Podcasts about tada hozumi

For the fourth episode, Layman sits down with Tada Hozumi to explore his thoughts on how a Shinto, animist approach to the world of living intelligences might help us wisely interface, also, with new AI systems, and to recognize some of their affordances perhaps not as readily apparent within our pervasive, materialist and reductionist worldviews. As their discussion deepens, they also get into tantric and Kabbalistic dimensions of AI, and an exploration of the possibilities of a techno-shamanist ethics and etiquette for our technological and social media landscapes. Tada Hozumi launched his career in 2017, when he started doing coaching work around undoing racism through somatic approaches. This piece of work evolved into something he referred to as ‘cultural somatics', which is an approach to both individual and cultural change that posits that cultures are in fact bodies made of bodies. Because of this, individual change and collective change are necessarily embodied processes that have a fractal relationship. One of the great benefits he saw in this kind of ‘cultural-somatic' approach was that it showed us that everything we learn about our own somatic process can be applied to an understanding of how to work with social transformation. Through these efforts, he met Dare Sohei, who had a great impact on his work as they introduced him to foundational concepts of what he could call contemporary liberatory animism, which led Tada to develop a cultural somatic framework that saw the ancestors and other intangible presences our cultures speak of as beings that live in the ‘cultural nervous system' of our ‘cultural somas'. Professional website https://tadahozumi.com/ Remember to like, subscribe, and consider supporting The Integral Stage on Patreon to make more of these conversations possible! https://www.patreon.com/theintegralstage Special thanks and big love to the Limited Hangout guys, Shai Newman, Brandon LaChance, Mike McElroy, Brandon Norgaard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Francesca, and all of our other Patreon supporters!

This week and next, we talk to returning guest Tadaaki Hozumi about the crossroads between the esoteric history of Japan and its Indigenous peoples and royal family; the mysterious convergence of ancient records from around the world on stories of lost civilizations and extraterrestrial encounters; and how animism and magic seem ripe for retrieval as we barrel down the chute of the Technological Singularity.This is one of those edge-case conversations that I'll look back on in twenty years and either consider totally insane or uncanny in its prophetic insights. I don't confidently recommend every mention in the show notes as an authoritative final source, but I refuse to censor our citations out of my commitment to humility about What's Really Going On. This is a truly off-road dialogue on ideas so far outside of the dominant world-space of early 21st-Century Western thinking as to constitute a reputational risk, but what else is this show for than to showcase maverick thinkers and strange, potentially transformative speculations anchored in careful independent study?Strap in for a crash course on hidden temple texts, occult perspectives on the analog-digital divide, and alternative narratives so bizarre and interesting I consider them worth review on aesthetic grounds alone!  Tada is one of those “too weird to live, too rare to die” wizards and wonders I'm honored to call a friend and colleague, and I'm delighted to have them back on Future Fossils to explore the Real with you.In Tada's own blog post about this episode, they say:“It was an incredible opportunity to get to speak so freely about ancient-future matters on a prolific podcast with a name that basically captures the essence of the discussion. I've always appreciated Michael's kindness and bravery as a host, not just of a podcast but of whole online communities, who is committed to giving his listenership and community the permission to explore the strangest possibilities of human existence.”✨ Subscribe anywhere you go for podcasts!This conversation continues with lively and respectful interaction every single day in the members-only Future Fossils Facebook Group. Join us!I'm also ISO moderators interested in helping steward the Discord server so I can release it into the wilds as a fan-operated platform. Want to claim stake?✨ Support The Show:Subscribe to the podcast, essays, music, and news on Substack or PatreonBuy my original paintings or commission new workBuy my music on Bandcamp (they take 15%)✨ Tip Jars:@futurefossils on Venmo$manfredmacx on CashAppmichaelgarfield on PayPal✨ Mentioned & Related Media:Future Fossils 149 - Cultural Somatics & Ritual as Justice with Tada Hozumi, Dare Sohei, and Naomi MostGraham Hancock's hotly-debated Netflix series Ancient ApocalypseFuture Fossils 14 - WESTWORLD Problems (feat. Michael Phillip of Third Eye Drops)Future Fossils 65 - John David Ebert (Hypermodernity & Blade Runner 2049)The Evolution of Surveillance by Michael GarfieldImprovising out of Algorithmic Isolation by Michael GarfieldFuture Fossils 179 - Scout-Lieder Wiley on Transrational Oracles & Magical Thinking in The 21st CenturyFuture Fossils 195 - A.I. Art: An Emergency Panel with Julian Picaza, Evo Heyning, Micah Daigle, Jamie Curcio, & Topher SipesVagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf PottsT.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism by Hakim BeyWilliam Irwin Thompson – Exodus as Revolution (Prophecy and Revolution: Five Lectures on the Old Testament, #3)Future Fossils 178 - Chris Ryan on Exhuming The Human from Our Eldritch InstitutionsRemember Who You Are Remember 'Where' You Are and Where You 'Come' from by David IckeThe Arcturus Probe: Tales and Reports of an Ongoing Investigation by Jose ArguellesEVIDENCE OF A MASSIVE THERMONUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS ON MARS IN THE PAST: The Cydonian Hypothesis and Fermi's Paradox by J. E. BrandenburgTakenouchi DocumentsFuture Fossils 117 - Eric Wargo on Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the UnconsciousSun-Moon Revelations / Hitsuki Shinji (1, 2)Future Fossils 176 - Exploring Ecodelia with Richard Doyle, Sophie Strand, and Sam Gandy at the Psilocybin SummitComing Into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness by William Irwin ThompsonFuture Fossils 181 - Jim Rutt on The Pre- and Post-History of GameBUCLA social scientist Paul Smaldino on covert signaling, identity, and social learningTen Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron LanierMore info on the Hozumi clanRein Lo (1, 2)Japanese-Jewish Common Ancestry TheoryNigihayahiFuxi Nuwa (compass and square)Episode Music: “Olympus Mons” off the Martian Arts EP by Michael Garfield This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com/subscribe

