The Earth Sea Love Podcast

Sheree Mack

The Earth Sea Love Podcast is a podcast for and about women, feminine and non-binary people who are Black, Indigenous or a Person of Colour and their relationship with nature hosted by Sheree Mack. The Earth Sea Love Podcast is committed to exploring the experiences of women of colour with Mother Nature. We want to provide spaces where the hidden voices in the environmental/ conservation conversations can explore their relationship with the natural world.Inspired by time spent outdoors, we amplify the voices of women, feminine and non-binary people who are Black, Indigenous or a Person of Colour; our stories, conversations, interviews, photography, writing and artwork.We’ll be exploring our legacies, histories and memories which have had an influence and effect upon how we perceive ourselves within the natural world and environmental/ climate justice movements.

  1. 14h ago

    Homeplace with Pauline Mayers - Episode 083

    Welcome to the first conversation* in the new series, Practicing Creative Fugitivity, funded by Arts Council England. It is with immense joy that I share this conversation I had, your host Dr.Sheree Mack, with the amazing Pauline Mayers. As mentioned before, Pauline was on the podcast in July 25 with episode 081,  Ruptures, healing and reclamation with Pauline Mayers, the final episode of last season. And now she’s back. Pauline is part of the SistaCircle who are reading Fugitive Feminism by Akwugo Emejulu, and we base our conversation around this text and so much more.   In this episode we are talking about: * . What brought Pauline to the Practicing Creative Fugitivity project? * Our experiences of coming together with black and brown women to study and heal * Racial capitalism and the system * The Unearthing(s)  exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery by Hannah Catherine Jones  * Homeplace - rest, reset, regroup, regenerate, remember * Sci-Fi and Storm, and stereotypes surrounding black women * Being in the academy and not, other knowledges   * Professor Jason Arday and the racial smear campaign * Black women and humanity and non-human other * Whiteness, white supremacy culture and race * History, slavery and exploitation * The beginning of scientific racism * Fugitivity and refusal * Fugitivity in the every day And so much more ...   Get comfortable and settle in to listen with your ears and hearts. This is an intimate, honest, unapologetically black conversation, which is a testament to our wholeness, our aliveness for each other.    Bio:  Pauline Mayers is a multi-disciplinary theatre maker, movement director and performer based in the North of England. She began her career as a Rambert-trained dancer appearing on stage, film and television. Her repertory dance company experience includes Janet Smith and Dancers, Diversions Dance, The Ensemble Group and Phoenix Dance Theatre. She also served as interim artistic director for Teeside Dance Initiative before transitioning to theatre in 2010. Since then Pauline has developed a diverse background as a director, writer, movement director, performer and facilitator. She has collaborated with theatre and live art companies across the UK. Her most recent movement direction and performance work includes collaborations with Selina Thompson LTD’s Twine(2024), live performance artist Paula Varjack’s Nine Sixteenths (2024) – which went on to have a 2026 national UK tour – and Improbable Theatre on An Improbable Musical (2022) and Improbaband: Day = Night (2024). In 2017 she was Associate Director on the Leeds Playhouse’s Queen of Chapeltown,working alongside director Amy Leach. In her own work Pauline explores themes of identity, participation, intimacy and care. Her critically acclaimed solo show What If I Told You, written and performed by Pauline, premiered at Leeds Playhouse in 2016 and toured across the UK the following year. Presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2017, it was shortlisted for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award. Returning for a sold-out four-night run at Leeds Playhouse in 2018, it also featured in the inaugural programme at Brixton House, London in 2022. Lyn Gardner of The Guardian described her work as “shaking up traditional theatre and power structures to put the audience in the picture”. Pauline is also a published contributor to the anthology, Weighted Words(Peepal Tree Press 2021) edited by Jacob Ross, and is an Open Space facilitator with Improbable Theatre.  Now in a new season of her life and creativity Pauline continues to write, and enjoys walking, photography and visual journaling.     *Trigger warning: may contain swearing. No ‘may', it most definitely does.    The music used throughout this series is free music from Ketsa.uk  This track is Follow My Soul This series is funded by Arts Council England

  2. 2d ago

    Introducing the new series - Practicing Creative Fugitivity (ep.082)

