10 episodios

Loam Listen is an expression of our belief at Loam that creative community can be a catalyst for resilience and reimagination in the heart of climate chaos. As the systems surrounding us collapse, it feels especially vital to nurture new ways of being through creating spaces for radical artists, activists, educators, and entrepreneurs in our community to share their stories on their terms. How can we continue to grow our capacity to be in right relationship with the Earth and with each other? How can we alchemize our personal practices into the seeds for cultivating collective liberation? How can we subvert the status quo, sustain biodiversity, and honor grief and joy and everything in between during this turbulent era of political polarization and digital isolation? With Loam Listen, we want to explore these questions in conversation with our constellation of creatives who are responding to the climate crisis with a commitment to imagination, compassion, and care.

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Loam Listen is an expression of our belief at Loam that creative community can be a catalyst for resilience and reimagination in the heart of climate chaos. As the systems surrounding us collapse, it feels especially vital to nurture new ways of being through creating spaces for radical artists, activists, educators, and entrepreneurs in our community to share their stories on their terms. How can we continue to grow our capacity to be in right relationship with the Earth and with each other? How can we alchemize our personal practices into the seeds for cultivating collective liberation? How can we subvert the status quo, sustain biodiversity, and honor grief and joy and everything in between during this turbulent era of political polarization and digital isolation? With Loam Listen, we want to explore these questions in conversation with our constellation of creatives who are responding to the climate crisis with a commitment to imagination, compassion, and care.

    Decomposition as a Compass: In Conversation With Jordan Alexander Williams

    Decomposition as a Compass: In Conversation With Jordan Alexander Williams

    How might we collapse a world rooted in extraction and nurture one built on reciprocity? What can decomposition teach us about seeding sustainable futures? Join us as queer Hoodoo, earth tender, and living ancestor Jordan Alexander Williams contemplates the liberation of land, ourselves, and our communities from “radical individualism” in this soul-stirring conversation with Amirio Freeman. From meditating on a week spent at the revolutionary Soul Fire Farm to exploring the beauty of mycelial networks, Williams walks us through possibilities for planting world(s) worth growing into.

    GUEST:
    Jordan Alexander Williams (they/them) is a queer Hoodoo, earth tender, and living ancestor.
    Jordan was born and raised in the so-called Chicagoland area of Illinois, lands stewarded by many peoples and lineages including: the Potawatomi, Miami, Ho-Chunk and at least a dozen more Indigenous Nations, and Hoodoos / Black African peoples of Turtle Island (so-called North America).

    In 2016, Jordan graduated from the University of Illinois (a land-grab university) with a degree in environmental science and a concentration in human dimensions of the environment. They have since collaborated with human and more-than-human beings across Turtle Island to:


    develop the collective visions and leadership of environmental changemakers;
    facilitate organizational culture shifts towards anti-racism and cooperative leadership;
    cultivate food, climate, and ecological justice; and
    build liberatory practices, relationships, and spaces with Two-Spirit, Queer, and Trans / Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (2SQT/BIPOC).

    Jordan trusts that the liberation and regeneration of people and planet will come by dancing in the moon and sunlight, getting our hands in the soil, caring for each other, and reclaiming and evolving the earth-sourced wisdom(s) of our ancestors.

    RESOURCES:
    Soul Fire Farm


    Soul Fire Farm BIPOC Farming Immersion
    Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land

    Hoodoo


    Mojo Workin’: The Old African American Hoodoo System by Katrina Hazzard-Donald
    Ep. 25 Mama Rue Breaks the Juju Down (A Little Juju Podcast)

    Nested Wholes & Fractals


    The Regenerative Life: Transform Any Organization, Our Society, and Your Destiny by Carol Sanford
    Regenerative Design for Change Makers by Abrah Dresdale
    Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown

    • 1h 23 min
    Living As Universe: In Conversation with Richael Faithful

    Living As Universe: In Conversation with Richael Faithful

    In the face of compounding crises, the work of multidisciplinary, multidimensional folk healer Richael Faithful is a call back into healing justice. Tune in as host Amirio Freeman and Faithful explore community organizing, connection to ancestral healing traditions, care work, and the birthing of new selves in this heart-filled episode. As Richael reminds us, there are many ways to heal, love, connect, and care. How can we make space for our multitudes? How can we nurture new possibilities for worldbuilding into being?

    GUEST:
    Richael Faithful (they/them) is a Black trans southern multidisciplinary, multidimensional folk healer, culture worker, strategist, and creative rooted in Washington DC / Piscataway ancestral lands / Chocolate City.

    RECOMMENDATIONS:


    Web: www.richaelfaithful.com, IG: @richaelfaithfulfolkhealer, FB: @faithfulfolkhealer
    Together at the Edge of the World: On Healing Justice
    Tell us about your healing justice and care work
    The Black Trans Prayer Book (Lambda Literary Award Winner, featuring "My Black Soul Absorbs Every Shade of Being")
    On Grief, Land and Ritual with Revenge of the DandeLions Griot Collective

    • 1h 13 min
    Earth In Color: In Conversation with Darel Scott

    Earth In Color: In Conversation with Darel Scott

    With Earth in Color, sustainability scientist and designer Darel Scott is reclaiming the relationship between Blackness and Greeness through vibrant, community-oriented media. In the face of a mainstream environmental movement rooted in the erasure of the lived experiences of Black folx, Earth in Color is a call to reimagine, reclaim, and regenerate. Tune in as host Amirio Freeman connects with Darel to talk about creating spaces that center and celebrate Black connections to Earth, holding histories of harm, and activating meaningful allyship in Black-led spaces.

