

For The Wild
For The Wild
For The Wild is a slow media organization dedicated to land-based protection, co-liberation, and intersectional storytelling. We are rooted in a paradigm shift away from human supremacy, endless growth, and consumerism. Our work highlights impactful stories and deeply-felt meaning making as balms for these times.
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Jan 8, 2020 • 58min
Dr. RUPA MARYA on Decentralizing the Power of Healing /153
This expansive conversation touches on Dr. Marya’s work to decolonize medicine, the pervasiveness of medical debt, the need for medical reparations, and the fruitfulness of community-based medicine. We explore how society might look like if the pursuit of health and wellbeing for all was at the foundation of our organizing. Support the show

Jan 3, 2020 • 1h 2min
MIKE PHILLIPS on Gray Wolves and the Vitality of Death /152
Ayana and Mike’s conversation touches on the history of cattle ranching and grazing rights, trophic cascades and the vitality of death, the violent lineages of conservation, and ecological restoration as an antidote to species loss.Support the show

Dec 27, 2019 • 1h 13min
MARIAME KABA on Moving Past Punishment /151
We are joined by Mariame Kaba for an expansive conversation on Transformative Justice, community accountability, criminalization of survivors, & freedom on the horizon. Mariame addresses punishment as an issue of directionality while reminding us why it is vital to have the prison abolition movement in conversation with the movement for climate & environmental justice. Support the show

Dec 18, 2019 • 55min
Dr. SUZANNE PIERRE on Reshaping a Siloed Science /150
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Dec 13, 2019 • 1h 10min
InTheField: KASYYAHGEI on the Law of the Land /149
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Dec 6, 2019 • 1h 4min
InTheField: WANDA KASHUDOHA CULP on Rooted Lifeways of the Tongass /148
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Nov 28, 2019 • 1h
LYLA JUNE on Lifting Hearts Off the Ground /147
In honor of Truthsgiving, join us as we meditate upon the true spirit of giving. Lyla and Ayana unravel the great potential held within the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and well as some of its false assumptions, and propose Indigenous-led frameworks for sovereignty. Lyla reminds us that when we yearn to speak the language of life, love and healing, we must turn to poetry.Support the show

Nov 27, 2019 • 1h 2min
Reshaping the Landscape of Conservation Media at JACKSON WILD /146
Tune into this episode to hear Ayana’s conversations with six storytellers who are shifting the landscape of conservation from behind their cameras, bold media strategies, and work in the field: Tiffany McNeil, Dr. Ayana Flewellen, Meaghan Brosnan, Rodrigo Farias, Kaitlin Yarnall and Faith Musembi.Support the show

Nov 13, 2019 • 46min
PAVINI MORAY on Unlocking Eros and Sacred Reciprocity ⌠PART 2⌡ /145
Listen in to Part Two of this intimate conversation as Ayana and Pavini share their reflections on the forest as a teacher of wild love, the field of eros within and beyond the realm of sex, the cyclical nature of death as communion, and strategies for connecting with ancestors of blood and heart. Support the show

Nov 8, 2019 • 48min
PAVINI MORAY on Alchemizing Trauma and Ancestral Healing ⌠PART 1⌡ /144
Join us for Part One of Ayana and Pavini’s conversation as they delve into deep dialogue on the necessity of relational repair, trans and queer belonging, navigating states of trauma, and breaking settler mentalities within healing spaces.Support the show