What does it mean to work to be White while working to end White supremacy and shame cultures? Loran and Jenny sit down with Lynn Burnett (Founder, https://www.CrossCulturalSolidarity.com (CrossCulturalSolidarity.com) and The White AntiRacist Ancestry Project), Jared Karol (Founder, https://www.JaredKarol.com (JaredKarol.com) and author “A White Guy Confronting Racism”), and Jill Nagle (Founder, https://www.evolutionaryworkplace.com/ (Evolutionary Workplace) and acclaimed author) to talk about working with other White people in conversations of racial equity. Who's are these Whites of the Round Table? Lynn Burnett is a former high school history teacher, and the founder of https://www.crossculturalsolidarity.com/ (CrossCulturalSolidarity.com) and the https://crossculturalsolidarity.com/workshops/ (White Antiracist Ancestry Project). At Cross Cultural Solidarity, he has built over 100 racial justice history resources, and aims to turn the site into a place where people can plug into the entire universe of racial justice history. The premise of the White Antiracist Ancestry Project is that it will be easier to mobilize masses of White people for racial justice if they have powerful and inspiring examples of White antiracism to guide and inspire them. Based on that premise, the project aims to mainstream essential stories and lessons from White antiracist history. Jared Karol is the founder of https://jaredkarol.com/ (JaredKarol.com), a consulting firm specializing in guiding White people to confront racism and be unapologetic antiracists. As a trusted advisor, he guides executives, people managers, and dedicated change agents at Fortune 500 companies, startups, and nonprofits. A sought-after professional speaker, panel moderator, leadership coach, and facilitator of difficult conversations, Jared's storytelling approach inspires and influences individuals and groups worldwide. His first book, https://bookshop.org/books/a-white-guy-confronting-racism-an-invitation-to-reflect-and-act/9781990093166?gclid=CjwKCAjwx46TBhBhEiwArA_DjMAjZzQo2XOdgZyvpa8aFuJFEX2JyuRk8ihLz5Usm6anSTpmMKDtcBoCey8QAvD_BwE (A White Guy Confronting Racism: An Invitation to Reflect and Act), was released in November, 2021. An avid reader, accomplished musician, and active meditator, he lives with his family in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Jill Nagle has been published or reviewed more than 150 times in the genres of business, personal growth, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and social commentary, including American Book Review, The Women's Review of Books, Zendeskblog, and many more. She foundedhttp://evolutionaryworkplace.com/ ( Evolutionary Workplace), andhttp://www.wisdomofthebody.com/ ( Wisdom of The Body: Beyond Talk Therapy), and cofoundedhttps://www.awakeparent.com/author/jill/ ( Awake Parent Perspectives). She is a regular contributor to AfroSap-ee-o-file, and you can see herhttp://medium.com/ ( Medium.com) articles with a link in our show notes . With Dr. Cleo Muh-nah-go, she co-facilitates thehttp://evolutionaryworkplace.com/22ndcenturyleaders ( 22nd Century Leaders program) for white anti-racist leaders, whose next cohort starts in September 2022. ========== During the episode, Loran references “Accountability Abuse” and mentions some resources. Start here: Tada Hozumi, https://tadahozumi.com/understanding-accountability-abuse/ (Understanding Accountability Abuse) Ian Arawjo, https://ianarawjo.medium.com/on-dehumanization-accountability-abuse-and-transformative-justice-99b66a6b0ff2 (On dehumanization, accountability abuse, and transformative justice) ===== Materials Referenced in the Episodehttps://bookshop.org/books/we-will-not-cancel-us-and-other-dreams-of-transformative-justice/9781849354226 (We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Adrienne Maree Brown) https://bookshop.org/books/the-wake-up-closing-the-gap-between-good-intentions-and-real-change/9780306847202 (The Wake...

