Medicine for the Resistance

Piper Hughley is a professor and romance novelist, centering the voices of women who have been erased or ignored in her classroom and her novels. Long seen as a field of writing that doesn't need to be taken seriously, Piper sees centering the stories of Black men and women in historical romance as a subversive act.

And she spills some tea about WEB DuBois and Booker T Washington.

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Kade Ferris is an Ojibwe/Metis historican from the Turtle Mouintain
reservation in North Dakota. We begin by talking about the work of a historian, and somehow wind up planning the revolution. Which is really odd for us.

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Rachel Larabee is a member of the Indigenous community in Toronto and a community organizer. She talks about her work, the connection between social justice and chocolate, and the importance of relationship with the land. Racist policies create racist structures and it is the work of people like Rachel to help communities overcome barriers and develop their own opportunities to push back.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a Jewish Barbadian Cosmologist, working at the interface of particle physics and astrophysics and cosmology.

She's also political, and has been so since first or second grade. We talk STEM, electoral politics, and how everything intersects with everything in some way. I knew a conversation with Chanda would be interesting, I had no idea.

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Throughout the sixties and seventies Black and Indigenous children were taken from their families and adopted into white families. This is the story of one adoptee.

Angela talks about having her history taken from her, and replaced with the history of the dominant culture. What does that say about our society when we take away somebody's history, and what does it say about how they feel about the people they taken away from? What does it reveal about the unseen racist ideas of people and the racist policies of a system that values our history so little.

Angela also talks about doing the work to overcome trauma, the responsibility to "do our own s**t" so that our children will have something better.

Link to the article by Laura Landertinger here:
https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/80850

Episode transcript available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qnLoDFRF4-XxLMNiunc7CnU9-B06uLcZ/view?usp=sharing

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Del Lessin talks with us about restoring language and culture decades after the loss of their last language speaker.

We often return to the flood narrative in thinking about how we are rebuilding after the apocalypse of colonization, but the Catawba people of South Carolina are doing this in an extraordinary way. Del's work on and with the Catawba nation involves language, culture, and agriculture and the ways in which these things are interconnected.

You can learn more about Del here: https://delesslin-portfolio.herokuapp.com/

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Chelsea Vowell, author of the book Indigenous Writes, activist, and language teacher joins us for a conversation about learning and teaching Cree. From the mechanics of teaching language, through what language itself means for culture and community we talk about the process of learning and teaching. The ways in which we teach, whether it is language or ceremony, must be ways that draw people in, that are safe spaces. Because if these spaces are violent and people don't feel welcome, then what are we doing?

transcript available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1COoW2I0kGD7PprQDW2-Ne4DW2-UEvXN_/view?usp=sharing

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Harsha Walia, the author of Undoing Border Imperialism and activist with No One is Illegal in Vancouver BC, joins us for a conversation about border imperialism and colonization. We often look for global language to talk about the ways in which colonialism and imperialism impact and categorize people, but as always, s**t is complicated and global language rarely contains the nuance needed for these discussions.

Resources mentioned include:

https://migrantworkersalliance.org/

http://rabble.ca/toolkit/rabblepedia/no-one-illegal

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16057173-undoing-border-imperialism

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Sharine Taylor, editor of Bashy Magazine, joins us again for a discussion about patois, it's roots and expression in popular culture. While language is fluid and constantly evolving, who benefits and how? Who receives credit or accolades, and who is marginalized for using it. Where are the lines between appreciation and appropriation.

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Rebekah Ingram is studying and teaching linguistics at Carleton University in Ottawa, particularly place names and the relationship between geography and language. She and her husband Kim join us for a conversation about the way culture, place, and language are intertwined and the importance of relationship in studying aspects of Indigenous communities.

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