    Guest:

    Darel Scott is a designer, sustainability scientist, and the founder of Earth in Color, an emerging media platform and creative studio focused on Black culture, community healing, and the natural world. Through creative storytelling and nature experiences, Earth in Color celebrates Black culture connections to nature and helps us heal with the Earth. Darel is on a personal mission to cultivate collective healing, spark Earth curiosity, and nurture deep joy in the Black community. She is a tea fanatic and loves developing plant-forward recipes. You can check out those recipes and so much more @earthincolor.co!

    Resources:


    Radicle Magazine
    “Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry” by Camille Dungy
    “Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds” by adrienne maree brown
    “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer

    • 48 min
    Full-Spectrum Care and Collective Liberation: In Conversation with Michelle Loo

    Full-Spectrum Care and Collective Liberation: In Conversation with Michelle Loo

    During an era when our bodily autonomy is under increasing threat, doulas — for birth, for death, for abortion, and more — are essential to supporting our collective capacity to meet change. In this vital episode, host Amirio Freeman talks with abortion doula Michelle Loo about their experiences with full-spectrum carework. Through situating the work of abortion doulas within a long history of communities innovating systems of care, Amirio and Michelle unpack the link between abortion access and diverse movements for liberation.

    GUEST: Raised by Chinese-Malaysian immigrants in New York City and Philadelphia, and now residing in DC, Michelle Loo is an East Coast baby who is grounded by eating good food and building expansive networks of care. They are a queer and leftist trainer, educator, and doula. They like to ask good questions, listen, and make art.

    RESOURCES:


    The Radical Doula Guide by Miriam Zoila Perez
    DIY Doula Self-Care for Before, During, and After Your Abortion by the Doula Project

    • 57 min
    Encountering Our Divine and Redefining Family: In Conversation With Twiggy Pucci Garçon

    Encountering Our Divine and Redefining Family: In Conversation With Twiggy Pucci Garçon

    As we explore (and expand) our understanding of matriarchy at Loam this year, this conversation with activist, healer, and creator extraordinaire Twiggy Pucci Garçon offers insight into how the Ballroom community redefines and reimagines nurturing relationship through creating unique spaces of care, support, and expression. From reflecting on queerness to excavating the link between spirituality and self, Loam Listen host Amirio Freeman and Twiggy dive deep in this world-building conversation.

    GUEST:
    Raised in a southern, religious, Black community, Twiggy is a proud non-binary member of the LGBTQ+ community. As an activist, producer, healer and creator, Twiggy attributes the balance of struggle and strength they witnessed and experienced, early in life, to their ability to maneuver through spaces of power and represent for people without.

    Praising literary greats like James Baldwin to the women in their family, Twiggy is quick to credit their ancestral warriors and pathmakers for the elevation of their own voice in a way that ultimately leads to progress. Since finding support in the Ballroom community at a very crucial moment in their life, Twiggy leverages every opportunity to generate conversations around equity for LGBTQ+ young people and create quality spaces for them to be centered in making decisions and solutions around the issue of homelessness.

    With over 15 years of experience, both personally and professionally, Twiggy has collaborated with artists, filmmakers, academics and policymakers to increase visibility of both creative and sociopolitical agendas.

    • 39 min
    Shaping New Narratives On Sex, Climate, and Community: In Conversation With Melissa Pintor Carnagey

    Shaping New Narratives On Sex, Climate, and Community: In Conversation With Melissa Pintor Carnagey

    How can shaping new narratives on sex, climate, and community rewire our worldview? Tune in as educator Melissa Pintor Carnagey of Sex Positive Families reflects on the role of pleasure-centric, narrative-weaving strategies to practice with our young people at home and elsewhere in conversation Loam Listen Host Amirio Freeman.

    Guest:
    Melissa Pintor Carnagey (she/they) is a Black and Latinx, Austin-based sexuality educator and licensed social worker who founded Sex Positive Families on the belief that all children deserve holistic, comprehensive, and shame-free sexuality education so they can live informed, empowered, and safer lives. Melissa provides puberty workshops for families and educational content for parents on topics of talking to kids across stages about pleasure, consent, and online porn. Melissa is a sex-positive parent to three young people ages 21, 11, and 7. They are the constant inspiration for the work.

    Resources:


    Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown
    Sex Positive Talks to Have With Kids by Melissa Pintor Carnagey, LBSW
    In Case You’re Curious: Questions about Sex from Young People with Answers from the Experts by Planned Parenthood
    Vaginas and Periods 101: A Popup Book by Christian Hoeger and Kristen Lilla
    These Are My Eyes, This is My Nose, This is My Vulva, These Are My Toes by Dr. Lexx Brown-James
    The Sex Ed of Blackfolk Podcast by Dr. Tracie Q. Gilbert
    Six Minute Sex Ed Podcast by Kim Cavill

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