Cloudberry Collective develops, nurtures and supports anti-colonial action and decolonial initiatives in Europe. Over the last few years, we have contributed to several projects and organized different events with communities around us. However, this is our very first public event, and we are super excited that Samie, Timimie, and Heather followed our invitation. 

The conversation in this recording is followed up with a live call, including a Q&A session, planned for the 27th of January 2023 at 19:45 - 21:30 CET. This recording includes a brief introduction on Cloudberry Collective’s thoughts behind the event, other topics covered in the conversation include: contemporary colonial reproduction, the importance of critique alongside practices of joy, and the potential of community organizing in harboring different collective visions of our futures.

Read the transcription here: www.cloudberrycollective.org/slowing-down

For more info or to get in touch with Cloudberry Collective, see: https://www.cloudberrycollective.org/ 

Here, are some links of the works that are mentioned throughout this conversation:
Bayo Akomolafe, https://www.bayoakomolafe.net/post/the-times-are-urgent-lets-slow-down 
Prentis Hemphill, https://www.findingourwaypodcast.com/ 
adrienne maree brown, https://adriennemareebrown.net/ 
Kate Bornstein, Book: Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws
It Gets Better, http://www.youtube.com/itgetsbetterproject

Featuring:
Samie Blasingame: “I am a facilitator and community focused activist. I also work a bit in communications, doing some educational media work around food systems mostly, and workshops to do with food sovereignty and environmental justice more generally.”

Timimie Märak: “...my culture is that you can't joik yourself. Joik is our traditional way of singing and you can't joik yourself. It's people who interpret you. … So introducing myself is always weird. If you want to know who I am, you will have to ask someone else. … But what I do … is mostly being a professional homosexual and indigenous person.”

Heather Milton-Lightening: “I'm from Treaty 4 Territory. I'm registered to a community called Pasqua First Nation. And our territory kind of spans southern Saskatchewan, part of Manitoba and part of Alberta. … I do a lot of random things. I'm a consultant, so I write curriculums. I do trainings. … I used to do a lot of things on the front lines. … It's not really my thing. And I feel like there's a lot more people out there that are highly skilled in those areas and I don't need to. And that's really nice to step back and kind of do different things.”

Slowing Down In Urgent Times - Part 1

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