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Climate with KianaBlack Liberation and Climate Justice with Tamara Toles O'Laughlin, Mustafa Santiago Ali, Kerene Tayloe, & Amirio FreemanWe’re back with an insightful conversation on climate and Black liberation with environmental justice leaders Tamara Toles O'Laughlin, Mustafa Santiago Ali, Kerene Tayloe, and Amirio Freeman. This episode was originally produced by Our Climate Voices and is co-hosted by Kia Johnson. Thank you to Our Climate Voices and to the amazing guests in this conversation.In this episode, we discuss historical innovations from Black trailblazers in the US. Exploring cultural contributions from black creatives, scientists, policy makers, and youth. We talk about the continued commodification of natural resources and energy resources in a time of climate ch...
2024-06-1957 min
Feminist Food StoriesManning the GrillThrough a conversation with his father, Amirio Freeman digs into the dynamics of grilling as a queer Black man. Drawing on references to literature investigating meat’s link to masculinity, the piece offers an intimate dialogue between family members about how the act of bringing meat to a flame reflects Black food traditions in need of stewards, impositions of gender performance, and food as a vehicle for queer possibilities. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.feministfoodjournal.com/subscribe
2024-05-2821 min
Loam ListenDecomposition as a Compass: In Conversation With Jordan Alexander WilliamsHow might we collapse a world rooted in extraction and nurture one built on reciprocity? What can decomposition teach us about seeding sustainable futures? Join us as queer Hoodoo, earth tender, and living ancestor Jordan Alexander Williams contemplates the liberation of land, ourselves, and our communities from “radical individualism” in this soul-stirring conversation with Amirio Freeman. From meditating on a week spent at the revolutionary Soul Fire Farm to exploring the beauty of mycelial networks, Williams walks us through possibilities for planting world(s) worth growing into.
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Jordan Alexander Williams (they/them) is a queer Hoodoo, eart...
2021-10-271h 23
I'M THE VILLAIN107. The Black Ecology Episode: Humanity Isn't Wrecking the Planet, Capitalism and White Supremacy Is (And Those Are Fixable!)What does gardening have to do with the revolution? It turns out, it has everything to do with it - in this episode, Amirio Freeman, the host of the Loam Listen podcast, talks to us about how Black ecology fosters a sense of connectedness that teaches you if any one part of the complex system that is nature fails, the whole system collapses, and how capitalism has taught us to think of ourselves and our consumption habits in isolation from other parts of the system, to the detriment of all of society.
We also go into a d...
2021-09-1059 minLoam ListenLiving As Universe: In Conversation with Richael FaithfulIn the face of compounding crises, the work of multidisciplinary, multidimensional folk healer Richael Faithful is a call back into healing justice. Tune in as host Amirio Freeman and Faithful explore community organizing, connection to ancestral healing traditions, care work, and the birthing of new selves in this heart-filled episode. As Richael reminds us, there are many ways to heal, love, connect, and care. How can we make space for our multitudes? How can we nurture new possibilities for worldbuilding into being?
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Richael Faithful (they/them) is a Black trans southern multidisciplinary, multidimensional folk healer, culture...
2021-09-021h 13Loam ListenEarth In Color: In Conversation with Darel ScottWith Earth in Color, sustainability scientist and designer Darel Scott is reclaiming the relationship between Blackness and Greeness through vibrant, community-oriented media. In the face of a mainstream environmental movement rooted in the erasure of the lived experiences of Black folx, Earth in Color is a call to reimagine, reclaim, and regenerate. Tune in as host Amirio Freeman connects with Darel to talk about creating spaces that center and celebrate Black connections to Earth, holding histories of harm, and activating meaningful allyship in Black-led spaces.
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Darel Scott is a designer, sustainability scientist, and the...
2021-06-2948 minLoam ListenFull-Spectrum Care and Collective Liberation: In Conversation with Michelle LooDuring an era when our bodily autonomy is under increasing threat, doulas — for birth, for death, for abortion, and more — are essential to supporting our collective capacity to meet change. In this vital episode, host Amirio Freeman talks with abortion doula Michelle Loo about their experiences with full-spectrum carework. Through situating the work of abortion doulas within a long history of communities innovating systems of care, Amirio and Michelle unpack the link between abortion access and diverse movements for liberation.
GUEST: Raised by Chinese-Malaysian immigrants in New York City and Philadelphia, and now residing in DC, Michelle Loo...
2021-06-1557 minLoam ListenEncountering Our Divine and Redefining Family: In Conversation With Twiggy Pucci GarçonAs we explore (and expand) our understanding of matriarchy at Loam this year, this conversation with activist, healer, and creator extraordinaire Twiggy Pucci Garçon offers insight into how the Ballroom community redefines and reimagines nurturing relationship through creating unique spaces of care, support, and expression. From reflecting on queerness to excavating the link between spirituality and self, Loam Listen host Amirio Freeman and Twiggy dive deep in this world-building conversation.
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Raised in a southern, religious, Black community, Twiggy is a proud non-binary member of the LGBTQ+ community. As an activist, producer, healer and creator, Twiggy a...
2021-05-1839 minLoam ListenShaping New Narratives On Sex, Climate, and Community: In Conversation With Melissa Pintor CarnageyHow can shaping new narratives on sex, climate, and community rewire our worldview? Tune in as educator Melissa Pintor Carnagey of Sex Positive Families reflects on the role of pleasure-centric, narrative-weaving strategies to practice with our young people at home and elsewhere in conversation Loam Listen Host Amirio Freeman.
