"If we continue on the path we're on today, we might be accelerating our own extinction." -Vanessa Machado Oliveira 

In this episode we discuss the overarching story of power and privilege here in the global US North how we are outgrowing modernity and our world, and overall approach for change rooted in Indigenous values and practices. 

Vanessa, a Latinx Professor at the University of British Columbia and founding member of Gesturing Towards the Colonial Futures Collective, which is an international network of indigenous communities, also shares the 5 E's:  

Exceptionalism 

Exaltation 

Expansion of entitlements 

Emancipation (now Externalization) 

Enmeshment

Essentially making up a framework to utilize when looking at our most oppressed or marginalized populations in regard to modernity, the use of this framework can literally save lives she says. 

And while everything Vanessa shares may not be THEE answer in moving forward, it's a hell of a lot better than what we've got now. 

Listen and join in the conversation. 

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