decolonial

This is the third installment of the Fruitless Bookclub, a show-within-a-show, featuring Chris Barker and Jake the Lawyer, where we read all those nonfiction books we've been meaning to read. Today's episode is about How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

Next month: Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia by Steven Stoll

Become a Fruitless Patron here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=11922141
Check out Fruitless on YouTube
Find more of Josiah’s work here: https://linktr.ee/josiahwsutton

Follow Josiah on Twitter @josiahwsutton

Other references

• "Reconsidering a Classic: Walter Rodney's 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa,'" Vanderbilt University on YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCiuFRiOW28.
• Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
• Children of God's Fire: A Documentary History of Slavery in Brazil, edited by Robert Edgar Conrad, quote from Section 2.9. "There Are Plantations Where the Slaves Are Numb with Hunger": A Medical Thesis on Plantation Diseases and Their Causes (1847). We got the quote from a smarter person than us on an r/AskHistorians thread, which is here https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ztoexl/comment/j39waqr/.
• "One Giant Leap: Emancipation and Aggregate Economic Gains," Richard Hornbeck and Trevon Logan, Becker Friedman Institute, https://bfi.uchicago.edu/insight/research-summary/one-giant-leap-emancipation-and-aggregate-economic-gains. This is the UChicago article about how slavery is, in fact, unprofitable--the worst thing in the world to UChicago.
• "Oh Dearism," directed by Adam Curtis. I (Josiah) kept referencing the "oh dear" sentiment from this six-minute Curtis documentary but forgot to actually bring it up, so it's right here for the citation perverts reading these notes: https://thoughtmaybe.com/oh-dearism.

Music

Yesterday – bloom.

In My Dreams – bloom.

What if we always belong? What if our belonging was something we never had to prove, to strive for, or to buy our way into? What might shift if we presuppose inherent goodness and if we get curious about unmet needs? 

To me, Leah Garza embodies what it means to be a devoted student of big questions. Working with Leah in the past couple years has helped me open doors to parts of self I didn't know exist and question the fabric of 'reality' as I was taught. 

In this conversation, we discussed her approach to teaching as a way of creating communities that foster intellectual intimacy, the connection between her decolonial and esoteric studies, and, most importantly, why Leah Garza does not exist. 

Leah's bio:

Leah Garza is a student, teacher, and mystic based out of Los Angeles. She is the creator behind Crystals of Altamira and Living Systems. Currently she is writing her dissertation on topics in depth psychology, decoloniality and ontology. Her work, whether academic or spiritual, is focused on dissolving the illusion of fixed individualism, and reimagining relationality and belonging for all beings.

Links:

Read more about Living Systems.

Apply for Living Systems 2024 here. 

Book a session with Leah.

Check out Leah's website and Instagram.

If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link. 

This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at healingthespiritpodcast@gmail.com.

This is the second installment of the Fruitless Bookclub (Chris didn't like it being called the Barker Bookclub), a show-within-a-show where we read all those nonfiction books we've been meaning to read. Today's episode is about Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis.

Next month: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

Become a Fruitless Patron here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=11922141
Check out Fruitless on YouTube
Find more of Josiah’s work here: https://linktr.ee/josiahwsutton

Follow Josiah on Twitter @josiahwsutton

Music

Yesterday – bloom.

In My Dreams – bloom.

What does it mean to do a reading and to be a reader? What is the role of literacy in liberation? What role does faith play in reclaiming the truth of who we are?

In this invigorating conversation, I’m joined by my friend and tarot-astrology scholar extraordinaire Christopher @the.red.read in discussing their take on what it means to do a reading and to be a reader. I’m inspired by Christopher’s cultivation of their embodied intuitive knowledge and the ways they translate that to their work.

This conversation invited me into deeper contemplations of what it means to play the role of sharing our love of esoteric knowledge with others - be that in a reading or teaching capacity, which are so often intricately intertwined.

We spoke about Christopher’s passion and dedication to helping others cultivate a practice of reading tarot for themselves and others, and how to weave a body of knowledge in a community of learners and seekers.

