Episode 6 – Movement Building Beyond the Moment: On Getting Free Together in #StandingRock and #FreedomSquare with Kelly Hayes
Release Date: 09/13/2016
Episode 30 - Youth Dreaming and Designing Relations to Lands and Waters
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In this episode, youth researchers (ages 14 to 18) and graduate facilitators from the afterschool land education program, Youth Dreaming and Designing Relations to Lands and Waters, reflect on climate justice and Land relations, focusing on the impacts of colonization, urbanization, and gentrification on both human and more-than-human beings. Through rants, poems, and stories, they challenge anthropocentrism, express desires for more reciprocal relations with Land and water in the city, and envision just climate futures for their communities. This episode was originally recorded in the summer...
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Episode 29 – Black-Indigenous Identity in Canada
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In this episode, Kayla Webber and Paige Grant interview Denise Baldwin, from Ontario, to discuss her experiences of being a Black-Indigenous woman in Canada. The conversation considers the ways that Black-Indigenous and/or Afro-Indigenous identities have, and continue to be, invisbilized in Canada. Some members of these communities have been taught to dishonour their Indigenous and/or Black ancestors who have made it possible for them to be here. Denise draws attention to how she understands and expresses her Black-Indigenous identity. This episode was originally recorded in March 2019.
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Episode 28 – “I don’t know if a city… can be liveable”: An Interview with Nasma Ahmed
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This episode was originally recorded in February 2019. However, it is especially relevant during the COVID-19 virus, given the increasing use of online platforms, and amidst conversations about life following the pandemic. In this episode, Sefanit interviews Nasma Ahmed, the founder of Digital Justice Lab (DJL). Nasma is a Black woman whose work considers surveillance, digitization, and tech justice amidst an everchanging Toronto. She discusses her work with DJL and its necessarily broad scope, as well as the Sidewalk Project and critical questions important to future city building. Who do...
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Episode 27 – Defenders of the Water School: An Interview with Alayna Eagle Shield
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This episode was originally recorded in October 2018. It remains relevant today, amidst the COVID-19 virus, as we are imagining life following the pandemic. In this episode, Jennifer Sylvester and Jade Nixon interview Alayna Eagle Shield, creator of the (Defenders of the Water School), which began at the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Camp at Standing Rock. Alayna generously shares her work at the school and speaks to the importance of Indigenous languages and traditions, particularly the Lakota language, for her children and future generations.
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Episode 26 – Meditating on the Elsewhere
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In November 2017, Indigenous and Black community members, scholars, and activists gathered at the University of Toronto to discuss getting elsewhere.
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Episode 25 – Gentrification in Toronto
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In this episode, Chris Ramsaropp, Greer Babazon and Nisha Toomey discuss Toronto’s rapid gentrification. We visit the kitchen table to unpack what communities are most impacted by gentrification; explore how gentrification has been, and continues to be, justified by (settler colonial) logics of progress and inevitability; and we speak with a resident of Toronto’s Junction area on the shifted/shifting community.
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Episode 24 – Multiculturalism: A Performative Distraction
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In this episode, Carey DeMichelis & Bea Jolley delve into the Canadian rhetoric of multiculturalism. The Kitchen Table discusses what multicultural discourses miss and mask. And we are joined by Tiffany King, Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Michael Dumas, Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the Graduate School of Education and the African American Studies Department.
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Episode 23 – “How Can I Talk About This Violence Without Being Violent?”: An Interview with Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński & Naomi Rincón Gallardo
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In this episode, Sefanit Habtom and Sigrid Roman interview Naomi Rincón Gallardo and Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, creators of the Formaldehyde Trip and Unearthing. In Conversation, respectively. Naomi and Belinda generously share their artistic decision-making processes, how they see art as resistance, and speak to future generations of Black and Indigenous peoples.
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Episode 22 – Migrant Labour, White Settler Anxiety, and No Returns
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This episode explores the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program in Canada by considering the modes of surveillance, exploitation, denial and violence embedded in the program. Nisha Toomey and Chris Ramsaroop demystify false histories of Canadian innocence and the white settler anxieties entrenched in the state.
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Episode 21 – Hazelburn
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In a deliberate attempt to un-forget erased histories, this snack episode considers a housing co-op in Toronto’s downtown core. The name of the street, the co-op, and the land where it’s situated, trace a relationship between settler colonialism, slavery, and antiblackness.
info_outlineThe Henceforward Episode 6: Movement Building Beyond the Moment: On Getting Free Together in #StandingRock and #FreedomSquare with Kelly Hayes.
In this episode, Stephanie Latty, Sefanit Habtom, and Rebecca Beaulne-Stuebing interview Kelly Hayes, a cofounder of the Chicago Light Brigade and the direct action collective Lifted Voices. Hayes is a member of the Menominee nation, and is based out of Chicago where she works as a direct action trainer.
Kelly Hayes recently wrote an article for truthout.org called “From #NoDAPL to #FreedomSquare: A tale of two occupations.” In the article and in this interview, Hayes beautifully details the important time in history that we’re witnessing: two simultaneous land-based struggles that shed light on issues Indigenous and Black communities are facing. This episode travels from Standing Rock to Freedom Square in Chicago, reflecting on these two sites of contestation and creativity, and describing direct action tactics for freedom.
Check out Kelly’s writings about #NoDAPL Land Protectors at Standing Rock at the following links: