This great conversation on Indigeneity is from a couple of years ago and it just keeps being relevant. Being Indigenous is an analytic, not an identity. We need to talk about that. Photo by Rochelle Brown on Unsplash Patty (00:00:01): You're listening to medicine for the resistance Patty (00:00:04): Troy was so smart last time, and this could only …

This great conversation on Indigeneity is from a couple of years ago and it just keeps being relevant. Being Indigenous is an analytic, not an identity. We need to talk about that. Patty (00:00:01): You're listening to medicine for the resistance Patty (00:00:04): Troy was so smart last time, and this could only be better with Joy here. Joy: God we…

Patty I come across the coolest people on Twitter. And one of those cool people is Zoe Todd, who is the fish philosopher, and I love that. And another thing that I love I was going through, we have a questionnaire because you know, of course we do. And one of the things that Zoe mentions in the questionnaire because I asked, you know, what kind of …

Patty I come across the coolest people on Twitter. And one of those cool people is Zoe Todd, who is the fish philosopher, and I love that. And another thing that I love I was going through, we have a questionnaire because you know, of course we do. And one of the things that Zoe mentions in the questionnaire because I asked, you know, what kind of …

Patty Krawec so I just finished reading The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein so then when I came across Hilding, came across Hilding a few weeks ago about Indigenous stargazing. Mi’kmaq astronomer and tell us about yourself and about Indigenous stargazing. Hilding Neilson Yeah, so I'm Hilding, I'm Mi’kmaq and settler from a group in Ne…

Patty Krawec so I just finished reading The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein so then when I came across Hilding, came across Hilding a few weeks ago about Indigenous stargazing. Mi’kmaq astronomer and tell us about yourself and about Indigenous stargazing. Hilding Neilson Yeah, so I'm Hilding, I'm Mi’kmaq and settler from a group in Ne…

Angela: You I have I've had troubles with the word microaggression, I've had troubles with it for quite some time. We hear, I think I've been hearing it more and more over the last few years in particular, the last year, I've been hearing it a lot more in the workplace. And because people are trying to be woke or aware, but the reality of living it…

Angela: You I have I've had troubles with the word microaggression, I've had troubles with it for quite some time. We hear, I think I've been hearing it more and more over the last few years in particular, the last year, I've been hearing it a lot more in the workplace. And because people are trying to be woke or aware, but the reality of living it…

Black and Indigenous Solidarities With Robert Warrior Patty: So we're here with Robert Warrior. And so funny story, Kerry, I'm reading this book Crossing Waters Crossing Worlds by Tiya Miles. It was for Aambe book club, History a couple of months ago back in February, and I can't and, as happens a lot of times, you know, when I'm reading books or e…

Black and Indigenous Solidarities With Robert Warrior Patty: So we're here with Robert Warrior. And so funny story, Kerry, I'm reading this book Crossing Waters Crossing Worlds by Tiya Miles. It was for Aambe book club, History a couple of months ago back in February, and I can't and, as happens a lot of times, you know, when I'm reading books or e…

Please note this episode deals with sexuality and sexual violence and may not be suitable for all listeners. Some material may be triggering. If you do find yourself triggered or having difficulty, please contact your local rape crisis center. If you need assistance locating support, please use RAINN.org in the US and Ending Violence in Canada to l…

Please note this episode deals with sexuality and sexual violence and may not be suitable for all listeners. Some material may be triggering. If you do find yourself triggered or having difficulty, please contact your local rape crisis center. If you need assistance locating support, please use RAINN.org in the US and Ending Violence in Canada to l…

Patty: So we're here talking Deondre Smiles about Indigenous geographies. And I took like grade 10 geography that was the extent of my geography training, which means I learned about glacial movement and labeling rivers and all of that stuff. But I mean, first off, just the idea of Indigenous geographies from a land bank perspective is really inter…

Patty: So we're here talking Deondre Smiles about Indigenous geographies. And I took like grade 10 geography that was the extent of my geography training, which means I learned about glacial movement and labeling rivers and all of that stuff. But I mean, first off, just the idea of Indigenous geographies from a land bank perspective is really inter…

the land is my ancestor Patty So, anyway, so we're here with Keolu Fox. Chanda had made this comment, quoting you about the land is my ancestor, and that is a scientific statement. And she was just completely taken by that comment. And then so was I. And that's really all I've been thinking about. Because it's just such a, it's just such a neat way…

the land is my ancestor Patty So, anyway, so we're here with Keolu Fox. Chanda had made this comment, quoting you about the land is my ancestor, and that is a scientific statement. And she was just completely taken by that comment. And then so was I. And that's really all I've been thinking about. Because it's just such a, it's just such a neat way…

Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere With Dr. Paulette Steeves Patty Krawec We're here with Dr. Paulette Steves. Josh Manitowabi made a remark that the Anishinaabe word Giiwedin contains the idea of going home. And that what it was referring to was the glaciers, that the glaciers were going home. And this is knowledge that's contained w…

Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere With Dr. Paulette Steeves Patty Krawec We're here with Dr. Paulette Steves. Josh Manitowabi made a remark that the Anishinaabe word Giiwedin contains the idea of going home. And that what it was referring to was the glaciers, that the glaciers were going home. And this is knowledge that's contained w…

Helen Knott joins us to talk about her memoir In My Own Moccasins. It is a story of trauma and recovery, of relapse and recovery, love and persistence and becoming a matriarch. Not all of our societies were matriachal, that is a very particular style of governance, but being a matriarch is more than that. It is taking on a role in a family, in a co…

Helen Knott joins us to talk about her memoir In My Own Moccasins. It is a story of trauma and recovery, of relapse and recovery, love and persistence and becoming a matriarch. Not all of our societies were matriachal, that is a very particular style of governance, but being a matriarch is more than that. It is taking on a role in a family, in a co…

The scene is familiar. A small child lies on a beach with his head towards the ocean and feet on dry sand. The image of Alan Kurdi, a three year old Kurdish Syrian boy has become part of the global psyche and in his book, What Strange Paradise, Omar El Akkad begins with the same image. But in this version Amir is a few years older. And he gets up. …

The scene is familiar. A small child lies on a beach with his head towards the ocean and feet on dry sand. The image of Alan Kurdi, a three year old Kurdish Syrian boy has become part of the global psyche and in his book, What Strange Paradise, Omar El Akkad begins with the same image. But in this version Amir is a few years older. And he gets up. …

Racism has re-created the world in Black and white, with Black inscribed as perpetually dangerous and white as the goal of progress and civilization. Colorism is how this plays out within categories of race and ethnic communities, darker skin associated with the qualities ascribed to Blackness and people with lighter skin seen as more credible, mor…

Racism has re-created the world in Black and white, with Black inscribed as perpetually dangerous and white as the goal of progress and civilization. Colorism is how this plays out within categories of race and ethnic communities, darker skin associated with the qualities ascribed to Blackness and people with lighter skin seen as more credible, mor…

Racism re-created the world as Black and White, with Black at the bottom of the social hierarchy and white at the top. Others were added to the spaces between with darker skin associated with Blackness, even within communities seen as white. This conversation with Erica Williams and Amber Starks unpacks the ways in which we have internalized coloni…

Racism re-created the world as Black and White, with Black at the bottom of the social hierarchy and white at the top. Others were added to the spaces between with darker skin associated with Blackness, even within communities seen as white. This conversation with Erica Williams and Amber Starks unpacks the ways in which we have internalized coloni…

Borders are more than the lines between countries. States like Canada, the US, Australia, and Europe increasingly push their borders into other countries, tying foreign aid to agreements for preventing migrants from even getting to our borders. And the violence that creates is hidden from view. This conversation with Harsha Walia is difficult and l…

Borders are more than the lines between countries. States like Canada, the US, Australia, and Europe increasingly push their borders into other countries, tying foreign aid to agreements for preventing migrants from even getting to our borders. And the violence that creates is hidden from view. This conversation with Harsha Walia is difficult and l…

Our conversation with Dr. Tope Adefarakan continues with a deeper look at Yoruba traditions and what it means to be Indigenous as Black and Native peoples. Building from WEB DuBois' book "The Souls of Black Folk" we talk about the duality that Indigenous peoples live within, engaging and challenging the dominant world. This is a public episode. If …

Our conversation with Dr. Tope Adefarakan continues with a deeper look at Yoruba traditions and what it means to be Indigenous as Black and Native peoples. Building from WEB DuBois' book "The Souls of Black Folk" we talk about the duality that Indigenous peoples live within, engaging and challenging the dominant world.…

Mumilaaq speaks by Medicine for the Resistance

Mumilaaq speaks by Medicine for the Resistance This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.compatty krawec

Dr. Tope Adefarakan joins us to talk about her research into the Yoruba belief system, how it came to the Americas with enslaved people, and it's various adaptations in this new world. The pockets of belief that persist despite centuries of attempted erasure and how these beliefs enable organization and activism.…

