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What's Fortification about?

Fortification: Spiritual Sustenance for Movement Leadership is a Podcast featuring Caitlin Breedlove, Vice President, Movement Leadership at Auburn Seminary interviewing movement leaders, organizers and activists.

Fortification is a joint project of Auburn Seminary and Side with Love, a campaign of the Unitarian Universalist Association.

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Fortification episodes:

09.22.2020
gina Breedlove, Malkia Devich-Cyril & Malachi Garza
This conversation was recorded at Auburn Seminary's December 2019 Mountaintop Gathering in Oakland, CA. The creative force of gina Breedlove is as dangerous and delightful as this earth we share. Singer, Songwriter, Sound Healer & Medicine Woman, gina was born...
09.22.2020
gina Breedlove
The creative force of gina Breedlove is as dangerous and delightful as this earth we share. Singer, Songwriter, Sound Healer & Medicine Woman, gina was born in Brooklyn, NY. She began performing at age 15, singing back up for the...
09.22.2020
Rev. Dr. Traci C West
Rev. Dr. Traci C. West is Professor of Christian Ethics and African American Studies at Drew University Theological School (Madison, NJ). Traci is the author of Solidarity and Defiant Spirituality: Africana Lessons on Religion, Racism, and Ending Gender Violence (New...
09.22.2020
Rev. Jen Bailey
Rev. Jen Bailey is an ordained minister, public theologian, and national leader in the multi-faith movement for justice. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Faith Matters Network, a Womanist-led organization equipping community organizers, faith leaders, and activists...
09.22.2020
Erica Woodland
Erica Woodland, LCSW is a black queer/genderqueer facilitator, consultant and healing justice practitioner who has worked at the intersections of movements for racial, gender, economic, trans and queer justice and liberation for more than 17 years. He is the Founding...
09.22.2020
Amber Hollibaugh
Amber L. Hollibaugh is an American writer, filmmaker and political activist, largely concerned with feminist and sexual agendas. She is a self-described lesbian sex radical, ex-hooker, incest survivor, gypsy child, poor-white-trash, high femme dyke. Read more about her in ...
08.25.2020
Abolition in Covid-Times
This conversation features co-hosts Cara Page and Caitlin Breedlove in conversation with organizers Shira Hassan, Mia Mingus and Sonali Sadequee. The conversation came out of the urgency of Black Lives Matter uprisings in Minneapolis, and across the US, to respond...
08.18.2020
Summer Announcements + Friends for Life
Some programming announcements and the new podcast from Auburn Seminary, "Friends for Life" where we learn how to live, thrive, love, and win through the 2020 election season and beyond. In this episode Macky Alston and Lisa Anderson speak with Raquel...
05.01.2020
Past: Rooting in Histories; We Have Been Here Before
The conversation began with these questions: How do historical harms and abuses of the state and the medical industrial complex elevate the ways in which communities are criminalized? What are the historical roots and wounds of disease-based capitalism in the...
05.01.2020
Present: What is emerging in COVID times?
The conversation began with these questions: What is the present economy of care and the economy of healthcare and what is being disrupted in this economy? Where are the fractures? Where are there new connections among different healthcare and healing...
05.01.2020
Future: Spiritual and political mandates for our future
The conversation began with these questions: Where is this present moment taking us? What can we radically imagine for our future survival knowing what we know now? In times of crisis, seemingly impossible ideas become imaginable. What does or might...
07.10.2019
Prentis Hemphill
In our final conversation for Season 3, Caitlin spoke with Prentis Hemphill. The conversation touches on complicating innocence and guilt, transformative justice practices, movement culture and patterns and much more. Check it out. Prentis Hemphill is movement facilitator, Somatics teacher and...
07.03.2019
John Fife
In this conversation Caitlin speaks with John Fife about the opportunities and challenges faith institutions face in confronting empire, lessons from organizing in Southern Arizona and much more. The Rev. John Fife is a retired Presbyterian minister, human rights advocate...
06.26.2019
Jennifer Harvey
In this conversation, Caitlin chats with Jen Harvey about possibilities for repairing harm caused by historic and current white supremacy, resource redistribution, parenting and more. Rev. Dr. Jennifer Harvey is a writer, educator and activist whose passion for just social change...
06.19.2019
Krystal Two Bulls & Matt Howard
We were able to speak with Krystal Two Bulls and Matt Howard in Spring 2019 about their work, leadership and movement with About Face: Veterans Against the War. Krystal is an Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne woman who reminds us...
06.12.2019
Amita Swadhin
In this conversation between Amita Swadhin and Caitlin Breedlove, we dive into choosing relationships and interdependence, building community and healing networks and the frequent failure of organizations to deal with and support folks who have experienced trauma and violence nor...
06.05.2019
Kiyomi Fujikawa
We had the opportunity to connect with Kiyomi Fujikawa in Winter 2019 and it was such a treat. Check out this conversation with Caitlin Breedlove. Kiyomi Fujikawa is a Seattle-based, mixed-race queer trans femme who has been involved with movements...
05.29.2019
Susan Frederick-Gray
Our hearty conversation between Rev. Dr. Susan Frederick-Gray and Caitlin Breedlove dives into humility, leadership, risk and institutional opportunity and threats. Check it out! Rev. Dr. Susan Frederick-Gray was elected President of the Unitarian Universalist Association on June 24, 2017....
05.22.2019
Jessica Byrd
We are thrilled to be bringing you this necessary reflection and invitation from Jessica Byrd in conversation with Caitlin Breedlove for our next episode. Jessica Byrd is the Founder and Chief Doer of the Three Point squad. She founded Three...
05.15.2019
Andrea Ritchie
In this episode Caitlin connects and speaks with organizer, researcher and lawyer Andrea Ritchie. Andrea Ritchie is a Black lesbian immigrant and police misconduct attorney and organizer who has engaged in extensive research, writing, and advocacy around criminalization of women...
05.08.2019
Susan Raffo - Part two
We're back and we are so excited to be bringing you part two of this juicy conversation to launch our third season between Caitlin Breedlove and Susan Raffo. See our first part of the conversation in the May 1 episode. ...
05.01.2019
Susan Raffo - Part one
We're back and we are so excited to be bringing you this juicy conversation to launch our third season between Caitlin Breedlove and Susan Raffo. More about Susan: I am a queer woman on the other side of menopause who...
04.18.2019
Fortification Season 3 Teaser