This week we're joined by robotics engineer, electronic music producer, and Future Fossils co-founder Evan “Skytree” Snyder — who has recently been asked to help design the sounds made by the next wave of Amazon warehouse robots. In this first part of our discussion, we explore the evolutionary and psychological considerations for designing human-compatible robot sounds, talk brilliant birds and their mimicry of people and machines, and riff on the manipulative utility of cuteness for both good and evil.In part two, available to Patreon supporters later this week, we talk about Evan's work to reconstruct the soundscapes of The Age of Dinosaurs, his experiments with using radioactive mineral samples to control modular synthesizers, and his reflections on the use of sound for deep-time communication with future humans and/or extraterrestrials…✨ Go Deeper• If you value this show and would like to see it thrive, support Future Fossils on Patreon and please leave a good review on Apple Podcasts! As a patron you get extra episodes each month, invites to our book club, and new writing, art, and music.• Meet great people and have equally great conversations in the Discord Server & Facebook Group.• Buy the books we talk about from the Future Fossils shop at Bookshop.org.• For when you'd rather listen to music, follow me and my listening recommendations on Spotify.✨ Related Reading• Set My Heart To Five by Simon Stephenson• Unfettered Journey by Gary Bengier• Alex & Ada by Jonathan Luna & Sarah Vaughn• The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule The Earth by Robin Hanson• “Smooth Operator: Tuning Robot Perception Through Artificial Movement Sound” by Frederic Anthony Robinson, Mari Velonaki, Oliver Bown• “The maintenance of vocal learning by gene–culture interaction: the cultural trap hypothesis” by Robert F. Lachlan and Peter J. B. Slater✨ Related Listening• FF 13 - Rupert Till on Ancient Audio & Future Ritual• FF 29 - Sara Huntley on Raising Robots Right• FF 53 - Evan Snyder on A Very Xeno Christmas!• FF 73 - Patricia Gray on BioMusic, The New Science of Our Musical Brains & Biosphere• FF 149 - Tada Hozumi, Dare Sohei, Naomi Most on Cultural Somatics & Ritual as Justice• FF 159 - Michael Dowd on Post Doom: Life After Accepting Climate Catastrophe✨ Music by Evan “Skytree” Snyder• “Telomere,” “Minas Gracia,” and “Sanitas” off Infraplanetary✨ Support the countless hours of research and production that go into Future Fossils• Venmo: @futurefossils• PayPal.me/michaelgarfield• Patreon: patreon.com//michaelgarfield• BTC: 1At2LQbkQmgDugkchkP6QkDJCvJ5rv3Jm• ETH: 0xfD2BC66586FA4FBA189992E9B0037CD5cb9673EF• NFTs: Rarible | Foundation | Voice (available to non-crypto users) Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/futurefossils. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's episode is a true return to form, in which my old friend Michael Jacobs (aka The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo, aka Void Denizen) and I talk about pretty much everything — including plenty of things I honestly can't believe I spoke about so freely.Every once in a rare while I have a discussion on Future Fossils that truly exemplifies the spirit in which this show was born — the truly omnivorous amateur enthusiasm that pervaded it before I started worrying about defining these investigations for an audience.Here is just a set of sampling slices from our most heartfelt and epic yarn, in which Michael talks about taking care of his father, who suffers Alzheimer's; about getting back out of city life and onto the road in the American Southwest, communing with the landscape; about nonduality and artistry and memory and transpersonal somatics and their implications…It is an honor to meld with this guy, especially as my first not-exactly-post-pandemic, back-in-person podcast with a friend in the same room since God Knows When. Throughout this episode: he and I bat 1000 on the revelatory portmanteaus:The IcarOS, Genre Fluid, Vagabondage, The Industry and The Artistry, (my Dantien used to be a) Dantwienty, (and of course) The Transtempouroboros (tasty!).✨ Housekeeping:Come out as a future fossil on Patreon for another 25 minutes of this awesome conversation, plus two extra episodes a month, invites to our book club, new weird inspired essays, art and music that I labor on late night sometimes for months, and other things that help me share the wondrous inquiry. And please leave a good review on Apple Podcasts!• Discord Server | Facebook Group(Where people go to be weird enough to make it.)• Bookshop.org Future Fossils Reading List(Buy the books we talk about. You support local booksellers and I get a cut. Bezos gets nothing.)Episode edited by this tired guy right here. Theme music by Future Fossils co-host Evan “Skytree” Snyder.  For when you'd rather listen to music than conversation, follow me and my listening recommendations on Spotify.✨ Discussed:“If time is circular, you can be behind the curve and ahead of the curve at the same time.”– MG[Topics]Life transformations; place-based spirituality; the praxis, challenge, and path of caregiving; knowing when it's time to shake things up; time, loss, memory, the shedding of ego…realizing you've been forgotten; Improv vs. composition; genii loci; when the doer and the doing are the same; time travel in the music studio; the difference between emphasis on UFO craft or the aliens themselves; scrutinizing my UFO experiences as potentially “just” a social hallucinogenic placebo effect or accidental transpersonal charismatic gaslighting…[Listening]Michaelangelo on FF: 37, 101Bayo Akomolafe on Rune SoupSelf Portraits As Other People Episode 1 with LogaReincantations (theme of The Sentimental Centipede)Anthony Peake on Self Portraits As Other PeopleShea Hembrey at TED: How I Became 100 ArtistsJF Martel on FF: 18, 71, 126FF 150 on a Unifying Meta-Theory of UFOs and The WeirdMG on Aliens and ArtistsOn Dreams and Waking at the San Francisco Evolver Spore, April 2010FF 149 with Tada Hozumi, Dare Sohei, Naomi Most, Onyx AshantiFF 117 with Eric Wargo[Other People]Void Denizen, Stewart Brand, EOTO, Tyson Yunkaporta, Jeff Buckley, David Bowie, Ween, Mike Patton, Yeasayer, Ben Harper, Bo Burnham, eter and The Wolf[Reading]Michaelangelo's Meowsoleum and new book, The He and She of ItMG's The Evolution of Surveillance, Part 4: Augments and AmputeesMartin Nowak et al.'s The evolution of syntactic communication (paper)“Time binding” was coined by Alfred Horzybski (who also said, “The map is not the territory.”)Rolf Potts' VagabondingDavid Eagleman's SumArthur C. 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Art is the medicine that actually allows us to metabolize charge. It allows us to metabolize trauma. It takes the intensity that's left in the system, and this goes all the way back to ritual. Art, for me, is a sort of a tributary coming off from ritual that is still sort of consensually allowed in this reality when the direct communication with nature through ritual was silenced.shante sojourn zenith, conscient podcast, May 4, 2021, MinnesotaShante' Sojourn Zenith is an animist somatic practitioner creating Edge Rituals to tend the wounds of her kin's unmetabolized ancestral trauma and developmental dissociation from embodiment by re-enlivening relationship to elemental earth consciousness and initiatory process. She works both one-on-one and in group spaces to create emergent explorations informed by nervous system state shifting, metaphor-based symbolic modeling, constellations, intuitive voice and movement, grief tending, and earth-rooted ritual. Shante' is currently germinating an art project called Long Body Prayers, a podcast, oracle deck, and pedagogical process for re-membering the relational root system of support each being is embedded in. Shante' has asked to name that in this podcast she is speaking from an entangled root system of animist somatics that will have aspects of her teachers and collaborators voices in her own words. What she speaks is a transmutation of many voices, including Kris Nourse, Azul Valerie Thome, Francis Weller, Annemiek van Helsdingen, Susan Raffo, Liz Koch, Tada Hozumi, Dare Sohei, Larissa Kaul, Deb Dana, and Sarah Peyton. Specifically in this podcast, her understanding of the way the Peak Valley Recovery Pattern relates to cultural bodies is credited to Tada Hozumi's essay What comes next? The dawn of a new era of cultural somatic activism (https://tadahozumi.com/what-comes-next-the-dawn-of-a-new-era-of-cultural-somatic-activism/).  Other influential beings in Shante's unfolding have been the moon, a birch tree in Vermont, an oak tree in California, and the turtles of Bass Lake marsh on Dakota land in Mni Sota Makoce.I first heard about Shante's work through her Fruiting Bodies: Collapse as Medicine, Liminal Portals, Mycelial Entanglements essay in Dark Matter magazine. This sentence in particular caught my attention and stuck with me:… we fear experiences of disintegration, breakdown, and collapse. But what if the collapse is also a part of the medicine? There are openings and cracks in these times of breakdown, windows into other worlds.Her writing made sense to me, but I did not really understand how to relate he work to the climate emergency, so I asked her and was enriched by our conversation. It's the kind of recording that is worth listening to twice to further retain nuance. As I did with all episodes this season, I have integrated excerpts from previous episodes in this case, from e19 reality in this episode. I would like to thank Shante' for taking the time to speak with me, for sharing her world view, her practices, including the idea that ‘art is the medicine that actually allows us to metabolize charge'.For more information on Shante's work, see www.earthpoetedgeweaver.com. *END NOTES FOR ALL EPISODESHere is a link for more information on season 5. Please note that, in parallel with the production of the conscient podcast and it's francophone counterpart, balado conscient, I publish a Substack newsletter called ‘a calm presence' which are 'short, practical essays for those frightened by the ecological crisis'. To subscribe (free of charge) see https://acalmpresence.substack.com. You'll also find a podcast version of each a calm presence posting on Substack or one your favorite podcast player.Also. please note that a complete transcript of conscient podcast and balado conscient episodes from season 1 to 4 is available on the web version of this site (not available on podcast apps) here: https://conscient-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes.Your feedback is always welcome at claude@conscient.ca and/or on conscient podcast social media: Facebook, X, Instagram or Linkedin. I am grateful and accountable to the earth and the human labour that provided me with the privilege of producing this podcast, including the toxic materials and extractive processes behind the computers, recorders, transportation systems and infrastructure that made this production possible. Claude SchryerLatest update on April 2, 2024

