Medicine for the Resistance

Cherokee Hobbit and academic Daniel Heath Justice returns to talk about his book Badger, now available in the Reaktion Book series Animals, and his upcoming book Raccoon. The discussion meanders through the cultural history of raccoons, our shared history, and the etymology of the word "coon" with it's connection with minstrel traditions, klansmen, and Pocahontas. Listen to this discussion about our fascinating relative and what we can learn from them.

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Sharine Taylor, editor of Bashy, joins us to talk about all things Jamaican. We talk dance hall music, language, and the unbearable whiteness of Canadian media.

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Dr. Jonathan Ferrier, an Anishnaabe ethnobotanist joins us to talk about post-genocide ethnobotany, what plants and the Indigenous Knowledge about them can teach us about how to survive. Dr. Ferrier has done research among the Mijikenda people in Kenya, the K'iche' Maya in Belize, and the Lukomir highlanders in Bosnia. His Anishnaabe roots inform his academic view and the importance of relationship when developing knowledge.

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We talk with Erica from the Bad and B****y podcast about all the things. From Doug Ford and Patrick Brown to Desmond Cole being carded in Vancouver, to the audacity of equality. There are things that Kerry forgot because she never believed them in the first place, PSA's on ID, privacy, and not buying your weed online, the emptiness of land acknowledgements, and the extreme caution necessary to cross the border into the US now.

You can find more Erica at:

@wickedchiq on twitter and Instagram
@badnbitchypod on instagram
@badnbitchy on twitter
@notinmycolour - a podcast about digital privacy on Facebook, twitter, and Intagram.

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Medicine for the Resistance recorded live at Shorthills Provincial Park during the annual Indigenous hunt. This hunt is protested every year by vegans and landowners in the area, but a surprising alliance between animal rights activists and Indigenous peoples has arisen as a counter protest. We talk about the origins of the hunt and the importance of living in relationship with your environment.

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Dr. Darryl Leroux of St. Mary's University joins us to talk about his research of a movement in eastern Canada that is self-indigenizing in order to gain access to social and political spaces, often based on a single ancestor from the 1600's. Additional information on his research is in the links below:

https://maisonneuve.org/article/2018/11/1/self-made-metis/
https://smu.ca/academics/departments/sjcs-faculty-staff-darryl-leroux.html

For more information you can also see the research of previous guest Dr. Kim Tallbear

http://kimtallbear.com/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129554-400-there-is-no-dna-test-to-prove-youre-native-american/

and Dr. Alondra Nelson

http://www.alondranelson.com/books/the-social-life-of-dna-race-reparations-and-reconciliation-after-the-genome

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This week in white fuckery: Not all skinfolk are kinfolk. Medicine for the Resistance reaches back into the vault to talk about Kanye West and some nonsense he said about slavery being a choice. We also lament Patty's inability to read the important, but densely academic book Red Skin White Masks. Here's the accessible summary we promised you: http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/mainlander/2014/08/book-review-red-skin-white-masks-rejecting-colonial-politics-recog

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We conclude our series by looking at how the way the settler state has constructed gender and sexuality impacts current policy and activism. From Canadian Blood Services to Pride, our ideas about race and gender has consequences.

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Dr. Kim Tallbear joins M4R and challenges us to consider what it means to live out the words of Aileen Morton Robinson: Be less possessive, and do something every single day to undermine the colonizer.

Join us for a conversation about thinking beyond identity to what it means to live in good relation with all our relatives. The language of identity is necessary to address inequity but shifting the lens to consider what it means to live in good relationship allows us to move beyond these silos into living together. If we want to talk about decolonizing our lives, we need to think about being in good relation instead of seeking inclusion in the settler state.

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Award-Winning Multimedia Storyteller, Social Justice & Indigenous Rights Activist, and Community Builder Taté Walker joins our beautiful chaos to talk about Appropriation & colonization & being humble ➡️ @IndigenousCon ➡️ Futurisms ➡️ Survivance vs Thrivance ➡️ Wounded Knee ➡️ Making it through Winter & living in our Spring. I told you I would lift this from your tweet!

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