltjp.org & https://leavingevidence.wordpress.comBay Area Transformative Justice Collective: https://batjc.wordpress.com/For additional resources, including this episode's ASL video: https://www.weriseproduction.com/therealworkzAnda of DiaspoRADiCAL: @diaspo.radical on Instagram & https://soundcloud.com/diasporadicalConnect with us at weriseproduction[at]protonmail[dot]com, and follow us on Facebook & Instagram at weriseproduction, & on twitter at WeRiseProducers.

Hello Sunshine! Welcome to another episode of Reimagining with Ayandastood. Today, we are joined by the one and only Mia Mingus.  In this episode, we explore Beauty, Desirability, Ugliness and Magnificence. Full transcripts to all episodes are available here.Mia Mingus is a writer, educator and trainer for transformative justice and disability justice. She is a queer, physically disabled, Korean-American transnational adoptee raised in the Caribbean. She works for community, interdependence and home for all of us, not just some of us, and longs for a world where disabled children can live free of violence, with dignity and love. As her work for liberation evolves and deepens, her roots remain firmly planted in ending sexual violence. Find Mia at @MiaMingus on Twitter and suppert her on Venmo @Mia-Mingus if you can! I hope you enjoy today's episode. Don't forget to subscribe and share it with a friend! Highlights:(03:22) Intro to Mia Mingus(07:42) What brings Mia joy(11:28) What does it mean to Move Towards Ugliness?(16:07) Experiences that led Mia into this work(27:15) What does it mean to embrace each other's Magnificence?(33:19) How desirability has been used to commit violence(46:36) How the need to feel beautiful is rooted in harm(1:06:25) How can we find ways to Move Toward Ugliness?(1:13:13) What is the antidote to shame?(1:18:49) Why is the burden of Beauty so high?Links:Mia Mingus:Venmo: @Mia-MingusWriting: About | Leaving EvidenceTwitter: @miamingusIG: @mia.mingusReading: “Moving Toward the Ugly: A Politic Beyond Desirability” by Mia MingusMentions:Sip & Politic is an incredible podcast by my mutuals Joy Malonza & Carla Marie Davis. Find it on Apple here and Spotify hereSupport my amazing mutual Ismatu on Substack here and on TikTok @ismatu.gwendolynAudre Lorde Essay: The Transformation of Language into Silence and ActionBelly of the Beast: The Politics of Ant-fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da'Shaun L. Harrison is a fantastic book and resource! Follow them on Twitter here @DaShaunLHAyanda:Substack: ayandastood.substack.comTiktok: @ayandastoodPodcast Instagram: @reimaginingwithayandastoodMy Instagram: @ayandastood  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ayandastood/support

Episode 146 with Sandy Ho: A Discussion of the Work and New Book (Year of the Tiger) of Alice Wong, Sandy's Partner in Meaningful and Change-Inducing Work in Disability Circles and Beyond Sandy Ho is guided by the light of the closest disco ball. Born in the year of the tiger, her boldness has shown up in her community organizing and activism as the founder of the Disability & Intersectionality Summit. She is also one-third of the team behind the “Access is Love” campaign in partnership with Alice Wong and Mia Mingus. Her essay “Canfei to Canji: The Freedom of Being Loud” is included in Disability Visibility: FirstPerson Stories from the Twenty-First Century edited by Alice Wong. She produced the discussion guide for Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong (September 2022). In 2022 Sandy received the Disability Futures Fellowship. Currently she is the director of the Disability Inclusion Fund at Borealis Philanthropy. Sandy spends her time reading, cheering for the Red Sox, and daydreaming while drinking tea. She identifies as a queer disabled Asian American woman.    Donate to Alice Wong's Recovery Fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong-stay-in-community Alice Wong is the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, an online community that fosters and amplifies disability media and culture. A Chinese-American activist and writer, Wong fights for access and representation for people with disabilities from all backgrounds. Wong launched the Disability Visibility Project in 2014. It began as a partnership with StoryCorps to offer opportunities for people with disabilities to record their own oral histories. It grew into an online community that documents and amplifies disability media and culture. Wong, who never felt represented in popular culture while growing up as an Asian-American girl with a disability, wanted to help people tell their stories without the filter of the media, an act she hoped they would find empowering.    Wong's writing on disability issues has been published in numerous media outlets across the country. She has edited two anthologies that feature essays written by people with disabilities, and she published her memoir, Year of the Tiger, in 2022. In 2020, Time recognized Wong as one of 16 notable people fighting for equality in America.  Wong continues her intersectional advocacy for the disability community and the Asian American community through her efforts as an activist and writer. In her own words, “I want to create a world that is reflective of all of us. This is my life's work.” At about 10:50, Pete and Sandy discuss a recent Teen Vogue article, “ 'Year of the Tiger' By Alice Wong Is a Letter to Asian American Disabled Women and Girls,” excerpted from the book   At about 11:30, Sandy responds to Pete asking about what Alice means to the disabled communities and beyond and how she functions as an “oracle”   At about 15:10, Pete and Sandy reflect on how relatively short the post-Americans with Disabilities Act history is and about Alice and her contemporaries as “OGs”   At about 17:05, Sandy gives background on her meeting Alice and “community organizing” and how “Letters to Thrive” served as a catalyst    At about 20:50, Pete and Sandy talk about interdependence and community, including the symbolism of the peaches brought from Masumuto Farms   At about 26:55, Sandy tells of a recent birthday party that Alice threw for her; this serves as a shining example of Alice's copious generosity, selflessness, and care for others   At about 29:00, the two discuss Alice's emphasis in her book and in her life on rest and relaxation and recharging    At about 31:40, Sandy and Pete examine the word “ally” and Sandy discusses what we as a collective can do to be more than just “performative” allies   At about 34:00, Sandy gives out bookstores and libraries of note, including Green Apple Books   Alice Wong's Twitter Page   Disability Visibility Twitter Page   Buy Year of the Tiger: Activist's Life   From Eater Magazine, October 2022: "Constant Cravings"  

As the cohort continued, we learned that building the capacity to practice transformative justice takes immense and consistent personal work. We're talking the basics of being human, like self reflection, and how to communicate.These personal inquiries into how we live our values, and how we respond to our inevitable mistakes, were like portals into the heart of TJ. Into what it would take to support ourselves and others in living accountably every day for everything we do, and fail to do.Episode transcript: Coming soon!Sogorea Te' Land Trust: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/Save the West Berkeley Shellmound: https://shellmound.org/Creative Interventions Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Stop Interpersonal Violence: https://www.creative-interventions.org/toolkit/Aya de Leon, “Reconciling Rage and Compassion: The Unfolding #MeToo Moment for Junot Diaz”: https://transformharm.org/reconciling-rage-and-compassion-the-unfolding-metoo-moment-for-junot-diaz/“Hollow Water,” directed by Bonnie Dickie: https://www.nfb.ca/film/hollow_water/Mia Mingus, “The Four Parts of Accountability & How To Give A Genuine Apology“: https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2019/12/18/how-to-give-a-good-apology-part-1-the-four-parts-of-accountability/Mia Mingus: https://www.soiltjp.org & https://leavingevidence.wordpress.comBay Area Transformative Justice Collective: https://batjc.wordpress.com/For additional resources, including this episode's ASL video: https://www.weriseproduction.com/therealworkzAnda of DiaspoRADiCAL: @diaspo.radical on Instagram & https://soundcloud.com/diasporadicalConnect with us at weriseproduction[at]protonmail[dot]com, and follow us on Facebook & Instagram at weriseproduction, & on twitter at WeRiseProducers.

Our facilitator, Mia Mingus, used the metaphor of a fist to explain how, unlike our current severely punitive carceral system, TJ creates conditions that support folks to step up and take accountability when they've caused harm. In this episode, we explore how these systems have shaped us, and ask, how else can we respond to violence, harm, & abuse?Episode transcript: coming soonSogorea Te' Land Trust: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/Save the West Berkeley Shellmound: https://shellmound.org/Mariame Kaba - https://transformharm.org/ & http://mariamekaba.com/Readings & Media compiled by the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective: https://batjc.wordpress.com/resources/readings-media/Transformative Justice Resources, compiled by Cory Lira of Critical Resistance Portland: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11D8HSm4q4LIMH_T8b3W8oFIZxMgvPYkUh0WhC5XlgCU/editMia Mingus: https://www.soiltjp.org & https://leavingevidence.wordpress.comBay Area Transformative Justice Collective: https://batjc.wordpress.com/For additional resources, including this episode's ASL video: https://www.weriseproduction.com/therealworkzAnda of DiaspoRADiCAL: @diaspo.radical on Instagram & https://soundcloud.com/diasporadicalConnect with us at weriseproduction[at]protonmail[dot]com, and follow us on Facebook & Instagram at weriseproduction, & on twitter at WeRiseProducers.

On episode one, we got up to speed about the conditions that brought theater makers in the Bay Area to organize around TJ. This episode is dedicated to unpacking, at its core, what is TJ?Episode transcript: https://bit.ly/TheRealWork-Episode-2Sogorea Te' Land Trust: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/Save the West Berkeley Shellmound: https://shellmound.org/BATJC Pods & Pod Mapping Worksheet Instructions: https://batjc.wordpress.com/resources/pods-and-pod-mapping-worksheet/BATJC Pod Mapping Worksheet:https://batjc.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/batjc-pod-mapping-2016-updated.pdfEdSource, “At this Oakland high school, restorative justice goes far beyond discipline”: https://edsource.org/2022/at-this-oakland-high-school-restorative-justice-goes-far-beyond-discipline/673453Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth/RJOY: https://rjoyoakland.org/Mia Mingus: https://www.soiltjp.org & https://leavingevidence.wordpress.comBay Area Transformative Justice Collective: https://batjc.wordpress.com/Democracy Now!, “Remembering Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015): ‘We Have to Change Ourselves in Order to Change the World'”: https://www.democracynow.org/2015/10/6/remembering_grace_lee_boggs_1915_2015For additional resources, including this episode's ASL video: https://www.weriseproduction.com/therealworkzAnda of DiaspoRADiCAL: @diaspo.radical on Instagram & https://soundcloud.com/diasporadicalConnect with us at weriseproduction[at]protonmail[dot]com, and follow us on Facebook & Instagram at weriseproduction, & on twitter at WeRiseProducers.

How did The Real Work come to be? What were the conditions that set the stage (pun intended) for theater workers to come together to study & practice transformative justice? Let's find out...Episode transcript: https://bit.ly/TheRealWork-EP1Sogorea Te' Land Trust: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/Save the West Berkeley Shellmound: https://shellmound.org/Anti Police-Terror Project: https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/The Village in Oakland #feedthepeople: @villageoakland, https://www.facebook.com/TheVillageInOakland Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment: https://www.acceaction.org/East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative: https://ebprec.org/Washington Post, “Chicago theaters said ‘Not in Our House' to sexual abuse and harassment”: ​​https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/chicago-theaters-say-not-in-our-house-to-sexual-abuse/2017/12/14/e2db9c30-e014-11e7-8679-a9728984779c_story.html Howlround, “What Playwrights Can Learn from Intimacy Directors: A Conversation with Gaby Labotka“: https://howlround.com/what-playwrights-can-learn-intimacy-directors Coalition of Black Women Professional Theatre Makers in the Bay Area, California: https://blackwomenbayareatheatre.wordpress.com/The New York Times, “Long Wharf Theater Leader is Accused of Sexual Harassment”: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/theater/gordon-edelstein-long-wharf-theater-sexual-misconduct.html Kim Tran: https://www.kimtranphd.com/ Kyra Jones: https://www.kyrajones.me/Adrienne Skye Roberts: http://therapywithadrienneskye.com/Resources for Addressing Sexual Harassment & Violence (compiled for It's Time: Bay Area Town Hall on Sexual Harassment in Our Theatre Community): https://www.theatrebayarea.org/general/custom.asp?page=itstimeresources Mia Mingus: https://www.soiltjp.org & https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective: https://batjc.wordpress.com/Liberation Spring: https://liberationspring.com/ For additional resources, including this episode's ASL video: https://www.weriseproduction.com/therealworkzAnda of DiaspoRADiCAL: @diaspo.radical on Instagram & https://soundcloud.com/diasporadicalConnect with us at weriseproduction[at]protonmail[dot]com, and follow us on Facebook & Instagram at weriseproduction, & on twitter at WeRiseProducers.