This is a segment of episode #276 of Last Born In The Wilderness “Severed Bodies: Tangible, Intangible Somas & Call-Out Collateral w/ Tada Hozumi.” Listen to the full episode: https://bit.ly/LBWhozumi Learn more about Tada’s work: https://selfishactivist.com This discussion with Cultural Somatics practitioner and teacher Tada Hozumi, in many ways, builds upon my previous interview with animist counselor Dare Sohei. Tada explores how the Cultural Somatic framework can be used to address systemic oppression, colonized bodies, dance, ancestral trauma, and call-out culture. To further define Tada's work and the Cultural Somatics framework, they state on their website that: 1. Cultures are in fact bodies, or rather ‘cultural somas’, that emerge from networks of relationships. Cultural somas are intangible in nature yet can function similarly to our own body that has a delicate nervous system. This fractal relationship between individual and cultural somas shows us that all somas, large and small, are meant to be in co-healing with each other. 2. The above-mentioned cultural somas are also fields in which all intangible ‘beings’, ones our elder cultures referred to as ancestors, spirits, and goddesses/gods, exist. Even abstract concepts such as white supremacy or misogyny exist as beings in this field. This shows us that we are all a part of a common field and the healing of tangible beings like ourselves is interconnected with the healing of intangible beings that for the greater networks of relationships that we all commonly belong to. Tada Hozumi is a practitioner, developer, and teacher of emergent methodologies for individual and collective healing that holistically integrate animism, somatics, and justice. At the core of their practice is the understanding that all oppressions, including white supremacy, are energetic ailments of both the individual and cultural body. Individual healing cannot be whole without tending to the cultural, and vice versa, that cultural change cannot be in good faith without tending to all of the bodies that make up the collective. WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com BOOK: http://bit.ly/ORBITgr PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness DONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop EVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

[Intro: 10:54] In this episode, I speak with Cultural Somatics practitioner and teacher Tada Hozumi. This discussion, in many ways, builds upon my previous interview with animist counselor Dare Sohei, a colleague of Tada's, in exploring and articulating the Cultural Somatic framework that encapsulates their approach in addressing systemic oppression, colonized bodies, dance, ancestral trauma, and call-out culture. To further define Tada's work and the Cultural Somatics framework, they state on their website that: 1. Cultures are in fact bodies, or rather ‘cultural somas’, that emerge from networks of relationships. Cultural somas are intangible in nature yet can function similarly to our own body that has a delicate nervous system. This fractal relationship between individual and cultural somas shows us that all somas, large and small, are meant to be in co-healing with each other. 2. The above-mentioned cultural somas are also fields in which all intangible ‘beings’, ones our elder cultures referred to as ancestors, spirits, and goddesses/gods, exist. Even abstract concepts such as white supremacy or misogyny exist as beings in this field. This shows us that we are all a part of a common field and the healing of tangible beings like ourselves is interconnected with the healing of intangible beings that for the greater networks of relationships that we all commonly belong to. Tada Hozumi is a practitioner, developer, and teacher of emergent methodologies for individual and collective healing that holistically integrate animism, somatics, and justice. At the core of their practice is the understanding that all oppressions, including white supremacy, are energetic ailments of both the individual and cultural body. Individual healing cannot be whole without tending to the cultural, and vice versa, that cultural change cannot be in good faith without tending to all of the bodies that make up the collective. Episode Notes: - Learn more about Tada’s work on their website and at The Ritual as Justice School website: https://selfishactivist.com / https://ritualasjustice.school WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com BOOK: http://bit.ly/ORBITgr PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness DONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop EVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

Tada Hozumi is a somatics practitioner, and one of the leaders of a movement known as cultural somatics. Basically, cultural somatics explores how our culture influences our bodies - how we move, how we interpret reality through our senses, how we think about the relationship between mind and body. 

Tada Hozumi is a somatics practitioner, and one of the leaders of a movement known as cultural somatics. In this challenging conversation, we discuss how our cultures can traumatize us and predispose us to oppress other cultures. And how we can "digest" our past - collective and individual as a way of healing. The post Healing Cultural Trauma: Tada Hozumi on PYP 438 appeared first on Plant Yourself.

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I have wanted to have Camille Barton on this show ever since they blew my mind at the Psychedelic Seminars’ presentation of “History of the Drug War, Colonization, & Racism.” And, perhaps as expected, they absolutely knocked it out of the park on today’s episode. On the show, we cover a wide range of topics threaded through with the theme of understanding colonization's impact on our world, our culture, and our bodies. We start with Camille’s childhood activism and spirituality before going deep on how the legacy of colonization impacts the modern Psychedelic Renaissance. We then discuss how this global trauma exists in the bodies of all people, and find an intersection between political theory and somatic healing. We close out our conversation with an exploration of gender identity and grief work. Camille is an artist, DJ, dancer, writer, speaker, and somatic educator who focuses their myriad talents on the intersection of drug policy, spirituality, and healing justice. They are the director of the Collective Liberation Project and creator of an approach to diversity and decolonization through trauma informed movement. They are currently creating a tool kit of grief practices with the Global Environments Network and have just release a somatic movement video called "The Grief Portal" allowing you to rebuild from “the compost of grief.” They also advise the EDGE Funders Alliance and MAPS to promote equal access to psychedelic medicine for people of color. Camille has created a dynamic space at the intersection of all their disparate interests and the world is far better for it. LINKS Camille Barton: https://www.camillebarton.co.uk/ Collective Liberation Project: https://www.thecollectiveliberationproject.com/ Global Environments Network: https://www.globalenvironments.org/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/afrooankali/?hl=en The Grief Portal: The Grief Portal by Camille Barton: https://vimeo.com/471381269 History of the Drug War, Colonization, & Racism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBf90gFz0PA Bodies for Change short film: https://vimeo.com/391469244 RESOURCES Lumos Transforms: https://lumostransforms.com/ “Full Body Presence: Learning to Listen to Your Body's Wisdom” by Suzanne Scurlock-Durana “Toward Psychologies of Liberation (Critical Theory and Practice in Psychology and the Human Sciences)” by M. Watkins & H. Shulman “The Leap” Naomi Klein’s new platform: https://theleap.org/ Dancing Wisdom: Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candombléby Yvonne Daniel Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire Selfish Activist Platform by Tada Hozumi: https://selfishactivist.com/ “Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil” by Paul Levy “Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble” by Stephen Jenkinson “The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community” by Malidoma Patrice Some “The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise” by Martín Prechtel “From painkiller to empathy killer: acetaminophen (paracetamol) reduces empathy for pain” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5015806/ TIMESTAMPS :14 - A childhood of activism and spiritual contemplation :20 - Why Camille no longer identifies as an activist :25 - How the history of colonization and the drug war impact the Psychedelic Renaissance :33 - Liberation psychology and why psychedelic healing can’t be individually based — even with equal access. :46 - Camille’s first experiences with healing movement through raving and clowning :57 - Why white people can’t dance? Because they are traumatized 1:07 - The intersection of political theory and somatic healing 1:12 - Camille’s gender journey 1:19 - The importance of grief work 1:31 - Why Camille is feeling optimistic right now

