Revolution Resolution with Anna Malaika Tubbs

Anna Malaika Tubbs
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Revolution Resolution is a five-minute, twice-weekly podcast from author and sociologist Anna Malaika Tubbs, drawing on the insights of her two NYT Bestsellers Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden From Us and The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of MLK Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation. This podcast is for everyone, every race, every background, every gender, and every age. We have all been shaped, limited, or wounded by a system built on hierarchy, whether we’ve been pressured to conform to it, harmed by it, or taught to uphold it.

  1. 4D AGO

    Where Do You Stand in This Story?

    Before we can build a new world, we have to understand the one we were handed. In this episode, Anna Malaika Tubbs invites us to reflect on where we stand within the systems that shaped our families and our lives. Through gentle questions about power, inheritance, privilege, and hardship, she reminds us that awareness isn’t about guilt — it’s about responsibility. Understanding our story is the first step toward repair.

    6 min

  2. 6D AGO

    The Wisdom That Came Before

    Before American democracy was written into law, there were other ways of living on this land.In this five-minute episode of The Revolution Resolution, Anna Malaika Tubbs reflects on Indigenous worldviews that honored balance, community, and gender beyond rigid binaries—worlds where women led, two-spirit people were revered, and children were treated as sacred.These ways of being weren’t erased because they were weak, but because they revealed something dangerous to a patriarchal system built on hierarchy: other, more humane systems had already existed.As we imagine the future of democracy, this episode invites us to remember—and learn from—the wisdom that came long before the one we inherited.Subscribe and share if you’re ready to remember what was never truly lost.

    6 min

  3. FEB 5

    You Have a Choice

    Every day, whether we realize it or not, we’re making a choice. In this episode, Anna Malaika Tubbs brings the season’s ideas together to name a difficult but liberating truth: the system we live in has long been mistaken for democracy—but democracy, as an ideal, has never been fully realized here. Rather than assigning blame, this conversation invites clarity. It explores how inherited rules continue when left unquestioned, and how choosing differently—through courage, responsibility, and care—moves us closer to the democracy we’ve always been promised but never given. This episode isn’t about guilt.It’s about agency.And the quiet power of choosing what comes next.

    6 min

  4. FEB 3

    How We Walk With Each Other

    Liberation isn’t something we reach alone.We find our way back to ourselves more fully when someone chooses to walk beside us. In this episode, Anna Malaika Tubbs reflects on what it means to accompany one another with humility, presence, and care—without erasing difference or centering ourselves in someone else’s story. Drawing from her mother’s example, she explores allyship as a relational practice rooted in listening, responsibility, and trust. This conversation invites us to consider how our choices—especially when we hold more space or safety—can widen the path for others, and how shared liberation frees everyone from the limits of a system built on hierarchy and fear.

    5 min

  5. JAN 29

    You Were Born With a New World Inside You

    Before anyone told you who you had to be, you already carried a whole world inside you. In this episode, Anna Malaika Tubbs explores who we were before the script—before expectations, fear, and hierarchy taught us to shrink, soften, harden, or disappear. Every child enters the world carrying something new, something full of possibility. And yet, most of us were taught to trade that authenticity for survival. This conversation invites remembrance: of your original wholeness, your brilliance, and the parts of you that were never meant to be erased. Healing, Anna reminds us, is not about becoming someone new—but about restoring who you were all along.

    5 min

  6. JAN 27

    The Things You Learned Without Anyone Saying a Word

    Some of the deepest lessons we carry were never spoken aloud.They were absorbed in silence. In this episode, Anna Malaika Tubbs explores how the system reaches us not through laws or textbooks, but through everyday moments—what’s praised, what’s punished, what’s ignored, and what’s left unsaid. Long before we can question it, we learn who we’re supposed to be by watching how the world responds to us. By understanding how these unspoken lessons shape identity, confidence, and belonging, we begin to loosen their hold—and create space for something truer to take root.

    5 min

  7. JAN 22

    How a Story Became the System We Live Inside

    The system we live inside didn’t emerge naturally.It began as a story—and that story was powerful enough to become a Constitution, a government, and an entire way of life. In this episode, Anna Malaika Tubbs traces how a specific worldview held by the founding fathers became law, how that law shaped institutions, and how those institutions solidified into what we now call “the system.” This includes the intentional exclusion of women, Indigenous people, enslaved Africans, and immigrants—especially those who were not white or Protestant—from full humanity and belonging. By understanding how a story became enforceable reality, we reclaim something essential: the knowledge that systems are not destiny. They are narratives that can be revised.

    7 min

  8. JAN 20

    Who Wrote the Script We’re All Living In?

    The script we’ve all been asked to live by didn’t come from nature, destiny, or accident. It was written—by specific men, at a specific moment in history, trying to protect their own power. In this episode, Anna Malaika Tubbs traces the origins of the system back to the founding of the United States, exploring how fear, insecurity, and a desire to maintain hierarchy shaped the rules we still live with today. This isn’t about villainizing the past—it’s about understanding it clearly enough to loosen its grip on the present. Because once you see that the system was built from fear, it stops looking inevitable—and starts looking changeable.

    6 min
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Revolution Resolution is a five-minute, twice-weekly podcast from author and sociologist Anna Malaika Tubbs, drawing on the insights of her two NYT Bestsellers Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden From Us and The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of MLK Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation. This podcast is for everyone, every race, every background, every gender, and every age. We have all been shaped, limited, or wounded by a system built on hierarchy, whether we’ve been pressured to conform to it, harmed by it, or taught to uphold it.

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