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Resetting The Table
by Maria Mulder, Trixie Ling, & Céline Chuang
Resetting The Table is hosted by Maria Mulder, Trixie Ling, and Céline Chuang. Through conversations on this podcast, we aim to unlearn dominant and oppressive norms, broadcast BIPOC perspectives and brilliance, and expand imagination around race, place, and faith for our collective liberation.
Episodes
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Rest as Rhythm, Rest as Resistance
This is a special episode we recorded on a summer podcast retreat on Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) territory, Gibsons on the Sunshine Coast. While resting ourselves, we explore how we can embody rest as a radical and reciprocal practice. We discuss rest as a form of resistance to capitalism and white...
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Me, You, and Media Representation
In this episode, Céline, Maria and Trixie talk about the importance of representation, the pervasiveness of whiteness in books and stories we read growing up, and the powerful recognition that comes with seeing ourselves in the media. We takedown some tropes and discuss the emergence of Asian...
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Get Behind Me, White Feminism
In this fiery episode, which builds off our Gender Troublemaking episode, Maria, Céline, and Trixie have a candid conversation about white feminism 101. What is white feminism, how does it show up in everyday interactions and norms as well as society and culture more broadly? How have we...
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Gender Troublemaking
In this episode, Maria, Céline, and Trixie talk Gender 101: what is gender, what does it mean to us, and how can we be gender troublemakers no matter what our relationship to gender is? In this informal and playful conversation, we cover a range of topics related to gender: basic terminology,...
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Decolonizing Academia (With Josema Zamorano)
In this episode, Maria, Céline and Trixie speak with educator Josema Zamorano about the academic project being entrenched in colonialism and white supremacy, and decolonial alternatives to learning—including radical pedagogy and public education. We talk about embodied learning, blurring Western...
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Can We Talk About Consent?
In this exploratory conversation about consent, Céline, Maria and Trixie discuss how consent connects with bodily autonomy, especially in our interactions with one another, and how the lack of consent (societal as well as interpersonal) leads to distrust and disconnection from our bodies. We talk...
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Food Ch. 2: Coffee & Cultural Reclamation (with Iona Fresnoza)
In this episode, chapter two in our non-chronological food series, Trixie, Maria and Céline chat with special guest Iona Fresnoza of Kapé Coffee. Iona shares how coffee relates to cultural reclamation, land stewardship, and decolonization, and about her journey founding Kapé, a social enterprise...
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On Music
Welcome to Season 2 of Resetting The Table! In our first episode, Trixie, Maria and Céline nerd out on music: who we’re listening to, how we can be intentional in our music choices, and paying attention to the songs and messages that musical artists are putting out in the world. We talk about...
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Food Ch. 1: Community & Resistance
Have you eaten? In this episode on food, first of a few, Trixie and Céline discuss appropriation and moralizing of food, food as a love language, force of cultural reclamation, and source of sustenance in collective memory-making and resisting white supremacy and gentrification. Trixie also talks...
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Unpacking Purity Culture Ch. 1 (with Sunia Gibbs)
Trixie, Maria, and Céline talk, rant, and laugh with guest Sunia Gibbs about purity culture, its heyday in the evangelical church, how it connects to patriarchy and rape culture, and reclaiming a healthy sense of sexuality and selfhood. Sunia is a pastor, artist, and activist who leads The Groves...
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On Birth, Bodies, & Doula Work
In this episode, Trixie and Céline interview a familiar guest: Maria! Maria talks about doula work, the importance of inclusive and expansive language in birth work, navigating the medical industrial complex, and breaking open taboos around birth and bodies. We loved having this energizing...
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Talking Abolition Ch. 1
This episode is an introduction and exploration to abolition, Chapter 1 of what we hope will be an ongoing series. Maria, Trixie, and Céline discuss the necessity of abolition (of prisons, police, and other carceral systems) and the imaginative alternatives gifted to us by the transformative...
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On Decriminalization & Body Sovereignty (with Silver Stevens)
In this episode, Céline and Maria speak with Silver Stevens, a Two-Spirit artist and activist from the wolf clan in the Gitxsan Nation, about sex work, decriminalization, and body sovereignty. They talk about destigmatizing sex work, rights not rescue, Jesus and harm reduction, and how...
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On Church, Embodiment & The Gift of Queerness (with Kathy Kwon)
In this far-ranging and fluid conversation, Céline, Maria and Trixie speak with Kathy Kwon about church, hybrid identities, living in multiple tensions, the prophetic gift of queerness, and embodied social justice. They touch on many things including the fraught process of finding and making...
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On Anger (After Atlanta)
Trixie, Céline, and Maria respond to the Atlanta shootings, especially in embracing anger as a just and generative force “in the teeth,” in Audre Lorde’s words, of racism, misogyny, and white supremacy. We didn’t plan this episode extensively, so the conversation is free-flowing and organic, with...
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On Expansive Friendship & Platonic Intimacy
In this episode, Céline, Trixie and Maria discuss the beauty and complexity of friendships, including their own, and explore ways of elevating and celebrating friendships and platonic intimacy. They discuss how we can move away from a relationship hierarchy built on romantic partnership and the...
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On Body Hair & Beauty Standards
In this episode, Maria, Trixie, and Céline discuss their relationships to their own bodies, and talk body hair, body shaming, beauty standards, white feminism, and problematic definitions of womanhood. They explore how the policing of bodies' presentation is connected to the upholding of the…
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On Relating to the Land (with Lori Snyder)
In this episode, Celine and Maria talk with Métis plant educator and herbalist Lori Snyder on healing our relationship to the land, guerrilla gardening as decolonization, the wisdom of plants, and aligning our personal practices with the creativity and abundance of the living world. Lori shares a...
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On Unlearning White Jesus
In this episode, Trixie, Celine, and Maria unpack their experiences growing up and breaking up with White Jesus, the damaging assumed default of whiteness when depicting the Divine, and how White Jesus functions to uphold the power of those at the top of the social and political hierarchy. They...
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On Anti-Racism, Asian Experience, & Solidarity with Black Liberation
In our first full-length episode, Céline, Trixie, and Maria contextualize anti-Black racism in Canada from an East Asian perspective and discuss the importance of foregrounding Black lives and Black liberation in anti-racism work. We talk about holding a posture of openness, unlearning dominant...
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Episode 0: Showing Up (An Introduction)
Welcome to Resetting The Table, where we expand imagination around race, place, and faith for our collective liberation. In this trailer, we give a taste of the many conversations and topics to come. Subscribe and join us on the journey! Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/resettingthetable.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Resetting The Table is hosted by Maria Mulder, Trixie Ling, and Céline Chuang. Through conversations on this podcast, we aim to unlearn dominant and oppressive norms, broadcast BIPOC perspectives and brilliance, and expand imagination around race, place, and faith for our collective liberation.
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