Alex Iantaffi and Meg-John Barker interview one another about self-care from a trauma-informed perspective. They talk about what self-care is, why embodiment matters, and how individual and collective trauma impact our capacity to care for ourselves and others. Their new book "Hell Yeah Self-Care!: A Trauma-Informed Workbook" will be published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers in January 2021 (but you can pre-order it now). This talk was given as part of The Embodiment Conference. However, both Alex and Meg-John want to be clear that their participation is not an endorsement of the conference. In fact, they invite you to read the open letter about the conference that Tada Hozumi wrote at: https://medium.com/@tadahozumi/public-letter-to-mark-walsh-and-the-embodiment-conference-ab9319ee4b69 Alex and Meg-John hold their participation in the event with open hands and with as much transparency as possible. Thank you for listening!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/genderstories)

Many of us have experienced stress and tension in relation to the unrelenting racist violence and oppression. There has been an explosion in public dialogue around white supremacy, whiteness, and racism and some are beginning to view this as “cultural trauma.” Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza and Erin C. Law do a Sex Out Loud Takeover this episode, where host Tristan Taormino hands over the mic for them to have an important conversation. Robyn and Erin offer a different inroad to approach anti-racist work looking at whiteness and racism through a lens of somatic methodology, and drawing on the work of Tada Hozumi, Dare Sohei, (and their joint work through the Ritual as Justice School), My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem, Ibram X. Kendi, Robin D’Angelo, Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun, Politicized Somatic Experiencing, Generative Somatics, and others. What does it mean to be trauma bonded? How does our disconnection from our bodies affect how we respond to hard conversations, to criticism, to trauma? “If we are always activated, we can’t access anything beyond our lizard brain. Nothing can take root and change when our nervous system is freaking out,” says Erin. How do we get more connected to our bodies and each other to do the work of composting supremacy culture together? Robyn says, “When we get into our bodies, we can affect the larger body of culture, and that can change democracy.” Erin is offering a 6 week online emergent interactive process, “Unraveling Our Whiteness” for white and white-passing folks. They say: “We are going to dive into this really charged topic. We will feel our feelings, get into our bodies, witness each other, discover how our bodies communicate with us, and what we need to heal.” It starts October 5 at 3 pm PT/6 pm ET. Find out more at erinlawembodiment.com/events. This show is sponsored by Pour Moi by Intensity. Erin Law is a somatic movement educator, politicized healer, and multidisciplinary artist based in the southern US. Erin consciously engages in antiracist, feminist, queer, disability, and embodied intersectional analysis, advocacy, and activism to contribute to the transformation of systemic oppression/supremacy culture, toward the construction of a more resilient and whole humanity. Erin is indebted to her family, and all of her teachers, students, and colleagues who have challenged and inspired her. Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza is a Transqueer Activist, Latinx Scholar, and Public Theologian. Dr. Robyn travels the country doing activist theology and continues to write for both the academy and the public square. Whether speaking to faith communities, universities, or communities, writing for HuffPost or Religion Dispatches, Dr. Robyn uses tools learned in both academy and activism to stand in the hybrid space of faith communities, academy, and movements for justice curating activist scholarship with deep intention of bridging with difference. This work is important to Dr. Robyn because their own life has been lived with the ongoing challenge to be grounded in the center of their own difference as a non binary Trans mixed-raced Latinx. This has required the thoughtful intention of bridging with their white ancestors and Mexican ancestors and with those in the queer community. As a result, their life’s vocation is one that is committed to the deep relationality of bridging with difference. They are the author of Activist Theology.

Tada Hozumi (they/them) is a practitioner, developer, and teacher of emergent methodologies for individual and collective healing that holistically integrate animism, somatics, and justice. They sometimes describe their animist-somatic work as cultural somatics.  In this episode, Eryn and Tada explore: A lot of practice! Including a grounding & land acknowledgment. Bypassing and disassociation Ways to ground Our cultural and collective disassociation Cultural somatics Trauma passed down & passed down looks a lot like posture The vagus nerve  Bodies changing through disconnection from culture and roots Cultural attachment theory Taking folks off of pedestals and unhealthy relationships with teachers  The connection between the cultural soma (body) and the individual soma (body)  Supporting the healing of our collective body Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/tada-hozumi  Connect with Eryn on Instagram and register for WHOLE: a virtual breathwork + writing ceremony on August 25th. Connect with Tada on Instagram, their website and the Ritual as Justice School.

