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We Rise

We Rise Production

We Rise brings you stories, interviews, and music to nourish our imaginations in service of collective liberation. Guided by Toni Cade Bambara’s call to make the revolution irresistible, each show explores the practice of solidarity in today’s freedom movements. Please note that our first 15 episodes also aired on KPFA"s sister station KPFB.Brought to you by We Rise Cultural Production. www.weriseproduction.com

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65:51

Somos Semillas EP 5: Sacred Rainbows, Weaving Our...

We Rise ·

2023/08/28

Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: A Podcast about Indigenous Sovereignty & Collective StorytellingThis creative collaboration with indigenous poet & scholar Erika Murcia invites us to explore inquiries about living with greater purpose, presence & rootedness.EP 5: Sacred Rainbows, Weaving Our CrossroadsIn this bonus episode Cat, Erika, & nicky gather round on Nahuatl, Ohlone & Chinook lands to reflect on the making of Somos Semillas, how their ancestors guide their creative

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63:31

Somos Semillas EP 4: Sacred Winds, Returning to our...

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2023/07/04

Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: A Podcast about Indigenous Sovereignty & Collective StorytellingThis creative collaboration with indigenous poet & scholar Erika Murcia invites us to explore inquiries about living with greater purpose, presence & rootedness.EP 4: Sacred Winds, Returning to our Power of SheddingIn this episode Erika, nicky & Cat are joined by dancer and creator of healing spaces for healthcare providers, Dr. Uzo Nwankpa, to discuss the power of winds, and how this

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77:26

Somos Semillas EP 3: Sacred Fires, Returning to our...

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2023/06/07

Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: A Podcast about Indigenous Sovereignty & Collective StorytellingThis creative collaboration with indigenous poet & scholar Erika Murcia invites us to explore inquiries about living with greater purpose, presence & rootedness.EP 3: Sacred Fires, Returning to our Sexual Creativity In this episode Erika, nicky & Cat are joined by healer, steward, and guardian Ember Phoenix to discuss the element of fire, and how its sacred force shows up in our communities,

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42:46

Queer & Well: We Take Care of Us, Ep. 45

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2023/05/23

From Queer & Well's Earth Day event: A panel with Christina Chase of National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) & Cat Brooks of Anti Police Terror Project (APTP), moderated by Layel CamargoWhen we think about communal care it is vital that we talk about the ways in which we take care of each other as queer and trans Black and brown folks. How do we show up for one another in a time when we are fighting to keep ourselves alive against capitalism & white supremacy? Join us for

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45:33

Queer & Well: Caring for the Land, Ep. 44

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2023/05/10

From Queer & Well's Earth Day event: A Conversation with Layel Camargo of Shelterwood Collective & Inés Ixierda of Sogorea Te Land TrustAs queer Black and brown folks, what does it look like to be reconnected to land our ancestors stewarded before colonialism & white supremacy? What are the ways we can come back to this land and rebuild not only the land itself, but our relationships to it. How are organizations like Sogorea Te Land Trust & Shelterwood Collective creating spaces and

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49:54

Somos Semillas EP 2: Sacred Earth, Returning to our...

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2023/04/27

Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: A Podcast about Indigenous Sovereignty & Collective StorytellingThis creative collaboration with indigenous poet & scholar Erika Murcia invites us to explore inquiries about living with greater purpose, presence & rootedness.In this episode we are reclaiming Earth Mother and the soils as part of who we are, what we're made of. Erika, nicky & Cat open into this longing to celebrate our bodies, illuminating body as decolonial prayer.LINKSEpisode

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51:33

Somos Semillas EP 1: Sacred Waters, Returning to our...

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2023/04/05

Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: A Podcast about Indigenous Sovereignty & Collective StorytellingThis creative collaboration with indigenous poet & scholar Erika Murcia invites us to explore inquiries about living with greater purpose, presence & rootedness.Episode One: Sacred Waters, Returning to Our Natural Flow offers expansive praxis for a calling to calmness, to flowing slowly as we dive into the depths of our dialogue, and our ancestral soul's water baggage.This episode features Somos

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71:59

Somos Semillas EP 0: Sacred Ether, Returning to our...

