Founding Mothers

In this episode,Virgie Tovar—author, lecturer, and leading expert on weight-based discrimination and body positivity—shares her personal journey of navigating weight-based discrimination and reclaiming her body heritage. She discusses the harmful effects of fatphobia, the intersections of body size, race, and gender, and the societal impacts of weight discrimination, such as the wage gap and access to healthcare.

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In this Grounding Practice,  Virgie Tovar—author, lecturer, and leading expert on weight-based discrimination and body positivity—dares us to unbutton our pants, unzip our skirts, and embrace the idea of a big, wobbly belly without shame.

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In this episode, Liberty Gonzalez, a liberatory community psychologist and certified holistic coach, discusses the importance of communal care, and reimagining relationships and family structures; Highlighting the importance for all people to explore their authentic desires and expression so that we can all be more free together.

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In this Grounding Practice, Liberty Gonzalez—liberatory community psychologist and certified holistic coach who is passionate about supporting visionary community leaders—shares a grounding moment to help us recognize and appreciate the ways we are nourished by the world around us.

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In this episode, Mariah Rankine-Landers, an advocate for transformative education and co-founder of Studio Pathways, shares her profound insights on how returning to a creative process for living and learning can help  us address the root of social inequities that manifest in our education, work, and organizing systems.

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In this Grounding Practice, Mariah Rankin-Landers—a leader in pedagogical strategy and co-founder of Studio Pathways—guides us through a grounding practice of altering our heart space by creating a visual collage of elements while being encouraged to draw on the wisdom and support of these energies throughout our day. The practice is aimed to remind us of the importance of joy and love in our lives and to express gratitude for the people, places, and objects that enrich our experiences.

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Dr. Rupa Marya is a physician, activist, writer, mother, and a composer. She is a Professor of Medicine at UCSF, where she practices and teaches internal medicine. Her work sits at the nexus of climate, health and racial justice. She founded the Deep Medicine Circle, an organization committed to healing the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story and learning. 

In this episode of “This Is How We Care”, Dr. Rupa Marya shares her insights on the intersection of colonialism, capitalism, and health, drawing from her work with Deep Medicine Circle and her book “Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice”, co-authored with Raj Patel.

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In this Grounding Moment, Dr. Rupa Marya Gandhi shares a quote by Ben Okri, read from her book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice, co-authored with Raj Patel.

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In this episode of “This Is How We Care”, Madame Gandhi talks about the importance of finding joy in the mundane, mental health, and how leading with kindness can positively impact our work and relationships with family and friends.

Madame Gandhi is an award-winning artist and activist known for her uplifting, percussive electronic music and positive message about gender liberation and personal power. She began producing music in 2015, after her story running the London Marathon free-bleeding to combat menstrual stigma went viral around the world. 

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In this Grounding Practice, Madame Gandhi guides us through a meditation to  center in who we are and connect to a vibration of joy from within.

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Standing Together is a grassroots movement mobilizing Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel in pursuit of peace, equality, and social and climate justice. 
“While the minority who benefit from the status quo of occupation and economic inequality seek to keep us divided, we know that we — the majority — have far more in common than that which sets us apart.”

In this episode, Yael Drier Shilo—one of the founding members and current financial director of Standing Together—shares how the grassroots movement led by Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel is standing for peace. She explains how the organization advocates for true social and economic justice on a daily basis, and how they’re organizing to meet the solidarity needs of the current moment.

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In this Grounding Practice, Yael Drier Shilo, one of the founding members and of Standing Together — a grassroots movement mobilizing Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel in pursuit of peace, equality, and social and climate justice — reads the poem: “The Wheat Grows Again”. Join us for a grounding moment and see what opens up for you. 

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In this episode of “This Is How We Care”, host Emily Race-Newmark shares the learnings that shaped the recent name change from “Founding Mothers” to “This Is How We Care”, and what to expect in this upcoming season. 

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In this Grounding Practice, host Emily Race-Newmark shares a prayer from her heart to ground listeners for showing up in our lives connected to our values and contributing to a world of collective care. 

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Featured in Trailer (in order of appearance) 

• Emily Race-Newmark (host) 
• Vanessa Roanhorse 
• Amanda Young 
• adrienne maree brown
• Sara Elise 

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This episode includes clips from previous episodes, personal stories of what Emily has been trying and practicing, and a sneak peak of what’s to come for the future of the Founding Mothers platform.

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Kelsey Blackwell (she/her,they/them) is a cultural somatics practitioner, author and facilitator, working exclusively with women and groups of color, whose truth she believes is uniquely essential in this time. Kelsey supports clients to confront internalized feelings of not-enoughness and reconnect with their inherent wisdom, dignity and worth.

In this episode, Kelsey and Emily define somatics and how this work connects to what it means to be human; unpack the distinctions between a ‘colonized’ and ‘decolonized' body; talk about Kelsey’s experience writing her book, “Decolonizing the Body” and why she centers women and people of color in her work; explore what a more embodied society could feel like and how we might get there, moment by moment.

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Kristie Cabrera (she/they) is a queer and neurodivergent accessibility and inclusivity consultant utilizing a background in occupational therapy to guide organizations on improving their accessibility and inclusivity practices. She is particularly passionate about collaborating with spaces that aim to provide healing and growth, including nature spaces, health centers, and forward thinking schools and nonprofits.  

In this episode, Kristie and Emily discuss the importance of increasing access to nature spaces, how designing with accessibility in mind provides exciting solutions and new perspectives for everyone, normalizing resistance as a part of creating inclusive space, and how we can work through that to design for a wider range of bodies and minds.

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Chiara Francesca (they/them) is a queer disabled artist, writer, organizer, acupuncturist, former teen mother, first-gen college grad, and Italian immigrant who has been involved in movements for justice for over two decades.They have written and spoken on a wide variety of topics including disability justice, building anti-capitalist systems, accessible healthcare, and using art as a tool for structural change. 

In this episode, Chiara and Emily discuss how to re-discover our humanity within systems that are inherently dehumanizing; the importance of conflict resolution and trust in our movement building; an expanded perspective of what healthcare can look like, and normalizing isolation and dissociation as products of the systems we’ve inherited and how we might evolve past these. 

You can learn more about Chiara and their work on their website and view some of their artmaking on Instagram. Read “What could a more just HEALTHCARE AND HEALING practice look like?”, compiled by Chiara, here.

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Dr. Jennifer Mullan (she/her), affectionately nicknamed “the Rage Doctor” by peers and clients, is trained as a Clinical Psychologist, is a published author, and is the CEO and founder of Decolonizing Therapy. She seeks to unpack the oppressive legacy of modern mental health practices, and reconnect practitioners and clients to the roots of our wounding and healing within a sociopolitical lens, most particularly for Queer Indigenous Black Brown People of Color (QIBPOC). 

In this episode, Dr. Jennifer Mullan and Emily unpack some of the systemic problems within therapy and social work and where these current models are dehumanizing and incomplete; how diagnosing can be limiting, harmful and problematic; the importance of looking at ancestral lineage, trauma, and ways of healing; and lovingly making space for sacred rage. 

You can learn more about Decolonizing Therapy here, and follow Dr. Jennifer Mullan on Instagram, Twitter, and/or Facebook  

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