For Episode 150 we welcome back Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, one of the most formidable and daring intellects I know, and the author of a new paper integrating over 650 books on UFOs and the paranormal, from over 150 disciplines, to trace the outline of a unifying meta-theory of the weird. In this episode, we discuss how Sean reconciles ten different hypotheses for the UFO phenomenon with his “mutual enactment hypothesis,” an updated ontology based on reconstructive post-modernism and Indigenous ways of knowing. I tell the story of the most powerful and transformative experiences of my life, as a case study in high weirdness. We talk about the distinctions between the real, the Real, the hypo-real, and the hyper-real, and offer examples from film, literature, and comparative religion.Do you have incredulous friends? Show them the extraordinary website Sean made with Tom Curren, WhatsUpWithUFOs.comRead Sean’s paper, “Our Wild Kosmos!: An Exo Studies Exploration of the Ontological Status of Non-Human Intelligences”Read its precursor, “An Ontology of Climate Change: Integral Pluralism and the Enactment of Multiple Objects”Read Sean’s latest newsletter on recent UFO disclosuresLearn more about and enroll in Sean’s course on Exo StudiesIf you believe in the value of this show and want to see it thrive, support Future Fossils on Patreon. Patrons gain access to over twenty secret episodes, unreleased music, our book club, and whatever else spills out of my overactive imagination.Dig deeper with the Future Fossils episodes we reference in this conversation, including:37 - Michaelangelo aka Void Denizen (Excavating the Future with "Paisley-ontology")60 - Sean Esbjörn-Hargens Goes Meta on Everything: Integral Ecology & Impact71 - JF Martel (On Sequels & Simulacra, Blade Runner 2049 & Stranger Things 2)91 - An Oral History of The End of "Reality"99 - Erik Davis on How to Navigate High Weirdness113 - Sean Esbjörn-Hargens on Exostudies: Philosophical Explorations of the UFO Phenomenon117 - Eric Wargo on Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious126 - Phil Ford & JF Martel on Weird Studies & Plural Realities132 - Erik Davis on Perturbations in the Reality Field149 - Cultural Somatics & Ritual as Justice with Tada Hozumi, Dare Sohei, and Naomi MostAnd stay tuned for my three-part conversation with Stuart Davis about (most of) my UFO experiences on his awesome Aliens & Artists Podcast!Music in this episode:“Delta Pavonis” by Michael Garfield“Olympus Mons” by Michael Garfield“Your Heart Comes Back Online” by Michael Garfield“Out There” by Skytree See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

“A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having. If there won't be dancing at the revolution, I'm not coming.”– Emma GoldmanStrap in for what might be the best Future Fossils episode yet: a four-way with guests Tada Hozumi and Dare Sohei of the Ritual as Justice School and guest co-host Naomi Most, in which we discuss how trauma manifests in posture and social interactions, how cultures are bodies we participate in, how the individual does not exist as we were taught, how interpersonal and sociopolitical dynamics shape and are shaped by their histories, how creative practice and ritual serve to regulate inherited wounds and ameliorate unresolved conflicts, and so much more I can’t even bother to get into it here. A truly profound, far-reaching, incompressible conversation you might want to queue up twice to be sure that you catch it all…“We’re bringing our families with us whenever we walk into a situation and to think that we’re individuals is missing the point.”– Dare SoheiRitual as Justice School: ritualasjustice.school Tada Hozumi: selfishactivist.com Dare Sohei: bodyaltar.orgNaomi Most: twitter.com/nthmost + medium.com/@nthmostIf you believe in the value of this show and want to see it thrive, support Future Fossils on Patreon for over nearly twenty secret episodes, our book club, and much more.Theme Music:“God Detector” by Evan “Skytree” Snyder (feat. Michael Garfield)Episode Cover Art:“Going Home” by Michael Garfield (dedicated to Sara la Kali, the Black Madonna)Read Tada Hozumi’s essay, “A Funk Lesson: If life is a dance, violence is a choreography, but so is justice”Read Tada Hozumi’s essay, “The Cultural Somatic Paradox” See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, we have to honor of sitting with Kate Fontana on her deck to enjoy some sunshine and chats about everything we can learn from dandelions about defiance and social justice. Kate Fontana is a queer Catholic yogi, interspiritual midwife, and a sacred activist. She's also on our awesome lineup of guest faculty and provides our students with a monthly meditation. Be sure to catch the bonus training on how to use meditation to tap into your creative courage. https://www.schoolofbravery.com/kate In this episode we discuss: - lessons from dandelions on defiance & social justice - the benefits of meditation & how to do it differently - how to avoid burnout during grad school - why a queer feminist would return to Catholicism apply to join the Roman Catholic Women Priests If you're interested in spirituality, religion, social justice, and defiant expectation then you definitely won't want to miss out on this episode! About The School of Bravery The School of Bravery is a learning lab for life, career, and creativity. Through monthly masterclasses, guest experts, weekly office hours and so much more, you'll explore what it really means to "put yourself out there" and how bravery does not have to feel like a panic attack. It can feel easier! Visit http://schoolofbravery.com to learn more and join us today! More About Kate Fontana Kate Fontana (she/her/hers) is co-founder and steward of The Sanctuary Northwest, which aims to transform the lives of trauma survivors and to nurture strong resilient families, communities, and ecosystems where all life thrives. She is also a third-year seminarian at the Seattle School of Theology and Psychology, discerning a call to the priesthood with the Roman Catholic Women Priests. Kate's journey has been a weave of music, yoga, contemplative practice, therapy, friendship, ecology, and profoundly uncomfortable and slow racial awakenings. She has trained and continues to be mentored in the emerging field of Cultural Somatics with Tada Hozumi and dare sohei. Additional teachers, mentors and friends in embodiment, sacred activism, and racial justice include Rev. Dr. Angela Parker, Yvette Murrell, Dr. Caprice Hollins, Nancy Rebecca, Denise Benitez, Najeea Leslie, Erin Joosse, and Will and Cynthia Keepin, Dr. Kj Swanson, Dr. Jennifer Fernandez, Dr. Beth Kraig, and the Spiritual Care Interns of Harborview Medical Center. Kate draws on a theological blend of Harry Potter, the Bhagavad Gita, the genius of mycelium, quantum physics, Battlestar Galactica, Queer Theory, adrienne maree brown's "Emergent Strategy" and "Pleasure Activism," deep ecology, and the Gospels. She thrives on ambiguity, kareoke, wild herbs, being an auntie, and the worlds of youth fantasy fiction. She struggles with single-use plastics, small-talk, and to get anywhere on time. Kate lives on the Kitsap Peninsula and her patronus is a peregrine falcon. www.katefontana.com www.thesanctuarynorthwest.com Keep in Touch with Emily Ann Peterson Singer-songwriter, teaching artist, and #1 bestselling author of the book "Bare Naked Bravery: How to Be Creatively Courageous," Emily Ann Peterson is best known by her fans, clients, and students for her uncanny ability to melt down difficult, throat-clenching stories and challenges into easy, step-by-step breaths of fresh air. Her clients and students will tell you she's the best thing that's ever happened to their life, career, and creativity. http://emilyannpeterson.com http://instagram.com/emilyannpete http://facebook.com/emilyannpeterson http://twitter.com/emilyapeterson

Tada Hozumi is a Cultural Somatics teacher, and expressive arts therapist. In this episode, we discuss the interrelatedness between the cultural body and our individual bodies. I believe this is one of the most important topics during these times. To learn more about Tada's work, click here. To join their school on Cultural Somatics, click here.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tada Hozumi coaches and consults on the practice of cultural somatics and manages the website Selfish Activist. They talk with Eric about cultural somatics, the interplay between memes and intersectional social justice activism, and judging our memes by their willingness to disappear, among other things. Listeners can find transcripts, show notes, and other associated content at patreon.com/ericgarza.

