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The Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery PodcastEpisode 39: Episode 4: “Ask an Indian” with Patty Krawec: Things White People SayEpisode 4: “Ask an Indian” with Patty Krawec: Things White People Say
In this episode of “Ask an Indian” Sarah and her guest, Patty Krawec, answer one big question: “What do white people say to you that you sometimes get impatient with?”
Patty Krawec is an Anishinaabe and Ukranian writer from Lac Seul First Nation. She is the author of the compelling book, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining our Future, released in 2022. She is also the cohost of the Medicine for the Resistance podcast and the cofounder of the Nii’kinaaganaa Foundation. We’re also ver...
2025-05-1643 min
Missing WitchesEP 255 WF - Patty Krawec: We Survive Together Or Not At All (Part 2)Patty Krawec is an Anishinaabe/Ukrainian writer and speaker belonging to Lac Seul First Nation in Treaty 3 territory and residing in Niagara Falls. She has served on the board of the Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre and co-hosted the Medicine for the Resistance podcast. Patty is a founding director of the Nii’kinaaganaa Foundation which challenges settlers to pay their rent for living on Indigenous land and then disburses those funds to Indigenous people, meeting immediate survival needs as well as supporting the organizing and community building needed to address the structural issues that create those needs.Patty has a back...
2025-02-2739 min
UO TodayUO Today interview: Patty Krawec, Anishinaabe/Ukrainian writerPatty Krawec is an Ojibwe Anishinaabe and Ukrainian writer and speaker. An activist and former social worker, she belongs to Lac Seul First Nation in Treaty 3 territory and resides in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Her first book, "Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future" was published in 2022 by Broadleaf Books. Her second book, "Bad Indian Book Club," will be published later in 2025.
Patty discusses her Indigenous and Ukrainian background and how she approaches relation, spirituality, history, and activism.
2025-01-2536 min
The Kinship Collective with Mark Fields73. Patty Krawec - How I Went From Being Evangelical To Being an Indigenous Person Of Faith?Welcome to Episode 73 of the Kinship Collective Podcast, we are ending otherness and cultivating kinship!
Does Christianity no longer feel like home to you? Are you finding it difficult to integrate intersectional identities in the “borderlands” of your life? Then you’ve come to a helpful conversation with Patty Krawec. She’s the author of an incredible book “Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call To Unforgetting The Past And Reimagining Our Future.” She shared about her faith journey from Evangelical Christian to “Anishinaabe of faith” and we talk about how deeply colonization blinds us to our past and future...
2023-10-311h 27
The Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery PodcastEpisode 23: Interview with Patty KrawecWe’re back after taking a break to write a book! (See below.) The first podcast of our new season features Patty Krawec, an Anishinaabe and Ukranian writer from Lac Seul First Nation. She is the author of the compelling book, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining our Future, released in 2022. She is also the cohost of the Medicine for the Resistance podcast and the cofounder of the Nii’kinaaganaa Foundation. We’re also honored that Patty wrote a beautiful forward for our book, which is being published this month.
Our book: So Tha...
2023-10-1356 min
The Vicars' CrossingSeason 8 Episode 6: Patty KrawecOn this episode, we welcome Patty Krawec. Patty is an Anishinaabe and Ukrainian writer from Lac Seul First Nation. She is the cohost of the Medicine for the Resistance podcast and cofounder of the Nii’kinaaganaa Foundation, which collects funds and disperses them to Indigenous people and organizations. Her work has been published in Sojourners and Canadian Living. She is active with the Fort Erie Native Friendship Center and the Strong Water Singers. Krawec is a member of Chippawa Presbyterian Church and lives in Niagara Falls, Ontario. We’ll discuss Her book Becoming Kin:An Indigenous Call...
2023-03-271h 12
Medicine for the ResistanceGlobal IndigeneityThis great conversation on Indigeneity is from a couple of years ago and it just keeps being relevant. Being Indigenous is an analytic, not an identity. We need to talk about that. Patty (00:00:01):You're listening to medicine for the resistancePatty (00:00:04):Troy was so smart last time, and this could only be better with Joy here. Joy: God we're in trouble. Hey, it will be a smart show. Kerry: (00:00:20):Couldn't be more perfect. Joy! Oh yeah. Patty (00:00:24): Just...
2023-03-061h 04
Medicine for the ResistanceGlobal IndigeneityThis great conversation on Indigeneity is from a couple of years ago and it just keeps being relevant. Being Indigenous is an analytic, not an identity. We need to talk about that. Photo by Rochelle Brown on UnsplashPatty (
2023-03-0600 min
Begin An Spellbinding Full Audiobook And Elevate Your Mindset.Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty KrawecPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626661to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
Author: Patty Krawec
Narrator: Patty Krawec
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes
Release date: November 29, 2022
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec says, but we can still honor the bonds between us. Settlers dominated and divided, but Indigenous peoples won't just send them all 'home.' Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement...
2022-11-295h 24Grab: This Captivating Full Audiobook For Story Seekers.Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty KrawecPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626661to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
Author: Patty Krawec
Narrator: Patty Krawec
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes
Release date: November 29, 2022
Genres: The Americas
Publisher's Summary:
The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec says, but we can still honor the bonds between us. Settlers dominated and divided, but Indigenous peoples won't just send them all 'home.' Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement...
2022-11-295h 24Get Your Favorite Full Audiobooks in History, The AmericasBecoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty KrawecPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626661to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
Author: Patty Krawec
Narrator: Patty Krawec
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes
Release date: November 29, 2022
Genres: The Americas
Publisher's Summary:
The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec says, but we can still honor the bonds between us. Settlers dominated and divided, but Indigenous peoples won't just send them all 'home.' Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement...
2022-11-295h 24
Embrace A Full Audiobook That Is Simply Award-Winning.Becoming Kin by Patty Krawec, Nick Estes - forewordPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/215246to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Becoming Kin
Author: Patty Krawec, Nick Estes - foreword
Narrator: Patty Krawec
Format: mp3
Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
Release date: 11-29-22
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 91 ratings
Genres: Indigenous Peoples
Publisher's Summary:
The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec says, but we can still honor the bonds between us. Settlers dominated and divided, but Indigenous peoples won't just send them all "home." Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement, and disappearance...
