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Medicine for the Resistance
by patty krawec
An Afromystic and Anishinaabekwe talk about everything medicinefortheresistance.substack.com
Episodes
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Global Indigeneity
This great conversation on Indigeneity is from a couple of years ago and it just keeps being relevant. Being Indigenous is an analytic, not an identity. We need to talk about that. Patty (00:00:01): You're listening to medicine for the resistance Patty (00:00:04): Troy was so smart last time, and...
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All places are fish places
Patty I come across the coolest people on Twitter. And one of those cool people is Zoe Todd, who is the fish philosopher, and I love that. And another thing that I love I was going through, we have a questionnaire because you know, of course we do. And one of the things that Zoe mentions in the...
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A colonized sky
Patty Krawec so I just finished reading The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein so then when I came across Hilding, came across Hilding a few weeks ago about Indigenous stargazing. Mi’kmaq astronomer and tell us about yourself and about Indigenous stargazing. Hilding Neilson Yeah, so…
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nothing micro about micro aggressions
Angela: You I have I've had troubles with the word microaggression, I've had troubles with it for quite some time. We hear, I think I've been hearing it more and more over the last few years in particular, the last year, I've been hearing it a lot more in the workplace. And because people are...
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Black and Indigenous Solidarities
Black and Indigenous Solidarities With Robert Warrior Patty: So we're here with Robert Warrior. And so funny story, Kerry, I'm reading this book Crossing Waters Crossing Worlds by Tiya Miles. It was for Aambe book club, History a couple of months ago back in February, and I can't and, as happens…
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Black masculinities, colonialism, and erotic racism
Please note this episode deals with sexuality and sexual violence and may not be suitable for all listeners. Some material may be triggering. If you do find yourself triggered or having difficulty, please contact your local rape crisis center. If you need assistance locating support, please use...
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Indigenous Geographies
Patty: So we're here talking Deondre Smiles about Indigenous geographies. And I took like grade 10 geography that was the extent of my geography training, which means I learned about glacial movement and labeling rivers and all of that stuff. But I mean, first off, just the idea of Indigenous...
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The Land is My Ancestor
the land is my ancestor Patty So, anyway, so we're here with Keolu Fox. Chanda had made this comment, quoting you about the land is my ancestor, and that is a scientific statement. And she was just completely taken by that comment. And then so was I. And that's really all I've been thinking…
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The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere
Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere With Dr. Paulette Steeves Patty Krawec We're here with Dr. Paulette Steves. Josh Manitowabi made a remark that the Anishinaabe word Giiwedin contains the idea of going home. And that what it was referring to was the glaciers, that the glaciers were...
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In My Own Moccasins with Helen Knott
Helen Knott joins us to talk about her memoir In My Own Moccasins. It is a story of trauma and recovery, of relapse and recovery, love and persistence and becoming a matriarch. Not all of our societies were matriachal, that is a very particular style of governance, but being a matriarch is more...
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The Losses That Create Us with Omar El Akkad
The scene is familiar. A small child lies on a beach with his head towards the ocean and feet on dry sand. The image of Alan Kurdi, a three year old Kurdish Syrian boy has become part of the global psyche and in his book, What Strange Paradise, Omar El Akkad begins with the same image. But in…
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Colorism
Racism has re-created the world in Black and white, with Black inscribed as perpetually dangerous and white as the goal of progress and civilization. Colorism is how this plays out within categories of race and ethnic communities, darker skin associated with the qualities ascribed to Blackness…
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Colorism in Black and Indigenous Communities with Erica Williams and Amber Stark
Racism re-created the world as Black and White, with Black at the bottom of the social hierarchy and white at the top. Others were added to the spaces between with darker skin associated with Blackness, even within communities seen as white. This conversation with Erica Williams and Amber Starks...
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Border and Rule: Global migration, capitalism, and the rise of racist nationalism with Harsha Walia
Borders are more than the lines between countries. States like Canada, the US, Australia, and Europe increasingly push their borders into other countries, tying foreign aid to agreements for preventing migrants from even getting to our borders. And the violence that creates is hidden from view....
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The Souls Of Yoruba Folk Pt 2
Our conversation with Dr. Tope Adefarakan continues with a deeper look at Yoruba traditions and what it means to be Indigenous as Black and Native peoples. Building from WEB DuBois' book "The Souls of Black Folk" we talk about the duality that Indigenous peoples live within, engaging and...
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Mumilaaq speaks
Mumilaaq speaks by Medicine for the Resistance This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.com
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The Souls Of Yoruba Folk Pt 1
Dr. Tope Adefarakan joins us to talk about her research into the Yoruba belief system, how it came to the Americas with enslaved people, and it's various adaptations in this new world. The pockets of belief that persist despite centuries of attempted erasure and how these beliefs enable...
