The Galactic Cow: Conversations about teaching, the Universe, and everything emareena & ambar

Are you tired of being a brain in a jar?  A content dispensary?  Do you long for a different way to teach and learn, one that welcomes and embraces you and your students in all your full, radiant humanity?  We want that too!  In this episode, emareena & ambar discuss radical self love and how its presence could transform our experience of teaching and learning.  
What do you think would change if we embraced the necessity of radical self love as educators?  
Reference material
Unlocking Us, with Sonja Renee Taylor: The body is not an apology
Unlocking Us, with Tarana Burke: Unbound:  liberation and the birth of the me too movement
Offline with Jon Favreau: How the internet is radicalizing young men
Additional good stuffs:
Sonja Renee Taylor: The Body is Not an Apology and quote on bodily hierarchy and white women Tarana Burke:  Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement Laura Bates:  Men Who Hate Women:  The Extremism Nobody is Talking About Dr. Carey Yazeed:  Black women and vulnerability: what brene brown got wrong Ginwright, S. (2022). The Four Pivots. CA: North Atlantic Books.  Just because:  Lizzo talking radical self love  Production
theme music: composed and performed by Alden Zac (on the interwebs here, here, here) thanks friend! editing & production:  emareena (who is relieved this is mostly listenable)  artwork:  also emareena, who loves Galactica very much, and will be occasionally posting on the blog.

Welcome to our first relisten pod!  We're not quite exaggerating when we say we kind of started this podcast so we could relisten to some of our favorite and most influential thinkers, dreamers, and visionaries, and adrienne maree brown was always going to be first ♥  In this episode, we discuss two of her interviews and how her work applies to transforming teaching and learning.  Join us and explore your own vision for a new way to learn and teach.
Pod relistens:  Finding Our Way podcast, S1E2 “Visioning” and On Being “We Are in a Time of New Suns”
Grace Lee Boggs here and here
Find adrienne
https://adriennemareebrown.net/podcasts/  https://adriennemareebrown.net/blog/  https://esii.org/resources/  https://alliedmedia.org/speaker-projects/emergent-strategy-ideation-institute  Book Reference:  O’Neil, Cathy. Weapons of Math Destruction (2016)
Production
theme music: composed and performed by Alden Zac (on the interwebs here, here, here) thanks friend! editing & production:  emareena (who is relieved this is mostly listenable) artwork:  also emareena, who loves Galactica very much, and will be occasionally posting on the blog.  

This is our second episode talking about language and the last before we start our podcast relisten series.  This week, we're discussing ability to learn, change/transformation, and practice, connecting all of these our hope for creating a new vision of teaching and learning.  We know part of that work is a different way to relate to education, and that can’t happen without a reshaping of how we vision, define, and embody teaching and learning.
We’re watching our systems dis-integrate, K-12, higher ed, and beyond, which means we have an opportunity to reimagine and create a system of education that is
adaptable/flexible enough to reflect rapid changes in culture and society, able to provide equitable access to all learners, and balanced across learning, content, integration, collaboration, and growth If you like what you hear, make sure to Like, Subscribe, and Share.  Find emareena on Substack and Mastodon.
Books we referenced
“Awe” (Dacher Keltner)
“We Want to Do More than Survive” (Miriame Kaba)
"Building a Trauma-Responsive Educational Strategy: Lessons from a Corrections Classroom" (emareena danielles)
"Emergent Strategy" (adrienne maree brown)
 
theme music: composed and performed by Alden Zac (here, here, here) thanks friend!
editing & production:  emareena (who is relieved this is mostly listenable)
artwork:  emareena, who loves Galactica very much, and will be occasionally posting on the blog

Welcome to our first full episode!  For this ep, our guiding questions are "How are we defining ‘teaching & learning’? How are they different from (organized) education?"  In this episode, we're discussing how we define organized education, teaching, learning, and emerging consciousness.  Talking about new ideas means new language, or old language used in new ways!  If you like what you hear, make sure to Like, Subscribe, and Share.

References
“All that you touch, you change
All that you change, changes you
The only lasting truth is change
god is change”
~ Octavia Butler “Parable of the Sower”
"The principles of emergent strategy include:
fractal adaptation interdependence and decentralization nonlinear and iterative change transformative justice and resilience creating more possibilities" ~adrienne maree brown “Emergent Strategy” 
theme music: composed and performed by Alden Zac (here, here, here) thanks friend!
editing & production:  emareena (who is relieved this is mostly listenable)
logo:  emareena, who loves Galactica very much, and will be occasionally posting on the blog

we recorded this mini-episode to answer the question "why are we here?" but only for the podcast, not to cause an existential crisis!  we liked the idea of introducing ourselves separately, so here we are - it was just that simple.  emareena and ambar are both adult educators and are interested in how teaching and learning need to grow and expand, just as humanity needs to grow and evolve. 
 
we started our work together as part of a state-wide diversity and equity collective, and have been moving together in that space for several years.  we discovered a mutual fascination with emergent strategy, justice, tending relationship, liberation, bell hooks, paulo friere, and joy in teaching and learning.  galactic cow is a place for us to bring these ideas and more into practice, as a way to fundamentally reshape learning and teaching.
 
references: 
emareena's book "Building a Trauma Responsive Educational Practice:  Lessons from a Corrections Classroom" (first book about the impacts of trauma and adult learning and the first guide to teaching in prison), and
the Wisdom of Hafiz oracle deck.  here's the card, Dream Wide Awake (#31), and its explanation: 

theme music: composed and performed by Alden Zac (here, here, here) thanks friend!
editing & production:  emareena (who is relieved this is mostly listenable)
logo:  emareena, who loves Galactica very much, and will be occasionally posting on the blog