What if the organizations and affinity groups(AGs) we create are living entities? This conversation with Indigenous and Two Spirit Water Protector, Big Wind, is a glimpse into constant internal and interpersonal questions on how to do repair work in our communities. When your organizing surrounds you with multifaceted individuals, their intersections, and their trauma it can be truly beautiful and also very painful. Having the “tough conversations” needs to be continuous and not an afterthought. So, let’s talk decolonizing repair work.
CONTACT GUEST
IG: @BigWindRiver
Twitter: akaBigWind
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EPISODE REFERENCES
Community and Belonging with Mia Birdsong via Finding Our Way Podcast
Creative Interventions Toolkit
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community by Mia Birdsong
Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community by Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities by Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
MUSIC BY: Onika of Black Dream Escape
PRODUCED BY: Goddess and Vesta
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