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Episode 278 - Understanding Backwards & Sometimes Boundaries Don't Work
Following a relatively sheisty July, Eleanor ruminates on her emotional and mental boundaries, and whether or not it's possible to always re...
Episode 277 - We're Walking Blind & Orwell Told Us So
"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." - George Orwell Without histo...
Episode 276 - The Racist Imperialism Lurking in Your Body Image
A seldom considered connection is the one between genocidal imperialism and body image. But as we sift through history and into the shallow...
Episode 275 - The Multitudes Within For The Multitudes Without
Multiple things can be true at the same time. Our very existence proves that. We exist as multitudes, holding multiple truths not only about...
Episode 274 - Be the Plantain. Finding Place Far From Home
If you're like me - a white person with a background that criss-crosses borders from Europe to the Middle East, you may struggle with the wo...
Episode 273 - On Prepping for Police, Infighting and Infiltrators
Shit happens - especially when you're trying to topple the largest empire the world has ever seen. Preparation is therefore key. Preparation...
Episode 272 - Square Pegs, Courage & Cowardice
Are you square pegging it just like me - rounding your edges to appease? A musing on not fitting in, on latching on to boulders sinking with...
Episode 271 - Spoken Word, Insidious Systems, Science & Magic
Coming off a particularly vicious bout of food poisoning, I thank you all for the inspiration that brewed up a new spoken word piece for thi...
Episode 270 - Bogus Borders, State Of (In) Your Mind & What It Means To Be American
Cue the "this is so un-American" speeches. Anytime something horrible happens, it's immediately lambasted as being un-American when in reali...
Episode 269 - The Gift, Creativity You Can't Commodify & The Spectrum of Artists
How do artists and creatives think of their work in terms of dollars and cents? It feels wrong - because it inherently is. Art and creativit...
Episode 268 - Coloring Outside The Lines, Inside Each Other
Huey P. Newton wrote that "we all belong to one society yet live in different worlds." The layers of self in these worlds, the infinite inte...
Episode 267 - Failures, Focus and Boundaries
An anti-capitalist nerderific look at failure, focus and boundaries: Why do we have such a troubled relationship with failure? Why can't we...
Episode 266 - That Idea's Not New, Team Human & Cyclical Rebirth
Come into the nerdery and help me chew over some of the ideas from Douglas Rushkoff's book Team Human . How do linear belief systems fuck ov...
Episode 265 - Needed A Radical Change, Can't Build By Burning Bridges
The institutionalization of activism - much like charity - depends on preserving the current capitalist system. So, it feels like an apt and...
Episode 264 - Reflection in the Dark, Weight Training & A Joyful Unbalance
It's remarkable how much more we can reflect on in the dark... A special solstice thinky-dink nerderific episode on accountability, jagged b...
Episode 263 - How Myths Warp Our Past & Endanger Our Future
As Karen Armstrong writes, "human beings have always been mythmakers." We seek meaning, we seek protection and comfort. But not all myths ar...
Episode 262 - Loudly Losing (Layers Of) Illusions
A cathartic step into the nerdery this week - spinning some spoken word, calling out the grating cheers for a war criminal racist sexist, a...
Episode 261 - Deception 2020 & The Solidarity of the Shaken
Got a special episode for y'all this week - featuring the voices of Deception 2020 - the series I've been doing in the lead-up to the electi...
Episode 260 - Danger! Fear! Let's Put the Elections in Context, Swap Vote Shaming for System Shaming
Fear is incredibly useful - until it's not. Here's a look at how fear is pushing people to make rash (and ultimately unhelpful) decisions in...