Dr. Tope Adefarakan joins us to talk about her research into the Yoruba belief system, how it came to the Americas with enslaved people, and it's various adaptations in this new world. The pockets of belief that persist despite centuries of attempted erasure and how these beliefs enable organization and activism. This is a public episode. If you wo…

A politics of refusal turns it’s back on patriarchy and just goes on building something new, something different, something closer to what we had before. A politics of refusal does not seek inclusion because if what are we seeking inclusion into? The people on this panel have all refused: refused to let Patriarchy define the boundaries or decide wh…

What are the conditions that our communities need to see the Milky Way? To notice badgers and raccoons? To gather moss? To watch the growth of plants and their relationships to each other? To be undrowned. This month authors Daniel Heath Justice (Badger and Raccoon) and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (Disordered Cosmos) join Ben Krawec, Celeste Smith, an…

In this episode, recorded in February 2021, we talk with James about a mutual aid project in the Lakota lands of the Black Hills. There is a tension in finding ways to house and care for our own in the midst of colonial rules about place. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episo…

Our guest tells us, "as a storyteller you have a responsibility not to change the story but to show your audience a different way of seeing it, seeing it from a different perspective,." Storytelling helps us to see and understand ourselves and our place in the world a little bit better. They help us to locate ourselves not only in the past and pres…

Dr. Keri Leigh Merritt joins us again to talk about her book, Reconsidering Southern Labour: Race, Class, and Power. We touch on the rise of policing as a way of controlling the newly freed Black population and the way that labour was at times complicit and at times a source of liberation, but almost always in conflict with the state. https://upf.c…

"Early on for colonists, raccoons become a really malleable and iconic species in terms of their appearance. And they are pretty abundant, so an easily mobilized symbol of America in the colonial imagination. But as time goes on they lose status, and as they lose status an animal that symbolism gets transferred. " Daniel Heath Justice talking about…

Dr. Marshall returns in the days after the insurrection of January 6 to talk with us about the Reconstruction and Gilded Age in the US. That was a period of transformation when the US had to decide if it would reconcile with white plantation owners who committed treason, or if it would reckon with the realities of slavery and dispossession. The US …

Enestine Hayes (The Tao of Raven, Blonde Indian), Kaitln Curtice (Native, Glory Happening), Demita Frazier (interviewed for How We Get Free), Jenessa Galenkamp, and Joy Henderson join host Patty Krawec to talk about memoirs, who we write them for, why we write them, and the connections that they create. This is a public episode. If you would like t…

Dr. Lindsay Marshall is a historian of the American west and she joins us to talk about how history is not just filled with gaps, it's simply wrong. The things we learn about history create a public memory and that matters. The way that we remember things matter because that's what shapes how we react to social needs and problems how we shape polic…

Fighting against the harms of the state also means fighting for the world we want. It means building community. Pearly Pouponneau joins us to talk about building community as an act of resistance. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substa…

Kevin Tucker joins us to talk about Christian Imperialism, the way that missionaries have been part of the colonial project. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.substack.compatty krawec

Our history is the future. We look at history for clues to what is happening today and this conversation with Nick Estes, Tiya Miles, Cheryl Savageau, Sean Carson, and Khadija Hammuda dives into the intersections of Black and Indigenous history. The ways we are and are not visible in each others stories. More information at daanis.ca/ambe This is a…

This month features the book Why Indigenous Literatures Matter by Daniel Heath Justice. Daniel and Patty are joined by poet Janet Marie Rogers, educators Joy Henderson, Robin McBurney, and Ishkenekeya and my artist Neil Ellis Orts. Indigenous literatures teach us how to be human. How to be good relatives. How to be good ancestors. How to live toget…

Leticia Jones joins us to talk about what it means to work with Black and Indigenous communities. People want to be allies, but are they willing to be interns? transcripts will be available at daanis.ca This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit medicinefortheresistance.…

For part two of our discussion about abolition we are joined by the members of the Free Land Free People collective. This Edmonton based advocacy group supports prisoners in a variety of ways including fundraising to help inmates with the costs of being imprisoned and becoming free. On the road to abolition, prisoners need support. This is a public…

Human Rights lawyer Anthony Morgan joins us again, this time to talk about abolishing police. Policing has a long history of disproportionately targeting and incarcerating Black and Indigenous people. More than that, the systems we live in push us to the edges where options are limited and the resulting criminality becomes part of a cycle that is i…