An update from Caitlin Breedlove about our upcoming return with Season 3. We're so excited to be bringing back Fortification: Spiritual Sustenance for Movement Leadership in coming weeks. With 10 new interviews recorded this Winter and Spring, we'll be sharing...
03.14.2018
Paulina Helm-Hernández
In this week's episode of Fortification: Spiritual Sustenance for Movement Leadership, Caitlin Breedlove, Vice President of Movement Leadership at Auburn Seminary is joined by Paulina Helm-Hernández. Paulina Helm-Hernández is a queer femme cha-cha girl, artist, trainer, political organizer, strategist & troublemaker-at-large from...
02.28.2018
Rev. Allyn Maxfield-Steele
In this week's episode of Fortification: Spiritual Sustenance for Movement Leadership, Caitlin Breedlove, Vice President of Movement Leadership at Auburn Seminary is joined by Rev. Allyn Maxfield-Steele. Rev. Allyn Maxfield-Steele Rev. Maxfield-Steele is the co-director of the Highlander Center in...
02.14.2018
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
In this week's episode of Fortification: Spiritual Sustenance for Movement Leadership, Caitlin Breedlove, Vice President of Movement Leadership at Auburn Seminary is joined by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is one of the original pioneers of...
01.31.2018
Pancho Argüelles
In this week's episode of Fortification: Spiritual Sustenance for Movement Leadership, Caitlin Breedlove, Vice President of Movement Leadership at Auburn Seminary is joined by Pancho Argüelles. Francisco (Pancho) Argüelles Pancho is a co-founder of Colectivo Flatlander for Popular Education, based in...
01.17.2018
adrienne maree brown
In this week's episode of Fortification: Spiritual Sustenance for Movement Leadership, Caitlin Breedlove, Vice President of Movement Leadership at Auburn Seminary is joined by adrienne maree brown. adrienne maree brown, the Co-Editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice...
12.27.2017
Francisca Porchas
In this week's episode of Fortification: Spiritual Sustenance for Movement Leadership, Caitlin Breedlove, Vice President of Movement Leadership at Auburn Seminary is joined by Francisca Porchas. Francisca Porchas Coronado is the organizing director of Puente Human Rights Movement and a leading...
12.13.2017
Melvin Bray
In this week's episode of Fortification: Spiritual Sustenance for Movement Leadership, Caitlin Breedlove, Vice President of Movement Leadership at Auburn Seminary is joined by Melvin Bray. Melvin Bray (http://better.melvinbray.com/) is an Emmy® award-winning storyteller, social entrepreneur, and author who lives with...
11.29.2017
Isa Noyola
In this week's episode of Fortification: Spiritual Sustenance for Movement Leadership, Caitlin Breedlove, Vice President of Movement Leadership at Auburn Seminary is joined by Isa Noyola. Isa Noyola is a translatina activist, a national leader in LGBT immigrant rights movement,...
11.15.2017
Brian McLaren
In this week's episode of Fortification: Spiritual Sustenance for Movement Leadership, Caitlin Breedlove, Vice President of Movement Leadership at Auburn Seminary is joined by Brian McLaren. Brian D. McLaren is an author, speaker, activist, and public theologian. A former college...
11.01.2017
Rodney McKenzie
Fortification: Spiritual Sustenance for Movement Leadership is a Podcast featuring Caitlin Breedlove, Vice President, Movement Leadership at Auburn Seminary interviewing movement leaders, organizers and activists. Fortification is a joint project of Auburn Seminary and Standing on the Side of Love,...
10.25.2017
Fortification Season 2 Teaser
Fortification: Spiritual Sustenance for Movement Leadership is a Podcast featuring Caitlin Breedlove, Vice President, Movement Leadership at Auburn Seminary interviewing movement leaders, organizers and activists. Fortification is a joint project of Auburn Seminary and Standing on the Side of Love,...
01.10.2017
Malachi Garza
Malachi Larrabee-Garza currently serves as Director of the Community Justice Network for Youth at the W. Haywood Burns Institute. Before joining the Burns Institute Malachi spent 5 years at the School of Unity and Liberation (S.O.U.L.) as the Advanced Political...
12.20.2016
Lisa Anderson
Lisa Anderson is vice president of Intersectional Engagement at Auburn Theological Seminary, an initiative dedicated to equipping bold and resilient women faith leaders with the tools they need for a lifetime of prophetic social justice activism. Anderson is the founding...
12.06.2016
Gabriel Foster
In this week's episode of Fortification, Caitlin is joined by Gabriel Foster. Foster is the first director of the Trans Justice Funding Project (TJFP). He previously worked in Seattle, WA with the Northwest Network of bisexual, trans, lesbian & gay survivors...
11.22.2016
Alfredo Gutierrez
In Episode 7 of Fortification, Caitlin is joined by Alfredo Gutierrez, a former Arizona State Senate majority and minority leader. Mr. Gutierrez served for 14 years in the legislature and is an outspoken advocate for immigration reform and public schools....
11.08.2016
Meg Riley
In Episode 6 of Fortification, Caitlin talked with Rev. Meg Riley. Meg is currently the Senior Minister at the Church of the Larger Fellowship. Before coming to CLF, Meg served the Unitarian Universalist Association in a variety of positions including directing...
10.25.2016
Cara Page
Caitlin is joined by Cara Page, a Black queer feminist cultural worker & organizer, in this week's episode of Fortification. Cara is currently the Executive Director of the Audre Lorde Project. She is also co-founder and former Coordinator of the...
10.11.2016
Mab Segrest
In episode 4 of Fortification, Caitlin is joined by Mab Segrest. Segrest is an feminist activist, writer, and the Fuller-Matthai Professor Emeritus of Gender & Women's Studies at Connecticut College. In her book, Memoir of a Race Traitor, Segrest explores her experience as...
09.27.2016
Reina Gossett
In episode 3 of Fortification, Caitlin is joined by Reina Gossett. Gossett is an activist, writer, and filmmaker. Along with Sasha Wortzel, Reina wrote, directed and produced Happy Birthday, Marsha! a short film about legendary trans activist Marsha P Johnson....
09.13.2016
Dove Kent
In the second episode of Fortification, Caitlin chats with Dove Kent. Kent is the Executive Director of Jews for Racial & Economic Justice in New York City. She has over a decade of experience in issue-based, identity-based, and neighborhood-based organizing in Boston, St. Louis,...
08.30.2016
Lena K. Gardner & Rev. Osagyefo Sekou
In the first episode of Fortification, Caitlin sits down with Lena K. Gardner and Rev. Osagyefo Sekou. Gardner is a lead organizer of Black Lives Matter Minneapolis and member of the organizing collective for Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism and Rev....
08.23.2016
Fortification Teaser
This Fall we are thrilled to bring you fortification: a podcast about the spiritual lives and spiritual sustenance of leaders in social justice movements. During one-on-one conversations between Caitlin Breedlove, Campaign Director of Standing on the Side of Love, and...