2022-11-295h 24Discover Top Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceBecoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty KrawecPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626661to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
Author: Patty Krawec
Narrator: Patty Krawec
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes
Release date: November 29, 2022
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec says, but we can still honor the bonds between us. Settlers dominated and divided, but Indigenous peoples won't just send them all 'home.' Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement...
2022-11-295h 24Medicine for the ResistanceThe kinship of olive treesA few weeks ago I started talking with Maria Vamvalis on the bird app and she said something about kinship and olive trees and you know that got my attention. Kerry and Patty will be in conversation with Maria on November 22 at 7pm EST. You can register for the zoom link and be part of it! If you can’t join us, I’ll post the audio and a transcript later in the week.https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0odeqtqTosEtRQrBp4sFG9UGuG69KZCVuo
2022-11-1900 min
The Deep DiveEpisode 130: Becoming Kin w/Patty KrawecPhilip spends time with author and scholar Patty Krawec. In their conversation, they discuss Patty’s new book Becoming Kin and the importance of centering Indigenous perspectives and sovereignty and how it is necessary to connect unforgetting and reimagining to develop new future(s).
The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest share tasty morsels of intellectual goodness and creative musings.
Philip’s Drop: via listener Eion Higgins The Minefield (Australian radio show) https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/theminefield
Patty’s Drop: Elite Capture – Olufemi O. Taiwo https://ww...
2022-11-171h 09
Faith from the MarginsBecoming Kin with Patty KrawecListen to our first episode of Season Two where we talked with Patty Krawec, author of the upcoming book, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future. Patty's book is now available for pre-order here. During our conversation with Patty we explored the topics of colonization, decolonization, indigenous erasure, and the role of faith communities in these issues.
Patty is an Anishinaabe/Ukrainian writer and speaker belonging to Lac Seul First Nation in Treaty 3 territory and residing in Niagara Falls. She serves on the board of the Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre...
2022-09-0947 min
Subaltern Speaks: Decolonizing SpiritualityIn Conversation with Patty Krawec (Part 2 of 2)Join host, Christina Shivtahal and author, Patty Krawec in the second part of this two-part episode as they discuss fundamental aspects of Anishinaabe cosmology beyond the historical and linear system of Western Christian theology. Previously recorded in March 2022, this important conversation explores strategies in mitigating colonial harm and dismantling structural and internal barriers to allyship and relationship building with Indigenous Peoples.
In Episode 5, Christina and Patty continue the dialogue on reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples by unpacking the social, cultural and health disparities in Indigenous communities across Turtle Island. This episode also explores the significance of intersectional representation...
2022-08-0844 minSubaltern Speaks: Decolonizing SpiritualityIn Conversation with Patty Krawec (Part 1 of 2)Join host, Christina Shivtahal and author, Patty Krawec in the first part of this two-part episode as they discuss fundamental aspects of Anishinaabe cosmology beyond the historical and linear system of Western Christian theology. Previously recorded in March 2022, this important conversation explores strategies in mitigating colonial harm and dismantling structural and internal barriers to allyship and relationship building with Indigenous Peoples across Turtle Island.
In Episode 4, Patty shares her journey of reconnecting with her Anishinaabe culture as well as the importance of centering advocacy for Two-Spirited Peoples. Christina and Patty also examine meaningful reconciliation including land acknowledgments...
2022-08-0834 min
AambeIndigenous ComicsNote: When we recorded this episode the panelist Myka used a different name. While the transcript has been updated to reflect their current name the audio recording reflects that history.Patty KrawecThis is Ambe. And we're here for our conversation about comic books and graphic novels, or kind of whatever people want to call them. I was looking up for some good quotes on it. And I came across one where some somebody had said that the difference between graphic novels and comic books are the binding.This...
2022-05-241h 20
Medicine for the ResistanceAll places are fish placesPatty I come across the coolest people on Twitter. And one of those cool people is Zoe Todd, who is the fish philosopher, and I love that. And another thing that I love I was going through, we have a questionnaire because you know, of course we do. And one of the things that Zoe mentions in the questionnaire because I asked, you know, what kind of books do you know she would? Or would you like to recommend because I am obsessed with books. And and you mentioned, Aimeé Césaire’s Discourse on Colon...
2022-05-051h 05Medicine for the ResistanceAll places are fish placesPatty I come across the coolest people on Twitter. And one of those cool people is Zoe Todd, who is the fish philosopher, and I love that. And another thing that I love I was going through, we have a questionnaire because you know, of course we do. And one of the things that Zoe mentions in the questionnaire because I asked, you know, what kind of books do you know she would? Or would you like to recommend because I am obsessed with b
2022-05-0500 minMedicine for the ResistanceA colonized skyPatty Krawec so I just finished reading The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein so then when I came across Hilding, came across Hilding a few weeks ago about Indigenous stargazing. Mi’kmaq astronomer and tell us about yourself and about Indigenous stargazing.Hilding Neilson Yeah, so I'm Hilding, I'm Mi’kmaq and settler from a group in Newfoundland. That's where my family's from the west coast of the island. Got my PhD at the University of Toronto in astrophysics, did some research back as a contract backdating astronomer, working in the Department of Astron...
2022-04-2200 min
Medicine for the ResistanceA colonized skyPatty Krawec so I just finished reading The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein so then when I came across Hilding, came across Hilding a few weeks ago about Indigenous stargazing. Mi’kmaq astronomer and tell us about yourself and about Indigenous stargazing.Hilding Neilson Yeah, so I'm Hilding, I'm Mi’kmaq and settler from a group in Newfoundland. That's where my family's from the west coast of the island. Got my PhD at the University of Toronto in astrophysics, did some research back as a contract backdating astronomer, working in the Department of Astron...
2022-04-221h 02
Medicine for the Resistancenothing micro about micro aggressionsAngela:You I have I've had troubles with the word microaggression, I've had troubles with it for quite some time. We hear, I think I've been hearing it more and more over the last few years in particular, the last year, I've been hearing it a lot more in the workplace. And because people are trying to be woke or aware, but the reality of living it, it's not micro,Patty:right. it's not meaningless.Angela:And so when we, for me, when...