Here’s Christopher’s bio:

Christopher is an educator, astrologer, writer and tarot scholar. Their work interweaves knowledge of astrology, mythology, tarot, feminist, queer knowing and being to create a dynamic space of exalted spiritual regard. Their readings are a constellation of consciousness, a channel for healing, and a tool for decolonization. The classes, readings and writings work to give and facilitate new ways of reading the world and the self, to empower the writing of a new world and to revise worn out self-concepts. In Christopher’s tradition, literacy, in all its forms, is the legacy of liberation.

Find Christopher on their website www.theredread.com to join their newsletter, to check out their classes, readings, and other offerings. 

If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link. 

This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at healingthespiritpodcast@gmail.com.

La brujería es un tema tabú que suele causarle miedo a la gente… pero no siempre ha sido así. En épocas pre-coloniales, las brujas o personas que hacían magia eran respetadas y reconocidas como miembros importantes de la comunidad. En el episodio de hoy, exploramos la historia de las brujas del Caribe, y el miedo que existe hacia ellas. Por ejemplo ¿sabías que la primera mujer en ser acusada de ser bruja durante los famosos juicios de Salem, era caribeña? También entrevistamos a Maria, una mujer dominico-haitiana de San Cristóbal que trabaja con los denominados “misterios”.

Apoya nuestra programación apuntándote a nuestro Patreon por sólo $3 doláres al mes aquí. 

Más información sobre la invitada de hoy:

Maria: Whatsapp 809-865-0016

Las canciones y clips que tocamos (en orden):

Video Game Soldiers by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://www.twinmusicom.org/song/295/video-game-soldier Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org

Mayan Ritual - Jimena Contreras - YouTube Audio Library

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEKYqTgKwaQ

Luck Witch - Audio Hertz - YouTube Audio Library

Chiapas Marimba - Jimena Contreras - YouTube Audio Library

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGAYd8soSYU 

Six by Eight - Jimmy Fontanez/Media Right Productions - YouTube Audio Library

Party de Palo - Inka, Evaristo Moreno: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgr_G_Fy7KQ

Trabajos citados y más información sobre el tema:

https://www.thoughtco.com/what-was-titubas-race-3530573

https://www3.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/07/19/salem-dedicates-witch-trials-memorial-marking-years-since-infamous-executions/XLqBAGswPR8v13yePlBGhM/story.html?arc404=true

https://wams.nyhistory.org/settler-colonialism-and-revolution/settler-colonialism/tituba/

https://www.redalyc.org/journal/1051/105149483011/html/

https://www.pikaramagazine.com/2019/05/la-caza-de-brujas-de-ayer-el-feminicidio-de-hoy/

Video clips usados en mix al principio:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBm7tJpgTGA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNdEPA6ZZfU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkK-JSrO8Mo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhj6-oogMXk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wE7Gm_ZZk4

Sign up for our English newsletter Caribe Místico here.

In today's episode, your tour guides are joined by Keanu Heydari (@WoeToChorazin) to discuss the anti-government protests in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, and the broader challenges involved in transnational solidarity.

Follow us on Twitter @Mammonburgpod
Follow the hosts on Twitter: Jackal, Finch, Josiah, and Phil.
Follow our guests on Twitter

Check back for charities mentioned by Jackal.

Audio Credits
Downtown Café - Homie Cat

In this conversation from March 2022,  reproductive justice practitioner, organizer, researcher, and educator Jalessah Jackson speaks about decolonial feminism, a framework that forges material feminist solidarities through an examination of the relationship between gender and colonialism. We discuss the origins of this intellectual and organizing framework, its relationship to bourgeois and carceral feminisms, material international solidarity work, and the role of scholar-activism. Get into it!

Check out the decolonial feminist collective at instagram.com/decolonialfeministcollective / 

The music you hear was produced by the homie JayOhAye , support them at www.jayohaye.com / 

Support Groundings on Patreon at patreon.com/Halfatlanta / 

Support ARC-Southeast at arc-southeast.org/ / 

We’re joined by Chockie Tom, who works to increase Indigenous visibility and empowerment in the drink and hospitality industry. Chockie’s advocacy efforts are deeply tied to her Pomo and Walker River Paiute heritage. As a bartender, consultant, and occasional brand ambassador, she has striven to increase Native involvement in the industry while helping people navigate this space for harm reduction. She helps bars and brands avoid cultural appropriation, promoting cultural appreciation and exchange while offering ways that businesses can give back to communities affected by colonization. Chockie even organized and moderated the very first Indigenous-led panel for Tales of the Cocktail, which you can watch on YouTube.

