Willoughby Hills with Heath Racela

Heath Racela
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Willoughby Hills with Heath Racela

Quarantine Creatives is now Willoughby Hills. Join TV producer/director Heath Racela as he chats with interesting guests with unique perspectives on our ever evolving relationships to work, home, community, culture, food, the environment, and more. heathracela.substack.com

  1. OCT 28

    134. Author and Activist Ashley Fairbanks on Indigenous Lands

    Ashley Fairbanks is an Indigenous author, artist, and activist. Ashley is Anishinaabekwe from the White Earth Nation. She was raised in Minnesota and now lives in Texas. Her new children’s book This Land: The History of the Land We’re On serves as a great jumping off point for early readers, older kids, and even adults to begin to question who used to live on the land that today makes up the U.S. and Canada. Ashley joins Heath to discuss keeping Native American experiences in the present tense, reconnecting with native lands across the world, and reframing environmental activism. Get full access to Willoughby Hills at heathracela.substack.com/subscribe

    47 min

  2. OCT 10

    133. Farah Assi On Being Lebanese During a Genocide

    Farah Assi was born in Southern Lebanon under Israeli occupation. Her family fled to Canada for some of her childhood, but returned to Lebanon during her teenage years. Farah’s father and extended family are still living in Southern Lebanon, often a few hundred yards from the sites of bombings. In this conversation, she shares about her childhood memories of Lebanon, her experience as a refugee, the emotions that come from watching her people murdered from afar, and the strong desire she has to return home. Get full access to Willoughby Hills at heathracela.substack.com/subscribe

    1 hr

  3. SEP 27

    132. Author Audrea Lim Examines our Relationships to Land

    Audrea Lim is the author of Free the Land: How We Can Fight Poverty and Climate Chaos. The issues of climate change, gentrification, racial inequity, and corporate greed are often treated as unrelated issues, but Audrea argues that they all share a common root: the commodification of land. She not only looks at how the American system of private property ownership has been destructive, but also explores alternatives. Some of these include looking back to original Indigenous practices around land management and stewardship, while others look at models like community land trusts, public housing, and public parks. Audrea’s work looks at rural solutions in places like the Canadian tar sands as well as urban solutions in cities like New York and Minneapolis. Get full access to Willoughby Hills at heathracela.substack.com/subscribe

    45 min

  4. SEP 12

    131. Podcaster Akilah Hughes Investigates Rebel High Schools

    Akilah Hughes is a comedian, author, and podcast host, known for her book Obviously: Stories from My Timeline, her YouTube channel, her amazing Twitter/X and Instagram feeds, and her nearly two year run hosting the daily news podcast What a Day for Crooked Media from 2019-2021. Akilah's latest podcast Rebel Spirit, investigates the history of how her high school in Northern Kentucky came to adopt the Rebel team name and Confederate symbols in the 1950s and retains the name to this day. In the show, Akilah travels home on a mission to remake the Rebels into the Boone County Biscuits. Akilah joins Heath to share some stories about their shared Rebel experiences and discuss the challenges with making even small, incremental changes. They also talk about larger diversity and inclusion efforts, including navigating enjoying a visit to Disney Parks while also acknowledging the harmful narratives at play. Get full access to Willoughby Hills at heathracela.substack.com/subscribe

    1h 1m

  5. AUG 29

    130. Author Austin Frerick on the Barons that Control Our Food

    Author Austin Frerick's new book Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry looks at seven sectors of the American food system, profiling the company that dominates each of those markets. Some are familiar names like Cargill, Wal-Mart, and Driscoll’s. Others are foreign companies or giant conglomerates that are hardly household names but which still exert massive control over how we eat. Perhaps the most surprising revelation in the book is just how much has changed and consolidated in the last two decades. A native of Iowa, Austin also shares personal anecdotes throughout the book of how he has seen the landscapes and towns of his childhood shaped by the consolidation of our food markets. Austin has advised candidates Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Pete Buttigieg on agricultural policy before ultimately serving as Co-Chair of the Biden campaign’s Agriculture Antitrust Policy Committee. He is a Fellow of the Thurman Arnold Project at Yale University, an initiative that brings together faculty, students, and scholars to collaborate on research related to competition policy and antitrust enforcement. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Common Good Iowa as Vice President and the Socially Responsible Agriculture Project as Treasurer. In 2022, The Advocate named him a "Champion of Pride.” Get full access to Willoughby Hills at heathracela.substack.com/subscribe

    51 min

  6. AUG 15

    129. Author J.B. MacKinnon on Stopping Shopping

    J.B. MacKinnon is a Vancouver-based author, journalist, and professor. His book The Day the World Stops Shopping operates on a simple thesis: gaming out how society, economies, and our lives would change if consumer culture disappeared overnight. When the global pandemic shutdown happened in 2020, suddenly the thesis had a real world example. J.B. joins Heath to discuss intentional consumerism inspired by Indigenous people in the Kalahari and Amish Pennsylvanians, consuming quality over quantity, and the simple pleasures of eating seasonally. J.B. is also the author of books right in the bullseye of this podcast and newsletter, including The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating and The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be. Get full access to Willoughby Hills at heathracela.substack.com/subscribe

    51 min

  7. AUG 1

    128. Writer Amanda Gelender Deconstructs Zionism

    Amanda Gelender is an American Jewish writer and poet currently based in the Netherlands. Amanda was raised in a progressive Jewish community, yet she was still only taught some of the truth about Israel and Palestine. It wasn’t until college that Amanda began to deconstruct what she had been taught and question her Zionist education. Amanda joins Heath to discuss how Zionsim differs from Judaism, understanding the current genocide in Palestine, and her own learning process over the last twenty years. For more learning and information from today’s conversation, Amanda provided these additional links: On the work of Dr. Mohamed Abou Abdaljawad Omar's talk entitled, "Germany, Zionism, and the Politics of Debt" Susan Abulhawa’s piece on the number of people killed in Gaza Lancet report on killed in Gaza On systemic hospital and medical destruction On Israel’s torture concentration camps Israeli tree-planting as colonization in occupied Palestine Get full access to Willoughby Hills at heathracela.substack.com/subscribe

    45 min

  8. JUL 18

    127. Author Tracie McMillan on "The White Bonus"

    Tracie McMillan is a journalist and author of the new book The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America. In the book, Tracie charts her own family’s history, plus follows the stories of four other white American families, to see how explicit government policies and implicit biases have led to massive amounts of wealth for white Americans. Tracie joins Heath to discuss her writing process in researching the book, why it’s so difficult for white people to acknowledge this bonus, and what it might take to reverse course. Get full access to Willoughby Hills at heathracela.substack.com/subscribe

    49 min
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Quarantine Creatives is now Willoughby Hills. Join TV producer/director Heath Racela as he chats with interesting guests with unique perspectives on our ever evolving relationships to work, home, community, culture, food, the environment, and more. heathracela.substack.com

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