What's Fortification about?

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Fortification episodes:

gina Breedlove, Malkia Devich-Cyril & Malachi Garza

gina Breedlove

Rev. Dr. Traci C West

Rev. Jen Bailey

Erica Woodland

Amber Hollibaugh

Abolition in Covid-Times

Summer Announcements + Friends for Life

Past: Rooting in Histories; We Have Been Here Before

Present: What is emerging in COVID times?

Future: Spiritual and political mandates for our future

Prentis Hemphill

John Fife

Jennifer Harvey

Krystal Two Bulls & Matt Howard

Amita Swadhin

Kiyomi Fujikawa

Susan Frederick-Gray

Jessica Byrd

Andrea Ritchie

Susan Raffo - Part two

Susan Raffo - Part one

Fortification Season 3 Teaser

Paulina Helm-Hernández

Rev. Allyn Maxfield-Steele

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Pancho Argüelles

adrienne maree brown

Francisca Porchas

Melvin Bray

Isa Noyola

Brian McLaren

Rodney McKenzie

Fortification Season 2 Teaser

Malachi Garza

Lisa Anderson

Gabriel Foster

Alfredo Gutierrez

Meg Riley

Cara Page

Mab Segrest

Reina Gossett

Dove Kent

Lena K. Gardner & Rev. Osagyefo Sekou

Fortification Teaser