We are proud to present The Real Work: a podcast about theater culture & transformative justice! This collaboration has been in the works since 2018, and we are thrilled to share it with you now. Join us for our free online premiere of this series with a community dialogue August 22nd 7PM-9PM PST. Register at the link below. Let's gather, witness episode 1, and dialogue about how transformative justice — a paradigm of community accountability and intervention in harm, violence, and abuse — can strengthen our art-making and activist spaces.Episode transcript: https://bit.ly/TheRealWork-Pilot-EpisodeRegister for the 8.22.22 online premiere: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/online-premiere-of-the-real-work-podcast-with-asl-interpretation-registration-389740062017The Real Work is a 6-episode audio miniseries exploring transformative justice as a tool for preventing, addressing, and healing harm in Bay Area theater and beyond. Over the course of one year, nearly thirty local theater makers gathered monthly to learn together about transformative justice, under the facilitation of Mia Mingus, co-founder of the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective. This podcast series documents our learnings with an aim to share out and grow our collective capacity to practice transformative justice, especially in our arts and activist spaces.True to its name, The Real Work reveals the seemingly mundane relational practices we can engage with one another to build cultures of safety and thriving within our communities. From communication skills, giving and receiving feedback, and learning how to make good apologies, to understanding roots of harm, TJ illuminates patterns of violence and abuse and offers dynamic ways of taking accountability to fundamentally shift them.The Real Work: A Podcast About Theater Culture & Transformative Justice is created & hosted by Tierra Allen, in partnership with We Rise Production.Sogorea Te' Land Trust: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/Save the West Berkeley Shellmound: https://shellmound.org/Mia Mingus: https://www.soiltjp.org & https://leavingevidence.wordpress.comBay Area Transformative Justice Collective: https://batjc.wordpress.com/For additional resources, including this episode's ASL video: https://www.weriseproduction.com/therealworkzAnda / DiaspoRADiCAL: @diaspo.radical on Instagram & https://on.soundcloud.com/XdeZehwLEPh127oG8Connect with us at weriseproduction@pm.me, and follow us on Facebook & Instagram at @WeRiseProduction, & on twitter at @WeRiseProducers.This project is supported by an Investing in Artists Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation & the City of Oakland's Cultural Funding Program, and was incubated with initial support from Cal Shakes.

Preacher: Tim Kim If you haven't heard, I (Tim) will be going on sabbatical starting in July. Which means this week will be my last service until the fall. Which means I would love to see everyone before I go! Join us as we wrap up the last couple months of conversation around the ideas of Invitation, Contemplation, and Co-creation. If you were at our All Together Meeting, we talked about them being the values that have risen to the surface over years of conversation and practice. And now that we've laid them on the table, what's next?  Link to poem, Dreaming Accountability, by Mia Mingus

As an adult, Lorilee made the decision to disclose to her Filipina mom the sexual abuse she says she endured as a child. And Mira Yusef, advocate and community organizer against gender-based violence, speaks with Juleyka about how to have hard conversations about abuse, disclosure and accountability.Lorilee is the host of Trauma Survivor Thriver's Podcast. You can learn more about her work here. Our expert this week is Mira Yusef, Executive Director at Monsoon Asians & Pacific Islanders in Solidarity. Learn more about her work here. The national sexual assault hotline offers confidential support for survivors of sexual abuse, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The number is 800-656-4673. That's 1-800-656-HOPE. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline also offers 24/7 confidential support. Their number is 800-273-8255. Mira recommends the work of transformative justice and disability justice educator Mia Mingus, and this cool resource from activist Mimi Kim. If you liked this show listen to How to Teach Consent in Our Families, and Not Your Mamí's Sex Ed.We'd love to hear your stories of triumph and frustration so send us a detailed voice memo to virginia@lwcstudios.com. You might be on a future episode! Let's connect on Twitter and Instagram at @TalkToMamiPapi and email us at hello@talktomamipapi.com. And follow us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere you listen to your favorite podcasts.

What if we celebrated, not Independence Day, but Interdependence Day this week? Join contributor Nichola Torbett as she explores some of the fears, taboos, and blessings of having and acknowledging needs--our own and others--and working together to get them met. This episode places in dialogue Luke 10: 1-11 and 16-20 with some of the writings of disability justice organizer Mia Mingus.

Mia Mingus is a writer, educator and trainer for transformative justice and disability justice. She is a queer disabled Korean transracial and transnational adoptee raised in the Caribbean. She works for community, interdependence and home for all of us, not just some of us, and longs for a world where disabled children can live free of violence, with dignity and love.You will meet Mia (0:55). Mia defines transformative justice in her work (15:10) and discusses the difficulty of TJ in our current soil (34:41). She talks about accountability and pod mapping (46:12). Finally, she answers the closing questions (1:19:51).Make sure to subscribe, rate, review, and share!Contact, Learn More, Support Mia!Website: https://www.soiltjp.org/ Blog: https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/ Watch clips of the podcast: http://youtube.com/c/amplifyrj Follow us on TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMRAQd2VM/See all our workshops and courses at http://amplifyrj.com/learn Future Ancestor Collective (Community Gatherings): http://tiny.cc/ARJcommunity Rep Amplify RJ Gear at http://amplifyrj.threadless.com You can connect with Amplify RJ:Email list: http://tiny.cc/ARJemail Instagram: http://instagram.com/amplify.rjLinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/restorative-justice Facebook: http://facebook.com/amplifyrjTwitter: http://twitter.com/amplifyrjWebsite: http://amplifyrj.comReadingReal Solutions for Everyday Problems You Can UseIt can work for you too just listen. Hey, I learned all know from them. Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify PullbackPullback digs into the everyday ethics behind goods and services, consumer movements,...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Playful Humans Podcast - People Who Play for a LivingRediscover the power of play for more fun, flow and fulfillment in your life and career!Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Gin & JusticeHeyyy, let's talk about JUSTICE! It's been a long day, pour some gin and have a seat. ...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

The story of the prodigal son - a beloved and complicated one. Drawing on both the work of Dr. Amy-Jill Levine and the writing of Mia Mingus, M talks through the ups and downs and all arounds of this passage including both its problem areas as well as one of many of its invitations into a more life-giving way together. Transcript available here: surj.org/our-work/surj-faith/twir/

This morning I hit record on my iPhone voice memo app to process thoughts about what it feels like to grow and have more eyes on what I'm doing. Here's the blog post I mentioned, Let That Shit Go. In the final minute I remembered to shout out my upcoming business strategy retreat on March 31 & April 1. I also mentioned Jacquette Timmons, my beloved business coach, Rachel Rodgers and the Shmillies, The Well Woman Show, and Mia Mingus.If you have something on your mind that you'd like to share or you did my offered reflections, I'd love to hear from you! Send me an email. ♥️ Clarity is fluid like water not rooted like a tree, why I created Clarity Pages in 2018 to help manage the day-to-day while moving goals forward. Use code PODLOVE to save 20% on your next journal. More places to find me Join my email family Follow me on IG My website © 2018-2022 Mariposa Strategies | All Rights Reserved Clarity®️ is a registered trademark Privacy Policy & Terms of Service

Buffalo HealthCast co-host, Dr. Jessica Kruger, speaks with Dr. Sue Mann Dolce, who currently serves as the Associate Director of Accessibility Resources at the University at Buffalo.  In this conversation, we learn about the constantly evolving attitudes around disability, and what needs to change to ensure equitable treatment for all, regardless of ability.  Sue's areas of interest and research include participation, disability studies and collaborative programming, as well as universal design and programming. She enjoys working with all members of the UB community to learn about, design and implement education and participation opportunities for everyone. Sue is also a Registered Yoga Teacher.    Teaching NotesResources: 1. Ableism by Michelle R. Nario-Redmond (Includes poem entitled "Ableism" by Maria Palacios, 2017)2. Disability Visibility Book and Podcast by Alice Wong3. Disability Justice Concepts (various online resources) by Mia Mingus, Patty Berne, and the late Stacey Milburn (Mia and Stacey have both presented at UB4. Crip Camp Documentary5. Being Heumann memoir by Judy Heumann (who is also in Crip Camp as a teenager)6. Follow us!Official WebpageBuzzsproutSpotifyApple PodcastsYoutubeInstagramFacebookTwitter

Welcome to another episode of the Comrade's Classroom Podcast! In this episode, we turn y'all onto one of our favorite Disability Justice resources from our curriculum titled "Re-envisioning the Revolutionary Body" a talk by Mia Mingus. This talk is about the ways in which ableism and disability impact organizing, organizations, and so much more. In the first part of the discussion, Mia will focus on building our knowledge about disability, ableism, and the medical-industrial complex. In what ways can we better show up for ourselves and our comrades? During the second half, Mia will explore the connections between disability, reproductive justice, race, queerness, and social justice movements. To support Mia Mingus and their work financially please donate to them using this link: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/MiaMingus. Or on Venmo: miamingus. We ask that all donations for this episode be directed to Mia!

This text is available at Mia's blog, Leaving Evidence. Immediatism.com My other podcast, PointingTexts.org Feedback and requests to Cory@Immediatism.com, and your comment may be shared in a future episode.

I have often been criticized for making yoga political, but it is impossible to be a yoga teacher today and not be socially engaged. The definition of Ashtanga yoga is changing and being an Ashtanga yogi requires more from us than daily practice. I brought Wambui back on the show to discuss more of the indigenous wisdom of our practice and how the practice of ahimsa is playing out in the world beyond the yoga mat. The last time I talked to Wambui Njuguna-Räisänenin, we were discussing the cognitive dissonance of yoga and the challenges of taking what we learn on the yoga mat out into the real world. Wambui shares with us the teachers who have inspired her to take on new perspectives and apply what she's learning through yoga to the social and cultural changes that are happening all around us.  We discuss the meaning of transformative justice with lessons from Mia Mingus and examine emergent strategies and the paradox of power with lessons from adrienne maree browne.  Being a socially engaged yoga practitioner does not mean we are walking away from yoga. As Wambui describes it, we are walking around our practice and looking for connections across different communities and circumstances. It's how we find inspiration from new teachers and how we gain new perspectives to enhance our practice and improve the emotional and spiritual well-being of the world in our own way. Wambui would like to see wellness spaces engage more in social justice and collective change and activist spaces learn to breathe deeply and practice sustainable self-care in the midst of dismantling systemic oppression. This is her definition of community care.  Wambui Njuguna-Räisänen is a Kenyan-American based in Finland, passionate about making wellness through yoga and meditation seamlessly engaged in equity and justice so that more people of the global majority can live well and thrive. She holds an MA in Applied Linguistics and has appeared on Omstars, StillPoint Yoga London, and Maailmankuvalehti (Finnish publication). Wambui is deeply inspired by spiritual teachers and communities that seek ways to apply the insights from our various practices and teachings to situations of social, racial, political, environmental, and economic suffering and injustice. To learn more about Wambui and her offerings, visit wambuinjuguna.com or connect with her @wellnesswithwambui on Patreon, Youtube, and Instagram. To speak with Wambui directly, write her a letter: Wambui Njuguna -Räisänen Väylänrinne 5 a 1 00830 Helsinki Finland Take advantage of the resources we discussed today: Mia Mingus' blog on Accountability and Apology We Will Not Cancel Us by adrienne maree browne Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree browne Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree browne Trans Yoga Teacher with Allé K @transyogateacher If you would like to see Wambui on Omstars, get your free 30-day membership on Omstars.com & use code: PODCAST. Keep up with us online @omstarsofficial. Keep up with me on Instagram at @kinoyoga and visit my blog at Kinoyoga.com. If you want to share what you've learned on your yoga journey, get in touch with me at info@kinoyoga.com. You could be invited to guest spot on The Yoga Inspiration Podcast. 

