Tune in to our sequel episode "Grieving, Zombies, & Power" with Dr. Lewis Gordon.

Dr. Gordon is Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at UCONN-Storrs; & Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies. He previously taught at Brown University, where he founded the Department of Africana Studies, and Temple University, where was the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy and founder of the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies and the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought.

Dr. Lewis Gordon on Grieving, Zombies, & Power (FV Ep. 40)

Learn from Dr. Sarah Hunt about resurgent cultures of consent, consensual allyship, decolonizing the roots of rape culture, & bodily sovereignty & sex sovereignty! Brought to you by liberationspring.com.

Some of the resources she shared in our dialogue:
o	Violence on the Land, Violence on our Bodies: Building an Indigenous Response to Environmental Violence report & toolkit
http://landbodydefense.org/uploads/files/VLVBReportToolkit2016.pdf 
o	Native Youth Sexual Health Network http://www.nativeyouthsexualhealth.com
o	It Starts with Us http://itstartswithus-mmiw.com
o	Sisters in Spirit  https://www.nwac.ca/policy-areas/violence-prevention-and-safety/sisters-in-spirit/
o	No More Silence http://nomoresilence-nomoresilence.blogspot.com
o	http://indigenoussexsovereignty.tumblr.com
o	@ TheSarahHunt on Twitter

For listeners, how can you expand your practice of consent after learning from this dialogue? (This could be internally, interpersonally, politically, when attempting allyship or accompliceship, ecologically, etc.) What can you do to create a context where consent is even a viable possibility in the first place? Let us know in the comments section below!

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Dr. Sarah Hunt on Resurgent Cultures of Consent (Feral Visions Ep. 1)

“How do you move beyond sharing about your trauma to healing it?” asks our guest Aishah. What say you?
#LoveWITHAccountability - http://LoveWITHAccountability.com
NO! The Rape Documentary - http://NOtheRapeDocumentary.org
Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective - https://batjc.wordpress.com
The Living Bridges Project - http://LivingBridgesProject.com
The Heal Project - https://www.igrivera.com/the-heal-project.html
Children of Combahee - http://childrenofcombahee.org/
Black Latinidad: Love in Sisterbrotherhood - https://www.vidaafrolatina.org/child-sexual-abuse
Mirror Memoirs - http://mirrormemoirs.com
Impact Justice - http://impactjustice.org/restorative-justice-project

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Feral Visions

Aishah Shahidah Simmons on #LoveWithAccountability (FV Ep. 2)

How did our ancestors practice relationships and sexuality prior to colonization? Learn from Dr. Kim TallBear about moving beyond settler colonial sexualities! What's a decolonial approach to the settler institution of monogamy? These are some of the topics we delve into. 

Here are some of the resources Dr. TallBear mentions:
The Critical Polyamorist http://www.criticalpolyamorist.com 
Indian Dr. David Shorter http://frequencies.ssrc.org/2012/01/03/indian/ 
Native Youth Sexual Health Network http://www.nativeyouthsexualhealth.com 
Tipi Confessions https://www.facebook.com/tipiconfessions/ 
Indian Love Poems Tenille Campbell http://workingitouttogether.com/content/indianlovepoems-the-tease/ 
Virago Nation https://www.viragonation.ca 
What word(s) did your ancestors use to discuss sex and sexuality? Feel free to share in the comments section below.

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Dr. Kim TallBear on Moving Beyond Settler Sexualities (FV ep. 4)

What’s the history of settlers in the US, especially white ones, playing Indian? Some listeners may be new to conversations about this topic that are grounded in history, context, & an analysis of power. Learn more from my dialogue with Professor Philip Deloria, who you may have seen recently in the documentary "More Than a Word: a Film about Native American-based sports mascots & the Washington Redskins."