Francesca continues her conversation with Tada Hozumi on cultural somatics, how inclusivity has to start with humility, the concept of ancestral echoing, and the power of street dancing.

Francesca speaks with cultural somatics practitioner Tada Hozumi about gender identity, the confluence of trauma and white privilege, and the concept of insecure cultural attachment. Tada Hozumi is a practitioner of a practice known as cultural somatics. The work of cultural somatics is facilitating change by supporting the co-healing of individual and cultural bodies. Tada offers coaching and consulting work, as well as workshops. You can learn more about Tada at selfishactivist.com. Supermarket Pronouns Francesca and Tada begin their conversation by touching on gender identity and the use of pronouns, and how it’s always good to have a space that affirms your existence. They talk about how the root of mindfulness is in being curious and learning, and not making assumptions. “So much of our learning process is baked in with the trauma response.” – Tada Hozumi Getting Messy (10:03) The conversation gets a little messy, which is exactly what Francesca and Tada want! They talk about the intersection of trauma and white privilege. What happens when generations of trauma are stored in the body, and how does that manifest in spaces of healing? “Even when we were talking about the messiness of life, a lot of the times things like racism and transphobia weren’t included in that messiness for a very long time in healing spaces.” – Tada Hozumi Learn more about Tada's work here: https://selfishactivist.com https://beherenownetwork.com/francesca-maxime-rerooted-ep-15-tada-hozumi-pt-1/

Francesca welcomes cultural somatics practitioner Tada Hozumi for a conversation around gender identity, the confluence of trauma and white privilege, and the concept of insecure cultural attachment.

Tada Hozumi coaches and consults on the practice of cultural somatics and manages the website Selfish Activist. They talk with Eric about the political implications of cultural somatics, universal basic income, cult dynamics, and how ancestral trauma contributes to behavioral patterns, and punitive versus restorative systems of justice, among other things.

Tada Hozumi coaches and consults on the practice of cultural somatics, wrote the viral essay Why White People Can’t Dance: Because They Are Traumatized, and manages the website Selfish Activist. They talk with Eric about cultural somatics, ancestral trauma and how it is passed down through generations, and the need for white activists to prioritize regulating their nervous systems, among other things.

What does it mean to be embodied? In this episode I talk about: - how being in a body allows us to heal dense trauma and karma in tangible ways - what it means to 'leave' when it gets tough - why grounding our energy is imperative to the human experience - why it's so hard and scary to be here - how we have been conditioned to leave our bodies, keep our energy UP and disconnected from the natural timing of the earth - how being ungrounded has resulted in anxiety, ADD, and other disorders prevalent in our society - how Ayahuasca opened up my lower energy centers, and helped me live a more embodied life - practices to ground your energy, clear energetic density and anchor into the core of the Earth - ancestral trauma and healing through our bodies - stopping the trauma cycle so we don't pass it on to our children - a common spiritual path that takes us up and out, and how we need to balance this with going down and in - how we are the ones here bridging between old and new paradigms - the shadows within the lower 3 chakras and the power that lies within them - our transition to a symbiotic, reciprocal relationship with the Earth - how plants are our guides, and wisdom keepers supporting us on this shared journey - how to foster a connection with plants and the Earth - how plants are more tapped in to the greater web of life, and what they have to teach us about embodiment. Show notes: - Tada Hozumi: selfishactivist.com/ - Kelly Behrend: awaken-your-chakras.com/ - *Ayahuasca is traditionally utilized by cultures in other places besides Peru & Brazil. See: www.sena-maria.com/podcasts for full transcription

In this episode I welcome back Tada Hozumi, aka, the Selfish Activist, who was previously on the show discussing the personal responsibility we have to our collective wellbeing. this new conversation, Tada shares two current concepts of their work: Understanding our cultural nervous system, and the queering of identities.

My collaborator for this episode of Everything is Workable is adrienne maree brown, a fellow polymath who describes herself as a writer, facilitator, coach, mentor, mediator, pleasure activist, sci-fi scholar, doula, healer, tarot reader, witch, cheerleader, singer, philosopher, and queer Black multiracial lover of life. I learned about adrienne and her book Emergent Strategy thanks to Tada Hozumi, a previous guest on the show, and I am SO grateful for that recommendation. This is a book of universal wisdom, as adrienne points out when she says “I didn’t create emergent strategy. I noticed it.” But what makes it so incredible is the accessible and practical presentation of what emergent strategy is and how to use it. From adaptation to collaboration, creativity to self-care, and abundance to liberation, adrienne and I talk about the tools, framework and spells we can use as interconnected beings to imagine into being a future in which the fullness of humanity is represented and in right relationship with our shared planet. As well as being an author, adrienne is co-host of the podcast How to Survive the End of the World. You can check that out at www.endoftheworldshow.org and find out more about adrienne through her website adriennemareebrown.net You can get a copy of Emergent Strategy at www.akpress.org

In this episode of Waking Up Bipolar, Chris Cole speaks with Tada Hozumi—body-centered therapist, coach, and group facilitator. Tada (them/they) is a genderqueer person of color of Japanese descent. They are certified as an expressive arts therapist and have also received teachings in dance movement therapy, qigong, somatic sex education, and authentic facilitation. Their work is also deeply informed by their devoted training in "popping," an umbrella term for mechanical street dances that emerged from the West coast of Turtle Island during the early 1970s.Their work is based on a model they refer to as the ‘the cultural nervous system’. The basic understanding of the cultural nervous system model is that cultures have bodies, along with nervous systems that emerge from the relationships between all of the individual nervous systems within them. Oppressions, from white supremacy to heterosexism, are an expression of trauma in this ‘cultural nervous system’. As a politicized somatic therapist, they understand their work as holding space for the cultural soma to heal from trauma.As you’ll hear in our conversation, Tada Hozumi opens by offering a short meditation to connect with land and body before we get into a rich conversation on the intersection of whiteness, embodiment, and the cultivation of mental health.Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/avFfa1UJfy4Watch on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wakingupbipolar/videos/507495576381383/Read Tada's article on "The connection between Heart-centredness, burnout and colonization": https://selfishactivist.com/the-connection-between-heart-centredness-empathy-burnout-and-colonization/Visit Tada Hozumi's website: https://selfishactivist.com/JOIN THE DISCUSSION at https://www.facebook.com/groups/wakingupbipolarChris Cole hosts the Waking Up Bipolar podcast, focused on the intersection of bipolar disorder and spiritual awakening. He is the author of The Body of Chris: A Memoir of Obsession, Addiction, and Madness, inspired by his own journey of spiritual unfolding and mental health challenges. Chris Cole offers life coaching for any number of mental health conditions, specializing in bipolar disorder and spiritual emergence. Chris’s experience with addiction, disordered eating, body dysmorphia, psychosis, and spiritual emergency allows him to relate to a wide range of clients. He utilizes a holistic approach to mental health which views wellness in physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual domains. Learn more about Chris and his work at colecoaching.com.The Waking Up Bipolar podcast in now available on the following platforms:Apple Podcasts | apple.wakingupbipolar.comGoogle Play | google.wakingupbipolar.comStitcher | stitcher.wakingupbipolar.comTuneIn | tunein.wakingupbipolar.comwakingupbipolar.com

