Decolonize Everything - a podcast to start conversations about decolonization on a variety of topics
Finally had time to edit this episode featuring the brilliant Jamee Pineda! We had a great conversation about traditional medicine and ancestral healing arts. Big fan of Jamee and his ability to articulate the challenges and joys of seeking collective healing.
Find out more and support Jamee here:
http://www.jamee-pineda-lac.com/
Season 2 Episode 2 NOW LIVE! 💕
In this episode Rebecca is joined by Diana Morales, Purepecha artist and a graduate student at UCLA. Diana generously shares stories from her family, her community, and from the earth. Tune in to hear Purepecha origins of the sacred tabaco plant, the power of seed memory and planting in community, and Diana's journey of self care and representation through art.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/decolonize-everything/id1529213896?i=1000548213125
Show Decolonize Everything, Ep Story, Seeds, and Self Care with Diana Morales - Jan 18, 2022
HOORAY! More coming soon, my friends
A podcast to start conversations about decolonization on a variety of topics with a variety of voices. Disrupting the status quo by supporting a new consciousness & liberation in all areas of life through practical tips + radical Ideas.
Welcome to season 2 👋🏽
We invite you to light a candle and/or some incense with us and take in the wisdom of curandera Erika Buenaflor.
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/1qye3GS136NUINteqXRJhT?si=SpjidX6pTCGLi18j-LPO6g&dl_branch=1
Thanks everyone! It’s a great 1 year anniversary surprise 🎉🎉🎉
The final episode of Season 1 is now (finally) published just 1 year after we launched this thing.
Season 2 is coming soon and in the meantime, soak up Sara Nicole's wisdom in episode 12.
I had the great joy of sitting with one of my amazing sisters this summer to record our conversation. We talk about our journey of awakening and specifically Sara's work as a coach for empaths and highly sensitive people!
Listen now on your favorite app or check out the chapter markers provided here:
https://decolonizeeverything.buzzsprout.com/1301392/9029935-waking-up-with-sara-nicole
This is the final episode of season 1 of Decolonize Everything and it's a very special episode.Rebecca is joined by her sister Sara Nicole Mendoza. Sara Nicole is a life coach who helps highly sensitive people and empaths learn to regulate their n...
Listening to Derrick's wisdom again after a year of graduate school. So grateful for his insights, honesty, and willingness to tackle big questions.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/decolonize-everything/id1529213896?i=1000493004540
Show Decolonize Everything, Ep Decolonize the Academy with Dr. Derrick Hudson - Sep 29, 2020
"If we are all contributing to a collective effort, we can have massive change"
How are we contributing to decolonization in whatever spaces we find ourselves? 🎧
https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/decolonizing-religious-studies-and-its-layers-of-complicity/
What layers of complicity in colonialism are still embedded in the field of religious studies? How can we learn from decades of decolonial work in Native American and Indigenous Studies? Dr. Natalie Avalos speaks with RSP co-host David McConeghy about the urgency of decolonial scholarship to start t...
In this bonus episode I offer critiques of colonial systems and academic assumptions about religion and medicine. I share a bit about my research and experience of an unfolding relationship with copal. The decolonial healing path continues to draw me in. I am deeply grateful and increasingly aware of all that I need to un-learn and re-learn.
This is a project for a wonderful course I took this spring at Harvard Divinity School called "Religion and Healing: An Anthropological Perspective."
I am really grateful for a chance to TALK. IT. OUT. (in the quiet, dark covid-19 cave). Because so much of this year of online school has been in very isolated conditions. So I get a bit nerdy. I'd love to hear what you think!
In this bonus episode I offer critiques of colonial systems and academic assumptions about religion and medicine. I share a bit about my research and experience of an unfolding relationship with copal. The decolonial healing path continues to draw...
Interrupting Settler-Futures (Or, How Mi Amá Taught Me To Dream)
Open to the public! Register here:
https://emr.fas.harvard.edu/event/interrupting-settler-futures-or-how-mi-am%C3%A1-taught-me-dream
In this artist talk, Pelaez Lopez will discuss the ways in which United Statian settler-law attempts to territorialize the imagination of migrant subjects and the types of intimate domestic struggles that this infringement in the imagination causes. Throughout the talk, the poet will share new and p...
A compelling & challenging episode with a blend of perspectives & a powerful critique of how settler colonialism effects animal relatives.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/when-rez-dogs-become-settlers-pet-projects/id1092220986?i=1000515261915
Show MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairs, Ep When rez dogs become settlers' pet projects - Mar 31, 2021
Come walk/roll with us for a conversation on cars, capitalism, colonialism & so much more. Jonathon generously shares powerful stories & tools for healing 🙏🏽🌿 Whether you sit & look out the window or go on a trek in your neighborhood, we invite you to learn with the trees & be in solidarity on this decolonial path!
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Pedestrian Dignity Intrinsic Paths
Listen with us here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4mbHPDDzGj605Um2BEcgY2?si=k_LfJ-JkT3i6xjXzmovxxw
Natasha and Rebecca talk about the complexity of foster care through a lens of decolonizing family!