Hey y'all! In this episode, I'm joined by my new friend Kayla Lopez, who is a sophomore at the University of Georgia majoring in Journalism/Mass Communication. Kayla has grown up knowing Jesus her whole life, but would say her relationship with Him became personal for about 3 years, when she made the decision to attend church on her own + get baptized. Kayla is so excited to be on the podcast today, and says "this is literally a dream come trueeee", as she aspires to be a broadcast journalist some day in the future. In this episode, we continue our discussion on forgiveness, apologizing, and accountability - answering the polls from my Instagram story + reading some tips from the article "Accountability" by Mia Mingus. So many people, especially in our generation, do not know how to give proper apologies. This is absolutely unacceptable, and we must learn now how to hold ourselves accountable for our actions + put ourselves in the vulnerable position of apologizing. If we don't now, then we'll miss the window of apologizing + potentially lose the relationship. Apologizing + repentance are the heart of the gospel + the call of every Christian! We hope you all enjoy this episode and please reach out + thank Kayla for her time, insight, and for being a beautiful person inside + out! SUBSCRIBE + Share with your friends + family, + anyone who needs to hear this. As always, speak love + live it! For the latest updates on the podcast + to reach out, follow me on Instagram: https://instagram.com/luvy.isobel  https://instagram.com/wordsoflovepodcast Follow Kayla on Instagram https://instagram.com/urbankaay Music by: Kenneth Johnson + Evan Smallwood https://instagram.com/knny.mj https://instagram.com/officialzerofocus Art: by Kirby Guerrero (message me for cards!) https://instagram.com/kirbyco_ --- 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/wordsoflovepodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wordsoflovepodcast/support

What does Black and Asian solidarity look like during this time when “Black Lives Matter” and “Stop Asian Hate” are household terms? I talk with dancer, writer, and organizer Rohan Zhou-Lee about one vision of Black and Asian solidarity through community building in the Blasian March, a product of their purposeful organizing across different identity groups. We share our thoughts and experiences, and criticize various aspects of white mythology. In doing so we discuss language as an extension of colonization and tool of resistance, inspiration for creative thinking, ways to cultivate safety, and individualized solutions vs communal and structural solutions. Follow Rohan's amazing work on their IG, twitter, and FB @diaryofafirebird and @blasianmarch. Mia Mingus and pod mapping https://batjc.wordpress.com/resources/pods-and-pod-mapping-worksheet/Virulent Hate Project Report https://virulenthate.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Virulent-Hate-Anti-Asian-Racism-In-2020-5.17.21.pdf https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/viral-images-show-people-color-anti-asian-perpetrators-misses-big-n1270821 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vulgar-geniuses/id1511650673 

In this podcast, we talk and learn about Climate Justice with Richard Kim and Yang Hong from the community Work on Climate Some of the topics we'll be discussing include: - The “Work on Climate” community and its goal - The guide “Climate Justice 101” and the reasons for creating it - The different definitions of climate justice - The risk that technology perpetuates climate injustice - Intersectional environmentalism as an imperative to the fight against climate change - What we can do to integrate climate justice into our projects - Data justice and equity References: * [Climate Justice Guide 101](http://bit.ly/CJ-101) * [Work on Climate Starter Packs](https://www.notion.so/workonclimate/Starter-Packs-Community-curated-resources-52547bba557e4544bacc299d3a077795) * H. Moore & J.K. Russell, [Organizing Cools the Planet](https://climateaccess.org/system/files/Moore%20and%20Russell_Organizing%20Cools%20the%20Planet.pdf) * [BlocPower](http://blocpower.io/) * [GreenWave](https://www.greenwave.org/) * [Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson](https://www.ayanaelizabeth.com/), "[How to Save a Planet](https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet/)" * [WeACT](https://www.weact.org/) On positionality and climate justice as a personal practice in community: * [On positionality](https://www.arteachingcollective.com/positionality.html) * [Bad Activist Collective](https://www.badactivistcollective.com/) * "[My Role in a Social Change Ecosystem](https://dviyer.medium.com/my-role-in-a-social-change-ecosystem-a-mid-year-check-in-1d852589cdb1)" by [Deepa Iyer](http://deepaiyer.com/) * "[Pod Mapping](https://batjc.wordpress.com/resources/pods-and-pod-mapping-worksheet/)" for accountability by [Mia Mingus](https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/about-2/) * "[Everything worthwhile is done with other people](https://adimagazine.com/articles/mariame-kaba-everything-worthwhile-is-done-with-other-people/)" -- [Mariame Kaba](https://forthewild.world/listen/mariame-kaba-on-moving-past-punishment-151) * A few climate communities with members from tech: [Work On Climate](https://workonclimate.org/), [Climate Action Tech](https://climateaction.tech/), [Terra.do](http://terra.do/) * Daily practice: [Anti-Racism Daily](https://www.antiracismdaily.com/), "[Practical Decolonization: How to live it daily](https://everydayfeminism.com/practical-decolonization/)" workshop On data (in)justice and the dangers of uncritical tech and data in climate: * [Data Harm Record](https://datajusticelab.org/data-harm-record/) of harms from data and algorithms from the [Data Justice Lab](https://datajusticelab.org/) * "[False solutions](https://media.wix.com/ugd/75b7f5_2c41011de1a84177ad9aaf477db50566.pdf)" to climate change ([here's a short sample](http://jtalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/False-Solutions.pdf)) * [Data Capitalism](https://datacapitalism.d4bl.org/) interactive from Data 4 Black Lives * “[Decolonizing Methodologies: 20 Years On](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSX_4FnqXwQ)” annual lecture by [Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith](https://www.waikato.ac.nz/maori/linda-tuhiwai-smith) On the importance of intersectional climate justice: * [Intersectional Environmentalism](https://www.intersectionalenvironmentalist.com/) by [Leah Thomas](https://www.greengirlleah.com/) * [Who Killed Berta Cáceres?](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/02/who-killed-berta-caceres-behind-the-brutal-of-an-environment-crusader) * "[Indigenous sovereignty could save the planet](https://truthout.org/articles/un-report-says-indigenous-sovereignty-could-save-the-planet/)" Principles aligning across movements: * [A Just Transition Framework](https://climatejusticealliance.org/just-transition/) from the [Climate Justice Alliance](https://climatejusticealliance.org/) * [Design Justice Principles](https://designjustice.org/read-the-principles) (en [français](https://designjustice.org/french))

In today's segment, we highlight disability and transformative justice organizer Mia Mingus. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

On the first episode of Mad Practice hosts JD Derbyshire & Col Cseke take a deep dive into the emotion of the day: Anger! Tangents include: Angry vs Mad - JD introduces the reclaimed term Mad; Mad Pride, Mad Practice, Madness in all its glory and complexity. The hosts lean heavily on this Medium article by Prakhar Verma - Expand Your Emotional Vocabulary With This Dictionary Of Emotions They chat about Co-Evolution Through Friendship introduced by adrienne marie brown in Emergent Strategy and Mia Mingus' Accountability Framework You can find us on Twitter & Instagram and support us on Patreon.

This week on OVARYaction Kira and Alexandria discussed accountability. Following the murder of George Floyd and the trial of Derek Chauvin, social media posts began popping up regarding justice versus accountability. Tune in this week to hear Kira and Alexandria sort out the difference, guided by Mia Mingus's Apology Lab.Source:Mia Mingus Apology Lab/ Blogpost https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2019/12/18/how-to-give-a-good-apology-part-1-the-four-parts-of-accountability/As always, let us know if you have any topic suggestions we can research and get opinionated on. Be sure to follow us on Instagram @OvaryActionPodcast. That's O V A R Y ACTION podcast. You can comment or dm us there for topic suggestions. You can like our Facebook  @OvaryActionPodcastIf you like what you heard, subscribe to us wherever you're listening to podcasts right now to get notified whenever we post. Also, be sure to leave us a five star review and tell your friends so we can empower more women to be opinionated on these topics. Thanks so much for listening. We'll see you next week.

We're delighted to have Spring Hawes - entrepreneur, past municipal councillor, board director for a BC health authority, and a candidate in the BC election last October - join us on the pod. A tetraplegic, Spring talks to us about the experiences of disabled people in the pandemic, the implications of Canada's new medical assistance in dying (MAD) legislation, and about BC's highly anticipated new accessibility legislation. We also talk about disability justice, the ableism that's embedded in every part of our culture and built environment, and and the kinds of stories about disabled people she'd like to see and hear more in media and popular culture.Check out the "10 Principles of Disability Justice" Spring and Maria mentioned in our interview here: https://www.sinsinvalid.org/blog/10-principles-of-disability-justiceLearn more about disability justice from this 2013 interview with disability justice activist, Mia Mingus: https://equitableeducation.ca/2013/mia-mingus-disability-justice

In this very personal episode, Vyana (they/them) sits down with their ex-husband & partner, Daren Magee (he/him) of Real Fun, Wow! to discuss part of their journey from emotionally abusive marriage to repair & healthy relating. Share your thoughts about this episode by calling in: 1-833-2RELATE / 1-833-273-5283 (2 minute max) or email creativelyrelating@gmail.comFollow Vyana on Instagram @vyana.novus / Follow Daren @realfunwow and @mysticalcynicalSupport the show at Patreon.com/vyananovus starting at $3 per monthMusic for this show was written and recorded by Zena Carlota @zenacarlota,mixed by Brendan Willing James @bwillingAdditional Mentions in this episode:Mia Mingus @mia.mingus, Adrienne Maree Brown @adriennemareebrown,Liz Rose www.elizabethrosemediation.com,James-Olivia Chu Hillman @inquisitive_human,Dr. Jenn McCabe @dr.jennmccabe,

A conversation about abolitionist politics and transformative justice between Asian activists, authors and organizers. This panel explores abolitionist politics and practices among Asian organizers and cultural workers whose projects include prisoner support, anti-deportation work, disability justice, gender and sexual justice, anti-imperialism and anti-borders, and transformative justice. Speakers: Victoria Law is a freelance journalist that covers the intersections of incarceration, gender and resistance. She is the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women and the co-author, with Maya Schenwar, of Prison By Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reform. She is also the co-founder of Books Through Bars NYC. Mia Mingus is a writer, educator and community organizer for transformative justice and disability justice. She is a prison abolitionist and a survivor who believes that we must move beyond punishment, revenge and criminalization if we are ever to effectively break generational cycles of violence and create the world our hearts long for. She is passionate about building the skills, relationships and structures that can transform violence, harm and abuse within our communities and that do not rely on or replicate the punitive system we currently live in. For more, visit her blog, Leaving Evidence. Tamara K. Nopper is a sociologist whose research focuses on the racial wealth gap, credit scoring systems and the push for alternative data, and the intersection between racism, financialization, criminalization, and punishment. She has experience in Asian American, immigrant rights, and anti-war activism. Anoop Prasad is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco and also a part of Survived and Punished and Asian Prisoner Support Committee. Anoop's work has focused on defending formerly incarcerated people from deportation with a particular focus on Cambodian refugees and domestic violence survivors. Sarath Sarinay Suong (he/him) was born in the refugee camp of Khao I Dang after his family fled Battambang, Cambodia during civil war and immigrated to his hometown of Revere, Massachusetts. To cope with the violence and pain of growing up poor, queer, and refugee, he became a community organizer, centering the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Sarath moved to Providence, Rhode Island in 1998 to attend Brown University where he majored in Ethnic Studies with a specific focus on Southeast Asian resettlement, resilience, and resistance. There, he became a co-founder and former Executive Director of Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM), a community organization of Southeast Asian young people, queer and trans youth of color, and survivors of state violence organizing collectively against state violence. Sarath is also a founding Co-Chair of the Alliance of Rhode Island Southeast Asians for Education (ARISE), an organization dedicated to working with Southeast Asian youth to organize for education justice. Sarath sits on the advisory board of the Immigrant Justice Network . And he is currently the National Director of Southeast Asian Freedom Network (SEAFN), a movement family of Southeast Asian grassroots organizations founded to fight against detention and deportation. Harsha Walia has organized in anti-border, Indigenous solidarity, migrant justice, feminist, anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist movements for two decades through many community groups and organizations. She is also the author of Undoing Border Imperialism, co-author of both Never Home: Legislating Discrimination in Canadian Immigration, and Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, and contributing member of the Abolition Journal. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/GL2ZbqlJRQI Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