    Hello and welcome back to the Earth Sea Love Podcast. We are greatly excited to be sharing our new series of conversations with you. We are also deeply saddened and enraged about the recent lynching of Professor Jason Arday. In this introduction, with me your host Dr. Sheree Mack recorded before Jason’s passing, I talk about the racial smear campaign of the last month or so. I have subsequently gone back in and added a word or two before this episode in honour of Jason.  Below I will include the links I mentioned to positive, good media that champions Professor Jason Arday. In short, he never should have been unalived. They hounded him to death. And he coudn’t take any more. How much can one person take? This introduction is a solo episode where I talk about the Practicing Creative Fugitivity project which is Arts Council England funded. This project involves forming a study circle around the reading Fugitive Feminism by Akwugo Emejulu. The conversations that follow within this series is me talking with members of the SistaCircle around their understandings and takeaways from reading in community this book. How can we move from the theory into practicing fugitivity in our every day. I thought it only fitting to start this series with my own understanding of fugitivity and how I’ve been practicing it within my life. I hope to return with another solo episode at the end of the series to reflect of how I’ve moved my understandings and practices on in response to these conversations and the practicing creative fugitivity as a whole . We share these amazing conversations as a means of telling our own stories. As a means of witnessing our wholeness, fullness and aliveness for ourselves. As it has become mighty clear and evident,  white supremacy culture, a by-product of racial capitalism is alive and well, working just as it was constructed to work; whiteness = humanness. Anything/ anyone else is exploited, extracted and disposed of. Fugitivity is about refusal. Refusing the anti-black narrative, refusing to be defined, controlled and used and abused by the system. We chose to run, flee, take flight towards freedom. And in the midst of flight we linger to live and love, experience joy and grief, pain and pleasure on our own terms. Welcome back to the Earth Sea Love Podcast. Thank you for your ears and hearts. Enjoy this series.   Links: 1. A replay of the vigil that was held for Prof. Arday at Trafalgar Square on 17th August 2026 https://www.youtube.com/live/lPHGREJFG40?si=Tvziri5N-GJDPmie 2. Two episodes from Kehinde Andrew’s podcast, Make it Plain where he talks about Professor Jason Arday https://youtu.be/f0Led8VMAm8?si=uFjEqf6wtT17QRO0 https://youtu.be/uPmtCS3MPT0?si=cuJWdYetaCcpbgr6 ( at the end of this episode there is the inclusion of a lecture Professor Arday gave last year) 3. Elliott Connie relating to Jason Arday’s situation through mental health https://youtu.be/_n2wE3w3Q40?si=AQJ8xVPbGXzc4_pl 4. Daniella Maison writing in The Independent before and after Jason’s passing https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/cambridge-plagiarism-jason-arday-black-academic-b3025197.html https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jason-arday-hounding-death-cambridge-professor-academic-b3033787.html 5. Owen Jones talking to Kehinde Andrews about the lynching of Professor Jason Arday https://youtu.be/dv8MXCHcBVU?si=WSG7FBwsbUepr7js 6. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza writing about the murder of Jason Arday https://paulddf.substack.com/p/who-killed-jason-arday?r=1qc34b&triedRedirect=true 7. LBC episode where people who knew Professor Arday call in to share how he touched their lives. Right near the end there’s a caller called Dean from Newcastle who shares a speech he prepared about being validated by Professor Jason Arday ( from 51 minutes in they start talking about Jason Arday).  https://youtu.be/0AQZOyOrQpk?si=WRs1E583yNpuya_T 8. The Go Fund Me Campaign set up for Jason’s family  https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-of-dr-jason-atta-kwei-arday 9. The Good Law Project call for a public enquiry into the media https://goodlawproject.org/warnings-about-jason-ardays-mental-health-were-ignored-by-the-press/ 10. Jason Arday was a talented football. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jason-arday-cambridge-university-tributes-37555625 11. A community grief circle has been scheduled by Black Psychology Team for Black and Global Majority communities to come together to grieve for the evening of Thursday 27 August. Sign up here - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bp-community-grief-circle-tickets-1998360526128?aff=oddtdtcreator  12. Let’s and on a good note . Everything Good about Jason Arday, created by his students. Everything Good About Jason Arday:’https://leilacancode.github.io/everythinggood-about-jasonarday/ The music used throughout this series is free music from Ketsa.uk  This track is MOLE SOUL BY KETSA This series is funded by Arts Council England     * In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123. In the US, you can call or text the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org