This Taking Up Space episode features conversations on allyship in all of its forms. It can be difficult to understand allyship as it is a multi-faceted, complex idea, and changes in relation to the needs and situations of the individual or individuals you’re supporting.                              Ann-Bernice Thomas hosts a panel discussion with Tada Hozumi, the author of ‘The Selfish Activist’s Guide to Allyship’, Sharon Doty, the president of the LGBTQ2+ support group ‘PFLAG’, and Bradley Clements, a member of the men’s circle, a branch of UVic’s Anti Violence Project.This episode includes a short step-by-step guide to allyship and a feature on PFLAG [more].Content in this program was produced by CFUV’s Podcasting Production Team. Our theme music is composed by Arcade Pallot. This program is proudly supported by Cold Comfort Ice Cream and the Community Radio Fund of Canada.References and Resources:http://www.peernetbc.com/what-is-allyshiphttps://twitter.com/ikaylareed/status/742243143030972416?lang=enhttp://www.martlet.ca/at-the-intersection-gender-public-space-and-social-media/https://mashable.com/2018/02/27/black-history-month-white-allies/#pn2Ak6fxgsq5https://mashable.com/2016/06/12/transgender-women-of-color-ally/#XWzaUSlj7qqChttp://www.blackgirldangerous.com/https://nationalseedproject.org/white-privilege-unpacking-the-invisible-knapsackhttps://selfishactivist.com/https://www.antiviolenceproject.org/mens-circle/https://www.victoriapinkpages.ca/pflag-victoria-parents-and-families-of-lesbians-and-gays/https://www.stjohnthedivine.bc.ca/pages/pflaghttp://www.guidetoallyship.com/https://www.whiteallytoolkit.com/https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/allyship/https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/07/from-asshole-to-an-activist/https://everydayfeminism.com/?s=privilegehttps://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/6-ways-men-can-work-to-undo-their-own-emotional-trauma/

This Taking Up Space episode features conversations on allyship in all of its forms. It can be difficult to understand allyship as it is a multi-faceted, complex idea, and changes in relation to the needs and situations of the individual or individuals you're supporting.                              Ann-Bernice Thomas hosts a panel discussion with Tada Hozumi, the author of ‘The Selfish Activist's Guide to Allyship', Sharon Doty, the president of the LGBTQ2+ support group ‘PFLAG', and Bradley Clements, a member of the men's circle, a branch of UVic's Anti Violence Project.This episode includes a short step-by-step guide to allyship and a feature on PFLAG [more].Content in this program was produced by CFUV's Podcasting Production Team. Our theme music is composed by Arcade Pallot. This program is proudly supported by Cold Comfort Ice Cream and the Community Radio Fund of Canada.References and Resources:http://www.peernetbc.com/what-is-allyshiphttps://twitter.com/ikaylareed/status/742243143030972416?lang=enhttp://www.martlet.ca/at-the-intersection-gender-public-space-and-social-media/https://mashable.com/2018/02/27/black-history-month-white-allies/#pn2Ak6fxgsq5https://mashable.com/2016/06/12/transgender-women-of-color-ally/#XWzaUSlj7qqChttp://www.blackgirldangerous.com/https://nationalseedproject.org/white-privilege-unpacking-the-invisible-knapsackhttps://selfishactivist.com/https://www.antiviolenceproject.org/mens-circle/https://www.victoriapinkpages.ca/pflag-victoria-parents-and-families-of-lesbians-and-gays/https://www.stjohnthedivine.bc.ca/pages/pflaghttp://www.guidetoallyship.com/https://www.whiteallytoolkit.com/https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/allyship/https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/07/from-asshole-to-an-activist/https://everydayfeminism.com/?s=privilegehttps://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/6-ways-men-can-work-to-undo-their-own-emotional-trauma/

Listen as Tada Hozumi and I converse about embodied racism, the somatic freedom of becoming available for feeling and sensation, and the deep connection between trauma and magick.

My guest today is a literature professor who writes a blog called Dating Tips For The Feminist Man, under the pen name "Nora Samaran". Last year, she wrote an article that went viral, changed my life, and transformed my marriage. It's called "The Opposite Of Rape Culture Is Nurturance Culture". Just so we have a basic agreement of what is meant by “rape culture”, a quick Google brings up this definition: a society or environment whose prevailing social attitudes have the effect of normalizing or trivializing sexual assault and abuse. Wikipedia goes a little bit further: Rape culture is a sociological concept used to describe a setting in which rape is pervasive and normalized due to societal attitudes about gender and sexuality.  Behaviors commonly associated with rape culture include victim blaming, slut shaming, sexual objectification, trivializing rape, denial of widespread rape, refusing to acknowledge the harm caused by some forms of sexual violence, or some combination of these.  Nora's article does a beautiful job of summarizing attachment theory as it applies to adult relationships and then stepping back to look a the larger implications within a patriarchal culture. We talk about how western culture shames men for feeling and nurturing, how it invisibilizes white supremacy and anti-black racism for white people. In this episode, I give a brief summary of attachment theory and the four main attachment styles. You can read more here in the article where I dish about my own marriage. Off the top, Nora mentions The Icarus Project, along with bell hooks and Kimberlé Crenshaw. We also mention Tada Hozumi and cite his work over at SelfishActivist.com. Adrienne Maree Brown is quoted and she is definitely someone to learn from. The book The Dispossessed, by Ursula LeGuin, is described as well.