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.

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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.

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This week For The Wild is joined by Tamo Campos, extreme snowboarder, youth facilitator, and filmmaker, to discuss a myriad of topics from warming winters, the outdoor sports industry, community building, fish farming, and many of the stories told in Beyond Boarding’s film, The Radicals. We begin our conversation with Tamo looking at the narrative around outdoor recreation and the privileges many of us hold, as an entry point into how we can change our relationship with the mountains, rivers, oceans, and communities for the better. At the root of our conversation with Tamo are two powerful proclamations on relationship and responsibility. Tamo is clear in that we all have a responsibility to community, place, and Earth. By centering this responsibility, we are empowered to act in accordance with our true value system.

Tamo Campos is a 29-year-old filmmaker, youth facilitator & extreme snowboarder based in the Pacific North West. His father is from Chile and his mother’s heritage is from Japan. Tamo co-founded the environmental organization Beyond Boarding, a non-profit collective that combines a love of outdoors with environmental outreach and action. Whether it’s working with youth outdoors or leading environmental film projects, Tamo embeds himself in the community wherever he goes and is dedicated to combining social impact with his adventures in sport, activism, and filmmaking. Campos currently resides in a converted waste vegetable oil-powered ambulance with a small yet cozy wood stove.

Beyond Boarding’s recent film, The Radicals, highlights ecological restoration work in Xwísten territory, the Musgmagw Dzawada'enuwx Nation’s decades-long protection of wild salmon from fish farms, and Haida Gwaii weavers using art as a form of resistance. These instances remind us of the need for systems change, and in conversation with Ayana, Tamo points out how for too long we have conflated consumer change with systems change through actions like so-called sustainable consumerism. We can’t buy ourselves out of the problems we are in, we must look to relationship, youth stewardship, and community building as the antidote to a commodified world

♫ Music by Jeffrey Silverstein

+ REFERENCES AND RECOMMENDATIONS +

Watch Tamo Campos & Beyond Boarding’s Film, The Radicals.

Watch Wild Salmon, Sovereignty, & Resistance (A Musgamagw Dzawada'enuxw Mural Story)

To learn more about PRV & the threat of fish farms, listen to For The Wild’s interview with Alexandra Morton, “On the Virulence of Farmed Salmon / 78.”

For further updates & resources on open fish farms and wild salmon runs, visit WildFirst.CA

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.

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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.

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Last October, the IPCC reported that we must cut global emissions in half by 2030 to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Faced with the enormous task of decarbonizing our economies and radically transforming nearly all systems of life, we must dream into new and ancient futures. At the heart of this calling for transition lies evermore urgent questions of justice.

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Sefra discusses the current loss of seed diversity, the culture of seed saving, the importance of diversity in the global food supply, the grave impacts of seed relief on local agro-economic systems, undermining seed oligarchies, and the ways in which being in relationship with seeds offer us a deeper connection to all dimensions of life.

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Described by many as a sacrifice zone and subsidized timber colony of the US, Prince of Wales Island is one of the most heavily logged areas of the Tongass; there are over 2,500 miles of logging roads on an island that’s only 135 miles long. Our guest this week, Elsa Sebastian, knows this region well, having grown up in the fishing village of Point Baker on northern Prince of Wales Island.

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This week, in Part Two of our episode with brontë velez, we dive into the capacity for pleasure amidst times of great uncertainty and historical oppression. What does “pleasure in the apocalypse” mean? How might this conversation take on different meanings depending on whether we are talking about climate change as an abstraction versus the current lived experience of planetary uncertainty? As brontë defines it, pleasure is what makes us come alive, so how can we create a culture that is deeply attuned to our senses and directs our desire towards Earth and each other? By feeding our senses, how might we confront the isolation and industrialization of our bodies, while acknowledging the limitations of grief in that “suffering is not accountable to the Earth.”brontë velez (they/them) is guided by the call that “black wellness is the antithesis of state violence” (Mark Anthony Johnson). a black-latinx transdisciplinary artist and designer, they are currently moved and paused by the questions, “how can we allow as much room for god to flow through and between us as possible? what affirms the god of and between us? what is in the way? how can we decompose what interrupts our proximity to divinity? what ways can black feminist placemaking rooted in commemorative justice promote the memory of god, which is to say, love and freedom between us?”they relate to god as the moments of divine spacetime that remind us we are not separate, the moments that re-belong us to the earth. they encounter these questions in public theology, black prophetic tradition & environmental justice through their eco-social art praxis, serving as creative director for Lead to Life design collaborative, media director for Oakland-rooted farm and nursery Planting Justice, and quotidian black queer life ever-committed to humor & liberation, ever-marked by grief at the distance made between us and all of life.Part Two of brontë and Ayana’s ripe conversation explores topics including appropriating propaganda and memetics, reorienting ourselves away from the spectacle of terror, tending to erotic energy and sensual spaces, and the nuances around beauty and aesthetics in dominant culture. In closing, we are asked to assess our capacity and privilege and then grow ourselves to create pleasurable pathways, ensure accessibility to embodiment, and foster environments where people are in their senses.♫ Music by Jennifer Johns and members of the Thrive Choir and Jiordi Rosales on cello, recorded at the 2019 Lead to Life Oakland ceremony, a ceremony that melted weapons into the constellations above Oscar Grant the evening he was murdered. The event closed the annual Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy March, hosted by the Anti Police-Terror Project.Additional ♫ Music by Jeremy Harris

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In Part One of this expansive conversation, Ayana and brontë delve into topics surrounding authentic expression, the distortion of feminine and masculine powers, beauty and aesthetics, queerness, dominatrix energy, and power as agency.

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