  3. 07/13/2025

    Episode 081 - Ruptures, healing and reclamation with Pauline Mayers

    Hey you, good to see you again.  On this day, our fifth birthday, we are so happy to bring you our final episode of the three we are releasing on 13th July 2025. The final episode before we go off on Summer Hiatus also. Rest is needed. We've been celebrating far too hard! In this episode, Sheree is in conversation with Pauline Mayers, a multidisciplinary artist based in Leeds. In this episode, they talk about: • How Pauline and Sheree first connected  • Creative Methodologies, Cambridge University  • Situating ourselves – living in Leeds, greenest cities in UK • Looking up is a humbling act • Ginnels, is a narrow passageway or alleyway, typically between buildings, often used as a shortcut • In a new season of healing and reclaiming  • A multidisciplinary artist starting from the age of 15 • Ruptures in life • Leeds is not very kind to black artists • The ebb and flow of work • The use and abuse of black artists • The lack of care and respect for black artists, refusing to be a conduit for this • Entire rupture of social network, and dad’s passing • Looking to heal in the NOW • Having autonomy of our lives • Walking journey as healing  • Convincing people of our knowledges, abilities and humanity  • Reclaiming the person you are right now • Touchbase with the self, right now • Acknowledging our scars • 9 times out of 10, it’s righteous anger • Rebuild my relationship with Leeds • The Nikel Boys film • Healing walking journey of 2025 – Leeds Country Way  • Being with nature through all the senses • Come Outside CIC • The Kettlewell Circular  • Transforming anger into reclaiming peace for the self • So much more beauty in the world than the ugliness of people • Taking pictures while out there • The journey of photography to writing  • Seeking homeness a place of safety • Ingrid Pollard, Pastroal Interlude  • Being in community with people who look the same, exist and be and safe • Boundaries teach people how to treat me • Zine creation for healing and reclamation  • Rupture to rapture • Railing against everything as production  • We refuse and nature is there to help the process • Fugitive feminism Akwago Emejulu • Walking with our ancestors • The joy of just being in nature and always be in connection with • Continue to create in community  • The Earth Sea Love Podcast 5th Birthday    Bio: Pauline is a multidisciplinary theatre-maker, movement director and performer based in the North of England. She creates and curates artistic experiences that opens audiences, artists, and communities to have conversations they wouldn’t usually have. Beginning as a Rambert trained dancer, Pauline who has appeared in stage and television since the age of 15, began her career as a dancer in repertory dance companies across the UK in a career spanning years, including Janet Smith and Dancers, Diversions Dance (Wales), The Ensemble Group (Scotland), Phoenix Dance Theatre (England) as well as being acting artistic director for Teeside Dance Initiative, leaving dance for theatre in 2010.  Since then, Pauline has amassed a rich background as director, writer, movement director, performer, and facilitator and has collaborated with theatre and live art companies across the UK. Pauline's work as movement director and performer has seen collaborations with Selina Thompson LTD’s Twine (2024), live performance artist Paula Varjack’s Nine Sixteenths (2024), Improbable Theatre on An Improbable Musical (2022), Tell Tale Hearts Children's Theatre on Yummm! (2013), Burmantofts Stories (2013) which featured in the programme for Transform Festival that same year, working with the community of Burmantofts area in Leeds, and Red Ladder’s Promised Land (2012). In her own work, Pauline explores themes of identity, participation, intimacy, and care. Pauline’s previous work, the critically acclaimed What If I Told You written and performed by Pauline premiered at the Leeds Playhouse (formerly the West Yorkshire Playhouse) in 2016 and toured across the UK. The show was presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2017), where she was a shortlisted nominee for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award. What If I Told You returned for a second successful run at Leeds Playhouse in 2018 and was part of the inaugural programme at Brixton House, London in 2022. Pauline is the artistic director of the Mayers Ensemble, a company formed in 2022 as a vehicle for her work which has been described as ‘shaking up traditional theatre and power structures to put the audience in the picture’ (Lyn Gardner, The Guardian). In 2021, Pauline was a published contributor to the anthology, Weighted Words (Peepal Tree Press) edited by Jacob Ross. Pauline is also a trustee at Improbable Theatre and is an Open Space facilitator. Now in a new season of her life as well as continuing to write, Pauline enjoys walking, photography, zine-making. Links Links: www.paulinemayers.com Social media: @emergentp.bsky.social

  4. 07/13/2025

    Episode O80 -Creating a wealthy future through banking our knowledge, with Maxine Greaves MBE

