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Ep. 165 Questioning Culture with Richie Reseda

Jun 21, 2023

01:05:21

Richie Reseda is a feminist ally, community organizer, recording artist, and founder of the social-impact record label, Question Culture. Success Stories, the anti-patriarchy organization he started while incarcerated, was chronicled in the CNN documentary “The Feminist on Cell Block Y.” He changes California prison policy with Initiate Justice, an organization he co-founded in prison.

🌟 Some Key Points from this Conversation with Richie:

1. His role in introducing Bell Hooks’ work to incarcerated men as a way to illustrate and push back on the “Soul murder” a patriarchal society demands of men

2. How to teach our children to understand the truth of their power so they can learn to reach for love and safety over fear, vs the false ideations this society has conditioned them about where their power lies

3. Why our work is not to strive for reform, but rather the abolition of the colonial system we’re currently living in

4. The importance of understanding that society’s ‘rules of governance’ are essentially violence that perpetuates more violence, given that they are not collaborative and created with a community’s and consent

5. Why the patriarchal narrative of right and wrong or ‘good and bad’ always equate to a form of domination, and why the evolution of a Soul-based societal perspective is rooted in curiosity, consent, and community collaboration

You can see Richie in the CNN documentary “The Feminist on Cell Block Y”

Connect with Richie

Instagram

Question Culture Instagram

For Everyone Collective Instagram

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