Fanachu! is a weekly podcast based in Guam in the Marianas Islands. It provides an decolonization and indigenous themed focus to news and events from the Marianas, Micronesia and the Pacific. It is live streamed each week on Facebook and features monthly episodes that promote the use and learning of the Chamoru language.
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For The Wild is a slow media organization dedicated to land-based protection, co-liberation, and intersectional storytelling. We are rooted in a paradigm shift away from human supremacy, endless growth, and consumerism. Our work highlights impactful stories and deeply-felt meaning making as balms for these times.
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A Decolonized Podcast for lovers on the margins, join your resident sexuality educator Ericka Hart and Deep East Oakland's very own Ebony Donnley, as we game give, dismantle white supremacy and kiki in the cosmos somewhere between radical hood epistemological black queer love ethics, pop culture, house plants and a sea of books. Light an incense to this. #nigchampa #hrhw #theblackpoweredpodcast To monetarily support Hoodrat to Headwrap Venmo @Ericka-Hart or PayPal: [email protected]
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Shifting consciousness around parenting practices & principles to reimagine a decolonized life.
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Language Murder in Nepal, exclusion of migrant children from Education in Jordan, systemic violence to Mapuche peoples in Chile
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Immigrant paradox Cover art photo provided by Brooke Lark on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@brookelark
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A podcast unpacking critical issues underpinning China’s emergence as a global power.
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IDEAS is a place for people who like to think. If you value deep conversation and unexpected reveals, this show is for you. From the roots and rise of authoritarianism to near-death experiences to the history of toilets, no topic is off-limits. Hosted by Nahlah Ayed, we’re home to immersive documentaries and fascinating interviews with some of the most consequential thinkers of our time. With an award-winning team, our podcast has proud roots in its 60-year history with CBC Radio, exploring ...
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Katie and Harold ask "what is art?" as they interview artists and makers in Victoria, BC.
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The Internationalist is a podcast from the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU). In each episode, academics, students and practitioners from across the Commonwealth take on the current debates in higher education. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Katie and Harold ask "what is art?" as they interview artists and makers in Victoria, BC.
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This podcast discusses Africa’s modern history through the lens of nationalism, independence movements, decolonization and post colonialism.
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Decolonize Yourself is a podcast on how to decolonize your mind, body, spirit, and relationships. If you seek to create oppression-free spaces in yourself, in your spheres of influence, and cultivate oppression-free spaces with others, then this podcast is for you.
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A podcast to start conversations about decolonization on a variety of topics with a variety of voices. Disrupting the status quo by supporting a new consciousness & liberation in all areas of life through practical tips + radical Ideas. Chicana (Mexican-American) hosted featuring community leaders, social workers, activists, friends, artists, healers, and YOU! Thanks for tuning in on this journey of learning and standing in solidarity!
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Decolonization in Action Podcast interrogates how people are challenging the legacies of colonialism through art, activism, and knowledge especially as people advocate for reparations, restitution, and repair. This podcast is hosted by edna bonhomme and co-produced by Kristyna Comer.
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Decolonizing Science is a grassroots organization and podcast run entirely by a black scientist currently obtaining their PhD in the field of biological sciences. The goal is to bridge the gap between activism and science by educating underprivileged communities and everyday people. The topics Decolonizing Science seeks to shed light on are environmental racism, health disparities and discrimination in the medical and research fields. We need to deconstruct colonial ideologies that have dict ...
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While Indigenous is a solutions podcast devoted to building Indigenous power. Hosted by Sarah Sunshine Manning. Produced by the NDN Collective.
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The Decolonized Christian podcast seeks to dismantle harmful theology and reimagine the Christian witness together. We hope you join us on this journey of decolonization!
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Empower yourself! Listen to inspiring community energy stories from around the world on the theme of Decolonizing Power hosted by Mihskakwan James Harper and Freddie Huppé Campbell. Explore the unparalleled potential of renewable energy microgrids in Indigenous, Island and Coastal communities utilizing new technologies and applying circular economy principles to take climate action. Connect to a global network of leaders, including young innovators sprinting towards a sustainable, just and i ...