    Welcome back to our birthday celebrations with our second episode of the three. In this episode your host, Dr. Sheree Mack gets to speak with Maxine Greaves MBE. Their conversation covers: • Location in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, living across from a park • Sheffield losing some trees  • LUSH – word of the year • Work towards it, not harder, work towards your dreams with purpose  • TOC – The Outdoor Citizen • 25 years in Higher Education, creating own role in faculty  • Coaching and mentoring people to get where they want to be into teaching • Serving a purpose in a particular space and place in time • High level teaching role  • Interconnected teaching with equality leading it and how is the environment impact it also • Dr. Maxwell Apaladaga Ayamba BEM -Founder and CEO of Sheffield Environmental Movement -correct dates for award 2021, BEM 2023  • Sheffield Envinrmantal Movement reengage people from global majority back to nature  • Build their knowledge about the impact on the environment on themselves and how they can lobby to improve it  • For us/ by us • Toni Morrison quote racism as distraction echoed by Maxine  "The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.” - Toni Morrison  • Childhood curiosity within an Afro-Caribbean community  • Play and heightened imagination and applying yourself  • Understanding of your purpose and your why for knwing your direction  • The future is extremely wealthy if we contirnue to bank our knowledge to build capacity • Tina Campt quote: "The grammar of black feminist futurity is a performance of a future that hasn’t yet happened but must … It is the power to imagine beyond current fact and to envision that which is not, but must be. It’s a politics of prefiguration that involves living the future now … as a striving for the future you want to see, right now, in the present."   Bio: Maxine Greaves Likes Loves Reasoning & Research #ActsOfSelfLove, #Freedom, #StyleAndFashion, #EthicalAmbition #HoldingSpace #Climate Mary J Blige, Good Morning Gorgeous, My Life, Betty Wright, Keep Love New, NAO Lifetime, Cleo Sol Mother, There Will Be No Crying Ledisi Love You Too Aretha Franklin Day Dreaming Luther Vandross Here And Now Maxwell Ascension (Don’t Ever Wonder) Jamaican Breakfast Drinking Iced Ginger Beer, Turkish Grill Sipping Hot Chocolate Ramen thick noodles Fudge Brownie Watching Grand Designs, Chilling On The Sofa, Over The Yardarm Apple Juice And Fridge Fresh H2O, Utopia Theatre Anna Hibiscus’ Song, DATKH Theaster Gates Black Madonna, Afro-Mingei Matt Small Natasha, Kelly, Angela, Justina Claudette Johnson  Standing Figure (2015), Figure In Blue (2018) Blues Dance (2023)  Ta-Nehisi Coates The Message  Ngugi Wa Thiong’O The Language Of Languages Azeezat Johnson Beth Kamunge And Remi Joseph-Salisbury The Fire Now Malcolm Gladwell Blink, Outliers Jesmyn Ward The Let Us Descend Converse Cool Sneakers, Fenty Smell Good Look Good, Lip Gloss London, Camden Town, Brixton, Kingston Upon Thames Durban Waking Along The Golden Mile, Countryside Man Tor, Ben Nevis, And Scarfell Pike, Yvonne Battle-Felton Remembered  DJ Paulette Welcome To The Club Cebo Cambell Sky Full Of Elephants In Conversation Jeffrey Boakye (Blacklisted), Kehinde Andrews (Nobody Can Give You Freedom) MB Games Frustration; Fitbit Pilates, Peace Walk  Cycling Along The Tissington Trail, Roller Blades, Skates; Cat Ramsey My Words Purpose, Focus Lazy Day Greys Anatomy, Rewind And Come Again, all things Marvel Ramping

  5. 07/12/2025

    Episode 079 - A Daughter of the Soil, Yvonne Witter

    Welcome back to The Earth Sea Love website. We are so happy to share the first of three episodes we are dropping today to mark out fifth birthday celebrations.  This episode is a conversation with Yvonne Witter. Chair of Trustees for Peak District Mosaic, Yvonne and Sheree talk about: • Situating the self – the walk home from work • Walking for mental health  • Supporting patients with health and well-being one to one  • Creating a caring space for people to be themselves through the grief journey  • Championing the National Parks Project • Peak District Mosaic and Community Champions • Improve national parks work practice working with diverse communities • Mosaic Champion what it is? – Campaign for National Parks • Childhood in Jamaica • Volunteering time to support people outdoors  • Representatives of the global majority in positions of making decisions • Legacy of the project, a turning point, providing a path way • Loss of identity when leaving the landscape • Grief, writing and walking  Bio:  Pioneering Peak District Community Champion, Yvonne Witter, has been well recognised for her efforts to uplift diverse communities through the Peak District national park and surrounding areas. Her passion and duty to protect the countryside and provide accessibility for everyone are endless as she works tirelessly to introduce new training programmes, group activities and trips for diverse communities to access and explore the countryside. Yvonne has committed her time as Chair for Peak District Mosaic and is keen to see the organisation grow and continue to meet the needs of communities in enhancing the health and wellbeing in the outdoors.   https://peakdistrictmosaic.org