Tune in today!
https://decolonizeeverything.buzzsprout.com/1301392/7871554-decolonize-family-reframing-foster-care-with-natasha
Check out the latest episode of Decolonize Everything on your favorite podcast app.
Than be sure to follow Just As Special & tune in to their amazing podcast to learn more about foster care:
https://www.justasspecial.com/podcast
BIPOC Foster Care Podcast
Thank you everyone for your amazing support over the last 6 months! It's been such a joy to go on this journey together!
A podcast to start conversations about decolonization on a variety of topics with a variety of voices. Disrupting the status quo by supporting a new consciousness & liberation in all areas of life through practical tips + radical Ideas.
NEW EPISODE!
This time I got the chance to talk about decolonizing family with Natasha the founder of & a fellow woman of color podcaster trained by and
In this conversation we push the edges of our definitions of family, discuss how to care for one another to sustain the good work, and confront some of the power-dynamics and white-savior complex in foster care.
https://decolonizeeverything.buzzsprout.com/1301392/7871554-decolonize-family-reframing-foster-care-with-natasha
Found Poetry as decolonial practice 🔥
A final creative project for Fall 2020 course at Harvard Divinity School called: “Quests for Wisdom: Religious, Moral and Aesthetic Experiences in the Art of Living” taught by Davíd Carrasco, Stephanie Paulsell, Michael Puett, and Arthur Kleinman. ——- According to the Academy of Amer...
Upcoming episode features Natasha from - in the meantime go like/follow/listen to this amazing podcast!
Just As Special
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Last year, I became a foster mom to a teen girl.
Rachel joined me in the House of Pod studio so we could talk about how becoming a foster mom changed all my relationships and what I wish I’d known before becoming a foster mom.
We also give you a sneak peek of what’s to come for the Just As Special podcast including interviews with author and Patti (the adoptive mom of Mattie from our “Sassy As Hell & Haunted by a Microwave” episode).
Link in bio to listen to this bonus episode. Tell us what you think! 🎧
— Natasha
How has your view on animals or plants changed as you decolonize your spirituality?
"Todo lo que nos rodea es espiritual. Los animales tienen mensajes. También las plantas. Tenemos que aprender a escuchar. Cuando lo hacemos, sobrevivimos como especie. Somos uno con todo."
"All that surrounds us is spiritual. The animals have messages. So do the plants. We have to learn to listen. When we do, we survive as a species. We are one with everything.”
— Christi Belcourt, Métis (Canada)
Art: The Crow Taught Her, She Listened by Christi Belcourt, http://christibelcourt.com/ For more on this piece visit https://www.albertanativenews.com/feature-artist-for-april-2020-christi-belcourt/
This is beautiful.
" And so where yoga comes in for me is — and the practice,
this full practice of yoga which really is about how we embrace the roots of yoga is embracing all the different perspectives but in a way where there don’t have to be winners and losers. It’s kind of like helping shift consciousness while preserving the dignity of even those who have been the oppressors which is what happened in the non-violent struggle for the liberation of India from the British is the dignity of the oppressor was
actually preserved and the dignity of the oppressed, in that case the Indians, was restored. And so, at that same time, right, like there is a way to change culture, to change the world, to change ourselves that doesn’t have to make someone wrong or where we don’t have to be sitting in righteousness. You know, that’s a big picture example of what I think I hope and seek to do with yoga, both provide that tool of yoga as social change because it really is, yoga is one path to personal and social change but also, when we’re looking at cultural issues in yoga or appropriation, it’s like, well, there’s not an enemy, right?"
http://laylafsaad.com/good-ancestor-podcast/ep041-susanna-barkataki
In this episode, I speak with Yoga Practitioner, Author, and Founder, Susanna Barkataki. An Indian yoga practitioner in the Shankaracharya tradition, Susanna Barkataki supports practitioners to lead with equity, diversity and yogic values while growing thriving practices and businesses with confide
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Honoring the last full moon of 2020 (Gregorian calendar) with fire, water, song, and the smoke of copal, sage and to***co....
May the high spiritual light of our grandmother Moon shine brightly upon you;
May it remove all obscurations from the mirror of your mind and give you clear guidance in a way that you understand;
May it remove all inner and outer obstacles from your path; and
May the road ahead be filled with love, wisdom, and beauty.
For you and for all our relations,
Con luz y cariño,
Maestra Grace
Art: Ix’Chel (three aspects grandmother moon in Maya culture) by Thalía Took
Dropped part II of my conversation with Maria & Denise PLUS some bonus content!
Sending all my love & gratitude for joining me on this journey in 2020.
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https://open.spotify.com/show/4eNjmDqtv2mJCiFluX6Wde?si=yH3sVxXYTZ6McJyuucZBIA
I found this article from a few years ago while thinking about how I define decolonization (an ongoing process).
What do you think?
https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/decolonize/2018/04/03/white-allies-lets-be-honest-about-decolonization/
"Whether one participates in settler colonialism is not entirely a matter of when or how one’s ancestors came to the U.S. Having settler privilege means that some combination of one’s economic security, U.S. citizenship, sense of relationship to the land, mental and physical health, cultural integrity, family values, career aspirations, and spiritual lives are not possible—literally!—without the territorial dispossession of Indigenous peoples."