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Ambe: Refusing Patriarchy
A politics of refusal turns it’s back on patriarchy and just goes on building something new, something different, something closer to what we had before. A politics of refusal does not seek inclusion because if what are we seeking inclusion into? The people on this panel have all refused: refused...
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Ambe Surrounded By Relatives
What are the conditions that our communities need to see the Milky Way? To notice badgers and raccoons? To gather moss? To watch the growth of plants and their relationships to each other? To be undrowned. This month authors Daniel Heath Justice (Badger and Raccoon) and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein...
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Mutual Aid In The Black Hills with James
In this episode, recorded in February 2021, we talk with James about a mutual aid project in the Lakota lands of the Black Hills. There is a tension in finding ways to house and care for our own in the midst of colonial rules about place. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss…
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African Storytelling with Kesha Christie
Our guest tells us, "as a storyteller you have a responsibility not to change the story but to show your audience a different way of seeing it, seeing it from a different perspective,." Storytelling helps us to see and understand ourselves and our place in the world a little bit better. They help...
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Reconsidering Southern Labour with Keri Leigh Merrit
Dr. Keri Leigh Merritt joins us again to talk about her book, Reconsidering Southern Labour: Race, Class, and Power. We touch on the rise of policing as a way of controlling the newly freed Black population and the way that labour was at times complicit and at times a source of liberation, but...
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Raccoon with Daniel Heath Justice
"Early on for colonists, raccoons become a really malleable and iconic species in terms of their appearance. And they are pretty abundant, so an easily mobilized symbol of America in the colonial imagination. But as time goes on they lose status, and as they lose status an animal that symbolism...
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Moving Stones with historian Dr. Lindsay Marshall Part 2
Dr. Marshall returns in the days after the insurrection of January 6 to talk with us about the Reconstruction and Gilded Age in the US. That was a period of transformation when the US had to decide if it would reconcile with white plantation owners who committed treason, or if it would reckon…
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Ambe Memoir
Enestine Hayes (The Tao of Raven, Blonde Indian), Kaitln Curtice (Native, Glory Happening), Demita Frazier (interviewed for How We Get Free), Jenessa Galenkamp, and Joy Henderson join host Patty Krawec to talk about memoirs, who we write them for, why we write them, and the connections that they...
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Moving Stones with historian Dr. Lindsay Marshall Part 1
Dr. Lindsay Marshall is a historian of the American west and she joins us to talk about how history is not just filled with gaps, it's simply wrong. The things we learn about history create a public memory and that matters. The way that we remember things matter because that's what shapes how we...
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Community Building with Pearly Pouponneau
Fighting against the harms of the state also means fighting for the world we want. It means building community. Pearly Pouponneau joins us to talk about building community as an act of resistance. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to...
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Christian Imperialism
Kevin Tucker joins us to talk about Christian Imperialism, the way that missionaries have been part of the colonial project. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.com
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Ambe; Our History is the Future
Our history is the future. We look at history for clues to what is happening today and this conversation with Nick Estes, Tiya Miles, Cheryl Savageau, Sean Carson, and Khadija Hammuda dives into the intersections of Black and Indigenous history. The ways we are and are not visible in each others...
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Ambe; Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
This month features the book Why Indigenous Literatures Matter by Daniel Heath Justice. Daniel and Patty are joined by poet Janet Marie Rogers, educators Joy Henderson, Robin McBurney, and Ishkenekeya and my artist Neil Ellis Orts. Indigenous literatures teach us how to be human. How to be good...
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Interns Not Allies
Leticia Jones joins us to talk about what it means to work with Black and Indigenous communities. People want to be allies, but are they willing to be interns? transcripts will be available at daanis.ca This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get…
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Abolition Part 2: Free Lands Free People
For part two of our discussion about abolition we are joined by the members of the Free Land Free People collective. This Edmonton based advocacy group supports prisoners in a variety of ways including fundraising to help inmates with the costs of being imprisoned and becoming free. On the road…
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Abolition Part 1: With Human Rights Lawyer Anthony Morgan
Human Rights lawyer Anthony Morgan joins us again, this time to talk about abolishing police. Policing has a long history of disproportionately targeting and incarcerating Black and Indigenous people. More than that, the systems we live in push us to the edges where options are limited and the...
