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.
Episodes
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Jan 29, 2020 • 1h 9min
Dr. MAX LIBOIRON on Reorienting Within a World of Plastic /156
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Jan 22, 2020 • 1h 29min
Dr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Slowing Down in Urgent Times /155
We are invited by this week’s guest, Dr. Bayo Akomolafe, to pause and abandon solutionism, step back from the project of progress, and dance into a different set of questions: What does the Anthropocene teach us as a destabilizing agent that resists our taming? How can we show up in our movements of justice if “the ways we respond to crisis is part of the crisis”? Support the show
Jan 15, 2020 • 1h 2min
KYLE WHYTE on the Colonial Genesis of Climate Change /154
Ayana and Kyle discuss Kyle’s body of work on dystopia and fantasy in climate justice, the reproduction of settler structures, Indigenous science, vulnerability discourses, and “decolonizing allyship.” Kyle concludes with the ever present reminder that our work must be rooted in consent, reciprocity, and trust. Support the show
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
