Formerly known as the Inner Circle Podcast, Soft, Earthen Futures is for creatives, visionaries, and worldbuilders who are imagining new possibilities on the Earth. Hosted by Daje Aloh—writer, teacher, and story doula—this podcast explores what it means to stand at the threshold between what has been and what wants to emerge. It's about tending the in-between, listening to what the Earth is dreaming through us, and building those visions into form. Soft Earthen Futures is a design philosophy ...

As 2023 dawns, women in the U.S. look back on the last year and see one glaring issue: 2022 was the year their right to have an abortion was severely curtailed. But many women did not have access to abortions even before the Dobbs decision. Women on Medicaid, in the same states that are outlawing abortion now. Women who live in rural areas. Women who don’t have access to good doctors, and good advice. One thing the popular press doesn’t seem to talk about is how many women and trans men (any ...

Since the NHS was set up in 1948 thousands of women and men from Ireland have come to train and nurse in the UK. Recruitment drives throughout the 1950s and 60s saw NHS staff travel around Ireland to interview and sign up mainly Irish teenage girls for nurse training. Irish Nurses in the NHS shares the experiences and lives of nurses who travelled from Ireland and helped build the health service over these decades and beyond. In this series you'll hear from dozens of these nurses about their ...