"Love and Accountability" (February 28, 2021) Worship Service Accountability can sound unpleasant, even scary, but what if it didn’t have to be? Disability justice educator and writer Mia Mingus offers a dream of what accountability can be- one that might support us in living into our work as a congregation. Meg McGuire, Ministerial Intern Carmen Barsody, Worship Associate Daniel Jackoway, Worship Associate Mari Magaloni, 8th Principle Task Force Liz Strand, 8th Principle Task Force Mark Sumner, song leader/pianist Eric Hamilton, guitarist Brielle Marina Neilson, song leader Jon Silk, drums Eric Shackelford, camera Shulee Ong, camera Joe Chapot, Social Media Chat Support Les James, Coffee Hour Zoom Thomas Brown, Sexton Judy Payne, flowers Alex Perez, cover image, https://unsplash.com/@a2eorigins Jonathan Silk, OOS, Sound, video edits Order of Service: https://content.uusf.org/Order_Of_Service/2021/20210228OSWeb.pdf Music: https://content.uusf.org/Sound/20210228Music.mp3 Reflection: https://content.uusf.org/Sound/Reflections/20210228DJReflection.mp3

"Love and Accountability" (February 28, 2021) Worship Service Accountability can sound unpleasant, even scary, but what if it didn’t have to be? Disability justice educator and writer Mia Mingus offers a dream of what accountability can be- one that might support us in living into our work as a congregation. Meg McGuire, Ministerial Intern Carmen Barsody, Worship Associate Daniel Jackoway, Worship Associate Mari Magaloni, 8th Principle Task Force Liz Strand, 8th Principle Task Force Mark Sumner, song leader/pianist Eric Hamilton, guitarist Brielle Marina Neilson, song leader Jon Silk, drums Eric Shackelford, camera Shulee Ong, camera Joe Chapot, Social Media Chat Support Les James, Coffee Hour Zoom Thomas Brown, Sexton Judy Payne, flowers Alex Perez, cover image, https://unsplash.com/@a2eorigins Jonathan Silk, OOS, Sound, video edits Order of Service: https://content.uusf.org/Order_Of_Service/2021/20210228OSWeb.pdf Music: https://content.uusf.org/Sound/202102028Music.mp3 Reflection: https://content.uusf.org/Sound/Reflections/20210228DJReflection.mp3

On today’s episode, we talk with https://www.joelchapmanmusic.com (Joel Chapman), the composer of “https://www.voltisf.org/interdependence (Interdependence),” a new piece premiered by https://www.voltisf.org (Volti) of San Francisco on February 13th, 2021. “Interdependence” is a live — yes, LIVE — performance featuring four remote quartets singing together through the wonders of technology that explores interdependence by way of choral music, augmented by our collective understanding of needing each other throughout this pandemic.  We also catch up with Volti’s Artistic Director, http://voltisf.org/meet/meet-us/robert-geary/ (Bob Geary), about the impact and significance of the piece. Listen to http://voltisf.org/interdependence (Interdependence), by Joel Chapman  http://voltisf.org/program/ProgramToRead.pdf (Program Notes) Donate to Volti References https://www.instagram.com/chrisunkim/ (Christine Sun Kim) on Instagram https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/about-2/ (Mia Mingus) (blog) https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/about/ (Alice Wong) https://www.talilalewis.com/ (Talila Lewis) https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/ (Disability Visibility Project) https://www.inunisonpodcast.com/episodes/s02e02 (Episode Transcription) Theme Song: https://music.apple.com/us/album/mr-puffy/1457011536?i=1457011549 (Mr. Puffy) by Avi Bortnik, arr. by Paul Kim. Performed by http://www.dynamicjazz.dk/ (Dynamic)