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Melissa Pintor Carnagey (she/they) is a Black and Latinx, Austin-based sexuality educator and licensed social worker who founded Sex Positive Families on the belief that all children deserve holistic, comprehensive, and shame-free sexuality education so they can live informed, empowered, and safer lives. Melissa provides puberty...
2021-03-0200 minLoam ListenEmbracing Mess: In Conversation with tayla shanaye
In our Season 3 inaugural episode, Loam Listen host Amirio Freeman connects with embodiment counselor tayla shanaye for an immersive conversation on somatics, semantics, and creation. This episode is an invitation into experience and so we suggest you tune into it when you have the time to truly ground (and get messy)!
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tayla shanaye is a cis-gendered woman of color, a mother, a healer, a researcher, and a living body. She holds a Masters in Psychological Studies with a concentration in somatic psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, where she is currently pursuing...
2021-02-161h 28Loam ListenDeconstructing Chai: In Conversation With Farah JesaniThe last episode in our Homespace listening series is a deep dive between Amirio Freeman and Farah Jesani of One Stripe Chai into chai, authenticity, origin, and identity. This episode has everything—reflections on history and homespace from Farah, a sublime recipe for One Stripe Chai goodness from Amirio—and we can't think of a better conversation to curl up to during these colder days.
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Farah Jesani started One Stripe Chai with the simple goal of bringing chai back to its South Asian roots after realizing that the chai being served in coffee shops was nothing like...
2020-11-241h 11Loam ListenBloom Where You're Planted: In Conversation With Alexis Nikole NelsonThis illuminating conversation between Loam Listen host Amirio Freeman and forager Alexis Nikole Nelson is affirmation that you have a right to earthly joy and connection—wherever, however, and whoever you are. From reflecting on the boundary between "carefree" and "careful" that Black folx have to walk (Garnette Cadogan) to meditating on the meaning of play, Alexis Nikole Nelson's brilliant and bighearted spirit will inspire you to truly bloom where you're planted.
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Alexis Nikole Nelson is a social media manager by day, TikTok forager by night. A perfect pair of professions to confuse her Boomer-aged parents. Sh...
2020-11-1000 minLoam Listen(Re)envisioning Relationships Through Conspiracy: In Conversation With E.N. WestWhat shapes can community organizing take as we navigate this era of pandemic and protest? Community organizer E.N. West shares reflections on relationship building in times of crisis in this expansive and engaging conversation with Loam Listen host Amirio Freeman. Brimming with heart and inspiring lessons, E offers us all a blueprint for how to take care of each other when the world surrounding us is shifting.
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E.N. West, affectionately known as "E" (they/E), proudly hails from the DC metropolitan area, by way of Alexandria, Virginia. They graduated from William & Mary with dual...
2020-10-201h 26
Always Already Podcast, a critical theory podcastInterview: Mutual Aid and Black Queer Futurities, with Empty Your Venmo Fund — Epistemic Unruliness 33In this Epistemic Unruliness interview, James features Savanna Touré, Lincoln Mondy, and Amirio Freeman — the activists-creatives at the Empty Your Venmo Mutual Aid Fund for Black LGBTQ+ youth. The collective details their coming together within Washington, D.C. activist networks and highlights the distinction of their mutual aid/collective care mobilizations and their historic models from prevailing charity modes and non-profit/NGO strategies of social action. Far from merely offering material support, Empty Your Venmo “conjures audacity” by inspiring Black LGBTQ+ youth to dream lavishly of futurity, this institutional love praxis mirroring the intimacy that animates Lincoln and Amirio’s personal...
2020-09-1400 minEpisodes – Always Already PodcastInterview: Mutual Aid and Black Queer Futurities, with Empty Your Venmo Fund — Epistemic Unruliness 33In this Epistemic Unruliness interview, James features Savanna Touré, Lincoln Mondy, and Amirio Freeman — the activists-creatives at the Empty Your Venmo Mutual Aid Fund for Black LGBTQ+ youth. The collective details their coming together within Washington, D.C. activist networks and highlights the distinction of their mutual aid/collective care mobilizations and their historic models from prevailing charity modes and non-profit/NGO strategies of social action. Far from merely offering material support, Empty Your Venmo “conjures audacity” by inspiring Black LGBTQ+ youth to dream lavishly of futurity, this institutional love praxis mirroring the intimacy that animates Lincoln and Amirio’s personal...
2020-09-1400 minAlways Already PodcastInterview: Mutual Aid and Black Queer Futurities, with Empty Your Venmo Fund — Epistemic Unruliness 33In this Epistemic Unruliness interview, James features Savanna Touré, Lincoln Mondy, and Amirio Freeman — the activists-creatives at the Empty Your Venmo Mutual Aid Fund for Black LGBTQ+ youth. The collective details their coming together within Washington, D.C. activist networks and highlights the distinction of their mutual aid/collective care mobilizations and their historic models from prevailing charity modes and non-profit/NGO strategies of social action. Far from merely offering material support, Empty Your Venmo “conjures audacity” by inspiring Black LGBTQ+ youth to dream lavishly of futurity, this institutional love praxis mirroring the intimacy that animates Lincoln and Amirio’s personal...
2020-09-1400 min