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Refusing Electoral Politics with Briana l. Ureña Ravelo
Briana l. Ureña Ravelo joins us again on the eve of the US election to talk about refusal to engage with electoral politics. How much does voting really change things, and what happens next. All that energy that went into getting out the vote, what happens next? For most people? Nothing.…
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The Tulsa Race Riots with Dr. Alaina Roberts
We're all familiar with the Tulsa Race Riots, but there is a story that we are unfamiliar with. The history of the people who formed that neighbourhood. The Freedmen who came, as slaves, with the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Osage and who also received land allotments in Oklahoma....
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1492 Landback Lane and the colonial playbook with Dr. Robyn Bourgeois
This episode was recorded on Thursday October 22 and begins with an update from journalist Karl Dockstader, friend of the podcast and co-host of One Dish One Mic on the iheart radio network. Karl has been providing on the ground coverage of the action at 1492 Landback Lane and you can find more...
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Rejecting Purity and Claiming Bad Kin with Dr. Alexis Shotwell
Inside and outside the church we all have ideas about purity that drive our decisions and relationships. People are too radical, not radical enough. Their beliefs or goals don't align perfectly with ours. Our lives become more defined by what we don't do, where we can't shop, what we won't eat…
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Learning and Burning with Joy Henderson
Joy Henderson returns to talk about education in the time of Covid. We also talk about the two-spirited character in Lovecraft Country and the importance of having relationships when you are learning. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access...
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Poetry as Resistance with Janet Marie Rogers
The arts have always functioned as a means of resistance, a way of pushing back against established authority or traditions, challenging us to think and act in new ways. Janet Marie Rogers is a Mohawk poet currently living at the Six Nations Reserve outside Brantford Ontario. She is a writer and...
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The racist history of agriculture with Dr. Sarah Taber
In this episode we talk with Dr. Sarah Taber of the Farm to Taber podcast. She has worked in and studied trends in farming and agriculture across the US. transcript available here: http://daanis.ca/2020/09/28/the-truth-about-big-ag-with-dr-sarah-taber/ This is a public episode. If you would like…
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Possibilities, not policing with Robyn Maynard
Robyn Maynard, author of Policing Black Lives, joins us for a conversation about policing. People are not just marginalize, they are pushed violently to the margins and policing is one way that this is done. With the release of prisoners because of the risk of Covid-19 in prisons, we are seeing a...
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Abolish Police - with Desmond Cole
The idea of defunding the police is gaining traction, and it may feel more possible than abolition, but Black and Indigenous people have been doing the impossible for centuries. Abolition is possible. Desmond Cole tells us why it is necessary. Transcript is available at http://www.daanis.ca under...
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Going Home, with Angela Gray
For many Black and Indigenous people growing up feels unmoored, isolated, lonely. Like Tammy Street said a few weeks earler, we grew up in a blizzard of whiteness. Which makes going home so powerful. To see yourself reflected everywhere. To see yourself in positions of authority and service, to…
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Our ancestor's wildest dreams with Marina Nabao
Marina Nabao joins us again for a conversation about how we move through the world as women, Black and Indigenous. It was recorded in March, before the pandemic when the Canadian government was in a standoff against Indigenous activists blockading trains and ports. We talk about the need for…
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Black and Indigenous with Azie Dungey
Azie Dungey joins us to talk about growing up in three worlds, Black, Indigenous, and America. Azie's family is connected to the Pawmunkey tribe in Virginia, recently recognized by the US government despite 400 years of documented contact and relationship. Solidarity between Black and Indigenous...
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Sex, Lies, and Colonial Identities with Tamari Kitossa
We are deeply invested in our identities, but how do we even begin to understand who we are outside of the colonial context? Black and Indigenous identities are largely constructed by the colonial regime, as are sexual identities. We are framed against the white, cis het normal. We imagine people...
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Indigenous Foodways with Sara Calvosa Olson
Food is about connection, about family and community. We all know this. But it is also about relationship to land and place. It contains language and history as well as a way forward. Find one native plant, one thing in your backyard or the place you live. Learn everything about it. Tend it. Take...
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Recognizing racism, and becoming anti-racist
Everybody says that they are "not racist" but the truth is that we are all raised in a settler-colonial world that attributes qualities to people based on their race and then puts those qualities into a hierarchy. This is my attempt at helping a group of emerging podcasters to identify and then...
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Raised in a blizzard with Tammy Street
Tammy Street is an artist, a mother, and a mystery. She was adopted and knows little about her birth family except that her mother was not white. She describes being raised "in a blizzard" and the impact of seeing the works of Indigenous artists reflecting her own appearance. While not claiming…
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Community - with Verlia Roberts
Social worker, activist, and community member Verlia Roberts joins us again to talk about what community means during a pandemic. How do we make sure that nobody gets left behind while making sure that we don't become overwhelmed. What we do now matters. This is a public episode. If you would…
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