Feral Visions
65 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsWelcome to Feral Visions, a decolonial feminist radio hour brought to you by Liberation Spring® LLC! Tune in for consciousness-raising, analysis, current affairs, and unlearning from some of the most provocative visionaries in our movements. Please donate at liberationspring.com!
Artwork by Quill Violet Christie-Peters.
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K-VIBE on Pedals of Liberation (FV ep. 15)
September 07, 2018 04:44 - 1 hour - 144 MBTune in for this wonderful dialogue with Dr. Jeffrey Acido and a group of young men from K-VIBE to learn about the liberatory work they’re doing at this visionary bike shop. Opened in 2005 as part of Kōkua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services' commitment to providing community-based health initiatives that honor the development of personal relationships and respect for cultural values, the Kalihi Valley Instructional Bike Exchange (K-VIBE) uses bicycling to promote physical and emotion...
Quill Violet Christie-Peters on Decolonizing Sexuality thru Painting (FV Ep. 14)
June 08, 2018 18:06 - 1 hour - 130 MBQuill Violet Christie-Peters & I dialogue about decolonizing sexuality thru visual art in this episode. She’s an Anishinaabe arts programmer and self-taught visual artist currently residing in Thunder Bay. She is the creator of the Indigenous Youth Residency Program, an artist residency for Indigenous youth that relies on a radically relational praxis that allows youth to reclaim relationships to self, homeland, ancestors and community while exploring land-based arts practices. Quill holds a ...
Carol Rojas on the Zapatista Women's Convocation (FV ep. 13)
April 25, 2018 20:54 - 55 minutes - 103 MBTune 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...
Sakej Ward on Rekindling Warrior Societies (FV ep 12)
March 13, 2018 17:25 - 1 hour - 123 MBPlease tune in for this dialogue with Sakej Ward. We discuss various representations of warriors, the importance of developing strategic thinkers, the differences between warriors and soldiers, the dangers of cooptation & machismo, how to strengthen warrior spirits, the creation of indigenous revolutionary doctrines, & healing from trauma through materially engaging the process of decolonization. Sakej (James Ward) belongs to the wolf clan. He is Mi’kmaw (Mi’kmaq Nation) from the community of...
Miloney Thakrar on the yoga industial complex (FV ep 11)
February 23, 2018 04:41 - 1 hour - 115 MBWhat do South Asians think of what gets sold as 'yoga' in the US? Tune in to find out when my colleague Miloney Thakrar and I discuss the yoga industrial complex! We reflect on (POC-on-POC) cultural appropriation, neocolonialism, non-consensual extraction, entitlement, capitalist commercialism, poison fronting as medicine, healing and so much more... For more support in decolonizing your mind, including online classes, check out https://liberationspring.com. facebook: https://www.facebook.c...
Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi on Teaching Palestine (FV ep 10)
February 07, 2018 01:48 - 1 hour - 87.7 MBPlease tune in to hear a phenomenal dialogue with Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi of San Francisco State University's Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies (AMED) Program: http://amed.sfsu.edu. We discuss the state of critical scholarship on Palestine in the US today, Zionist repression of academic knowledge production and justice-centered praxis, Israeli settler colonialism, and so much more! For more support in decolonizing your mind, including online classes, check out https://liberations...
Uncle Dean Wilhelm on 'Āina & Culture-Based Education (FV ep 9)
February 01, 2018 21:41 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBWhat do food sovereignty and decolonizing diets, both incredibly political & intimate ideas, really look like? Come learn from my dialogue with Uncle Dean Wilhelm, the co-founder & Executive Director of Ho‘okua ‘Āina. Nestled in the ahupua’a of Kailua at Kapalai in Maunawili on the island of O'ahu, this non-profit organization uses Hawaiian traditions of kalo (or taro) cultivation to improve the lives of today’s youth & build a healthy community. It’s a manifestation of Dean and Michele Wilhe...
Claudia Serrato on Womb Ecology & Our Ancestor's Tastebuds (FV ep 8)
January 11, 2018 22:35 - 1 hour - 112 MBDo you wonder what on earth it means to decolonize taste buds? And what does taste memory or womb ecology have to do with our collective liberation? Are you curious about Indigenous veganism or ancestral foodways? Come learn more thru this dialogue with my colleague Claudia Serrato. For more info, see: IG: cocina_manakurhini & Wombyn76 FB: cocina_manakurhini [email protected] For more support in decolonizing your mind, including online classes, check out liberationspring.com. facebook: www.f...
Dr. Philip Deloria on Neocolonial Identity Politics & Playing Indian (FV ep 7)
December 28, 2017 20:20 - 1 hour - 136 MBWhat’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." For more support in decolonizing your mind, including online classes, check out https:...
Dr. David Delgado Shorter on Understanding Indigenous "Spirituality" (FV ep 6)
December 14, 2017 20:17 - 1 hour - 142 MBAre you weirded out by the way that some folks talk about Indigenous spiritualities? On today’s episode of Feral Visions, we’re delving into the romantic idea of ‘Indian spirituality.’ Come learn from Dr. David Delgado Shorter about some of the power dynamics thru which it’s been imagined & maintained within the dominant, Eurocentric, settler colonial US. We’ll discuss some material implications of generalizations about Indigenous spiritualities, including who & what benefits from them in our...
Dr. Carolina Prado on Radical BIPOC Doing Grad School Right (FV ep. 5)
November 30, 2017 19:00 - 1 hour - 119 MBHave you considered grad school, but heard horror stories from radical BIPOC activists about staggering debt, apathetic environments, & micro aggressions, let alone macro aggressions? For folks considering having anything to do with the academic industrial complex, this dialogue may support your doing so in as liberatory & as harm-reductionist of a way as possible. Come learn from Dr. Carolina Prado about being a radical feminist BIPOC navigating grad school in the service of our collective t...
Dr. Kim TallBear on Moving Beyond Settler Sexualities (FV ep. 4)
November 16, 2017 20:18 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MBHow 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...
Dr. Margo Okazawa-Rey. Feminists Drop the MIC- military industrial complex (FV ep. 3)
November 02, 2017 19:00 - 1 hour - 116 MBLearn from Dr. Margo Okazawa-Rey about feminist resistance to the U.S. military industrial complex, why we have to see the connections between domestic policy & foreign policy, & the Combahee River Collective's approach to intersectionality. *Apologies that the audio gets choppy from minute 13-19. The content during those minutes is great, though, so please try to stick through it! Some of the resources that she shared include: • Peace Women across the Globe http://www.1000peacewomen.org/en...
Aishah Shahidah Simmons on #LoveWithAccountability (FV Ep. 2)
October 19, 2017 18:03 - 1 hour - 30.3 MB“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...
Dr. Sarah Hunt on Resurgent Cultures of Consent (Feral Visions Ep. 1)
October 03, 2017 21:30 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBLearn 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.nat...