Medicine for the Resistance

Robyn Maynard, author of Policing Black Lives, joins us for a conversation about policing. People are not just marginalize, they are pushed violently to the margins and policing is one way that this is done. With the release of prisoners because of the risk of Covid-19 in prisons, we are seeing a glimpse of what is possible. That we can truly imagine a world without policing.

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The idea of defunding the police is gaining traction, and it may feel more possible than abolition, but Black and Indigenous people have been doing the impossible for centuries. Abolition is possible.

Desmond Cole tells us why it is necessary.

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For many Black and Indigenous people growing up feels unmoored, isolated, lonely. Like Tammy Street said a few weeks earler, we grew up in a blizzard of whiteness.

Which makes going home so powerful. To see yourself reflected everywhere. To see yourself in positions of authority and service, to see yourself everywhere and reflected in everyone. To put your feet on the same earth that your ancestors walked.

It's powerful. And it changes you.

Angela Gray joins us again, to talk about going home.

Transcript available here: http://daanis.ca/2020/06/14/going-home-with-angela-gray/

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Marina Nabao joins us again for a conversation about how we move through the world as women, Black and Indigenous. It was recorded in March, before the pandemic when the Canadian government was in a standoff against Indigenous activists blockading trains and ports. We talk about the need for change and healing, a badly needed reset for this western world.

transcript will be available, but not just yet.

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Azie Dungey joins us to talk about growing up in three worlds, Black, Indigenous, and America. Azie's family is connected to the Pawmunkey tribe in Virginia, recently recognized by the US government despite 400 years of documented contact and relationship.

Solidarity between Black and Indigenous people is complicated and transformative.

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We are deeply invested in our identities, but how do we even begin to understand who we are outside of the colonial context? Black and Indigenous identities are largely constructed by the colonial regime, as are sexual identities. We are framed against the white, cis het normal.
We imagine people as either civilized or uncivilized based on how close they are, or are not. to that ideal.

So how do we move past that?

By having very difficult conversations.

Dr. Tamari Kitossa joins us again. Transcript is available here:

http://daanis.ca/2020/05/24/sex-lies-and-colonial-identities/

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Food is about connection, about family and community. We all know this. But it is also about relationship to land and place. It contains language and history as well as a way forward.

Find one native plant, one thing in your backyard or the place you live. Learn everything about it. Tend it. Take care of it, and be taken care of in return.

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Everybody says that they are "not racist" but the truth is that we are all raised in a settler-colonial world that attributes qualities to people based on their race and then puts those qualities into a hierarchy. This is my attempt at helping a group of emerging podcasters to identify and then challenge racist beliefs and ideas. The presentation is part of the Indigenous 150+ youth ambassador program and I was invited to speak by Sean Vanderklis, a journalist and podcaster with One Dish One Mic. Transcript is available at http://daanis.ca/2020/05/14/recognizing-racism-and-becoming-anti-racist/

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Tammy Street is an artist, a mother, and a mystery. She was adopted and knows little about her birth family except that her mother was not white. She describes being raised "in a blizzard" and the impact of seeing the works of Indigenous artists reflecting her own appearance. While not claiming to be Indigenous, Tammy is trying to be a good relative, trying to find a way to be at home.

You can find her work at http://www.tamisery.com/

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Social worker, activist, and community member Verlia Roberts joins us again to talk about what community means during a pandemic. How do we make sure that nobody gets left behind while making sure that we don't become overwhelmed.

What we do now matters.

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