2022-03-0159 minMedicine for the Resistancenothing micro about micro aggressionsAngela:You I have I've had troubles with the word microaggression, I've had troubles with it for quite some time. We hear, I think I've been hearing it more and more over the last few years in particular, the last year, I've been hearing it a lot more in the workplace. And because people are trying to be woke or aware, but the reality of living it, it's not micro,Patty:right. it's not meaningless.
2022-03-0100 minMedicine for the ResistanceBlack and Indigenous SolidaritiesBlack and Indigenous SolidaritiesWith Robert WarriorPatty: So we're here with Robert Warrior. And so funny story, Kerry, I'm reading this book Crossing Waters Crossing Worlds by Tiya Miles. It was for Aambe book club, History a couple of months ago back in February, and I can't and, as happens a lot of times, you know, when I'm reading books or essays, I always think “is tha
2022-02-2300 min
Medicine for the ResistanceBlack and Indigenous SolidaritiesBlack and Indigenous SolidaritiesWith Robert WarriorPatty: So we're here with Robert Warrior. And so funny story, Kerry, I'm reading this book Crossing Waters Crossing Worlds by Tiya Miles. It was for Aambe book club, History a couple of months ago back in February, and I can't and, as happens a lot of times, you know, when I'm reading books or essays, I always think “is that person on Twitter, I got to find them,” you know. And so I'm going along, and I see Oh, Rober...
2022-02-231h 03
Medicine for the ResistanceBlack masculinities, colonialism, and erotic racismPlease note this episode deals with sexuality and sexual violence and may not be suitable for all listeners. Some material may be triggering. If you do find yourself triggered or having difficulty, please contact your local rape crisis center. If you need assistance locating support, please use RAINN.org in the US and Ending Violence in Canada to locate supportive services.Kerry: We're talking about Tamari’s book, Appealing Because He is Appalling. And it's all about the idea of Black masculinity, colonialism, and erotic racism. And this is a t...
2022-02-1556 minMedicine for the ResistanceIndigenous GeographiesPatty: So we're here talking Deondre Smiles about Indigenous geographies. And I took like grade 10 geography that was the extent of my geography training, which means I learned about glacial movement and labeling rivers and all of that stuff. But I mean, first off, just the idea of Indigenous geographies from a land bank perspective is really interesting. Because colonial borders are one thing biozones are another thing. And so it's just seemed like a real this really fascinating topic that I know almost nothing about. So why don't you introduce yourself? Explain a little bit about your work a...
2022-02-0900 min
Medicine for the ResistanceIndigenous GeographiesPatty: So we're here talking Deondre Smiles about Indigenous geographies. And I took like grade 10 geography that was the extent of my geography training, which means I learned about glacial movement and labeling rivers and all of that stuff. But I mean, first off, just the idea of Indigenous geographies from a land bank perspective is really interesting. Because colonial borders are one thing biozones are another thing. And so it's just seemed like a real this really fascinating topic that I know almost nothing about. So why don't you introduce yourself? Explain a little bit about your work a...
2022-02-0959 minMedicine for the ResistanceThe Land is My Ancestorthe land is my ancestorPatty So, anyway, so we're here with Keolu Fox. Chanda had made this comment, quoting you about the land is my ancestor, and that is a scientific statement. And she was just completely taken by that comment. And then so was I. And that's really all I've been thinking about. Because it's just such a, it's just such a neat way of thinking and understanding our relationship with the other
2022-02-0100 min
Medicine for the ResistanceThe Land is My Ancestorthe land is my ancestorPatty So, anyway, so we're here with Keolu Fox. Chanda had made this comment, quoting you about the land is my ancestor, and that is a scientific statement. And she was just completely taken by that comment. And then so was I. And that's really all I've been thinking about. Because it's just such a, it's just such a neat way of thinking and understanding our relationship with the other than human world and our connection to place, and all of that. And so yeah, so now I'm going to l...
2022-02-011h 05Medicine for the ResistanceThe Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western HemisphereIndigenous Paleolithic of the Western HemisphereWith Dr. Paulette SteevesPatty KrawecWe're here with Dr. Paulette Steves.Josh Manitowabi made a remark that the Anishinaabe word Giiwedin contains the idea of going home. And that what it was referring to was the glaciers, that the glaciers were going home. And this is knowledge that's contained with elders. And he gave me you know, refere
2022-01-2500 min
Medicine for the ResistanceThe Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western HemisphereIndigenous Paleolithic of the Western HemisphereWith Dr. Paulette SteevesPatty KrawecWe're here with Dr. Paulette Steves.Josh Manitowabi made a remark that the Anishinaabe word Giiwedin contains the idea of going home. And that what it was referring to was the glaciers, that the glaciers were going home. And this is knowledge that's contained with elders. And he gave me you know, reference to a couple of books where elders are, you know, talked about this, in the Cree have a similar word. I think it's a...
2022-01-251h 14
AambeThe Stories We TellAnd they talk and laugh and have a great time. Back in the summer we talked about fiction and the stories we tell about our communities and ourselves. I was joined by Waubgeshig Rice, (an Anishinaabe storyteller and journalist) as well as Sonia Sulaiman (a keeper of Palestinian folktale) and Kesha Christie (an Afro-Caribbean storyteller). There’s just too much good fiction out there and it was hard to make a list of the books that people should read because there’s just so much that is excellent. And when I started thinking about Indigeneity as a glob...
2021-11-041h 34Medicine for the ResistanceAmbe Surrounded By RelativesListen now (70 min) | What are the conditions that our communities need to see the Milky Way? To notice badgers and raccoons? To gather moss? To watch the growth of plants and their relationships to each other? To be undrowned. This month authors Daniel Heath Justice (Badger and Raccoon) and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (Disordered Cosmos) join Ben Krawec, Celeste Smith, and Neil Ellis Orts to talk about living in relationship with the world around us, seeing these other than human relatives as something other than exploitable resources. what would it take? More info on this yearlong series of discussions about Indigenous Literatures...
2021-06-1200 min
Medicine for the ResistanceAmbe Surrounded By RelativesWhat are the conditions that our communities need to see the Milky Way? To notice badgers and raccoons? To gather moss? To watch the growth of plants and their relationships to each other? To be undrowned. This month authors Daniel Heath Justice (Badger and Raccoon) and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (Disordered Cosmos) join Ben Krawec, Celeste Smith, and Neil Ellis Orts to talk about living in relationship with the world around us, seeing these other than human relatives as something other than exploitable resources. what would it take?More info on this yearlong series of discussions...
