The Decolonizing Medicine Podcast

Cuán Sabino McCann (he/him), @bmorebata, is a white trans person of Irish and Italian descent, a big old homo, and a teacher of Irish martial arts. He's a certified Level 4 Coach in the Doyle family style of bataireacht ("BAH-tair-acht"), a traditional Irish martial art where folks use walking sticks (known as shillelaghs) for community defense. Cu teaches in-person classes through Bmore Bata in DC & Baltimore (and soon, online classes worldwide!). His classes center trans & queer folks but are open to all who fight at our side.

Cu trains under Bernie Leddy, the founder of the Fighting Hares Faction and the current Chieftain of the Doyle family style worldwide.

This episode's community shoutout goes to past guest @Recoveryfortherevolution who is currently fundraising for their book, Answering the Call of the Ancestors.

Links

http://linktr.ee/bmorebata

https://www.instagram.com/bmorebata/

https://www.instagram.com/recoveryfortherevolution/

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Rebecca Mendoza Nunziato (she/ella/ya) is a Xicana master's of divinity candidate at Harvard Divinity School, and co-organizer of the Harvard Nahuatl language group. She is a graduate of the University of Oregon with experience working in community organizing, advocacy, education, and storytelling in Denver, Colorado. Broadly, Rebecca's scholarship centers Indigenous philosophy and religion, specifically how rituals create kinship among humans, plants, animals, ancestors, and land in the Americas. Her focus on Mesoamerican and Chicanx cosmovision is guided by decolonial methodologies. Over the summer, Rebecca was a Research Fellow in the Pre-Columbian Studies program at Dumbarton Oaks with additional support by the Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project. This episode's community shoutout goes to @Alex_purple and @wocsistercollective_. Check them out and show some love!

This might be one of the most playful conversations I have ever had - an absolute delight. I hope you enjoy this interview as much as me.

@party.noodles (they/them) is a celebrant, a shapeshifter, often in a transition of sorts.

류 [ryoo] means: to stay, to be with, to leave behind (a message, a mark), to accept (a gift), to allow to grow.

경 [kyung] means: fortune, blessing, wealth, auspicious, good luck, ceremony, celebration.

They currently support humans whose very existence disrupts the status quo by way of celebration that honours their sacred uniqueness. Through their creative 1:1 work with folks, they bring a sense of ease, wonder, and playfulness into their healing containers.

This episode’s community shoutout goes to two guests that have been on The Decolonizing Medicine Podcast: @raw__movement and @tabernaclelife because they’re just that good. Don’t forget to check them out and show them some love.

Joy Tabernacle-KMT (@tabernaclelife), she/they/opulence, iz a Hoodoo, healer, mother, artist, ceremonialist, spiritual teacher, liberation mystic & opulence. She iz a guide to intense, passionate, powerful, Beings that carry big, wild, beautiful, mojo, medicine & magic that requires deep support, radical witnessing, courageous choice and resonant clarity for expansion and expression. This episode’s community shoutout goes to @lovingblacksinglemothers - check them out and send some love!

@justinagrayman (she/her) is an artist who studies practices and processes for designing beautiful spaces of deep connection, home, family. With a BA in Psychology from Stanford University and a PhD in Psychology and Social Intervention from New York University, Justina’s studies have always centered on understanding how we communicate with each other in ways that build power, connect, and mobilize us. Justina is currently developing @Raw_Movement. Justina’s ultimate mission is to collaboratively create / transform entire communities into spaces of deep, divine connection.

This episode’s community shoutout goes to @party.noodles. Check them out and show them some love!

Links:

https://www.instagram.com/raw__movement/

https://www.instagram.com/justinagrayman/

Rawmovement.org

https://www.instagram.com/party.noodles/

jamee-pineda-lac.com

@richaelfaithfulfolkhealer (they/them/theirs) is a Black conjurer, folk healer, shamanic practitioner, and culture worker rooted in DC and Virginia. Since initiation in 2015, they have supported thousands of kindred, ancestors, and spirits in spiritual direction, energy medicine, divination, as well as magic and death doulaship. Their work has been featured in Colorlines, The Root, and other platforms. Richael weaves their mysticism into other work around healing justice strategy, conflict transformation, movement lawyering, and community organizing.

This episode’s community shoutout goes to @acorncenter4freedom. Check them out and show them some love!

Anna Balagtas (she/her) is a Queer + Pinay femme radical birthworker, educator, facilitator, energy worker, and pleasure advocate. Anna is the founder of @pocketdoula and supports emerging birthworkers in radicalizing their practice through heart-centered mentorships, facilitations, and community organizing. She houses her practice under the decolonization of birthwork and transformative queer care. Her deepest joys come from witnessing her communities thrive through community care, mutual aid, and abolition work.

This episode’s community shoutout goes to Anna’s mentees: Tasha (@nexuscommunitycare) and MaryAnne (@ating.kamay).

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Clarinda (she/her/hers) is the founder of #thematriarchalbusiness and course educator of the new Decolonizing Business unit at MBU, Clarinda Tivoli is a child of Oceania - an iTaukei and Samoan woman and mother, born in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, now living in the occupied Kingdom of Hawaii.

Moved by the liveliness of Pasifika indigenous revival, Clarinda grows and evolves her personal business model and teachings from cultural wisdom about health, abundance and sustainability. Returning to the values and practices of many indigenous cultures in regards to land, economics, society and politics, Clarinda works actively to separate capitalism and colonialism from business, and has faith that this is being done in the growing, thriving collective movement to decolonize business.

This episode’s community shoutout goes to Timaima Clawson (@embrace801). Check out Timaima's work and consider supporting!