shado-lite - S1 Ep9: Season 1 wrap - okay, what can we do?

S1 Ep9: Season 1 wrap - okay, what can we do?

10/01/23 • 29 min

This season has discussed A LOT of stuff - from unpicking climate anxiety to the issues of carceral feminism. So Larissa and Zoe sit down to map out the connections between all of these issues. How are these systems connected and what might be the leverage points for change? When the scale of these issues can be super overwhelming, what are actions we can take to resist and rebuild?

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Previous Episode

S1 Ep8: Is Big Tech ruining our dating lives?

Warning: this is an unbelievably straight episode. This week the girls are tackling ‘the apps’: are they making love and dating harder, or are they simply reflecting already broken society? How far can we blame big tech for the state of dating right now? And can we even be bothered to resist it?

Zoe and Larissa talk dating horror stories, politics of desirability and why straight mens dating profiles really are just for other men. Tune in for two 5’11 queens who cannot make up their mind on how we might change modern dating to be less BLEUGHJ...

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Guest episode: Indigenous storytelling and the power of seeds with Samara Almonte and Diane Wilson

In this episode, Samara Almonte, a contributing editor for SHADO, discusses the power of intergenerational healing and Indigenous stewardship with The Seed Keeper author, Diane Wilson. Diane Wilson is a Dakota writer and educator, who has published four award-winning books as well as essays in numerous publications. Wilson’s novel, The Seed Keeper, received the 2022 Minnesota Book Award for Fiction. Wilson is the former Executive Director for Dream of Wild Health, an Indigenous non-profit farm, and the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance, a national coalition of tribes and organizations working to create sovereign food systems for Native people. Wilson is a Mdewakanton descendant, enrolled on the Rosebud Reservation.

Samara Almonte is part of the Michoacán diaspora, raised between the lakes and tierra caliente regions of Michoacán, Mexico and occupied Coast Salish territory or the Pacific Northwest. She identifies as a P’urhepecha descendant on a journey of reconnecting with her ancestors. Samara is the director of Raíces Verdes (Green Roots), a multimedia platform dedicated to archiving and sharing the experiences of Black, Indigenous, People of Color across diasporic experiences reconnecting with their “green roots”.

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