Grounded Futures Show

Grounded Futures Show, Season 2 - Ep #16

This is part one of our mini series on: Schooling, Education, and Finding Your Way

“I just have such a joy and a heart for helping parents to be what they really want to be with their kids, and really help that relationship flourish and move forward.”

Uilliam and carla sat down with Meghan Carrico, a long time participant and educator in creating alternate pathways to learning in community, including schools. We talk about finding joy while learning, the importance of community, and supporting the entire family to thrive. She also demystifies some of the misleading information about what it takes to get a highschool diploma,and other myths about youth finding their way into postsecondary institutions, career paths, and much else.

Resources

Final Straw

Meghan’s website

Victoria School of Innovation and InquiryPacific School of Innovation and InquiryIsland DiscoverySelfDesign Transcripts

Thanks for Listening! 

Grounded Futures Show, Season 2 Episode #15

“Gathering people around food is a big part of what everyday thriving looks like in my life. And, even as the world falls apart, we will still probably have to eat dinner.”

We sat down with the wonderful Tahia Ahmed, a full-spectrum birth worker who connects birth, land, and racial and climate justice together in new and beautiful ways. We dive into conversations about our interdependence, the discipline of showing up for each other, centering trust, and the importance of deprofessionalizing care and love, and so much more! 

Tahia Ahmed IG

Nesting Doula Collective

We Do This 'Til We Free Us

Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

by Mariame Kaba 

Joy James work

Thrutopia, coined by Rupert Read 

Book Recommendation:

How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community

Book by Mia Birdsong

Delighting in our Friends:

Sour Gout (Zach Bergman) The album is here: “Movements in a Dead City"

transcripts

Grounded Futures Show, Season 2 Episode #14

“I love people, I'm just like that. I think that's what the motivation for the work is.”

We had a lot of fun talking with Dean about so many ideas and actions -- and we took a lot of passion paths together! You’ll hear about his early days of talking back to power, to building queer and trans solidarity, working across differences, to finding concrete ways to accompany each other during hard times, and embracing an ethos and the actions of promiscuity as a way to deepen mutual aid, and so much more! This is an episode you won’t want to miss!

Link to Transcripts

music by Sour Gout

Grounded Futures Show: Season 2 (Bonus episode)

In this short bonus episode, Liam and carla take a moment to celebrate the Grounded Futures Platform by sharing some jingles for two new shows: Resonant Rest and Mentorship in Motion! You'll hear from Oceaan Pendharkar, Melissa Roach, Jamie Leigh Gonzales, and Rebecca Peng... and some other news!

• Music for the Grounded Futures show:Sour Gout
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• Music for Resonant Rest: Oatmeal Queen
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• Music for Mentorship in Motion: Nadya Geta

Link to all the shows at Grounded Futures: https://groundedfutures.com/shows/

Transcripts

Logo art by Robin Carrico

Grounded Futures: Season 2, Episode 13

“Neuroqueer is both an adjective and a verb. And so, automatically, the word has multiplicity built into it. And it invites you to play with the idea that who you are can also be an action.”

We are thrilled to welcome Kitty Sipple back to the show to talk about the roots and lineages of sanism, neuroqueerness, and Madness. Weaving them together in profound and powerful ways, Kitty also shares theirs and other folks' stories of resistance and thriving, and much more!

Link to Transcripts and more show notes 

Delighting in our Friends Segment:

 Hari Alluri ! 

 Dragon Shoots Its Whispers aka The Lightning Speaks!

Music for our show by:Sour Gout

Logo art by Robin Carrico

Grounded Futures Season 2, episode 12

“We learn love in the presence of a fully loving environment,"

Christina Rryder joins the show to talk about the importance of animating our activist and creative spaces with embodied mutualista (mutual aid), organic play, and radical care. How the threads from  Occupy Denver to Social Justice Theatre led to cosplay. We also dive into living with neuro-difference and depression, science and climate change, the queerness in Sailor Moon, gatekeepers in Cosplay, wholesome anime’s, making time for your passions, and much more!

IG: @scientista_cosplay

Music for our show by:Sour Gout

Delighting in our Friends is all about Eleanor Goldfield and we played her song: Tangled from ehr EP 

No Solo

Links to Eleanore’s work

Link to Transcripts and more show notes 

Grounded Futures Season 2, episode 11

“As radicals we need to be offering a different exit from middle class life.”

Season two begins with a joyful bang! Liam and carla talk with the wonderful Nick Montgomery about radical exit plans, the limits and problems of “rights”, generational myths, the importance of cultivating alternatives, finding joy and humour amid disasters, and more

Music for our show by: Sour Gout

Links from our segment: Delighting in our Friends!  The song by Time is, Barrel of a Pen (produced by AwareNess) This song is an Exclusive GF song (for now)

Time’s work

AwareNess’ work

Time Talks Podcast

Transcripts and more resources

Meet Uilliam and carla! Co-hosts of the Grounded Futures Show!

The Grounded Futures Show is hosted by carla joy bergman and Uilliam Joy. Uilliam (Liam) and carla discuss topics ranging from climate change to identity to how youth can gain new skills to thrive amid current and ongoing disasters that we are collectively facing. The show will take a deep dive on these issues, and be in conversations with incredible guests. 

For the final episode of Season 1,  we were thrilled to talk with Paloma Pendharkar. Not only are they super rad, they are Grounded Futures’ new Resident! In this episode, Paloma talks about being open to new pathways to learn new things, find their own desires, and how to do all of that while finding ways to thrive amid capitalism. Paloma radiates a beautiful composition of humility and joy, and we had a great time talking with them!

One of our organizing values is that we eschew the unrealistic pressures of capitalist productivity and instead embrace the notion of Procrastithriving!

And, because of this core value, we don't have a new episode of Grounded Futures for May.

This is our bonus episode that originally aired dec 31, 2020. Or, check out any of the inspiring episodes with any of our previous guests.

We will be back in June with a new episode!

Pro(crasti)thriving, a verb, is when your core principle of cultivating every day thriving is anchored in anticapitalism - whereby y'all  support the wellbeing of each other,  as together we aim to create a more just world for all.