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Interviews with Scholars of Psychoanalysis about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/psychoanalysis
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Welcome to Decolonized, a research micro podcast that unearths underrepresented aspects of Black history. Each episode serves as a research prompt and closes with a mini syllabus. We’ll send you on a research hunt and we hope you'll share all you‘ve learned across platforms. This is how we reclaim Black history. Let’s begin.
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AnthroDish explores the intersections between our foods, cultures, and identities. Host Dr. Sarah Duignan sits down one-on-one with people in academia, hospitality, farming and agriculture, and more to learn about their food knowledge and experiences. If you're interested in the unique lives of everyday people who have been shaped by their relationship with food, this show is for you!
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Weaving story and wisdom in and around what it is to be connected to self and (re)Sourced within for women who are ready to activate their power by healing their mother wound, personally culturally and globally, (re)Sourcing themselves within and deeply rooting themselves in Belonging.
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Interviews with Anthropologists about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology
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This podcast was created for lawyers however anyone who works with people will benefit from this content. Through inspiring interviews, courageous conversations and thoughtful commentary, Myrna and her guests shine a light on a critical ethical competency lawyers missed in law school: trauma-informed lawyering. This is a do-no-further-harm, relational approach to the practice of law which benefits you, your clients, your colleagues and the legal profession generally. For lawyers and non-lawy ...
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Interviews with Scholars of Eastern Europe about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/eastern-european-studies
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Restorative Justice is often framed as an alternative to punishment in criminal legal and education settings, and but that’s only part of the story. Join host David Ryan Barcega Castro-Harris to learn how to apply Restorative Justice philosophy, practices, and values in your everyday life.
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A Podcast on Living as a Witch in Today’s World
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Each week, Milan Vaishnav and his guests from around the world break down the latest developments in Indian politics, economics, foreign policy, society, and culture for a global audience. Grand Tamasha is a co-production of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Hindustan Times.
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Catalyst is a podcast for people who care deeply about community, accountability, and what it actually takes to create safer, more intentional spaces. Hosted by Niké, an inclusion consultant and educator, each episode dives into the messy, real-life work of questioning our socializations and conditioning, honoring your capacity, and leading without perfectionism or urgency. Every other week, Niké breaks down big ideas around community care, boundaries, power, and belonging in a way that’s cl ...
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Subaltern Speaks explores the legacies of colonialism on the religion and spiritualities of colonized peoples, otherwise known as the “Subaltern” in Post-Colonial Studies, and how they have and continue to challenge these legacies through art, activism, academia, and other cultural and social mechanisms. Through meaningful conversations with leading thinkers, academics, activists, artists and spiritual leaders in our community and beyond, we seek to dismantle how colonialism and decolonizati ...
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Interviews with Scholars of Southeast Asia about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/southeast-asian-studies
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Dear Diaspora exists to host Africa-centered conversations about all things business, culture, and more! Join host Nduulwa Kowa and special guests as we ask the big questions, challenge narratives surrounding Africa, learn and unlearn — and explore what a more connected and engaged African Diaspora can look like.
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Raising children is hard. Raising children while black is even harder. The Parenting Decolonized podcast shines the light on how colonization has impacted the black family structure and what to do about it. Host Yolanda Williams takes you on the journey as she learns how to raise liberated black children without breaking their spirits. Yolanda and her guests discuss how to decolonize your parenting by resisting old narratives, how to use conscious parenting as activism against white supremac ...
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MISREPRESENTED tells stories that challenge the way you think about how history gets made. The show was recently awarded the Gotham Film & Media Institute and Variety Magazine's Audio Honor "in recognition of their innovations in audio storytelling." It's also been featured by Apple Podcasts and has become a Top 100 hit in over a dozen countries. MISREPRESENTED is produced by Kahaani, a project to put the world back in world history. Learn more at www.kahaani.io
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Welcome to Land Decolonized! This Indigenous podcast explores the practical side of the Framework Agreement on First Nations Land Management. Created for First Nations communities and anyone interested in learning more about land governance outside of the Indian Act. The Land Decolonized podcast is brought to you by the First Nation Land Management Resource Centre and supported by the First Nation Land Advisory Board.