Chockie is one of the co-founders of Doomersive – a decolonial cocktail program that challenges and subverts tiki culture. They’ve hosted tropical/immersive cocktail pop-ups in New York and London that substitute doom metal and satanic iconography in place of the racist appropriation and hypersexualization of Pacifica women that normally characterize the Tiki aesthetic. She even includes a “fundraging” aspect to this work, redirecting some of the money raised at these tropical ragers to support communities that have been negatively impacted by colonization. 

Follow Chockie Tom on Instagram @chocktails and on Twitter @chocktailsnyc


You can support her work though PayPal and Venmo

Cocktails & Capitalism is an anticapitalist labor of love, but we could use your help to make this project sustainable. If you can support with even a dollar a month, that would really help us continue to educate, agitate, and amplify the voices of those who are working to dismantle capitalism and create a better world.

https://www.patreon.com/cocktailsandcapitalism

Follow us on Instagram and Twitter
Some episodes on YouTube. Please like & subscribe

No episódio de hoje, a entrevistada é Isabela Millani @decolonial.isa, natural de Rio de Janeiro, capital, atualmente imigrante em Poitiers/França. Uma conversa sobre o como é estudar em umas das universidades mais prestigiadas no mundo e o processo de estudar, e quebrar o pensamento, sobre colonialismo europeu.
---
Lupa Cultural:
Françoise Vergès, escritora - @francoiseverges
Orgulho e Preconceito, livro de Jane Austen
Kimberlé Crenshaw, escritora - @kimberlecrenshaw
Teoria King Kong, livro de Virginie Despentes
Cah Fernandes, estudante de psicologia, não-mono e Bi - @eta.nega
Pretitudes, tudo sobre povo preto - @pretitudes
---
Apoie nosso podcast

---
Email: mulheresimigrantespod@gmail.com
Instagram: @mulheresimigrantespod & @bah_
Facebook: @mulheresimigrantespod
Twitter: @mulherespodcast
YouTube: Mulheres Imigrantes Podcast
TikTok: @mulheresimigrantespod
---
Apoie nosso podcast no buymeacoffee.com/mulheresimi
---
Este podcast é uma produção independente, realizado e idealizado por Barbara dos Santos

En dos culturas tan marcadas por el colonialismo como son la española y la alemana, montamos una fiesta con voces diversas que nos abren los ojos a las literaturas decoloniales y nos ilustran sobre cómo podemos recuperarnos de la infinita resaca colonial. La escritora y activista Gabriela Wiener ejerce de co-presentadora y aparte, nos habla también de su última novela, “Huaco retrato”. Además, charlamos con la politóloga Emilia Roig, directora del Center for Intersectional Justice de Berlín y autora de “Why we matter: El final de la opresión”. En nuestras “First Dates” el flechazo entre el poeta y activista antirracista Yeison F García y Oumar Diallo, fundador de la librería La Panafricana, es instantáneo. Y además, se asoman a nuestra fiesta las voces más destacadas de la liga anticolonial y antirracista contemporánea: desde el colectivo Ayllú a las filósofas y activistas María Galindo, Carolina Meloni, Yuderkys Espinosa, Diego Falconi, Ochy Curiel, Vero Antira y Mafe Moscoso.

https://www.goethe.de/ins/es/de/kul/sup/pod.html

A conversation with Kris Sealey about her 2020 book Creolizing the Nation, which addresses the cultural, political, and historical significance of creolization for thinking about the lived-experience of migration, movement, culture mixing, and cultural production in the Americas.

Kris Sealey teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut. She has published widely in European philosophy, philosophy of race, philosophical questions arising from racialized experience in the Americas, and anti- and de-colonial theory in the black Atlantic. Her first book, Moments of Disruption: Levinas, Sartre, and the Question of Transcendence was published in 2013 by State University of New York Press, and her second book, which is the topic of this conversation, was published in 2020 by Northwestern University Press and is titled Creolizing the Nation.