2021-06-121h 09
Medicine for the ResistanceAmbe MemoirEnestine Hayes (The Tao of Raven, Blonde Indian), Kaitln Curtice (Native, Glory Happening), Demita Frazier (interviewed for How We Get Free), Jenessa Galenkamp, and Joy Henderson join host Patty Krawec to talk about memoirs, who we write them for, why we write them, and the connections that they create. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.com
2021-03-291h 26
The DecentralistsEpisode 7: A Conversation with Patty Krawec, Indigenous Activist and PodcasterThis week we welcome social activist and public speaker, Patty Krawec. Patty is an Anishinaabe woman of the Lac Seul First Nation. She hosts (along with Kerry Goring) the podcast Medicine for the Resistance—which looks at the similar experiences of Indigenous and black lives. Patty also uses social media to speak about Indigenous realities in Canada and the United States. For many Indigenous peoples, social media has changed how families and friends interact with each other. Not surprisingly, Patty shares some fascinating insights.What should everyone know about #NativeTwitter and Indigenous social media?H...
2021-03-1154 min
Medicine for the ResistanceAmbe; Why Indigenous Literatures MatterThis month features the book Why Indigenous Literatures Matter by Daniel Heath Justice. Daniel and Patty are joined by poet Janet Marie Rogers, educators Joy Henderson, Robin McBurney, and Ishkenekeya and my artist Neil Ellis Orts. Indigenous literatures teach us how to be human. How to be good relatives. How to be good ancestors. How to live together.More information at daanis.ca/ambe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.com
2021-02-241h 22
Medicine for the ResistancePossibilities, not policing with Robyn MaynardRobyn Maynard, author of Policing Black Lives, joins us for a conversation about policing. People are not just marginalize, they are pushed violently to the margins and policing is one way that this is done. With the release of prisoners because of the risk of Covid-19 in prisons, we are seeing a glimpse of what is possible. That we can truly imagine a world without policing. transcript with links to many of the things we talk about at: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access...
2020-06-291h 02
Medicine for the ResistanceAbolish Police - with Desmond ColeThe idea of defunding the police is gaining traction, and it may feel more possible than abolition, but Black and Indigenous people have been doing the impossible for centuries. Abolition is possible. Desmond Cole tells us why it is necessary. Transcript is available at http://www.daanis.ca under the blogs tab This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.com
2020-06-221h 14
Medicine for the ResistanceGoing Home, with Angela GrayFor many Black and Indigenous people growing up feels unmoored, isolated, lonely. Like Tammy Street said a few weeks earler, we grew up in a blizzard of whiteness. Which makes going home so powerful. To see yourself reflected everywhere. To see yourself in positions of authority and service, to see yourself everywhere and reflected in everyone. To put your feet on the same earth that your ancestors walked.It's powerful. And it changes you.Angela Gray joins us again, to talk about going home.Transcript available here: http://daanis.ca/2020/06/14/going-home-with-angela-gray/
2020-06-151h 06
Medicine for the ResistanceOur ancestor's wildest dreams with Marina NabaoMarina Nabao joins us again for a conversation about how we move through the world as women, Black and Indigenous. It was recorded in March, before the pandemic when the Canadian government was in a standoff against Indigenous activists blockading trains and ports. We talk about the need for change and healing, a badly needed reset for this western world.transcript will be available, but not just yet. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.com
2020-06-0857 min
Medicine for the ResistanceBlack and Indigenous with Azie DungeyAzie Dungey joins us to talk about growing up in three worlds, Black, Indigenous, and America. Azie's family is connected to the Pawmunkey tribe in Virginia, recently recognized by the US government despite 400 years of documented contact and relationship. Solidarity between Black and Indigenous people is complicated and transformative. Transcript is available here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.com
2020-06-011h 06
Medicine for the ResistanceSex, Lies, and Colonial Identities with Tamari KitossaWe are deeply invested in our identities, but how do we even begin to understand who we are outside of the colonial context? Black and Indigenous identities are largely constructed by the colonial regime, as are sexual identities. We are framed against the white, cis het normal. We imagine people as either civilized or uncivilized based on how close they are, or are not. to that ideal. So how do we move past that?By having very difficult conversations.Dr. Tamari Kitossa joins us again. Transcript is available here:http://daanis...
2020-05-251h 11
Medicine for the ResistanceIndigenous Foodways with Sara Calvosa OlsonFood is about connection, about family and community. We all know this. But it is also about relationship to land and place. It contains language and history as well as a way forward. Find one native plant, one thing in your backyard or the place you live. Learn everything about it. Tend it. Take care of it, and be taken care of in return. transcript is available at This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.com
2020-05-171h 06
Medicine for the ResistanceRecognizing racism, and becoming anti-racistEverybody says that they are "not racist" but the truth is that we are all raised in a settler-colonial world that attributes qualities to people based on their race and then puts those qualities into a hierarchy. This is my attempt at helping a group of emerging podcasters to identify and then challenge racist beliefs and ideas. The presentation is part of the Indigenous 150+ youth ambassador program and I was invited to speak by Sean Vanderklis, a journalist and podcaster with One Dish One Mic. Transcript is available at http://daanis.ca/2020/05/14/recognizing-racism-and-becoming-anti-racist/ This is a public episode...
2020-05-1455 min
Medicine for the ResistanceRaised in a blizzard with Tammy StreetTammy Street is an artist, a mother, and a mystery. She was adopted and knows little about her birth family except that her mother was not white. She describes being raised "in a blizzard" and the impact of seeing the works of Indigenous artists reflecting her own appearance. While not claiming to be Indigenous, Tammy is trying to be a good relative, trying to find a way to be at home. You can find her work at http://www.tamisery.com/Transcript and links to many of the books and things mentioned at http://www.daanis...