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Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597, making us London's oldest higher education institution. This podcast offers our recorded lectures that are free to access from the Gresham College website, or our YouTube channel.
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If you are a Black Woman who is sick of the bullshit in society, and is sick of the way that it has impacted your mind, body, spirit and the generations before you, this podcast is for you. Especially if you are looking for the down-to-earth truth about how to remedy it all. Join me and other Black Women for moments of freeing ourselves from the ills of capitalism. We dispel the white-superiority lie, snatch back our stories and re-connect with the real system, nature. We laugh cuss, cry, ta ...
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Bringing together the worlds of health, education and well-being to support and inspire school communities.
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The Federation of Post-Secondary Educators and its member locals have been serving the needs of BC's educators for fifty years, providing resources and support and advocating for workers' rights and benefits since the College Faculties Federation first formed in 1970. As members of the BC Federation of Labour, the Canadian Association of University Teachers (and its National Union), and the Canadian Labour Congress, FPSE stands with 3.3 million union members in Canada who work for quality pu ...
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A podcast for people trying to embrace spirituality beyond the fences of institutional Christianity
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Indigenous evaluation conversations
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Decolonize Your Healthcare is a podcast dedicated to uncovering and dismantling the deep-rooted impacts of colonialism within modern healthcare systems, especially as they affect Black and marginalized communities. Through compelling storytelling, expert interviews, and actionable insights, this series explores how systemic bias, historical trauma, and institutional inequities continue to shape health outcomes today. Each week, join us for a deep dive into topics like implicit bias in medica ...
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Public activism on human rights, environmental and indigenous justice, and educational liberation, with an emphasis on politics, culture, and art. Website: https://speakingoutofplace.com/
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A podcast to share deep conversations about How We Can Heal from life’s toughest circumstances.
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Welcome to Decolonize your Destiny asks guests to share how they decolonize their lives. Decolonization is the process of becoming self-sovereign and this is where the power lies. It is the untangling of the colonizer’s limitations placed on our minds and bodies by unlocking and remembering the indigenous wisdom that lives within us all. Although the colonization process in the United States began centuries ago, the tenants of colonization have been normalized and woven into the social, econ ...
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The Chasing Liberation podcast is hosted by Marvin Toliver, LCSW and focuses on mental health, social justice, and helping folks get closer to their authentic selves. He'll be joined by various guests to connect, share knowledge, and enjoy space together.
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A lot happens in Boston every day. To help you keep up, WBUR, Boston's NPR News station, pulled these stories together just for you.
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Andre StrongBearHeart is reviving Indigenous culture and decolonizing the land
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The Nipmuc cultural steward teaches traditional Indigenous arts and advocates for Indigenous communities to be able to access, and even help manage, conservation land.By WBUR
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How Inuk activist Aaju Peter learned to 'decolonize' her mind
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Aaju Peter was 11 years old when she was taken from her Inuk community in Greenland and sent away to learn the ways of the West. She lost her language and culture. The activist, lawyer, designer, musician, filmmaker, and prolific teacher takes IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed on a tour of Iqaluit and into a journey to decolonization that continues still. *Th…
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S04E02: Decolonizing Policy and Leading with Love with Toni Tilston-Jones
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Toni (she/her) is a descendant of white settlers, mostly from Britain, Ireland, Wales who was born and raised here, in Treaty One territory, in the heart of the Metis nation in Winnipeg MB, Canada. She is a daughter, sister, wife, parent, friend, community member, and a member of the 2SLGBTQQIA* community. Toni has a deep love for animals and the b…
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Hong Kong’s Struggle of Decolonization and Democracy: A Conversation with Ching Kwan Lee
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In this episode of the ChinaPower Podcast, Dr. Ching Kwan Lee joins us to discuss her newly released book Forever Hong Kong: A Global City’s Decolonization Struggle. She reframes the 2019 Hong Kong protests not merely as a fight for democracy, but as the culmination of a two-decade decolonization struggle that sought to redefine the city’s identity…
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Episode 294: Monica Divane: Decolonizing Your Magick
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Kanani, Hilary and Courtney talk to Monika Divane about ways to decolonize your magick along with her upcoming workshop at THE FINAL SO MOTE THAT CON!! Join Us On Patreon to hear an ad-free version of this episode. SPONSORS Check out the phenomenal tea blends at thejasminepearl.com and save 10% with OUR NEW coupon code WITCH2025. Free shipping on o…
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Desirability Part 2: Disobeying white Eurocentric Beauty Standards
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...And the beauty of not falling in line.Ya'll asked, we complied: the desirability episode part 2! A special ask: if you liked what you heard and want this fully indie listener supported, currently pay-wall free, ad-free g-thang to continue, please consider becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/iharterickaor via Venmo: @Ericka-Hart, Paypal: e…
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Great Uehling on Decolonizing Ukraine: The Indigenous People of Crimea, and Why Rights are Needed, Not Just Recognition
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Today I have the pleasure of speaking with cultural anthropologist Greta YOU-LING about her new book, Decolonizing Ukraine: The Indigenous People of Crimea and Pathways to Freedom, a fascinating story about an indigenous group in Crimea fighting for its rights. Uehling tells us of the complex history of the Crimean Tatars, a Sunni Muslim group who …
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In Chelsea, an air, water, land fight for environmental justice
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Chelsea is an industrial hub for the region and has a troubled highway overpass that cuts through it. But there's a real cost. Chelsea residents have been fighting to improve the city's environment and in turn, their own health. The latest setback to that ongoing battle: the cancelation of a federal grant to mitigate flooding.…
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How absurdist theatre is an act of resistance
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Theatre of the Absurd was born postwar as a recoil against the violent fetish that totalitarian regimes had for “order.” For 75 years, absurdist playwright Eugène Ionesco's plays have been running continuously in Paris. IDEAS contributor Danny Braun went to Paris to delve into Ionesco's world where a professor can conclude confidently that a dog is…
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The Future of Sino-Middle Eastern Relations: A Conversation with Dr. Mohammed Alsudairi and Dr. Andrea Ghiselli
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In this episode of the ChinaPower Podcast, Dr. Mohammed Alsudairi and Dr. Andrea Ghiselli join us to discuss their newly released book Narratives of Sino-Middle Eastern Futures. They challenge prevailing narratives that frame China’s engagement in the Middle East primarily through the lens of U.S.–China rivalry and offer alternative perspectives by…
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'They're feeding America' — Northern Maine students learn work ethic on annual harvest break
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Every year in the early weeks of fall, Aroostook County potato farmers race to dig up their fields before the first frosts hit. Since at least the 1940s, students get a break from school to help out during the busy season.By WBUR
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ILLUMINATING WORLDVIEWS on Land, Language, and Love S1:2
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Continuing our Illuminating Worldviews series, we hear from X̱ʼunei Lance Twitchell in conversation with Guná Jensen exploring the vital work of Tlingít language revitalization. Together, they reflect on the deep emotional resonance of speaking in one’s ancestral language, and how this practice opens an anti-colonial lens in which to see and feel t…
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Nicolae Steinhardt, "The Journal of Joy" (SVS Press, 2025)
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A conversation with Fr. Bogdan Bucur and Dr. Razvan Porumb This publication represents the officially authorized translation of The Journal of Joy (SVS Press, 2025), carefully rendered to uphold the integrity of the original text in Romanian. The ethos Steinhardt recommends to Christians is that of an aristocrat minus the stiff upper lip and aloofn…