This episode is the start of a four part mini-series focused on the NEH-funded project “Towards a Pedagogy from Crisis.” Jolie speaks with project directors Dr. Amílcar Challú, department chair and associate professor of history, and Dr. Chad Iwertz Duffy, an assistant professor in rhetoric and writing. They discuss the important role that interdisciplinary collaboration in the humanities can play in building just and equitable learning--whether online, remote, or in-person.   Announcer: From Bowling Green State University, and the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, this is BG Ideas. Musical Intro: I'm going to show you this with a wonderful experiment. Jolie: Hello, and welcome back to the BG Ideas podcast, brought to you by the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, and the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University. I'm Dr. Jolie Sheffer. Due to the ongoing pandemic, we're not recording in the studio, but from home via phone and computer. As always, the opinions expressed on this podcast are those of the individuals involved, and do not necessarily represent those of BGSU or its employees. Jolie: Bowling Green State University is located in the Great Black Swamp, long a meeting place of the Wyandotte, Shawnee, Lenape, Ottawa, Kickapoo, Fox, Potawatomi, Erie, Miami, Peoria, Chippewa, and Seneca Indian tribes. We honor the rich history of this land and its indigenous inhabitants past and present. Jolie: Today's episode is one of a mini series focusing on a National Endowment for the Humanities sponsored project, Toward a Pedagogy from Crisis: Adaptive Teaching and Learning at Bowling Green State University During COVID-19. Today I'm joined by the project's directors, Dr. Chad Iwertz Duffy, and Dr. Amilcar Challu. Chad is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing in the English department. Amilcar is Department Chair and Associate Professor of History at BGSU. Jolie: Thank you both for joining me today. I'd like to start with some backstory on the project. The project focuses on the current global pandemic, which has completely restructured our personal and professional lives. Can you describe how the project came together and evolved into what it is now, and especially what is the role of pedagogy in this project?  Chad: I think, speaking specifically to pedagogy, one of the reasons why it's so important is because everybody pretty much in the world at this point, has moved to online education. And, even though that's something that has a fairly rich tradition in my field, I don't believe there are very many fields that have been really seriously thinking about online education. So, pedagogy is kind of our entree into thinking about how, when we have to all learn virtually, how you do that, and how you do that well, and how you value your students, especially right now in this time of crisis. Jolie: And Amilcar, from a practical standpoint, how did you and Chad connect on this project, and how did you evolve its shape and what you were imagining you were seeking to study and do?  Amilcar: Well, it was connections that someone else said. You're both thinking about this at the same time, and so why don't you talk with each other, and that was it. I think it highlights the importance of those informal interactions in getting things done, and pushing things forward. It advanced really, really fast. We both started talking about what we have in mind. It was something different, what each of us have in mind, but we knew that there was a lot that we were trying to accomplish that have the same goals. And, it was a very quick, fast process, and I was surprised about that. And it was part of the one great joy, I think, of putting this together. Jolie: Chad, I'd like to talk a bit about your specific background, and how it shaped the project. Your work focuses on disability and accessibility in what you refer to as public environments. Can you talk about what that means, and how you think about disability and accessibility in ways that connected in this project?  Chad: Yeah, sure. I think when we talk about disability, we're usually thinking, and historically disability has been thought of as, it's kind of like a legal term. Somebody designated as disabled would be entitled to certain benefits under the law. But, that is really changing in scholarship, especially from scholarship. I'll just highlight from Disabled Women of Color, like Mia Mingus, Alice Wong, Sandy Hoe, and others who work on the Disability Visibility project. They really define access as "a form of love in order to help build a world where accessibility is understood as an act of love."  Chad: Another scholar, Tanya Titchkosky, who does work in Canada, in her book, The Question of Access, defines access as "an interpretive relation between bodies." These really informed the way that I have been thinking about access in this project as, not just a legal standard for who is entitled to certain forms of accommodation, but really involving the very specific students and teachers who are within a classroom, what that environment looks like, what technologies are being used, and how we might kind of explode how we think of access in order to meet students, instructors, anybody's guest speakers who are in these environments that we're hosting. Meeting them where they're at and making sure that we can create environments where everyone is welcomed into that, not just from a legal standpoint, but also just from a relational standpoint and social standpoint. Jolie: And with that in mind, what do you hope we're going to learn from the pandemic that will help us rethink issues of disability and accessibility?  Chad: Yeah, well, some of my specific work is in communication access. A lot of what I have done in the past is worked with speech-to-text writers, and speech-to-text readers, specifically disabled and deaf people who receive transcription and speech-to-text writing as a form of accommodation. And what's very interesting, is there's a lot of ongoing discussion about what creates appropriate or good quality communication access.  Chad: I think a lot of us are familiar with closed captions, for example, on a television screen. But, that's just one methodology and is actually not the reigning methodology that's used in educational environments. That's referred to as a meaning-for-meaning transcription.  Chad: My hope is that this ongoing work will help expose some of the cracks in that understanding of access as a checklist. If I just attach a transcript to my educational videos or my lectures, then it's accessible. I think I'd like to push back against that a little bit, and hear from people who may be in an online environment for the first time and not really sure about what they're doing. Meeting people where they're at, finding out what's going on, what's working well, what's not working well, where we can be directing our focus as we continue to think about access and educational environments. Jolie: Amilcar, you have a wide range of research interests, but all of it touches in some way about the concept of the environment, whether you're talking about environmental change in Mexico, or collaborating with students and community members to design and install interactive interpretive historical trails right here in Bowling Green. Can you talk about how your past work exploring environmental histories, as well as public engagement, influenced this project?  Amilcar: Yeah. From one point of view, one contribution, I think it's practical. This got me thinking into the ways in which we can put teams together and work to solve a particular problem. And in this case, the problem was the impact of COVID in our institutional environment, and intellectual environment. That's one contribution that I think we should not dismiss, is that it gets the synopsis going in a way. But yeah, I think environmental history got me thinking in two other ways. One was, when we were talking about this, I think I was wrapping up my classroom environment, American Environmental History. And at that point, it was an online class. It's a class that always was very hands on. We were always doing field trips, walking in the woods, doing nature journaling. And suddenly, you had to rethink completely what you are doing.  Amilcar: So that got me, I think, the mind to think from the point of view of pedagogy from crisis. But at the same time, how important it was for students and for me to have that connection, explicit connection to the environment. And environment as nature, potential marks, but also the virtual environment, that how all the environments intersect with each other in a common experience.  Amilcar: The way that students were reacting to the COVID pandemic via their comments on their nature journal, for instance, was something that got me thinking a lot.  Amilcar: The other way that I was thinking about this was, from an environmental perspective, was precisely through what is the environment, and how we create environments, natural environments, virtual environments, et cetera. And, to me, these look like the creation of the new environment, that we're all creating new environments to put it in a way. Jolie: That's great. We know that the pandemic has not only exposed, but deepened vast racial and socioeconomic inequalities. And we see this with infection rates, illness, and death by Black, Indigenous, and Latinx, and other communities of color. But, we also see economic impacts of the virus and in how it's affecting our students. In terms of our teaching, what are some ways that you think we can help address or mitigate some of those disparate impacts?  Chad: I think that's such a important question, and one that really, I think, we can be hopeful about an answer right now. But, I think it's going to take some time. I know today, for example, when we're recording this, right now we've got over 7,000 new cases in Ohio alone of coronavirus. I think that we're really not seeing all of the effects right now. But, with those that we know and that you've identified, Jolie, it kind of takes me back to what Amilcar's response just was, where we're in a situation right now where we can be actively contributing to new built environments.  Chad: Online education is not without its faults in terms of the ways that it can help support sexism, racism, ableism. But, we also are able, I think, to really combat those in new ways since now everybody is going to have to be thinking about these in their built environments. So, from the limited and ongoing things that we're seeing, I would suggest to acknowledge that this is going on. That's the first step, to acknowledge that coronavirus is not impacting educational environments in equal ways. It's disproportionate, just as you're saying, affecting communities of color.  Chad: We need to come together, I think, to address these. Participate in ongoing research, encourage students to be speaking out when they're experiencing food insecurities, housing, insecurities, technology insecurity. Connecting them with the resources that are available through the University. I think that, yeah, that's something that's on all of us as educators. Jolie: Anything you'd like to add, Amilcar?  Amilcar: Well, I want to echo in a way, both what Chad said, and also the way that you placed the question. I think the COVID pandemic is definitely multiplying the effects that inequality, of many different kinds, have in education. And, it's something that, as a faculty administrator and as a faculty member, I'm witnessing on a daily basis. That is, students who are now under greater financial stress, and they are saying, I cannot live in college right now. Students have that need to work more hours than before. I think this is compounding in itself the problems that the pandemic brings on its own. I think that our project is trying to learn from this, but also present responses to the students and faculty on how to better tackle. Jolie: Great. We have to take a quick break. You're listening to the BiG Ideas podcast. Announcer: Question. Answer. Discussion. Announcer: If you are passionate about BiG Ideas, consider sponsoring this program. To have your name or organization mentioned here, please contact us at ics@bgsu.edu. Jolie: Hello, and welcome back to the BG Ideas podcast. Today, I'm talking to Dr. Chad Iwertz Duffy and Dr. Amilcar Challu about their NEH-sponsored project, Toward a Pedagogy From Crisis. Jolie: This question is for both of you, so either of you can take it first. Part of the project is about expanding and rethinking the public, which is obviously something that really matters to us at ICS. The humanities have an undeserved reputation for being disciplines that are more focused on theory than application. Castles in the air, rather than brass tacks. How do you see this project demonstrating and putting into action the values and disciplinary approaches of the humanities? Put another way, how can and do the humanities impact people in their everyday lives, that we can learn from in this moment?  Amilcar: Yeah. I think that it's a terrible reputation that we have for being hyper theoretical or disattached from everyday experience, because the way that I think about the humanities, it's actually about this everyday perspective of life and how it illuminates on the way that we conduct our everyday life. At the same time, some of us are discussing applied humanities, as a theory. And in a way, the fact that we have to say applied humanities, to me, it's not really signifying how much we have strayed from that perspective.  Amilcar: I think that we need to reassure that humanities have a lot to contribute to this discussion. It's practical and it's also subjective. It goes to how people are seeing the problems and acting upon the perceptions of the problems. So, I would put it exactly that way. Without these humanities, we really cannot tackle this. Without the humanities, we may be crunching some numbers, we may be dealing with models, but we are not dealing with people. Jolie: Oh, I like that. Let's underscore that. Without the humanities, we're talking about numbers, not people. What would you add, Chad, to this discussion about, what do you think is the value of the humanities, whether that's in terms of values, or particular disciplinary approaches to this research project?  Chad: Yeah. Thank you for that. I'm reminded of a saying, or an art installation I saw once that was a series of posters that said, "The sciences can work towards bringing the dinosaurs back to life, but the humanities can tell us why that's not such a great idea." I kind of feel like that is going to inform my answer, where I'm not going to say that the humanities have more to offer than the sciences. But, I think it's a false dichotomy that we live in our own silos, and it just becomes so easy to not really talk to each other.  Chad: But, one of the great things about this project has been the collaboration among a number of different departments, but especially English and History, both humanities departments. But even in so, seeing just the different methods and methodologies and ways that we understand this research, yeah, I think that it's just we have to be in this together. And so, as the sciences and economics are going to be able to give us information, I think what we can contribute as humanists, is the very real lived realities of what this pandemic is doing to us as people, what it's going to continue to do to our teaching beyond this as well, how we're going to interact with each other. All of these very big questions are ones that I think the humanities are especially well-suited to answer in conjunction with the sciences as well. Jolie: Well, and what you're saying there really connects to the previous questions, which is that the humanities are relevant here, not only in terms of pedagogy and the student experience, and analyzing the cultural and social impact of this moment, but also about those conversations about equity, accessibility, and diversity, those lived experiences. The data can tell us a lot, but they can't actually give us that kind of lived detail that is also so important.  Chad: Yeah. I think, too, that so I do some statistical work with my research, and I think what tends to happen, we're interested in averages. We're interested in sort of that forced mean in being able to understand a situation, but I think there's so much value in asking what are those outlier stories as well. And, I think something that we are coming to find as a community is, that when you take that mean, you're really understanding a very biased, white, male centric approach that doesn't fit in every circumstance. So, absolutely. Yes, I think that understanding the stories that can be collected from, not just the mean, but also all of those other areas, is more than valuable. It's necessary and needed. Yes. Jolie: One of the things we'll be talking about in subsequent episodes of the podcast are parts of the dimension of this project, which includes a summer camp for instructors, and faculty members, and graduate students, to help them learn to teach better. But, another piece of it that I think is relevant to what we're just talking about, is the research piece. Chad, would you talk a little bit about the research project that you're developing out of this grant that does do precisely what you're talking about, of trying to capture some of those perhaps outliers, as well as those more typical stories?  Chad: Yeah, absolutely. The one that I'm most directly involved with is a survey of the BGSU community. And we define that as all undergraduate, graduate level students, post doctorates, part-time faculty, full-time faculty, classified staff, administrative staff. Pretty much anybody employed or connected directly that way through the University. And what we're interested in, is a very quick statistical survey of people's satisfaction and experience with a number of different areas, such as their accommodation, use of technology, learning and teaching in different modalities.  Chad: But also, I would say one of the largest elements of this research study is collecting those narratives. There is definitely a qualitative element too, which is the humanities wheelhouse. I think one thing that I'm finding with this research is, that statistical analysis is going to give us a real quick snapshot of the community, but that qualitative analysis, which is going to take a lot longer, is going to tell us a lot more about actually how these different criteria that we've selected are operating in people's environments throughout last spring, this fall, and the summer is applicable too.  Chad: So, yeah, we really want to work towards building an archive that we can draw upon to be able to describe and share what the experience has been like, teaching and learning at BGSU through the pandemic.  Amilcar: The approach that we come into humanities, mythologically speaking, it's very much an all-of-the-above kind of approach, in that it's not that we are dismissing the quantitative information, the average, or the standard deviation. But instead, that we are populating that with storytelling. Retrieving the storytelling and building stories based on all-of-the-above approach. I think that Chad was saying, that's in the contribution of the humanities as an approach, that we can integrate. We can provide that integration through our storytelling. Jolie: Well then, one of the things I think you're both suggesting, too, is that the humanities allows, or it is well-suited, to get at the intersections of different experiences, too. That something that on a data point might look like it's an either or. Either you identify as this category or that. In those narratives, it's much easier to actually see that it's this, and this, and this often. And it's in those complexities where you can see some of the differences and think about possibilities for redress or mitigation.  Chad: Yes, yes. If I could tag someone to this, too. This sounds so much to me like a feminist contextualist methodology, which I learned about through Cindy Johanek. But, it's this idea, just like you're saying, Jolie, that we tend to call ourselves something and that comes with it a whole slew of ways that we understand how knowledge is made, or how it's possible. But it really, I think for this work, it's being driven by the research question, which is, what is happening right now at BGSU, and how are we teaching and learning through a pandemic? And that can be answered through qualitative and quantitative methods, and so that's why we're using both. So yes, absolutely, it depends on the questions that you want answered. Jolie: One of the other elements of the grant, particularly the summer camp, again, which we'll talk more about in future episodes, is this idea of play. And, that might seem like a contradiction. You're talking about a moment of crisis, and yet there's such an emphasis on play. Why was that important to you both in thinking about this grant?  Amilcar: I think I answered the same way before, and we're going through it again. I think as an artist who lived through one of our big national study about crisis, which was the dictatorship, as a child and adolescent, there was no way of experiencing that without a strong power of play and humor. In that, people need to love, and people need to see things from another perspective. And there's nothing better than humor and play to get there, even under the most critical circumstances.  Amilcar: There are lots of circumstantial evidence from all over my culture of origin, Argentina and Latin America in general, about the healing power of humor. So, I think that was one perspective that I was thinking when we started talking about the importance of play here. But, more generally, I think it makes you gain some distance with the problem that you are dealing with, even just to understand why the other person is having fun. It makes you just step aside, and then see things from a different way, and just shifts your perspective. Jolie: What about for you, Chad?  Chad: Yeah, I think play for me is also a way of learning, and specifically a way of learning that allows for failure, too. And I'm always really interested in my teaching in being able to find spaces where students can fail and that'd be okay, because I think so much of teaching and learning feels so high stakes. We're teaching so that we are able to demonstrate that we do it well on our student evaluations of instruction. Students want to demonstrate that they have learned something, so they get good grades at the end of the course. And, shifting to an entirely online education for people, during a pandemic no less, is pretty high stakes, I would say. At least probably the highest stakes that I've encountered as an instructor.  Chad: I think being able to incorporate play for all of the reasons Amilcar is saying, absolutely. And allowing for space where teachers can be failures, like that's okay, and we're moving beyond that and learning productively. And I think that play allows for that. Jolie: I love that, and I also love the idea of playfulness is also about imagination, about seeing beyond what currently exists, and trying to open oneself up to other possibilities. And I think that's part of what you're talking about with the pedagogy is, we don't have to, we shouldn't keep being bounded by what's been done before. We should think big, imagine big, and try and build that environment, to get back to Amilcar's language earlier. To create those more ideal conditions rather than being locked into where we were yesterday, or where we are today. Jolie: I want to conclude by asking each of you to reflect on this moment, and what lesson you hope we can take away from this. What would be one thing that you'd like to see transformed as a result of this crisis? Amilcar, you want to go first?  Amilcar: One thing I would like to see transformed, is this whole idea of morality of teaching, that we think, okay, this is online. This is not online. This is in the classroom. I think right now it's so fluid that, that's steering a lot of creativity and play within all the distress brought by this crisis as well.  Amilcar: One thing I would like to take away as the learning opportunities is that we start thinking beyond these buckets of how we teach, and try to be more integrity with how we do it. I also would like to see more imagination in the way that we organize teaching, even starting from the scales and grids. From the very fact that our point of view right now, we usually plan everything around the very strict grid, and right now the grid doesn't exist because it really doesn't matter that much when you are teaching something, if you are not competing, everybody competing for the same classroom or things like that.  Amilcar: I think for administrators that's a very interesting imagination exercise, because they couldn't see any alternative to the grid. And right now we're living outside of the grid. From a practical point of view, [that's] some take aways that I hope that we incorporate for. And of course, there's the hope that we grow stronger through all this. And, I have that strong proof that we are now well aware of what face to face contributes to an educational environment, and what online contributes to our educational environment. I think we are more aware than ever before about the inequality of the learning experience, and how that intersects with other forms of inequality. So I hope that, that experience takes us learning in the future, and that we need to think inclusion first and accessibility next. Jolie: Good. What about for you, Chad? What would you like us to take away from this time in history?  Chad: Yeah. Well, I'll say I completely agree with everything Amilcar has said. I think that the ability for us to move beyond the pandemic, and really valuing online education in a way that perhaps we haven't before, specifically online education that's accessible, that's anti-racist, that's feminist. These are all, I think, best case scenarios that we could move from where we are yesterday or today into the future of teaching.  Chad: I also, gosh, I think reflecting on the current moment, and I know you only asked for one, but I feel like there are so many things that could really go well beyond here. But, I think, ultimately if we can realize the ways that our teaching have participated in white supremacy, have participated in ableism, and have really been a call to action for us to think through how, when we return to face-to-face education, that we'll be able to break down a lot of those barriers and start fresh.  Chad: And yeah, just envisioning educational futures that were way more inclusive than they have been in the past. Starting new with students and with each other, that I think that would be such an amazing future to envision. Jolie: Thank you both so much for joining me today. Listeners can keep up with ICS by following us on Twitter at ICSBGSU, and on our Facebook page. You can listen to BG Ideas wherever you find your favorite podcasts. Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred platform. Our producers are Chris Cavera and Marco Mendoza, with sound editing by Marco Mendoza. Research assistance for this podcast was provided by Stevie Scheurich. Announcer: Discussion.