2020-05-041h 04
Medicine for the ResistanceCommunity - with Verlia RobertsSocial worker, activist, and community member Verlia Roberts joins us again to talk about what community means during a pandemic. How do we make sure that nobody gets left behind while making sure that we don't become overwhelmed. What we do now matters. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.com
2020-04-271h 15
Medicine for the ResistanceMaking space for Indigenous art with Olivia ShorttIt's Indigenous art if Indigenous artists make it. Olivia Shortt joins us to talk about her project with Face the Music and the Jack Quartet in New York City, creating Indigenous space in a new environment. She talks about the impact that the quarantine has had one her work, and how it has made her think about creative ways to accomplish her goals. We also talk about the overwhelming elitism of the arts and how difficult it can be as Black and Indigenous women to be in these places. Transcript is available here: http...
2020-04-201h 07
Medicine for the ResistanceBlack Masculinity with Dr. Tamari KitossaColonialism is a total regime, it is not a system or a way of thinking. It is a regime that articulates itself differently on different bodies but it has the same goal. The subjugation of those at the edges. Dr. Tamari Kitossa joins us to talk about the construction of the Black male, about criminology as a tool of colonialism, and how patriarchy is used to control all of us, not only women. Transcript is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fndnreni-KG28xZVVpPQ1YYGlAiPCVCt/view?usp=sharingDr. Kitossa has provided copies...
2020-04-121h 02
Medicine for the ResistanceDoing a PhD with no white men, with Hana BurgessWhat does it mean to complete a PhD without citing any white men? Is it as simple as pulling books off of your bookshelf or is there more to it than that. Of course there is. We are joined with PhD student Hana Burgess and, drawing on the work of Sara Ahmed, we talk about expanding our ideas of relationality. How do we live as good relatives moving through science and tech and how these new spaces fit into our worlds and aspirations as global Indigenous people. transcript is available here: https://drive.google.com/file...
2020-03-3046 min
Medicine for the ResistanceThe Structure of Racism with Dr Kim TallbearDr. Kim Tallbear joins us again to talk about the structure of racism and how our actions and thoughts either support or dismantle the settler/colonial project. The conversation references the work of Dr. Ibram X Kendi and his books Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be Anti-Racist. Links to the interviews we reference are below.Whiteness has always been about hierarchies, binaries like savage vs. civilized, and has marked those binaries visibly through race. But what we think of as whiteness is morphing to include groups that it hasn't included before. It is evolving and morphing...
2020-03-2352 min
Medicine for the ResistanceConfronting the System with Ken WilliamsEvery September in Canada we recognize Orange Shirt Day, a day set aside to consider the impact that residential schools had on Indigenous communities and we talk about the victims. But what about those who ran the schools? Who worked there? And what about the contemporary systems that we find ourselves in as both victims and workers. Well first you need to convince people that there actually are systems and we can't bootstrap ourselves out as individuals. Ken Williams, @feralplaywright on Twitter, joins us for a wide ranging discussion about systems. This...
2020-03-1549 min
Medicine for the ResistanceBook Club with Piper HuguleyWorld Literature Professor and Romance Novelist Piper Huguley joins us again to talk books. We talk Shakespeare, Ibsen, dePIzon, and Federici. We talk about the ways in which books can open us up to new ideas and ways of thinking about things, and how far back the roots of feminism really go. And I suggest a book project for somebody if they want to take it on. Just mention me in the acknowledgements, ok? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack...
2020-03-0849 min
Medicine for the ResistanceBecoming Black with Angela GrayAngela Gray joins us again to talk about becoming Black. She was adopted by a white family and grew up outside Toronto in a largely white community, later moving to Vancouver as an adult. Angela talks about learning to see herself as a Black woman and what that meant for her, and her anticipation of going home to Jamaica. Transcript available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dGRAFF4v_h7Rt5-Hxx8vikyR2FkI4ZCb/view?usp=sharing This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get...
2020-02-1754 min
Medicine for the ResistanceThe radical archive of history with Dr. Lewis BorckWhen people with one way of seeing the world encounter another group, they can't make sense of what they are seeing because it doesn't fit into their narrative, so what they see becomes altered to fit their ideas of how the world works.Although there have always been historians and archeologists who have challenged these stereotypes, alternative views on history are coming more common, more accepted, and the fact is that Indigenous civilizations throughout what is now the colonized west had a much different way of living and organizing themselves. Our past really is a radical archive of...
2020-02-0354 min
Medicine for the ResistanceSupporting Families Impacted by Incarceration: with Aisha FrancisWhat are you doing to impact the world? A homework question launched Aisha Francis into interrogating her own life, what was present and what was missing in order to support the families impacted by the incarceration of one of their own. From the structural racism that results in the unreasonable numbers of BIPOC In jails, to disrupted grief, to what prison abolition would really take. We are all impacted by the jail time of Black and Indigenous people. What can we do about it.You can find Project FIBI here: https://www.restorefibi.com...
2020-01-271h 03
Medicine for the ResistanceHolding onto authentic Indigenous lives with Daniel DelgadoLiving in diaspora is hard, Black, Jewish, and Indigenous people find themselves living far from the land that made them. For how many generations can we continue to hold onto our identity before we become somebody who was descended from .. somebody with an approved ethnic identity that no longer challenges the state. Preserving that so that our children grow up knowing who they are, sometimes means making hard decisions to stay alive. Sometimes it means holding onto things in secret so that there is something for those who do survive. But a reset is coming.
2020-01-2042 min
Medicine for the ResistanceWomen's unpaid labour with Piper HughleyPiper Hughley is a professor and romance novelist, centering the voices of women who have been erased or ignored in her classroom and her novels. Long seen as a field of writing that doesn't need to be taken seriously, Piper sees centering the stories of Black men and women in historical romance as a subversive act. And she spills some tea about WEB DuBois and Booker T Washington.Transcript is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hg9hf0s8AxU2veCPexBjrfVPrLUecImw/view?usp=sharing This is a public episode. If you would...