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In this unique episode, listeners will get the opportunity to be a "fly on the wall" of a therapy session with Marvin Toliver, LCSW! This mock session features a young Black man who is struggling with asking for help, and also realizes he may need to re-evaluate some of his interpersonal connections. This is an episode that will be relatable for ma…
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For environmental architect Justin Brazier, change comes from community
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Cities are confronting waves of extreme climate challenges in their neighborhoods. Solution-driven designers and architects like Brazier are engaging communities in new ways.By WBUR
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The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why it Matters: A Conversation with Christine Webb
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Today I am delighted to speak with primatologist Christine Webb about her new book, The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why it Matters. The title of the book itself is a concise and precise description of its two constituent halves. First, Webb tells us how science itself, from premodern times onward, has operated with an assumpt…
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How a translation movement made Western philosophers famous
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From Greek to Arabic and then to Latin, translators in 8th-century Baghdad eventually brought to Europe the works of Plato, Aristotle, Galen, and others who became central pillars of Western thought. IDEAS explores what is known as the Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement. *This episode originally aired on June 19, 2025. Fill out our listener survey …
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Artist crystal bi cultivates space for collective imagination
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Artist crystal bi is transforming Boston’s public spaces with interactive events that invite residents to reflect on memory, belonging, and the power of imagination. Through collaborative experiences inspired by ancestral traditions and local history, bi encourages Bostonians to envision a more inclusive and hopeful future for their city.…
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Artist Lani Asunción confronts the injustice of climate change
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In downtown Boston, the artist's installation “SONG/LAND/SEA: WAI Water Warning” rings out a message about climate change.By WBUR
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Can we have new pipelines and curb climate change, too?
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AI Will Be Your Overlord: Faster, Brighter, Better Than You?
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Unpacking Gender Legislation in Alberta with Kai Williamson
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Jake Blount's dystopian folk music is an omen for the present
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As ICE ramps up activity in Mass., this group bears witness
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Andrew Lambert, "No More Napoleons: How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Community artist Tanya Nixon-Silberg finds power in repair
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Why progressives may not be as 'woke' as they think
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Nurturing Softness through Meditation with Cara Lai
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Jo Nanajian interrogates memory's durability through natural forms
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Using materials like plaster, glass and wire, the artist creates abstract, textured wall sculptures inspired by forms found in nature. Nanajian tries to represent all the ways that human memory can be preserved, changed or lost.By WBUR
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From the Archives: Fanachu Episode 5: Wrapping up the Year with Ray Lujan
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Send us a text From the Fanachu archives - here is the fifth ever episode of Fanachu, recorded and hosted by the Godfather and Founder of Fanachu - Manny Cruz way back in 2016. Fanachu was started by Manny Cruz through the Media Committee for Independent Guåhan and early episodes such as this one were recorded in the Humanities Division Conference …
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Episode 295: Mat Auryn: The Future of Witchcraft
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Kanani, Hilary and Courtney talk to Mat Auryn about the current state of the world, especially here in America, and the future of Witchcraft and its place in these confusing and troubling times. Join Us On Patreon to hear an ad-free version of this episode. SPONSORS Check out the phenomenal tea blends at thejasminepearl.com and save 10% with OUR NE…
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The Terrible Connections between Detention and Prisons, and Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition: A Conversation with Silky Shah.