oin hosts Maya Carey (they/them) and Stephanie Mobley (she/her) as they discuss the 2021 and the year ahead. They take a quick look back at 2020 and what they grew through and turn it around into what they want to grow into while sitting with the reality of their current social-political-emotional situation. Offering up the words and wisdom of famed feminist thinker and cultural critic, Adrienne Maree Brown, they expand upon her book "We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice" to look at the complex issues related to cancel culture and healing justice. Using the accountability apology model created by Mia Mingus, they expand upon Brown's dive into cancel culture and pull out useful tools towards practicing accountability and repairing harm in 2021. With conversation rooted in the themes of transformative justice and abolition, they work on envisioning the future they want-- a future that moves away from cancel-culture and rather is steeped in radical accountability and survivor centered approach. From the differences between harm, abuse, and conflict to understanding accountability as a tool for cultural healing, Maya and Stephanie start this year with eyes wide open towards a future free from violence and full of healing.Want to continue having conversations about social justice and literature? Join HopeWorks book club, Between the Lines: A Liberation Book Club, every 2nd and 4th Monday from 6:30-8pm est to discuss powerful and life changing works by women and femmes, queer and trans people, and BIPOC authors. Also, join HopeWorks in honoring Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month by joining us in an author panel discussion called "Dating Hurts" where author, Bill Mitchel, shares the story of his daughter's tragic loss to dating violence and his journey as a parent advocating for healthy relationship. "Dating Hurts" will be held on zoom on February 25th from 7-9pm est. Keep up to date with HopeWorks and find out more about these events and register by visiting https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2f%2f%2fwearehopeworks.org%2fevents.&c=E,1,55zx8EehMtYBYQ1SEOfEcdRjFsVu176fHx-baicJL3NIoRcgJh0OKFxlmilVfg1OGYMZwhNj1VNpB7KMr5viK0Kll4Y9cceGX1nzQ_osD7d8&typo=0      

From coup to Kimye, this week was rife with conflict. Allow us to give you a MasterClass in how to apologize! Based on Mia Mingus' work in transformative justice and with the Apology Lab, we review the four parts of accountability and learn how to craft these components into a genuine, full-assed apology. Also, we issue a few apologies of our own and demand one or two in return.  https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2019/12/18/how-to-give-a-good-apology-part-1-the-four-parts-of-accountability/ 

On this episode, host and Fearless Futures CEO, Hanna Naima McCloskey explores fragility and the inverse, accountability. She dives right in with breaking down white fragility and offers a deeper exploration of the feelings behind fragility. To learn more or get in touch with Fearless Futures visit https://www.fearlessfutures.org/Transcript - https://medium.com/fearless-futures/fearless-futures-podcast-episode-7-fragility-and-accountability-transcript-cdf3f55e9b17Featured in the episode:Robin DiAngelo's book White Fragility - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566247/white-fragility-by-robin-diangelo/Mia Mingus (Transformative and Disability justice advocate) - https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/about-2/Lea and Stass of Spring Up - http://www.timetospringup.org/Sarah Schulman (queer activist) - https://www.thecut.com/2020/08/sarah-schulman-conflict-is-not-abuse.htmlPodcast production by https://www.mayziemedia.com/

The Crime Story Podcast has been ranked as the no. 10 Criminal Justice Podcast by  the "Content Reader" company Feedspot. 

This episode of Audio Interference is about Survived and Punished, a coalition of defense campaigns and grassroots groups committed to eradicating the criminalization of survivors of domestic and sexual violence, and the culture of violence that contributes to it. We’re speaking with two members of the New York chapter of the group, Will Willis and Maureen Silverman. To learn more about Survived and Punished NY, visit https://survivedandpunishedny.org Read the latest edition of Survived and Punished’s newsletter, Free : Survivors: www.survivedandpunishedny.org/newsletter-campaign/newsletter-store To learn more about Mia Mingus’ work and writings on transformative justice: www.leavingevidence.wordpress.com Tits and Sass blog, which Will quotes from in this episode: www.titsandsass.com Memorial for Darlene “Lulu” Benson-Seay, who Will remembers in this episode: www.mourningourlosses.org/memorials/darlene-lulu-benson-seay?fbclid=IwAR2wA8dCuIi_p_AmyYkg5Sv_4iLTTg-uAL7L4EPYGuRoWkJMv4r-6saIQrA This episode is part of a series of episodes about Survived and Punished’s work. Visit audiointerference.org to listen to letters from their comrades on the inside. Visit www.survivedandpunishedny.org to read Survived & Punished NY’s newsletters and explore their work. A huge thank you to Ivie, Sassii, Maureen Silverman, and Will Willis for contributing to this episode. And a huge thank you to all other Survived and Punished volunteers. Music from this episode (in order of appearance): “Divide” by Six Time Users, from the album, Live at WFMU for Janky Ray’s Radio Riot 6/16/18 "A quarter of a century” by Survived and Punished comrade Ivié, a song that she wrote about her campaign to free herself from a 25 to life sentence, recorded over the phone from Bedford Hills prison, a maximum security correctional facility in Bedford Hills, NY. Accompanying rap by Survived and Punished comrade, Sassii, who is also incarcerated at Bedford Hills. Produced by Interference Archive. From all of us at Audio Interference, thanks for listening.

This episode of Audio Interference is about Survived and Punished, a coalition of defense campaigns and grassroots groups committed to eradicating the criminalization of survivors of domestic and sexual violence, and the culture of violence that contributes to it. We're speaking with two members of the New York chapter of the group, Will Willis and Maureen Silverman. To learn more about Survived and Punished NY, visit survivedandpunishedny.org Read the latest edition of Survived and Punished's newsletter, Free : Survivors: www.survivedandpunishedny.org/newsletter…tter-store To learn more about Mia Mingus' work and writings on transformative justice: www.leavingevidence.wordpress.com Tits and Sass blog, which Will quotes from in this episode: www.titsandsass.com Memorial for Darlene “Lulu” Benson-Seay, who Will remembers in this episode: www.mourningourlosses.org/memorials/da…Mv4r-6saIQrA This episode is part of a series of episodes about Survived and Punished's work. Visit audiointerference.org to listen to letters from their comrades on the inside. Visit www.survivedandpunishedny.org to read Survived & Punished NY's newsletters and explore their work. A huge thank you to Ivie, Sassii, Maureen Silverman, and Will Willis for contributing to this episode. And a huge thank you to all other Survived and Punished volunteers. Music from this episode (in order of appearance): “Divide” by Six Time Users, from the album, Live at WFMU for Janky Ray's Radio Riot 6/16/18 “A quarter of a century” by Survived and Punished comrade Ivié, a song that she wrote about her campaign to free herself from a 25 to life sentence, recorded over the phone from Bedford Hills prison, a maximum security correctional facility in Bedford Hills, NY. Accompanying rap by Survived and Punished comrade, Sassii, who is also incarcerated at Bedford Hills. In this episode, we give a shoutout to Brooklyn Public Library’s podcast, Borrowed. Check out their episodes here: www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts Produced by Interference Archive. From all of us at Audio Interference, thanks for listening.

Intimacy. We're taking you on a journey. Join us for Realm 1 -- today we're joined by Keyonna Renea. We chat about access intimacy, vulnerability, agency, and more. We first discovered the term "access intimacy" on a 2011 post on Mia Mingus' (check her out on Instagram @mia.mingus) blog "Leaving Evidence" -- https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/access-intimacy-the-missing-link/ We dig right in and chat about what that concept means to us. Keyonna is a portrait and boudoir photographer, coach, and wellness advocate "empowering women to live their one delicious life and thrive." She's also a fellow MSer. Keyonna opened up our first intimacy series "That Part: Intimacy & MS" -- check out Episode 63 to hear her MS story. You can find Keyonna on IG @keyonnarenea or @diagnosed.determined. You can also find her at www.keyonnarenea.com You can find us on the web at myelinandmelanin.com, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @myelinmelanin. You can also subscribe to us on YouTube. Consider supporting us through our Patreon -- patreon.com/myelinmelanin. Patrons can gain access to exclusive content, Myelin & Melanin swag & more. Your support helps us offset the cost of maintaining our website, paying for our remote recording technology, music, podcast & merchandise production, and more. Also, if you enjoy the podcast, please take a minute to leave us a 5-Star rating on Apple Podcasts. Stream the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, and everywhere you listen to podcasts. Peace!  

This conversation features co-hosts Cara Page and Caitlin Breedlove in conversation with organizers Shira Hassan, Mia Mingus and Sonali Sadequee. The conversation came out of the urgency of Black Lives Matter uprisings in Minneapolis, and across the US, to respond to the police murder of George Floyd and this moment of movement building to interrupt white supremacy, policing & state violence, and anti-Blackness. Many of us had reached out to each other, reflecting on the questions; what can abolition, survival and transformation look like in these Covid-Times? This podcast episode is the result; a reflection on the intersection between healing justice and transformative justice.  We began with these questions: what are healing and transformative justice? What is the difference between these two frameworks and where do they align? And how are both of these frameworks critical to understanding and practicing abolition work in this moment?  Learn more about the guests and find a transcript of the conversation at auburnseminary.org/fortification. This episode is part of an ongoing series in collaboration with Cara Page, Susan Raffo and Anjali Taneja. Learn more about their work at Healing Histories: Disrupting the Medical Industrial Complex. Editing by David Beasley and transcription support by Nora Rasman. Music by Abhimanyu Janamanchi

Tiana Vargas guests to talk disability justice, unlearning racism, affirming masculinity, and self and collective care in seasons 1-4 of Queer Eye. Full transcript available at: https://bit.ly/2EVUht9References from the episode:Steven Wakabayashi, "My Culture Is Not Your Toy: A Gay Japanese Man's Perspective on Queer Eye Japan," November 15, 2019, Medium. Imani Barbarin, "On Being Black and 'Disabled but Not Really,'" July 26, 2019, Rewire. Mia Mingus, "Pods and Pod Mapping Worksheet," June 2016, Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective.

