You aren't alone! Benji and I wanted to share some reflections on the inauguration this week without any spiraling or doomcasting. We talk about the importance of caring for our emotional health (even the feelings that aren't great) and of course, caring for our nervous systems so we can care for our communities.

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Poverty has such a measurable impact on your nervous system that we can see it in brain scans, yet we don't often talk about what those impacts look like. Benjamin Faye is back on the show to unpack some of the ways that poverty changes our brain chemistry, alters expectations, and increases struggles for self-regulation. And we discuss what healing can look like with in community and with support.

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Benji is back on the show to discuss his experience with homelessness and the systemic barriers that lead to millions of Americans falling through the cracks. Benji shares personal stories, insights into the realities of life trying to find shelter on a day to day basis, and his perspective on what real change could look like. Join us for a powerful and eye-opening conversation about resilience, community, and the urgent need for action.

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Had Prop on the show to talk about surviving *gestures vaguely at everything*, what we owe to each other, and how we can reduce harmful impacts on our families, communities, and the world. We also discuss the little steps we can take to make a difference when the world is on fire, how going "off the grid" isn't the answer, and life after capitalism and empire.

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Strong communities are essential to surviving authoritarian flare-ups but how do we do that? Today Scott Okamoto and Benjamin Faye join me to discuss what strong community can look like and how to build community while minimizing risk of harm.

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“As we recognize that humans are human, and worthy of human rights, conservative white america is dying this slow demographic death and rebelling.”

Why is it that the exact arguments used against trans people and DEI were being used in defense of slavery in pre emancipation America? I reached out to Andrew Seidel to discuss this patter because he wrote about and debunked all these arguments in his book The Founding Myth: How Christian Nationalism is Unamerican. (Linked at bookshop.org, not the rainforest oligarch's store.) We talk about how, despite the debunking, authoritarian thinkers keep clinging to biblical literalism to justify withholding human rights.

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CW ⚠️: this episode contains references to suicide and diets. If you are experiencing a mental health crisis in the US or Canada you can dial 988 to get support.

Fan fave Andre Henry is back to talk about the practice of building resilience in the context of supremacist culture. Honestly, this conversation had me tearing up in places, and yet left me completely inspired and grounded. As you probably already know, I'm so grateful for Andre's work.

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The books Andre mentions in this episode are

Living While Black by Ajuan Mance

Black Fatigue by Mary-Frances Winters

Resilient by Rick Hanson

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Why is it that the same arguments used to defend slavery are being used to dehumanize trans people? Why is it that there's no way for most white evangelicals to separate their faith and their nationalism? Why is the Constitution conflated with the Bible? Corey and Tori try to disentangle Christianity from Americanism

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Today we are taking a crack at ye olde Prager "University" meme about the first Black US representatives, which correctly points out that they were all Republicans and incorrectly implies that their party affiliation mattered for much, then or now. Turns out, they were woke too! Don't tell Dennis!

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I've been wanting to try a new format for the show for a while so I took a stab at it this week with Janice Lagata of God Has Not Given. We talk about the fascinating true story of Mary Richards Bowser, a Union spy who was also enslaved. I would LOVE to know what you think about this format, mainly because if you all hate it, I don't want to keep trying to make it happen! 😆 

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Episode sources:

https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/bowser-mary-richards-fl-1846-1867/ 

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/mary-jane-richards 

https://time.com/5609045/misremembering-mary-bowser/ 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/elizabeth-van-lew-an-unlikely-union-spy-158755584/