Medicine for the Resistance

Our guest tells us, "as a storyteller you have a responsibility not to change the story but to show your audience a different way of seeing it, seeing it from a different perspective,." Storytelling helps us to see and understand ourselves and our place in the world a little bit better. They help us to locate ourselves not only in the past and present, but in the future. To know

Kesha Christie is an Afro-Carribbean storyteller. And she is delightful.

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Dr. Keri Leigh Merritt joins us again to talk about her book, Reconsidering Southern Labour: Race, Class, and Power. We touch on the rise of policing as a way of controlling the newly freed Black population and the way that labour was at times complicit and at times a source of liberation, but almost always in conflict with the state.

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"Early on for colonists, raccoons become a really malleable and iconic species in terms of their appearance. And they are pretty abundant, so an easily mobilized symbol of America in the colonial imagination. But as time goes on they lose status, and as they lose status an animal that symbolism gets transferred. " Daniel Heath Justice talking about his book Raccoon.

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Dr. Marshall returns in the days after the insurrection of January 6 to talk with us about the Reconstruction and Gilded Age in the US. That was a period of transformation when the US had to decide if it would reconcile with white plantation owners who committed treason, or if it would reckon with the realities of slavery and dispossession. The US is at that crossroads again, something particularly visible following the events of January 6.

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Enestine Hayes (The Tao of Raven, Blonde Indian), Kaitln Curtice (Native, Glory Happening), Demita Frazier (interviewed for How We Get Free), Jenessa Galenkamp, and Joy Henderson join host Patty Krawec to talk about memoirs, who we write them for, why we write them, and the connections that they create.

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Dr. Lindsay Marshall is a historian of the American west and she joins us to talk about how history is not just filled with gaps, it's simply wrong. The things we learn about history create a public memory and that matters. The way that we remember things matter because that's what shapes how we react to social needs and problems how we shape policy and legislation.

Revisiting these narratives is like trying to plow a field, but the field is full of rocks that you need to get out of the way. And you have to talk about the rocks, but they aren't the point. The point is clearing the field.

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Fighting against the harms of the state also means fighting for the world we want. It means building community. Pearly Pouponneau joins us to talk about building community as an act of resistance.

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Kevin Tucker joins us to talk about Christian Imperialism, the way that missionaries have been part of the colonial project.

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Our history is the future. We look at history for clues to what is happening today and this conversation with Nick Estes, Tiya Miles, Cheryl Savageau, Sean Carson, and Khadija Hammuda dives into the intersections of Black and Indigenous history. The ways we are and are not visible in each others stories.

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This month features the book Why Indigenous Literatures Matter by Daniel Heath Justice. Daniel and Patty are joined by poet Janet Marie Rogers, educators Joy Henderson, Robin McBurney, and Ishkenekeya and my artist Neil Ellis Orts.

Indigenous literatures teach us how to be human. How to be good relatives. How to be good ancestors. How to live together.

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