In this powerful episode, I’m joined by Kalaya’an Mendoza, a nonviolent direct action trainer and disaster preparedness expert, to talk about the current climate and advice for those who headed out to protest in the streets. We chat about how we can show solidarity with Black folx and addressing racism within our Asian community. Kalaya’an Mendoza (he/him) is a nonviolent direct action trainer, Disaster Preparedness expert recognized by TIME Magazine and has spent the last twenty years of his life fighting for social justice on Turtle Island and around the world alongside Human Rights Defenders in the Global South.  In this episode we talk about: The current social situation and what is happening all around the US Why Black lives matter How he discovered activism in high school The importance of activism on the streets and behind the keyboard Tips on how to prepare for going out into the streets Using OODA (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) loops Doing the work in our communities and in our Asian families What are some common issues affecting first-time protesters? Taking care of yourself to take care of the community Never showing up empty-handed His experience protesting in Beijing and facing possible death What does it mean to be in solidarity with Black folx Addressing racism in the Asian community How to connect with our friends and family to have these tough conversations       People we mentioned on the show: Mia Mingus (disability activist) Alice Wong (disability activist) Alicia Garza (Black Lives Matter) Patrisse Cullors (Black Lives Matter) You can find Kalaya’an on Instagram (@kalamendoza) and Twitter (@kalamendoza) and his email kala@acrossfrontlines.org Check out his nonprofit Across Front Lines at acrossfrontlines.org. You can follow me at: Instagram (instagram.com/stevenwakabayashi) YouTube (youtube.com/stevenwakabayashi) Weekly Newsletter (mindfulmoments.substack.com)

Andy talks to DeRay Mckesson about another epidemic sweeping the country — violence by the police against Black people. They talk data and policy solutions, and DeRay provides a personal and comprehensive view of what’s been going on across the country in the wake of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of the Minneapolis police. Then Andy calls disability activist Sinéad Burke in Ireland to provide a global perspective on militarized police and what we can learn about disability and accessibility in a pandemic. Keep up with Andy on Twitter @ASlavitt and Instagram @andyslavitt. Find DeRay on Twitter @deray and on Instagram @iamderay. Listen to Pod Save the People at https://crooked.com/podcast-series/pod-save-the-people/ Follow Sinéad @TheSinéadBurke on Twitter and Instagram.  Listen to  As Me with Sinéad https://www.lemonadamedia.com/show/as-me-with-Sinéad-burke/  and pre-order her book at https://www.Sinéad-burke.com/break-the-mould In the Bubble is supported in part by listeners like you. You can become a member, get exclusive bonus content, ask Andy questions, and get discounted merch at https://www.lemonadamedia.com/inthebubble/ Check out our fantastic show sponsors this week!  -       Talkspace online therapy works with thousands of licensed therapists. Use the promo code BUBBLE to get $100 off your first month and help support the show at talkspace.com -       Find new ways to help stay safe and healthy during these challenging weeks. Explore resources from the JED Foundation including journaling workshops, meditation guides, virtual concerts, and more at www.loveislouder.org/bubble  -       Curious about how to transition back into a more socially connected life? Subscribe to the podcast Can We All Come Out Now? to hear stories of people who have done it before, wherever you get your podcasts. And check out their website here: https://bit.ly/3duqPH4 DeRay and Sinéad shared so many resources in this episode! Follow up on those leads:  -       Visit Campaign Zero at https://www.joincampaignzero.organd check out their new initiative to clarify the eight things that need to happen to demilitarize the police at #8can’twait and www.useofforceproject.org/#project -       Examine the data on police violence for yourself. DeRay is a creator of www.mappingpoliceviolence.org, the most comprehensive database of police violence in the country. In this episode, DeRay also talked about the Washington Post police shootings database (https://wapo.st/2XUK6uP) and the Fatal Encounters database (www.fatalencounters.org) -       Want more from Deray? Pick up a copy of his book at https://deray.com/ -       Watch Sinéad’s TED Talk:  https://www.ted.com/talks/Sinéad_burke_why_design_should_include_everyone?language=en -       Who gets medical care? https://nyti.ms/3gGTzhQ, https://nyti.ms/2MpCNGk, and https://unitedstatesofcare.org/blog/covid-19-doesnt-discriminate-neither-care/ -       The Ruderman Family Foundation (https://rudermanfoundation.org/) published a report on disability and police violence: https://bit.ly/2U3Wg3r -       Follow Rebecca Cokley @RebeccaCokley, Leah Katz-Hernandez @leahkh, Maria Town @maria_m_town, Imani Barbarin @Imani_Barbarin, Tinu @Tinu, TheDisabilityEnthusiast @twitchyspoonie, Vilissa Thompson @VilissaThompson, Keah Brown @Keah_Maria, Alice Wong @SFdirewolf, Mia Mingus @miamingus (and follow #disabilitysowhite & #disabledblacktalk) Check out In Recovery with Dr. Nzinga Harrison, a new advice show from Lemonada Media about all things addiction: http://www.lemonadamedia.com/show/in-recovery/ To follow along with a transcript and/or take notes for friends and family, go to www.lemonadamedia.com/show/in-the-bubble shortly after the air date. Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of Tejana Feminist Talks, COLLEGE GRADUATE (haha) and host Leslie Lopez talks about transformative justice. She first discusses the differences between punitive, restorative, and transformative justice. Leslie then uses "Beyond Survival," a 2020 anthology edited by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, to describe the TJ movement and ways to practice TJ in our lives. Below are some of the websites, organizations, and collectives she mentioned: What Does Justice Look Like for Survivors? By Barnard Center for Research on Women What Is Transformative Justice? By Barnard Center for Research on Women AORTA's Punitive, Restorative, and Transformative Justice: The Basics What is Restorative Justice Vent Diagrams Organizations: Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective, Spring Up, AORTA, Creative Interventions, Oakland Power Projects, Philly Stands Up Pieces read from Beyond Survival: “From Breaking Silence to Community Control” by Audrey Huntley, “Maybe You Don't Have to Call 911? Know Your Options” By Oakland Power Projects, “What To Do When You've Been Abusive” by Kai Cheng Thom, “Facing Shame: From Saying Sorry to Doing Sorry” by Nathan Shara, and "Pods and Pod-Mapping Worksheet" by Mia Mingus

tl;dr Is squirting embarrassing? How can I find a fat-friendly therapist? What if my marriage is falling apart? News! Patrons who support at $3 and above, you're invited to join the Explore More book club. We are meeting in December to discuss Jenny Odell's "How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy", so check out my new post at patreon.com/sgrpodcast. This week, it's me and you! An awesome video called "How to Support Harm Does in Accountability" came across my feed this week, and it turns out it's part of a multi-video series by the Barnard Center for Research on Women featuring Mia Mingus, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, adrienne maree brown, and a bunch of other amazing folks. Definitely check them all out. How can we become more committed to collective healing and safety? What do we need to let go of in order to center the most marginalized? I explore this a bit as I share a few quotes and tidbits from the videos. Then, we dive into your questions. Sad Gay Millennial and SaFyre both wrote in this week with really sweet notes about how the show has helped them. I'm holding them so tenderly. Ina wrote to me about being in a fat body and finding support. How can you find a fat-friendly therapist? I have resources for you to check out at dawnserra.com/ep282. Regardless of who you have near you for support, I recommend asking lots of questions about their values and going in with a list of requests and boundaries that would help you to feel more safe and supported. Is squirting embarrassing? Amy wrote in because she squirts and after she does, she often feels really embarrassed and worried about the mess she made. Her current boyfriend is really supportive, but she wants to know if there's a way to feel less awkward about the mess her body makes. Finally, Emotionally Wrecked Matt wrote in because he lost weight last year and as a result his wife has experienced a lot of insecurity and withdrawal. Sex isn't what it used to be, feelings are hurt, and now they've shared some fantasies with each other that left the other feeling even more hurt. What can he do? As much as there is to dive into in this email, what's clear is that Matt and his wife need some support. Repair needs to come before adventure and play, so let's talk about that. Have questions of your own you'd like featured on the show? Send me a note using the contact form in the navigation above!   Follow Sex Gets Real on Twitter and Facebook and Dawn is on Instagram. About Dawn Serra: What if everything you’ve been taught about relationships, about your body, about sex is wrong? My name is Dawn Serra and I dare to ask scary questions that might lead us all towards a deeper, more connected experience of our lives. In addition to being the host of the weekly podcast, Sex Gets Real, the creator of the online conference Explore More, I also work one-on-one with clients who are feeling stuck, confused, or disappointed with the ways they experience desire, love, and confidence. It’s not all work, though. In my spare time, you can find me adventuring with my husband, cuddling my cats as I read a YA novel, or obsessing over MasterChef Australia. Listen and subscribe to Sex Gets Real Listen and subscribe on iTunes Check us out on Stitcher Don't forget about I Heart Radio's Spreaker Pop over to Google Play Use the player at the top of this page. Stream it on Spotify Find the Sex Gets Real channel on IHeartRadio. Hearing from you is the best Contact form: Click here (and it's anonymous) Episode Transcript Find it at dawnserra.com/ep282

Join us in talking to disability activist and media maker Alice Wong about building media that values accessibility, disability as a political and socio-cultural identity, and her journey in founding the Disability Visibility Project. We also reflect on the continuing work of Access is Love, a campaign that aims to help build a world where accessibility is understood as an act of love instead of a burden or an afterthought. Access full resources, notes, and the transcript at http://www.healingjustice.org/podcast/46 ----------- TRANSCRIPT LAUNCH: In the next episode, we share a conversation with members of our volunteer Access Team, reflecting on the labor and lessons of their work to share our complete transcript collection and the continuing work to build access here at the podcast. Find that episode here & learn more about our access commitments here at the podcast. ----------- MORE ABOUT OUR GUEST: Alice Wong is a disability activist, media maker, and consultant. She is the Founder and Director of the Disability Visibility Project (DVP), an online community created in 2014, dedicated to creating, sharing and amplifying disability media and culture. Alice is also a co-partner in four projects: DisabledWriters.com, a resource to help editors connect with disabled writers and journalists, #CripLit, a series of Twitter chats for disabled writers with novelist Nicola Griffith, #CripTheVote, a nonpartisan online movement encouraging the political participation of disabled people with co-partners Andrew Pulrang and Gregg Beratan, and Access Is Love with co-partners Mia Mingus and Sandy Ho, a campaign that aims to help build a world where accessibility is understood as an act of love instead of a burden or an afterthought. Find out more about these at the links below: Disability Visibility Project (DVP): https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/ DVP Podcast: https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/podcast-2/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DVP Twitter: @SFdirewolf @DisVisibility Instagram: @disability_visibility DisabledWriters.com: https://disabledwriters.com/ #CripLit: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23CripLit&src=typd #CripTheVote: http://cripthevote.blogspot.com/ Access Is Love: https://www.disabilityintersectionalitysummit.com/access-is-love Access is Love online store: https://www.disabilityintersectionalitysummit.com/onlinestore ----------- JOIN THE CONVERSATION: Sign up for our email list to receive a free healing justice zine & resources for your work and wellbeing. Sign up here: http://www.healingjustice.org Join our virtual community at http://www.patreon.com/healingjustice  Talk with us on social media: Instagram @healingjustice, Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, & @hjpodcast on Twitter  ----------- Join us for Book Club! 