2020-01-1342 min
Medicine for the ResistanceChallenging Colonial Mythology with Kade FerrisKade Ferris is an Ojibwe/Metis historican from the Turtle Mouintain reservation in North Dakota. We begin by talking about the work of a historian, and somehow wind up planning the revolution. Which is really odd for us. Transcript is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1imVfqN-wfum6aCljnnSeepydsjHzkbWY/view?usp=sharing This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.com
2019-12-1547 min
Medicine for the ResistanceCommunity organizing with Rachel LarabeeRachel Larabee is a member of the Indigenous community in Toronto and a community organizer. She talks about her work, the connection between social justice and chocolate, and the importance of relationship with the land. Racist policies create racist structures and it is the work of people like Rachel to help communities overcome barriers and develop their own opportunities to push back. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.com
2019-12-091h 00
Medicine for the ResistanceAt the intersection of everything with Chanda Prescod-WeinsteinChanda Prescod-Weinstein is a Jewish Barbadian Cosmologist, working at the interface of particle physics and astrophysics and cosmology. She's also political, and has been so since first or second grade. We talk STEM, electoral politics, and how everything intersects with everything in some way. I knew a conversation with Chanda would be interesting, I had no idea.Transcript is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RJCvZ64-rKoIKGFTje20qtlICTXe6ft0/view?usp=sharing This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to...
2019-12-021h 17
Medicine for the ResistanceTaking away history: White Families adopting Black children. With Angela GrayThroughout the sixties and seventies Black and Indigenous children were taken from their families and adopted into white families. This is the story of one adoptee. Angela talks about having her history taken from her, and replaced with the history of the dominant culture. What does that say about our society when we take away somebody's history, and what does it say about how they feel about the people they taken away from? What does it reveal about the unseen racist ideas of people and the racist policies of a system that values our history so little.
2019-11-251h 03
Medicine for the ResistanceRevitalizing language, culture, and lessons from plants with Del LesslinDel Lessin talks with us about restoring language and culture decades after the loss of their last language speaker. We often return to the flood narrative in thinking about how we are rebuilding after the apocalypse of colonization, but the Catawba people of South Carolina are doing this in an extraordinary way. Del's work on and with the Catawba nation involves language, culture, and agriculture and the ways in which these things are interconnected.You can learn more about Del here: https://delesslin-portfolio.herokuapp.com/ This is a public episode. If you would like...
2019-11-171h 04
Medicine for the ResistanceBuilding community through language with Chelsea VowelChelsea Vowell, author of the book Indigenous Writes, activist, and language teacher joins us for a conversation about learning and teaching Cree. From the mechanics of teaching language, through what language itself means for culture and community we talk about the process of learning and teaching. The ways in which we teach, whether it is language or ceremony, must be ways that draw people in, that are safe spaces. Because if these spaces are violent and people don't feel welcome, then what are we doing?transcript available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1COoW2I0kGD7PprQDW2...
2019-11-101h 03
Medicine for the ResistanceThe complicated language of border imperialism with Harsha WaliaHarsha Walia, the author of Undoing Border Imperialism and activist with No One is Illegal in Vancouver BC, joins us for a conversation about border imperialism and colonization. We often look for global language to talk about the ways in which colonialism and imperialism impact and categorize people, but as always, s**t is complicated and global language rarely contains the nuance needed for these discussions.Resources mentioned include:https://migrantworkersalliance.org/http://rabble.ca/toolkit/rabblepedia/no-one-illegalhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16057173-undoing-border-imperialism This is a public episode...
2019-11-0356 min
Medicine for the ResistanceJamaican Patois and Toronto Slang with Sharine TaylorSharine Taylor, editor of Bashy Magazine, joins us again for a discussion about patois, it's roots and expression in popular culture. While language is fluid and constantly evolving, who benefits and how? Who receives credit or accolades, and who is marginalized for using it. Where are the lines between appreciation and appropriation. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.com
2019-10-271h 01
Medicine for the ResistanceGeography And Language With Rebekah IngramRebekah Ingram is studying and teaching linguistics at Carleton University in Ottawa, particularly place names and the relationship between geography and language. She and her husband Kim join us for a conversation about the way culture, place, and language are intertwined and the importance of relationship in studying aspects of Indigenous communities. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.com
2019-10-201h 11
Medicine for the ResistanceBuilding community with the Strong Water WomenBuilding community takes a lot of different forms. This episode, recorded live at the Fort Erie Friendship Center features the Strong Water Women, a hand drum group in the Niagara Region. The group has been active for approximately 5 years, has performed at events throughout the community, including the Celebration of Nations at First Ontario Place in St. Catharines as well as vigils and smaller community events. This episode does have a lot of background noise, because it is recorded during a normal drum night, giving you the experience of being right in the midst of the activity. Featuring...
2019-10-071h 07
Medicine for the ResistanceIndigenous Anarchy and Homeschooling with Krista FlutePublic schools are hard on racialized children. History isn't taught correctly, social norms favour white eurocentric ideals, and we often wind up having to undo the damage done.Following up on our discussion with Dr. Grande about Ghosting the system we talk with Krista Flute, Lakota/Cajun mom who has chosen to teach her children in a homeschool community instead of sending them to the white supremacist system. Something an increasing number of racialized parents are choosing to do.Some links from a mom in Krista's group: General decolonial/reindigenize content https://tuul...
2019-09-301h 00
Medicine for the ResistanceGhosting the system with Dr Sandy GrandeS**t is complicated. In November 2018 Dr. Grande gave a keynote on the academy and the struggles that Black and Indigenous academics face in this space and she made a remark, what if we ghosted the system? What if? What if we just left? What if we spent our time now building relationships and communities of relationships, alternatives and then just left? Because if we are going to resist, if we're going to try and save anything. We need to be a people worth saving. resources: Mohawk Interruptus – by Audra Simpson
2019-07-221h 03
Medicine for the ResistanceBuilding alliances with Verlia RobertsBlack and Indigenous people have a parallel and shared history in colonization. Displaced, displanted, forcibily relocated again and again. We weren't allowed to gather in our own groups, let alone gathering as communities. Colonialism has left deep scars of Indigenous erasure and anti-black racism in both of us. Conversations like this have power to push back against colonialism.Transcript available here: https://www.ko-fi.com/medicinefortheresistancehttps://www.patreon.com/PayYourRent This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes...
2019-07-151h 01
Medicine for the ResistanceThe Tea Episode with Premika LeoIn our first ever tea episode, Actress and dancer Premika Leo shakes things up from a speech about women in the arts, to cultural appropriation. The assumptions that people make about Caribbean people and the movie Aladdin. This episode goes everywhere, but you're used to that by now. Don't forget to support us on Patreon and ko-fihttps://www.patreon.com/PayYourRenthttps://www.ko-fi.com/medicinefortheresistancetranscript available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dunz7oy9G54ipiVOmgsfEKN0L7QTzzi0/view?usp=sharing This is a public...