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Dr. Philip Deloria on Neocolonial Identity Politics & Playing Indian (FV ep 7)

Tune in to hear about the Zapatista’s First International Gathering of Politics, Art, Sport, & Culture for Women in Struggle. I’m in dialogue with Carol Rojas about her experience at this historic event, including the somatics of anticapitalism, the importance of connecting with other freedom fighters who’ve devoted their lives to the struggle, the nourishment of separatist spaces, and the always invigorating inspiration of the companeras of the EZLN who’re throwing down as hard today as they’ve ever been for their land, liberation, & autonomy. Why sell out or give up when we could just overthrow capitalist patriarchy already?

Carol Rojas on the Zapatista Women's Convocation (FV ep. 13)

Tune in for this wonderful dialogue with the Mother-Daughter duo that is BabyMamaHood. Mama Juju and Zion Angeles help folks move beyond a one-size-fits all approach to parenting, Motherhood, & families & bring back the ceremony to birth. Juju & Zion are also the creators of A Love Adventure Project & Radical Childbirth. Learn about the important community work they’re doing and how you can get involved. 

For more info, please check out:
www.babymamahood.com
www.radicalchildbirth.org
@babymamahood
@_family_and_spirit_
www.poormagazine.org

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Zion & Juju Angeles Of Babymamhood (FV Ep. 16)

D'Juan Owens and I discuss the embodiment of revolutionary strategy. What does courage feel like? Is influencer culture or celebrity culture distorting your understanding of justice work? How do we disentangle getting free from popularity contests, tokenism, trends, and respectability politics? Tune in to find out. And plz let us know in the comments what you found evocative! Thanks family.

D'Juan Owens on Embodying the Revolution(FV Ep. 17)

We don’t get free off bad intel, beloveds. Let’s take your focus back from the vampiric media outlets that infiltrate nervous systems & pollute minds 4 ratings & short-term gains. Their sellout pundits are so busy trying 2 get theirs that they’re forsaking any hope of vision, wisdom, or grounding. Let’s resist fear-mongering click-bait. And boundary ourselves from even more corporate talking points brainwashing us than has already happened. Freeing up attention 4 what we actually need 2 know 2 make informed decisions + generally know what’s up.

Hope you enjoy this 1st installation of our “Weeds & Seeds” autumn series. Hope to see ya Saturday for some seeding!

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The Corporate Media: Weed #1 (FV Ep. 18)

What is critical media literacy? Wanna hear about some resources to support building that skill *and a critique of those sources too? Come thru for a decolonial feminist critique of @DemocracyNow and other independent media sources that I listen to w/ a grain of salt. Hope you enjoy this 2nd installation of our “Weeds & Seeds” autumn series. Hope to see ya Wednesday for some weeding! PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.”

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Critical Media Literacy: Seed #1 (FV Ep. 19)

What is political gaslighting? Columbus Day is a great example- let’s talk about it. Hope you enjoy this 2nd weed identification video in our “Weeds & Seeds” autumn series. See ya Saturday for some seeding!

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Gaslighting: Weed #2 (FV Ep. 20)

What is techno-skepticism? One of the most vital seeds that we could plant today! One of the clearest extensions of a colonial progress narrative throughout the planet today is the pathetic belief in Silicon Valley and its tech-bros. Indeed, perceiving arrogant criminals like Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, or Jeff Bezos as innovative leaders is one of the clearest signs of the profound misunderstanding that currently afflicts millions of our loved ones. If you’re concerned about extractivism, did you notice that it’s technology that’s enabled extractivism? This is important to observe. If you’ve ever heard someone talking about climate change who says ‘technology will save us!’ while failing to recognize that technology is a principle factor for what got us into this mess to begin with, this seed is for you. Let’s break it down. 

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Techno-Skepticism: Seed #2 (FV Ep. 21)

By vampirism, you know I’m talking about that extractivism that’s destroying us & our precious planet. Mining our minds, as the Red Power legend John Trudell would call it. Enacting coups in Bolivia for lithium for electric car batteries and the like. That market fundamentalism that’ll take us all down if we don’t stop it first. 