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Today I have the honor of speaking with longtime activist Silky Shah, Executive Director of the Detention Watch Network, about her new, and extremely important book, Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition. Shah provides a critical discussion about the intersection between detention, the prison industrial complex, and anti-immigrant ra…
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John Mathias, "Uncommon Cause: Living for Environmental Justice in Kerala" (U California Press, 2024)
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How can activists strike a balance between fighting for a cause and sustaining relationships with family, friends, and neighbors? In this episode John Mathias joins host Elena Sobrino to talk about Uncommon Cause: Living for Environmental Justice in Kerala (2024, University of California Press). Uncommon Cause follows environmental justice activist…
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Why a proposed 'new capitalism' is contested
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It’s loathed and celebrated, by both the left and right. It's called The Great Reset. To conspiracy theorists, it's a plot by global elites at the World Economic Forum to control our lives. To its supporters, it represents a gentler, more humane form of capitalism. IDEAS contributor Ira Basen lays out the origins, its aims and its potential, for bo…
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Shakespeare’s Musical Fairies - Dominic Broomfield-McHugh
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Written in the era of the founding of Gresham College, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream portrays the hypnotic dreaminess of a fairy world in which the real and the fantastic are blurred. This lecture explores how the innate musicality of Shakespeare’s original has provoked adaptations across the centuries, including Ashton and Balanchine’s b…
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Inside the MBTA's aging signal system as it gets a $295 million upgrade
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If you ride the MBTA, chances are you’ve seen an alert about a signal problem delaying your train. The T is in the middle of a project to improve the signal system on the Red and Orange lines so it can react to problems faster.By WBUR
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Filmmaker Homa Sarabi maps her place in the world
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The Iranian-born artist transforms memories and conversations into visual stories. Exploring longing, displacement, and belonging, Sarabi charts connections between cultures, people and place, even from oceans apart.By WBUR
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Vincent Pak, "Queer Correctives: Discursive Neo-homophobia, Sexuality and Christianity in Singapore" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Queer Correctives: Discursive Neo-homophobia, Sexuality and Christianity in Singapore (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025) explores Christian discourses of sex and sexuality in Singapore to argue that metanoia, the theological concept of spiritual transformation, can be read as a form of neo-homophobia that coaxes change in the queer individual. In Singapor…
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Jürgen Schaflechner, "Hinglaj Devi: Identity, Change, and Solidification at a Hindu Temple in Pakistan" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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About two hundred kilometers west of the city of Karachi, in the desert of Baluchistan, Pakistan, sits the shrine of the Hindu Goddess Hinglaj. Despite the temple's ancient Hindu and Muslim history, an annual festival at Hinglaj has only been established within the last three decades, in part because of the construction of the Makran Coastal Highwa…
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Deepa Das Acevedo, "The War on Tenure" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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As academia increasingly comes under attack in the United States, The War on Tenure (Cambridge UP, 2025) steps in to demystify what professors do and to explain the importance of tenure for their work. Deepa Das Acevedo takes readers on a backstage tour of tenure-stream academia to reveal hidden dynamics and obstacles. She challenges the common bel…
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Emília Barna, "Working in Music on the Semi-Periphery: Local Cultural Production and Global Capitalism" (CEU Press, 2025)
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In this episode, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press) sat down with Emília Barna to discuss her new book, Working in Music on the Semiperiphery: Local Cultural Production and Global Capitalism (CEU Press, 2025). We talked about the changes and continuities that the Hungarian music industry underwent from the communist to the post-communist era, the impa…
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Dancer Marissa Molinar combines movement with activism
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The Boston artist is using her background in environmental science and activism to train and empower the next generation of dance leaders. “Culture is really an integral part of resiliency and survival,” Molinar said.By WBUR
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How mass media can make and break fascism
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What happens when original artworks become endless copies? German philosopher Walter Benjamin called it the death of "aura," and his concept predicted our digital age. He describes "aura" as the energy that encases an object. In the '20s, Benjamin experimented with hashish under medical supervision, and his thinking while on drugs evolved to a theo…
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Sound designer Skooby Laposky amplifies the hidden lives of plants
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The audio explorer and plant DJ collaborates with gardens and trees to turn up the volume on their hidden role in our environment.By WBUR
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Frank Baker says he'll bring 'balance' if he returns to Boston City Council
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The Boston mayor’s race may be all but decided, as incumbent Michelle Wu runs unopposed, but there are other races afoot. In the election for City Council, a conservative-leaning, "lunch-bucket Democrat" says he wants to bring more “balance” to a largely progressive body.By WBUR
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ILLUMINATING WORLDVIEWS on Emotional Competency S1:1
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Over the past months, For The Wild has journeyed to the Yukon in partnership with Illuminating Worldviews. Illuminating Worldviews is a space for examining the worldviews in which we find ourselves and to learn how they actively shape the material realities of our lives. This project, rooted and colored by the land of the Yukon invites questioning,…
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