  6. 06/20/2025

    Adriana Smith Did Not Give Birth

    ***Trigger warning, this episode contains swearing and is talking about death and inhumane practices. Be warned.   Adriana Smith did not give birth. Adriana couldn’t give birth. Adriana was unalive. Adriana died in February 2025 because she didn’t receive a life-saving medical procedure. Adriana was pronounced brain dead in February but was kept alive for a further 114 days. 114 days. Why? Because Adriana was pregnant, and the white man wanted to play GOD! Let’s back up a bit. For me, and this isn’t about me, I find this difficult to share. It’s harrowing, horrific, cruel and downright racist. But share it I must even when it pains me, it’s much worst for Adriana’s family who had gone through a whole heap of f*****g shit and continue to do so. This ‘experiment’ is triggering and is history repeating itself again and again, blatantly right in front of us. NOW. And what are we going to do about it? I’m writing and sharing it with you now as a start. In February this year, Adriana Smith, a 30 year old nurse based in Atlanta, Georgia, went to hospital where she worked, went to her people, complaining of an intense headache. No tests were run. Adriana was sent home with pain relief. The next morning her boyfriend awoke to Adriana gurgling and struggling to breathe. Emergency services were called and Adriana was rushed to hospital. There they finally carried out a cat scan to establish that Adriana had blood clots on her brain. You have to ask why wasn’t this test carried out the day before, in time to probably save her life? I’ll tell you why, because of racism and sexism within the medical institution that results in black people, black women in particular not being listened to when we express pain. Apparently, black women don’t feel pain. We have a higher pain threshold than anyone else, so if we’re complaining about pain within our own bodies, we’re lying. The pain is that bad so just shut up and put up the practice goes. We are not given the rightful respect of being experts of our own bodies and knowing that we are in pain. Knowing that something is wrong.Read this article for more about this. Let me continue. So the hospital calls Adriana’s mother to say they want to complete a procedure that will ease the pressure on Adriana’s brain and can they have her permission to do so. Of course her mother agrees. This procedure will save her daughter’s life. The hospital, Emory Hospital in the state of Georgia, called back not long afterwards to say they weren’t going to bother with the procedure. They couldn’t do it because Adriana was pregnant. Adriana was 8 weeks pregnant. I’m not sure if she knew she was pregnant or not before she went into hospital complaining of headaches. Adriana was pronounced brain dead soon after this. The doctors didn’t give Adriana’s family any choice, they put Adriana on a life support machine. This was against Adriana’s wishes as she had a do not resuscitate order and was against her family’s wishes also. The hospital did not have Adriana’s or her family’s consent to follow this course of action. But the hospital acted as if they did. They disrespected Adriana in life as well as in death as they kept her alive on a ventilator, pumping her body with a cocktail of drugs all in the name of saving the foetus. The hospital kept Adriana’s body alive while she was brain dead all in the name of the law as they claimed that the law of the state would make it illegal to allow the baby to die within it’s mother. They claimed it would be an illegal termination and they could be prosecuted. Therefore they chose to go against the wishes of Adriana, taking away her personhood, autonomy, bodily rights, reproductive rights and even when she couldn’t speak for herself, her family spoke up for her rights. They were all disallowed, dismissed and Adriana was kept alive solely as a human incubator. The hospital in the state of Georgia cruelly used Adriana in a sick, warped medical experiment to find out what they needed to do in order to keep a baby alive till birth within a brain dead body. This is not a medical breakthrough or revolutionary practice, this is blatant disregard and disrespect for a black woman’s, a black mother’s wishes, as Adriana already had a 7 year old son. The state of Georgia used and abused Adriana for some sick experiment. We must realise that it won’t end here. The media states that Adriana ‘gave birth’, or that Adriana ‘delivered’ a 32 week old baby, weighing 1 pound 13 oozes. A corpse, not being disrespectful here but a dead body, cannot birth anything or anyone. Adriana could not push out her son, her baby boy, because she was dead. To say it was a ‘C’ section it a lie as it was an autopsy. Adriana was given an autopsy and the baby was an extracted from her dead body. This was only done on 13 June because Adriana’s body was decaying. If not, no doubt they would have continued with this ‘experiment’. Adriana’s body was decomposing because she was dead. She’d been dead for 4 months to this point of autopsy. I thought they then turned the life support machine off straight after the extraction. But that was not the case. They kept Adriana on the ventilation machine for a further 4 days, until 17 June, which happened to be her birthday. You’re telling me the hospital didn’t know that this was Adriana’s birthday? Of course they