I want to experience the solidarity of allied actions that refuse fantastical narratives of commonality and hope.
Social work does not have to be so rigid! Tune in to hear more of the latest episode of Decolonize Everything Podcast.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/decolonize-healing-with-maria-denise-part-i/id1529213896?i=1000499623962
Part I of a beautiful conversation with Maria Sierra and Denise Vaughn is NOW LIVE! (Part II coming soon!)
Tune in for a conversation about healing, social work, ancestry & more.
I love these women so much & it was such an honor to share sacred space to hear their stories, wisdom, & ongoing journeys.
Denise Vaughn & Maria Sierra join Rebecca for a virtual sacred circle to discuss decolonizing our understanding of healing. Denise and Maria have been social work professionals for over 25 years and have started to deconstruct the space from m...
This week I watched classrooms of people at Harvard pay lip service to Coco and disrespect/undervalue indigenous wisdom in one breath.
The commodification of Dia de los Mu***os got under my skin in a big way.
It's in the water. These past weeks I have seen:
Nike's $200 dia de mu***os shoes for sale.
Neutrogena's makeup remover ad.
Target's seasonal sections full of trinkets.
Sugar skulls everywhere I go.
This is not neutral, this is not appreciation. This is commodification and it is deadly (no pun intended).
As a Chicana woman, this is only my heritage so far as it is a gift from Mexico. I don't claim to speak for anyone but myself. In the past years, I've been learning about the ancient stories, cosmovision, traditions, I am a beginner. So I am naming what I am sensing.
What I have come to realize is that when U.S. commodification occurs it hurts indigenous people - in tangible and intangible ways.
So, please, stop and think about what you do and do not know about this sacred tradition.
Please, do not impose your colonial gaze and settler sensibilities on our people and practices.
Yes, I know it is not conscious - that is the problem. We need to wake up and pay attention to our complicit behaviors in the ongoing erasure and brutality towards Mexican and indigenous peoples.
Thanks for reading.
Here’s a poetic reflection for today:
www.rebeccamendozanunziato.com/writing/reclamation-is-my-inheritance
“Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, The Hummingbird's Daughter
Artist: Liliflor Arte
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New episode is LIVE!
In this episode Alejandra shares about her summer experience of COVID-19 contract tracing in Florida and important insights for how the public health space needs to shift.
Season 1 of is all about starting the conversation, so we would love to hear what you think and how you're thinking about COVID & Colonization/Decolonization!!!
Comment below! 🙌
https://decolonizeeverything.buzzsprout.com/1301392/6038500-colonialism-covid-19-with-alejandra-salemi
Join Alejandra (Ale) Salemi, MPH and Rebecca for a conversation on COVID and Colonization.After graduating with her Masters in Public Health, Ale spent summer 2020 deployed as a contract tracer for the state of Florida during the height of the CO...
- THANK YOU for this beautiful offering 🔥❤️🙏🏽
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Dropping a brief history of what has now become Dia de Los Mu***os (while not disclosing any sacred knowledge or traditions). I personally talk about it a bit further for in an upcoming episode. Feel free to drop any knowledge you want to also add to this post or can disclose (I know some of our traditions are sacred so I don’t expect anyone to disclose sacred knowledge). It doesn’t cover everything I know as there are some things I won’t share outside of my community ✨✨✨
I also want to add that many Indigenous communities have their own ceremonies & traditions to celebrate death & our loved ones who have passed on. It’s not exclusive to only Indigenous communities of Mexico as in Central America we have our own celebrations as well.
This book is my go to guide & decolonial companion. Voices of the Ancestors offers intergenerational insights, beautiful practices, ancestral knowledge, poetry in Nahuatl, Spanish, and English and so much more.
⚡️10/10 HIGHLY recommend ⚡️
What’s on your bookshelf?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44803847
New episode is out!
Should we get rid of the whole idea of tenure? How is the academy a tool of capitalism?
In this episode of Decolonize Everything my friend and mentor Dr. Derrick Hudson joins me in the studio for a conversation about higher education and the institutionalization of learning, wisdom, and knowledge.
We had a blast starting the conversation about rethinking tenure, academic journals, and the framework of "publish or perish" that drives the modern higher education system. Colonization and capitalism have truly affected the way that we show up as students, teachers, and learners and so this episode helps us pull back the curtain on these often unseen forces at play.
Should we get rid of the whole idea of tenure? How is the academy a tool of capitalism?In this episode of Decolonize Everything my friend and mentor Dr. Derrick Hudson joins me in the studio for a conversation about higher education and the instit...
"We did not survive the school system in Denver… if a woman like me can’t make it, given how hard I tried, I don’t know how anybody is supposed to.”
to hear the incredible LaQueta talk about Denver disparities
Talking to LaQueta McCauley about in Episode 1 was just TOO GOOD, so I couldn't help but share this rest of this conversation.In this episode we talk about Denver which LaQueta calls "a place for white people to have fun." While this is a Den...
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