2019-07-0858 min
Medicine for the ResistanceHeroes and Monsters with Jay OdjickSuperheroes fight monsters, vanquishing them in some way. But what do we lose when we've destroyed all the monsters? This conversation with Jay Odjick, author of the graphic novel Kagagi and children's book Bear for Breakfast, joins us to talk about heroes and monsters and what we lose as a people when we've destroyed our monsters.Transcript here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZjmN26q4ywB_2LSiys2rNyi2jk1aLcha/view?usp=sharing This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
2019-07-0155 min
Medicine for the ResistanceMaori Teachings with Vicky YoungMaori Teacher Vicky Young joins us to talk about their creation narrative, the Maori experience of colonization, and some intriguing possibilities when Indigenous people are treated as equals and the court adjudicating treaty obligations has real power. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.com
2019-06-241h 13
Medicine for the ResistanceLessons From Palestine with Terri Monture and Audrey HuntleyFrom the colonized west, to Africa, to Palestine, settler colonialism uses the same strategies with the same brutal effectiveness. Using 21st century tools, Israel enacts the same horrors that the French, English, and Spanish did before them. But we have 21st century tools too. And no matter where they go, they have not been able to eradicate the original people. Colonization can be survived. We are still here. Listen to Terry Monture and Audrey Huntley talk about what it means to organize and build relationships across an ocean. And the lessons we can learn from each...
2019-06-171h 11
Medicine for the ResistanceBlack in Brazil with Marina NabãoWe often forget that both north and south Americas were colonized and we think differently about the states that are south of Mexico. We forget that the majority of enslaved Africans did not go to the United States.This conversation with Marina Nabão brings home the realities of living as a black woman in Brazil, what that means for her, for queer people, and for the Indigenous people of Brazil. Because it wasn't always Brazil.You can find Marina here: https://www.instagram.com/marinacoachingontologico/ This is a public episode. If y...
2019-06-101h 22
Medicine for the ResistanceWho are you? with Tanika RileyWho are you? Are you really who you think you are? How did you become that person? What is your purpose.From Wikwemikong to the slave dungeons of Ghana, Tanika talks about the importance of knowing who you are. And of claiming it all. The trauma, the beauty, all of it. Our ancestors know us, the places where their feet walked remember us. You can find Tanika at http://www.poramor.ca/tanika-riley-aka-insight.htmlTranscript is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wXgL3D9kUbwnwURS5T0mAnv1cE_TYx1-/view?usp...
2019-06-0354 min
Medicine for the ResistanceThe Importance of Telling Our Own Stories with Cherokee producer Amanda ClintonMost people have never met an Indigenous person in their entire lives, and everything they know is shaped by Hollywood and Mascots. Indigenous people are increasingly getting in front of, and behind, the camera to make sure that our stories are told our way. Meandering through Indigenous identity, the ancestors we discover, and the importance of narrative. Transcript available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rr0SaM76osWq5Ca-_PTGHs6EZdXWMA8Y/view?usp=sharingDon't forget to rate, share, and buy us some coffee https://www.ko-fi.com/medicinefortheresistance This is a...
2019-05-2746 min
Medicine for the ResistanceKeri Leigh Merritt: Poor Whites in the Antebellum SouthPoor whites were mistreated, excluded, jailed, and generally abused by the white slave owning class. So why did they align with them then, and why do they continue that alignment today? There are moments of collaboration between poor whites and enslaved or emancipated blacks, but only moments before the ruling class changes their strategy. Keri Leigh Merritt's book, Masterless Men unpacks the history of the Deep South during the antebellum period. It explains much about deep seated beliefs today, and contains clues about how to move forward.Transcript available here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1...
2019-05-2054 min
Medicine for the ResistanceFinding Drew Hayden TaylorAuthor, playwright, documentary filmmaker Drew Hayden Taylor joins us for a conversation about finding your voice, and what that looks like after being at the bottom of the social hierarchy for so long. As always, we talk about serious issues with a lot of laughter. Because while we have to get the poison out, we also need to heal, and be heard. https://www.cbc.ca/cbcdocspov/episodes/searching-for-winnetouhttps://www.nfb.ca/film/redskins_tricksters_puppy_stew/Transcript available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IDQOuFdhqP9iKDJMZKXiUthOVt2GcwUR/view?usp=sharing
2019-05-1357 min
Medicine for the ResistanceReparations and solidarity with Human Rights Lawyer Anthony MorganFrom Reparations to solidarity to imagining what comes after. We talk with writer and human rights lawyer Anthony Morgan about the case for reparations being paid to the descendants of African slaves. Anthony also suggests that instead of settler, we talk about being displanted, forcibly removed and planted elsewhere, and the repeated ways that this has happened to Black communities. We end by imagining what comes next, and the power and resistance to be found in building relationships between Black and Indigenous people.Transcript available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yQhcEW_xsKlhqINeivCVtF_9n0n7HTZk...
2019-05-0654 min
Medicine for the ResistanceCherokee grandmothers and Making metis Part 2: The importance of educating and talking about itIn Part 2 of this conversation with Cherokee genealogist Twila Barnes and French Canadian Academic Darryl Leroux we continue our conversation about the similarities between those who would claim Cherokee and those to remake themselves as Metis. These stories have real world consequences and it is important to get people talking, to get them comfortable with talking about this. Disrupted families are real. But so are those who take advantage of that disruption to claim what isn't theirs.Transcript available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LM2FMqzPIMNEBNLIzTWTr5IOzFTo7h_X/view?usp=sharing This is...
2019-04-2948 min
Medicine for the ResistanceThe stories we tell: Cherokee grandmothers and the eastern metis with Daniel, Twila, and DarrylFrom Cherokee grandmothers to the rise of the eastern metis in French speaking Canada, the stories we tell about our family history has consequences that go beyond the beliefs of an individual. Cherokee genealogist Twila Barnes joins previous guests Daniel Justice and Darryl Leroux to talk about the similar themes between these groups of pretendians, and the material costs that these stories have on Indigenous peoples.transcript available here, errors in transcription are my own ~ pk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1StC6AWIVsF0TSVYP4a3HpJfuOHO5RX8d/view This is a public episode. If...