WHOA! Easy & cheap birth control? YES!!!! Simple Health is generously sponsoring this episode and YOU can get a free prescription for birth control without every leaving your home. That's right, Simple Health has made birth control easier and cheaper than ever. You fill out an online questionnaire about your health, body, insurance, and preferences. They have a doctor review your information and make a recommendation for contraception. Then, they issue a prescription and Simple Health MAILS IT TO YOU at regular intervals, without you ever having to go anywhere or remember anything. If you have insurance, using Simple Health is often totally free. If you don't have insurance, you can get birth control pills for starting around $15 per month. And...Sex Gets Real listeners, YOU CAN GET YOUR PRESCRIPTION FEE WAIVED! Head to simplehealth.com/sgr or enter code SGR at check-out and the $20 prescription fee will be waived. Birth control has never been so easy. So, let's dive into this week's episode. First up, I have some openings in my coaching practice. If you'd like to work with me around your body, your relationship to sex and desire, or get some couples support, head to dawnserra.com or fill out my intake questionnaire and we can have a quick chat to see if this might be a good fit for you. I'd love to support you. Yesterday, Mia Mingus shared some really thought-provoking questions about accountability. What if we cherished and ran towards accountability? What if accountability was about love, connection, and feeling into new depths of ourselves instead of about punishment? Let's explore that a little bit. I also got a short listener question asking about women who are into older partners. WHOA. I had a lot to say about this that I didn't realize was swirling around inside of me. So, let's talk about power, about preferences, and about the ways we are groomed to value younger women and older men. Plus, Patreon supporter Katie weighs in with her thoughts, as well. Then I field a question from Danny. You see, Danny is married but he doesn't want to have sex with his wife. He just wants to masturbate. Is that weird? Is it wrong? What's up? Solo sex is amazing. Talk about a skilled lover who can read your mind! And yes, solo sex, or masturbation, are REAL, FULL sex. But what about Danny's wife, who doesn't love his affinity for masturbating over having sex with her? Want to support the show and get rad bonuses? If you support the show on Patreon at $3 per month, you get exclusive weekly bonus content you can't find anywhere else. If you support at $5 per month you get the weekly bonus content AND a chance to help me answer listener questions. Check it out at patreon.com/sgrpodcast. The bonus this week is all about pleasure. I've got some JUICY questions for you to explore that will help you consider your relationship with pleasure. Follow Sex Gets Real on Twitter and Facebook and Dawn is on Instagram. About Host Dawn Serra: What if everything you’ve been taught about relationships, about your body, about sex is wrong? My name is Dawn Serra and I dare to ask scary questions that might lead us all towards a deeper, more connected experience of our lives. In addition to being the host of the weekly podcast, Sex Gets Real, the creator of the online conference Explore More, I also work one-on-one with clients who are feeling stuck, confused, or disappointed with the ways they experience desire, love, and confidence. It’s not all work, though. In my spare time, you can find me adventuring with my husband, cuddling my cats as I read a YA novel, or obsessing over MasterChef Australia. Listen and subscribe to Sex Gets Real Listen and subscribe on iTunes Check us out on Stitcher Don't forget about I Heart Radio's Spreaker Pop over to Google Play Use the player at the top of this page. Now available on Spotify. Search for "sex gets real". Find the Sex Gets Real channel on IHeartRadio. Hearing from you is the best Contact form: Click here (and it's anonymous)

Enter to win “Girl Sex 101” and “Bad Dyke” by Allison Moon to celebrate the New Year! Cut off for entries is January 15, 2019. One lucky winner will be selected at random , so enter now. U.S. and Canada folks only. Also, if you're looking for support around healing your relationship with your body, deepening your relationship with a partner, unpacking your desire, and finding more pleasure, I'd love to work one-on-one with you. Learn more at dawnserra.com. ALOK is here. It's time to question everything. ALOK is someone I've long admired and learned so much from. Their talk at Explore More Summit 2018 was a fan favorite by a landslide. And for good reason. ALOK is not only an incredible thought-leader, but they are utterly transparent about the violence, harm, and vulnerability of living in the world as someone who is gender non-conforming - the rawness of how they show is important. We start our chat by fielding a listener question from SC who is struggling with HSV, PCOS, and hirsutism which means SC has body hair in a lot of places that cause distress and shame. ALOK talks about the ways the body positivity movement has failed to account for body hair diversity. Also, the ways ALOK was animalized and othered for their body hair, even as a younger person. What does it mean to be gender non-conforming and why is the gender binary so violent? ALOK has such honest, raw truths to share here. We also talk about why so many movements leave the most marginalized behind and why liberation and freedom are not conditional. Those folks who are cut out are the ones we should be centering - if the most marginalized are free, all of us are free. But framing queer freedom around gay marriage or body positivity over only cis "healthy" bodies actually reinforce the violence. Read the interview ALOK did with Mia Mingus on ugliness here. IT IS SO GOOD. Let's talk about why we want validation from people and institutions that do not see our worth and humanity, and why that's so scary. How art will set us free and imagine new worlds. And much much more. Plus, Patreon supporters, if you support the show at $3 per month and above you get exclusive weekly content that you can't find anywhere else. This week, I'm rolling around in a listener question: he would rather self-pleasure and fantasize than engage intimately with his wife. Is that OK? Hear it all at patreon.com/sgrpodcast Follow Sex Gets Real on Twitter and Facebook. It's true. Oh! And Dawn is on Instagram. About ALOK: ALOK is a gender non-conforming writer, performer, & fashionist@   You can find them on Instagram @alokvmenon. Listen and subscribe to Sex Gets Real Listen and subscribe on iTunes Check us out on Stitcher Don't forget about I Heart Radio's Spreaker Pop over to Google Play Use the player at the top of this page. Now available on Spotify. Search for "sex gets real". Find the Sex Gets Real channel on IHeartRadio. Hearing from you is the best Contact form: Click here (and it's anonymous)

Pleasure can be complicated, hunger can feel like a betrayal, but our bodies were built for pleasure and it's time for you to reconnect with what it means to feel good, to prioritize what brings you delight and joy, and to unpack the old stories that keep you stuck in shame and guilt. My new online course, Power in Pleasure: Reconnecting with Your Hunger, Desire, and Joy, will start enrolling soon, so join the notification list now and get first dibs on the course. It's you, me, and your emails.We're tackling gender, virginity, & being a man. First up, I came across this super helpful article in The Advocate titled "15 Signs You're a Gay Misogynist". Misogyny in gay men's spaces is rampant, so if you're a gay dude, you might want to check out this list and start having some conversations with your friends. Becky wrote in with a really sweet and supportive note about the show. THANK YOU, BECKY!!! Mary is 39-years-old and questioning their gender. How can Mary find some resources for learning about what it means to be non-binary and how to unpack it all? To start, I recommend Mary check out Sage Hayes, Jacob Tobia, Them magazine, ALOK, Sarah Thompson, this great interview between ALOK and Mia Mingus, and this activist list of trans and non-binary folks. Oh, and register for Explore More 2019 now!!! Anonymous wrote to me on Instagram wanting to know if it's normal to be a 23-year-old virgin and how to get a guy to like them and have sex with them. Help! Let's unpack virginity, desirability, and focusing our lives on what brings us to life (rather than "hooking" a partner). Find what lights you up and brings your life the most joy. Let that be a beacon to potential friends and partners. Hire a professional. Work with a coach (who isn't all about reinforcing shitty gender norms and playing games to 'hook' someone). Polymedic is a cis man. He is struggling with how much men suck. Both of his partners have been sexually assaulted, and both of his daughters. How can he raise his sons to be different? How can he even be in the world when he feels ashamed of even being a man and being part of the problem? Men Can Stop Rape is a group that might be worth looking into. Also, "The Mask You Live In" documentary is a great one. Cory Silverberg's "Sex is a Funny Word" is a book I cannot recommend highly enough. Head to patreon.com/sgrpodcast where you can support for as little as $1. Folks who support at $3 get access to the weekly bonus content and if you pledge $5, you get to help me answer listener questions. This week's bonus is a response to a listener question I got about having her ass eaten out and sharing her fantasies with a partner she worries will judge her. Check it out. Follow Sex Gets Real on Twitter and Facebook and Dawn is on Instagram. About Host Dawn Serra: What if everything you’ve been taught about relationships, about your body, about sex is wrong? My name is Dawn Serra and I dare to ask scary questions that might lead us all towards a deeper, more connected experience of our lives. In addition to being the host of the weekly podcast, Sex Gets Real, the creator of the online conference Explore More, I also work one-on-one with clients who are feeling stuck, confused, or disappointed with the ways they experience desire, love, and confidence. It’s not all work, though. In my spare time, you can find me adventuring with my husband, cuddling my cats as I read a YA novel, or obsessing over MasterChef Australia. Listen and subscribe to Sex Gets Real Listen and subscribe on iTunes Check us out on Stitcher Don't forget about I Heart Radio's Spreaker Pop over to Google Play Use the player at the top of this page. Now available on Spotify. Search for "sex gets real". Find the Sex Gets Real channel on IHeartRadio. Hearing from you is the best Contact form: Click here (and it's anonymous)

In this conversation about transformative justice and healing, Mia Mingus of the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective poses the questions, “What is accountability? What is justice?” How can our movements be survivor centered? What IS community?TRANSCRIPT https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZxgBQ8T6gTSVfRDbpyNRSiM3v2csjbamL9_fZJC9a-g/editLINKS Mia Mingus’ website Leaving Evidence: https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/ Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective: https://batjc.wordpress.com/ Pods and Pod Mapping Worksheet: https://batjc.wordpress.com/pods-and-pod-mapping-worksheet/ BATJC Resource Page: https://batjc.wordpress.com/resources/ And for folks newer to transformative justice, the BATJC readings for the 2016 TJ Study: https://batjc.wordpress.com/batjc-2016-tj-study-readings/SUPPORT BATJChttps://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/help-us-build-transformative-justiceMUSIC “For the Courageous” by Climbing PoeTree http://www.climbingpoetree.com/experience/listen-tracks/ “Freedom” by Taina Asili ft. Michael Reyes http://tainaasili.com/video/

Abolitionists are committed to creating a world without police and prisons, but what alternative visions and practices of addressing intimate harm might point the way toward such a world? In this episode we explore efforts to re-imagine the politics of violence, harm, safety, and redress, spearheading practices of accountability and healing that move beyond the punitive logic of the carceral state. Mia Mingus from the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective discusses alternatives to carceral feminism, and how the movement to end child sexual abuse points the way toward radically re-imagining practices of justice. We also speak with Claudia Garcia-Rojas, co-director of The Chicago Taskforce on Violence Against Girls & Young Women, and Maya Schenwar, Editor-in-Chief of Truthout and author of Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better.

Mia Mingus is a Bay Area activist and community organizer and educator with the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective. In this episode, Mia talks about the important work of love and transformative justice in order to foster community healing and accountability without the use of the criminal justice system. *This segment includes conversation around child sexual abuse and may be triggering, so please take the care that you need before, during and after listening. For more information on the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective, and for a full transcript of Episode 2, visit the website at inplainsightradio.com. Producer: Geraldine Ah-Sue Advisor: Alice Wong Music by: Podington Bear – Chimera Podington Bear – Firefly Podington Bear – No Squirell Commotion Chris Zabriskie – We Always Thought the Future Would be Kind of Fun

On tonight's show we explore disability and disability justice: Austin Tam We'll hear from folks with disabilities spanning the visible, like Jean Lin who has Cerebral Palsy, to the invisible like Claire Light who has Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Austin Tam who has ADHD and a cognitive disorder. We'll also hear from disability justice organizer Mia Mingus and her views on new ways to conceive of disability and its contributions to the movement for collective liberation. Peppered throughout the show, award-winning poet Anhvu Buchanan treats us with readings from his book The Disordered based on entries from the DSM IV. The post Disability Justice on APEX Express appeared first on KPFA.

Ann Kirkpatrick interviews author and political commentator Peggy Noonan. Revisiting Arielle Zionts' talk with disability justice activist Mia Mingus. Another look at the poetry of Jeffrey Graessley.Listen here

On tonight's show we explore disability and disability justice: We'll hear from folks with disabilities spanning the visible like Jean Lin who has Cerebral Palsy to the invisible like Claire Light who has Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Austin Tam who has ADHD and a cognitive disorder. We'll also hear from disability justice organizer Mia Mingus and her views on novel ways to conceive of disability and its contributions to the movement for collective liberation. Peppered  throughout the show, award-winning poet Anhvu Buchanan treats us with readings from his new book The Disordered based on entries from the DSM IV. With Host Salima. The post APEX Express – August 22, 2013 appeared first on KPFA.