The opening poem "Nothing to Declare," read by Kris Sealey, was written Lauren K. Alleyne. Many thanks to the poet for permission to include this reading of her gorgeous, evocative poem.

A lengthy conversation with Jeanne-Marie Jackson about her new book and its creative staging of dialogue between fiction and philosophy, with particular emphasis on how that dialogue happens within the texts of contemporary anglophone African writers.

Jeanne-Marie Jackson is a literary critic and scholar of world literature who teaches in the Department of English at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. She has published extensively on African literature, philosophy, and politics in both scholarly and popular venues. Her first book, South African Literature’s Russian Soul: Narrative Forms of Global Isolation, is a compelling comparative study, creating intellectual space within which it is possible to connect the motifs and imperatives of 19th century Russian realist literature to the literature of South Africa in the apartheid era and postcolonial moment. Her new book, which is under discussion in the conversation, was published in early 2021 with Princeton University Press and is titled The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing.

A conversation with Geo Maher about his forthcoming book Anticolonial Eruptions: Racial Hubris and the Cunning of Resistance, which explores the history and political character of revolutionary action and its continuity with racial justice struggle in the contemporary moment.

Geo Maher teaches in the Department of Political Science at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. He is the author of numerous articles in academic venues, as well as popular and radical political media. He has written five books: ‘We Created Chavez’: A People’s History of the Bolivarian Revolution and Decolonizing Dialectics, both with Duke University Press, and with Verso he has published Building the Commune and A World Without Police. Anticolonial Eruptions is forthcoming with University of California Press in late-March 2022.

Dr. Rocio Rosales Meza is a seer, medicine woman, and counseling psychology PhD, and decolonial healer whose  work is focused on facilitating healing and liberation for Black, Indigenous, Women of Color from a decolonial & spiritual perspective. In this powerful episode we discuss: 

• Dr Rocio's "dark night of the soul,"  when a health crisis caused her to lose her coveted academic job, and the spiritual (re)awakening it ushered it
• Her experience with motherhood  and guidance on how to raise our children to stay connected with spirit and trust their own powerful knowing
• Dr Rocio's work at the intersection of decolonial activism and spirituality, and why that's the key to ushering in the new earth

Dr. Rocio's website

Dr. Rocio's instagram @rosalesmeza

Eva's instagram: @iamevaliao

Book a discovery call with Eva

Kyley's Instagram: @kyleycaldwell

Book a discovery call with Kyley

Dr. Rocio Rosales Meza is a seer, medicine woman, and counseling psychology PhD, and decolonial healer whose work is focused on facilitating healing and liberation for Black, Indigenous, Women of Color from a decolonial & spiritual perspective. In this powerful episode we discuss: 

• Dr Rocio's "dark night of the soul,"  when a health crisis caused her to lose her coveted academic job, and the spiritual (re)awakening it ushered it
• Her experience with motherhood  and guidance on how to raise our children to stay connected with spirit and trust their own powerful knowing
• Dr Rocio's work at the intersection of decolonial activism and spirituality, and why that's the key to ushering in the new earth

Dr. Rocio's website

Dr. Rocio's instagram @rosalesmeza

Eva's instagram: @iamevaliao

Book a discovery call with Eva

Kyley's Instagram: @kyleycaldwell

Book a discovery call with Kyley

We explore the philosophy and theoretical work behind the actions of Amílcar Cabral, African revolutionary from Guinea-Bissau who helped lead a succesful anti-colonial movement against the Portugese in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde.

Reasearcher, writer, and organizer Zeyad El Nabolsy discusses Cabral's approach to culture and cultural liberation, dispels some eurocentric and racist myth surrounding Cabral's legacy, and looks at Cabral's relationship to Marxism.

You can find Zeyad's essays we reference here, as well as the essay by Blaut here which he mentions towards the end.

Intro/outro audio: Angela Davis on Amilcar Cabral, 1973

You can support me at Patreon.com/HalfAtlanta, and follow me on Twitter @halfatlanta.