2019-04-2257 min
Medicine for the ResistanceThe cost of pushing back, and the things we save with artist Aylan CouchieRacialized people pay a personal and collective cost for the constant pushing back against settler colonialism. It burns us out.But what we we doing it for? What is growing beneath the fires of activism? Aylan Couchie is an Anishinaabekwe interdisciplinary artist and writer hailing from Nipissing First Nation. She is a NSCAD University alumna and received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design at OCAD University in where she focused her thesis on reconciliation and its relationship to monument and public art. Her written, gallery and public works explore the intersections of colonial/First...
2019-04-151h 07
Medicine for the ResistanceChange the narrative with Sedina FiatiSedina Fiati is an artist, actress, and activist. We talk about changing the narrative from the way she does land acknowledgements, to Black and Indigenous presence in the arts, and somehow landing the revelations about R Kelly and Michael Jackson and the importance of believing women. We claim our "hell no" and talk about building communities that are not thriving, not just surviving. Moving beyond dealing with trauma and harm, using activism to achieve what is our due. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus...
2019-04-0853 min
Medicine for the ResistanceJess beads against fascismGoing home can be hard, but it is also critical to our wellbeing as BIPOC. No matter how much we think we fit in, or think we look like the people in charge, we don't. And they know who we are. So much of our anxiety and stress is related to that. And picking up aspects of our material culture, like beadwork, is one way of reconnecting. Going home. Listening to the ancestors. Beads against fascism does that. Listen to her here, then find her on Instagram. The resistance will be beautiful. This is a public episode. If...
2019-04-0150 min
Medicine for the ResistanceThe intentionality of white supremacy with Briana Ureña RaveloBriana Ureña Ravelo joins us again to talk about the intentional nature of white supremacy. The racist structures and laws did not happen by accident, the system is rigged to ensure that racialized people play particular roles, and the solution is not to work from within. There is no within for racialized people. We need to build something different. You can find Briana's writings in a variety of places by searching her name, or you can find her here on twitter where she writes brilliant threads: @brujacontumbao This is a public episode. If you would l...
2019-03-251h 15
Medicine for the ResistanceBecoming elder with Jothi SaldanaWe are moving into elder spaces What does that look like as we try to make our way through community? We continue our series of looking to the spiritual for connections, to heal the disconnection of colonialism and to find ways to build community. Listening to each other, to youth, and to what our elders left for us to find. Jothi Saldana is a South Asian artist and educator and the founder of Eternal Springtime. Find her at http://www.jothi.ca This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or...
2019-03-1856 min
Medicine for the ResistanceTalking about ceremony with Kaitlin Curtice, second of twoCeremony is about connection to each other, to Creator, to the beings of a place. It is a way of remembering and teaching. We are innately spiritual beings who look for ways to connect to things we don't fully understand. Continuing the conversation about church and Christianity, we talk about finding our way home through ceremony. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.com
2019-03-1142 min
Medicine for the ResistanceRethinking Christianity with Kaitlin Curtice. First of two conversations.Discussions about Christianity in racialized communities are fraught with feelings and deeply entrenched ideas about identity, family, and community. Dismantling, rethinking the aspects of it that are consumed or dominated by power can be difficult, particularly when so much of the history is built on language embedded in the text itself. But these conversations are important. Potawatomi Christian mystic Kaitlin Curtice joins us for Part 1 of a two part conversation. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.com
2019-03-041h 07
Medicine for the ResistanceElizabeth Warren and the enduring myth of Cherokee identity with Daniel Heath JusticeElizabeth Warren and the enduring myth of the Cherokee ancestor in the American mind. Cherokee academic Daniel Heath Justice talks about Cherokee history, allotment, and how claiming Cherokee Identity is a form of claiming belonging while erasing Indigenous people. Special shorts at the end of the episode on cosmology and culture. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.com
2019-02-251h 04
Medicine for the ResistanceTres Razas, the shifting construction of Black, Latinx, & Indigenous ppl with Briana Ureña RaveloBriana L. Ureña Ravelo talks about the different ways that Black, Latinx, and Indigenous identities are constructed in Latin America, the Carribean, and North America, and the deep seated anti-black and anti-Indigenous roots of the various systems. We also review the Netflix series Siempre Bruja, plan the resistance, and learn about a really cool project in Detroit that we'll need to follow up on. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.com
2019-02-181h 07
Medicine for the ResistanceFrom Racism to RevolutionStarting with the casual racism of Liam Neeson and somehow turning into a discussion on what a new world could look like, this is a special shorter episode of Medicine for the Resistance. It's what happens when your guest is late and we are left unsupervised. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.com
2019-02-1518 min
Medicine for the ResistanceEsú, Ghédé, the Clown, the Mimic: The Multiply-coded Trickster in Sipping FreedomMosa McNeilly is an interdisciplinary artist developing a diptych play Sipping Freedom that tells the story of the middle passage through the use of contraries, sacred clowns. Relying on personalities from Yoruba and Voudo traditions, Mosa explores freedom, captivity, and complicity. Mosa lives her life at the crossroads, a place of choices and consequences. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.com
2019-02-041h 08
Medicine for the ResistanceTWIWF: Not All Skinfolk are KinfolkThis week in white fuckery: Not all skinfolk are kinfolk. Medicine for the Resistance reaches back into the vault to talk about Kanye West and some nonsense he said about slavery being a choice. We also lament Patty's inability to read the important, but densely academic book Red Skin White Masks. Here's the accessible summary we promised you: http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/mainlander/2014/08/book-review-red-skin-white-masks-rejecting-colonial-politics-recog This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.com
2018-11-1226 min
Medicine for the ResistanceThis week in White Fuckery: Cosby, Kavanaugh, and Saganash.Patty and Kerry talk about the Bill Cosby conviction in contrast to the Kavanaugh hearings and find joy in Cree member of parliament Romeo Saganash's unparliamentary behaviour. Shoutout to meme lord Arnell Tailfeathers. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.com
2018-10-0138 min
Medicine for the ResistanceIntroductionsResisting together. Kerry and Patty introduce each other and their stories and begin to chart a course for where they'll take the show. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.com
2018-09-0526 min