(By the way, the video got cut off in the last few minutes.)

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Vampirism: Weed #3 (FV Ep. 22)

What is lunacy? How does the label lunatic gets weaponized and mis-used? Learning from postcolonial psychology & activist traditions, let’s talk about it.

Lunacy is one of the most potent counters to the limitations of respectability politics that’s available to us. Respectability politics pressures us to ceaselessly pander to oppressive audiences. Oppression sets the terms of the debate. You show up & are pressured to conform to the language of oppression, dress the way the status quo told you to, leave your family’s religion and values at the door, & more generally aspire to be as basic as possible to fit in with the baseline of unjust mediocrity around you.

Lunacy, on the other hand, offers a way out of that hamster wheel of death. We know that the most substantial critiques regularly get de-legitimated as allegedly ‘crazy.’ This political dimension is at the core of how sanism operates. And if millions of people continue hedging around the standards set by an omnicidal death cult…well, we’re done for. Give thanks that we can resist, though. Reconnecting with what we know that we may have suppressed in a violently ignorant culture.

If you’ve ever censored yourself because you were concerned that you might be labeled crazy, this seed is for you. Or if you see people unyieldingly calling corrupt politicians ‘lunatics’ and sense that there’s a lot to unpack there, please listen! 

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Lunacy: Seed #3 (FV Ep. 23)

Unlearning the illusion of hyper-individuation is easier said than done for those of us in deeply capitalist contexts like the settler colonial US. Alas, atomization is as American as apple pie.

Hyper-individualism is a result of having been divided and conquered. As a matter of fact, that mentality dovetails nicely with a common military strategy. It separates communities and individuals who could be coming together to end oppression and move the fuck on with this miracle that is life. This mentality encourages competition instead of cooperation. And here’s one part of the divide and conquer individuation scam that’s even more insidious. It divisively classifies how we understand oppression to begin with! Into silos. We’ve gotta be able to connect the dots, tho, to begin to deepen understanding. Unless we’re doomed to stay small and disparate, that is… 

What do LSD, perseverance porn, & the 1968 Beatles song ‘Revolution’ have in common? Have a listen to this discourse on hyper-individualism to find out : ) 

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Hyper-individualism: Weed #4 (FV Ep. 24)

Have you noticed that the term ‘conspiracy theory’ (& ‘conspiracy theorist’ too) gets weaponized in all kinds of directions? By myriad actors, agents, & entities. Then millions of people obediently look the other direction. How sad to move thru the world like that. Disrespecting your capacity to gauge what’s valid independently from what the matrix’s thought leaders + influencers sold you. Bullshit meters atrophying cuz you’d never wanna be judged as that ‘out there.’ Yet wisdom allows no such bypassing. Guess what? We don’t need to write ideas off by default when we’re discerning. Who’s afraid of a conspiracy theory? Let’s put our awareness to good use and talk about the limiting function the term conspiracy theory performs. I dare you to give no fucks about the smoke & mirrors show & to, instead, perceive with eyes open. When we get the corporate propaganda, PR, & academic fads outta our lives, where might decolonial feminist reads on ‘conspiracies’ take us? I’ll take you thru how I vet a few currently trending so-called ‘conspiracy theories.’ For folx who are intellectually & perceptually confident, a friendly philosophical experiment or two wouldn’t be too intimidating, no? And if the idea of joining me down this rabbit hole feels scary, well- it’s Halloween. 

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Curiosities re: 'Conspiracies' Seed #4 (FV Ep. 25)

What is co-optation? Let’s talk green-washing, diversity & inclusion campaigns, misunderstanding decolonization, land acknowledgements, & more. 

Just cuz someone’s talking about a thing doesn’t mean they know what they’re talking about! For example, they might be a business trying to bank off of a social movement. As a matter of fact, did you know exactly that was actually one of the first major experiments in public relations (aka advertising) in U.S. history? Yep, Edward Bernays tried to sell women cigarettes by coupling their consumption with the suffrage movement in the US. He came up with the catchy slogan ‘torches of freedom’ & did some savvy product placement at an event and it caught fire. To the order of countless women subsequently getting hooked and dying of lung cancer & other cigarette-related diseases. 