did, and this in my opinion is just another sick twisted f*****g indication of their heartlessness, and disregard for Adriana’s family as well as being a performance. A performance of power and control. Sanitise the language you use as much as you want, the hospital, Emory Hospital in the state of Georgia did wrong, a major wrong from allowing Adriana to die unnecessarily and then proceeding to keep her alive without her consent or her family’s so they could try out this experiment which with the extraction of a baby is blatant proof of their concept. This does not end here. This is man, as it usually is man, trying to find a way to create life and bring into the world, with women having little to no participation in the process. Through using and abusing Adriana they have gathered their evidence on what they need to do to keep a baby alive to birth with a woman just as an incubator. She does not need to be alive, or give her consent. The clinician has all the power and the control. An experiment by the state of Georgia on a black woman’s body, which is nothing new. The experimentation on black women’s bodies has been going on for centuries just think of J. Marion Sims the so called ‘father of gynecology’ and his experimentation on enslaved women. This experiment on Adriana was to see how they can replace the woman in the process of creating and carrying life. How little participation from women do they need to bring about life? Be warned as I wouldn’t be surprised to hear of other brain dead women turning up pregnant. Placing Adriana on life support to support a pregnancy from 8 weeks to 32 weeks is inhumane. This is using a black woman’s body as an incubator and not respecting or treating Adriana as a human being with rights and wishes. The hospital used the law as an excuse to perform this monstrosity but the Attorney General of Georgia came out months ago to say there is no such law that the foetus has to be kept alive if the mother is dead. The law states that the foetus dies when the mother dies. This is more proof that the hospital was running roughshod over another black woman, black mother’s life as didn’t her 7 year old son have to see his mother on the ventilation machines, pumped full of drugs not understanding what was going on, maybe thinking at some point his mother would wake up and come on home. What is this f*****y? And I haven’t even said anything about the baby extracted from a dead body. Chance, they named him, Chance, who is now in NICU weights barely 2 pounds. What quality of life will this tortured baby have? His grandmother said, he could be blind, might to be able to walk, or talk or be mentally okay and they will have to raise him. I can’t even imagine what kind of life this child will have as he’s basically unknown territory. But I know he probably won’t have a peaceful life. If he survives you can bet that he will be monitored and poked and prodded for the rest his life, to check if he’s healthy and ‘normal’ after he came about through their experiment. They’re invested in Chance’s life now but not for good reasons. There was never any care for his mother, Adriana, and there’ll never be any care there for Chance. This is disgusting and horrifying and makes me sick to my core as well as angry, hence sharing it here with you now. But it gets worse. Adriana’s family, who fought all this time to stop this experiment that was against their wishes as well as Adriana’s, who have been going through the legal process to get the machines switched off so they could lay Adriana to rest, are now liable to pay all the hospital bills. I repeat Adriana, who was brain dead and kept alive as an incubator against her and her family’s wishes, her family now have to pay all these medical bills for this experiment. They did not ask for this. They did not consent to this. They fought against it. They are now being forced to pay for this. What is this kind of f*****y? This is blatant, in their faces and in public, telling the world that the hospital, the state of Georgia, these non-black professionals, do not care about black women, black people. They are not allowing Adriana to rest, then and now, as it’s all about control and power over the black woman’s body, black people again and again. This is not about humanity and researching ways to keep life going. They stripped Adriana of her humanity a long time ago, right down to the very last breath of her body. On her birthday. It breaks my heart. I

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The Earth Sea Love Podcast is a podcast for and about women, feminine and non-binary people who are Black, Indigenous or a Person of Colour and their relationship with nature hosted by Sheree Mack. The Earth Sea Love Podcast is committed to exploring the experiences of women of colour with Mother Nature. We want to provide spaces where the hidden voices in the environmental/ conservation conversations can explore their relationship with the natural world.Inspired by time spent outdoors, we amplify the voices of women, feminine and non-binary people who are Black, Indigenous or a Person of Colour; our stories, conversations, interviews, photography, writing and artwork.We’ll be exploring our legacies, histories and memories which have had an influence and effect upon how we perceive ourselves within the natural world and environmental/ climate justice movements.