Climate Change in the Multiverse

Kelly chats with her cousin, prolific sitcom writer Chuck Tatham, about the WGA strike, his time working on Arrested Development, how the industry has changed over the past 30 years, AI, mini-rooms, and the best part of working in TV: snacks.

On March 2nd, 2021, Trans Mountain Pipeline (TMX) and the Crown corporation known as Canada sent Stacy Gallagher to prison for performing peaceful ceremony along the Trans Mountain Pipeline route. The Crown sentenced him to 90 days, but his partner Rita Wong managed to get him released on bail and granted leave to appeal his sentence.

Stacy and Rita spoke with us about their legal situation, systemic racism in the courts, the ongoing devastation of colonization, giving consent, and how you can help.

You can donate to Stacy and fellow land defender Jim Leyden's legal funds here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-fund-for-jim-and-stacys-appeals

Reflecting on the first #Time2Talk Public Safety, Tonye and Kelly talk about the bigger picture of crime, care, colonial constructs, and how we police each other. Kelly speaks to some of her White bias and Tonye reminds us that we have all been robbed by colonialism and systemic racism.

Follow Tonye @tonyeaganaba on Twitter and Instagram. Listen to their podcast The Living Laboratory on Soundcloud and their music on Spotify.

Clinical counsellor and Vancouver-Kengsington Green candidate Nazanin Moghadami talks about the emotional rollercoaster that is a snap election, who has accessibility to democracy, the privilege of feeling safe, and building up the courage to step into politics.

BC Greens Candidate for Vancouver-Kingsway and Director of Policy for the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition Scott Bernstein talks about jumping into politics, the racist origins of drug prohibition, psychedelic medicines, and how decriminalization is related to climate change.

Climate scientist, MBA, and BC Greens Vancouver-Point Grey candidate Dr. Devyani Singh talks about the pain of biodiversity loss, what a just transition looks like, carbon capture and sequestration, and the potential for regenerative innovation in B.C.

Sonia Furstenau, leader of the BC Green Party, talks about why she stepped into public service, staying calm and grounded in the face of political game playing, reconciling with Colonialism, and the weighty responsibility of shaping our future.

BC Green Party candidate Dr. Maayan Kreitzman speaks to Kelly about sea level rise, the arrest of Indigenous land defenders, our colonial legal system, and why implementing Citizens' Assemblies is our best chance at saving the planet.

The Case for Citizens Assemblies: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17bfK7ZHxj_0wUHbWtbNjh9yNPHM3kXIpEiOzz5rhvQc/edit

Kelly reads Audre Lorde's Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power.

"When we begin to live from within outward, in touch with the power of the erotic within ourselves, and allowing that power to inform and illuminate our actions upon the world around us, then we begin to be responsible to ourselves in the deepest sense. For as we begin to recognize our deepest feelings, we begin to give up, of necessity, being satisfied with suffering and self-negation, and with the numbness which so often seems like their only alternative in our society. Our acts against oppression become integral with self, motivated and empowered from within."

Read by Kelly, "Dear White People" is an essay by Nigerian scholar, storyteller, and post-activist Bayo Akomolafe. In it, Bayo addresses the deepest frames of white supremacy and urges us to interrogate whiteness, boundaries, and the notion that we can 'return' to our indigeneity.