So what is co-optation exactly? Merriam-Webster calls it “the act or an instance of co-opting something: a taking over or appropriation of something for a new or different purpose. // the co-optation of the raised fist as a patriotic symbol- Niela Orr” is given as an example. Co-optation is one of the perennial concerns of movements for collective liberation. Liberals, politicians, businesses, and celebrities consistently try to subsume the potency and resonance of revolutionary organizing to serve their own aims. They parrot style and lack substance. And distract a whole lotta our loved ones who could have otherwise gotten connected with legit groups and community spaces and purpose and power. 

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Co-optation: Weed #5 (FV Ep. 26)

How does our knowing get impacted by subjectivity, values, & identity? Find out thru this talk on feminist & indigenous epistemologies & so much more. Plz lemme know in the comments what you found evocative- I’d love to hear. Also plz be forewarned that I nerd out on theory a lil’ in the intro, but then it gets less jargon-y : ) 

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Context: Seed #5 (FV Ep. 27)

When violent crime is discussed in mainstream echo chambers, is the term more likely to be associated with polluting lakes & damming rivers or a stabbing? I’ll bet you know the answer. Yet, which is overwhelmingly more catastrophic for people and the planet? What a deadly bias. Who & what benefits from that limited interpretation of crime? Who and what doesn’t? There we go again with that *disproportionate focus on individuals obscuring institutional wrongdoings.

Not only have conventional notions of crime in the settler colonial US always been anti-Indigenous, anti-Black, classist, homophobic, and transphobic. They also open the floodgates for incarceration, banking off caged labor, increased surveillance, ripping apart families, siphoning off taxpayer dollars from vital social services, and pitting communities against one another. Ultimately, one of the most dangerous consequences of “normal” understandings of criminality is that they let annihilationist companies off the hook as they’re racing to push humanity off a cliff into unbridled climate chaos.

In a settler colonial empire, who gets to define crime? And who pays the price? Let’s unlearn propaganda around criminality to clarity which corporate culprits really need 2 be held accountable.

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Criminality: Weed #6 (FV Ep. 28)

One of the greatest gifts that you could give your imagination is learning about the abolitionist movement (and getting involved).

While oppressive injustice would have us in-fighting over toxic crumbs, abolitionism invites us to have standards, respect, and dignity. Previously impossible within this nightmarish empire. Let’s talk about it. 

While the capitalist mainstream would make excuses for perpetuating horrific atrocities, abolitionism draws on thousands of peer-reviewed studies to make an undeniably compelling case for life-affirming alternatives.

Give thanks that we can move from weaponized & implanted ignorance to having humility. Let’s learn from some prolific scholar-activists who have been proving for decades that abolition is the only sensible way forward.

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Abolition: Seed #6 (FV Ep. 29)

What if the least reliable people about spirituality are those who call themselves ‘spiritual?’ Let’s talk about the new (c)age psy-op and how to unlearn it. 

Let’s have some respect for the power of spirituality by disentangling it from insultingly commercialized distortions. Why let our ancestral wisdom continue to get tainted by marketing manipulation? In the settler colonial U.S., spirituality is widely associated with anti-intellectualism due to a tragic conflation with the new (c)age psy-op. What a massive con job. Sloppy generalizations, a lack of vetting sources, and the entitlement of rape culture have coalesced into a deadly market of half-truths that ensnare millions of our loved ones. Let’s unpack how these opportunistic scams get perpetuated & how to stop the bypassing so folks can reconnect with power & potential. 

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New (c)Age Lies: Weed #7 (FV Ep. 30)

We’re surrounded by trite clichés about following our hearts. And spaces where people allege to be into emotional intelligence that are then utterly intolerant of oppressed peoples expressing feelings. Feelings, by the way, that Eurocentrism judges as ‘negative’ in a fake binary that lots of people still adhere to.

Or the same wannabe influencers who speak softly about the wisdom of our feelings then turn around and treat ethical indignation as a state to ‘process’ and ‘move past’ as quickly as possible. While unironically privileging a performance of social media-ready happiness as a superior emotional state. Contradictions much? What anti-intellectualism!

Now, respecting physiological cues can be literally life-saving. Yet, feelings can also be Islamophobic. And classist. And transphobic. And otherwise oppressive. You see, our interpretations of our feelings are mediated by our minds.

So when are our feelings trustworthy? When aren’t they trustworthy? How can we relate to our feelings in a way that doesn’t just smuggle our uninterrogated biases into some mystified realm that’s allegedly beyond reproach? Let’s talk about it.

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Feelings: Seed #7 (FV Ep. 31)

Have you ever sensed that ‘Science’ fronts as objective at the expense of the very humility that legit knowing is contingent upon? Coming from your *most logical and wise self, not some anti-intellectual cop-out. If you’ve been sleeping on all the decolonial feminist scholarship on the philosophy of science that’s proliferated in the past quarter century, let’s get you caught up on some gems. If you’ve ever seen someone weaponize the language of logic, reason, objectivity, or science in a way that you sensed was sketchy but didn’t quite have the language to name, let’s go there.

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Scientism: Weed #8 (FV Ep. 32)

Direct action may be the seed of all seeds for us to plant. Let’s learn from Fred Hampton, Elaine Brown, Paulo Freire, Moraga, Marx, & more.

Feel free to share if you know anyone who could benefit from this discourse!

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Direct Action: Seed #8 (FV Ep. 33)

My Dad worked w/ the Taliban in the 90s when we lived in Sugarland then New Delhi. Let’s talk about how militarism turns our loved ones into native informants, obedient soldiers, cannon fodder … & liberation loving activists. If you hear people use the word ‘decolonization’ who aren’t actively de-militarizing & de-nuclearizing, come thru for a smart space to learn what’s up. From Fiji to Kaho‘olawe to a neighborhood near you…

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Militarism: Weed #9 (FV Ep. 34)

Is your understanding of consent individualistic? Is it species-ist? If you value consent, let’s talk about robust, stronger understandings of this practice than the way it’s typically talked about within the colonial status quo.

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And I would love your feedback! Let me know what you found evocative in the comments…

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Consent: Seed #9 (FV Ep. 35)

What do zombification, trauma responses, professionalization, & representative politics have in common? They can all breed the kinda apathy that’s currently plaguing millions of our loved ones. Let’s talk about it.

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Apathy Weed #10 (FV Ep. 36)

Nonconformity can be life-giving AF. In a time when omnicide is normal, our very instinct to survive is nonconformist. Having ethics becomes renegade. Caring about your neighbor is countercultural. These are the times we find ourselves in. Let’s talk about it!

So sorry that I got cut off at the end, by the way! So offensive 🤣 Feel free to share if you know anyone who could benefit from this discourse! Thanks for having a listen : )

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PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you.

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Non-conformity: Seed #10 (FV Ep. 37)

Let’s talk about Q Anon, the Democrats, & dis-info to watch out for. I’m a political scientist, philosopher, & professor 4 those who don’t know me. Buckle up cuz I’ve got some potentially uncomfortable gems!

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Q, The Dems & Disinfo (FV Ep. 38)

Dr. Lewis Gordon & I talk about Imhotep, suppressed Kemetic intellectual histories, the healthiness of suffering under oppression, white supremacist narcissism in nutrition & education, & so much more. 
Dr. Gordon is Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at UCONN-Storrs; & Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies. He previously taught at Brown University, where he founded the Department of Africana Studies, and Temple University, where was the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy and founder of the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies and the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought.

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Dr. Lewis Gordon on Unlearning Epistemological Bullying (FV Ep. 39)

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