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2023/03/21

Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: A Podcast about Indigenous Sovereignty & Collective StorytellingThis creative collaboration with indigenous poet & scholar Erika Murcia invites us to explore inquiries about living with greater purpose, presence & rootedness.How do we want to be seeds now?In Episode 0, Erika, nicky, & Cat are accompanied by writer & astrologer Karina Falcon to illuminate connections between the indigenous concept of zero with Spirit and the sacred element

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8:32

Pilot: Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds

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2023/03/07

Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: A Podcast about Indigenous Sovereignty & Collective StorytellingThis creative collaboration with indigenous poet & scholar Erika Murcia invites us to explore inquiries about living with greater purpose, presence & rootedness.In this 5-episode series, we’ll deconstruct the ways we connect to each sacred element -Water, Fire, Wind, Earth, and Ether. Together we have been weaving stories that gather and recall our ancestral memories. We have invited voices of

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95:38

The Real Work, Ep 6: Dreaming Forward

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2022/11/15

This is it, right here, this is the final episode. And if you’re here right now, and you’ve been choosing to return to this work again and again, I want to say, thank you. Cuz If we want alternative means to responding to harm other than the systems on offer from the state, we are the ones who have to invest time, energy, labor into learning, healing, imagining, practicing, remembering, and organizing to get there. As Black feminist revolutionary writer June Jordan said, “we are the ones we have

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105:24

The Real Work, EP 5: Applied Practice

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2022/10/31

Last episode, we focused on the accountability part of community accountability. We explored how changing our behavior to live accountably is lifelong work, is violence prevention, takes building skills until they become muscle memory. Fortunately for us, Mia gave us many opportunities to practice. In this episode, we learn from this practice – and – we focus on the community part of community accountability. Mia emphasized that transformative justice is not about intervening in or saving someone

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26:57

Celebrating 6 years! Autumn Fundraiser, Ep. 43

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2022/10/11

Thank you for listening to our podcasts over the years, or months – or if you're new to our work, welcome!After 6 years of groundwork, we’re celebrating how far we’ve come & asking you – our community – for support. Donate to our first ever fundraiser! Your contribution supports queer, femme, Black Indigenous and People Of Color-centered multimedia productions.Our collaborations uplift liberatory ideas & strategies, and offer seedlings of possibilities & inspiration that will support us in the

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95:47

The Real Work, EP 4: Living Accountably

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2022/10/03

As the cohort continued, we learned that building the capacity to practice transformative justice takes immense and consistent personal work. We’re talking the basics of being human, like self reflection, and how to communicate.These personal inquiries into how we live our values, and how we respond to our inevitable mistakes, were like portals into the heart of TJ. Into what it would take to support ourselves and others in living accountably every day for everything we do, and fail to do.Episode

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78:27

The Real Work, EP 3: Softening the Fist

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2022/09/19

Our facilitator, Mia Mingus, used the metaphor of a fist to explain how, unlike our current severely punitive carceral system, TJ creates conditions that support folks to step up and take accountability when they’ve caused harm. In this episode, we explore how these systems have shaped us, and ask, how else can we respond to violence, harm, & abuse?Episode transcript: bit.ly/TheRealWork-Episode-3Sogorea Te’ Land Trust: sogoreate-landtrust.orgSave the West Berkeley Shellmound:

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53:02

The Real Work, EP 2: TJ 101

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2022/09/05

On episode one, we got up to speed about the conditions that brought theater makers in the Bay Area to organize around TJ. This episode is dedicated to unpacking, at its core, what is TJ?Episode transcript: bit.ly/TheRealWork-Episode-2Sogorea Te’ Land Trust: sogoreate-landtrust.orgSave the West Berkeley Shellmound: shellmound.orgBATJC Pods & Pod Mapping Worksheet Instructions: batjc.wordpress.com/resources/pods-and-pod-mapping-worksheet/BATJC Pod Mapping

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56:28

The Real Work, EP 1: A Kind of Origin Story

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2022/08/23

How did The Real Work come to be? What were the conditions that set the stage (pun intended) for theater workers to come together to study & practice transformative justice? Let's find out...Episode transcript: bit.ly/TheRealWork-EP1Sogorea Te’ Land Trust: sogoreate-landtrust.orgSave the West Berkeley Shellmound: shellmound.orgAnti Police-Terror Project: www.AntiPoliceTerrorProject.orgThe Village in Oakland #feedthepeople @villageoakland: www.facebook.com/TheVillageInOakland Alliance of

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6:34

The Real Work Pilot: What /is/ the Real Work of...

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2022/08/16

We are proud to present The Real Work: a podcast about theater culture & transformative justice! This collaboration has been in the works since 2018, and we are thrilled to share it with you now. Join us for our free online premiere of this series with a community dialogue August 22nd 7PM-9PM PST. Register at the link below. Let’s gather, witness episode 1, and dialogue about how transformative justice — a paradigm of community accountability and intervention in harm, violence, and abuse — can

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38:27

Justice for Derrick Clark, Ep. 42

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2022/06/30

CONTENT NOTE: Racist police murder.On Saturday, June 18, 24-year-old Derrick Clark was shot and killed by 30 members of the Oregon State Troopers and Clackamas County Sherriff’s Office for a DUI.Derrick’s loved ones are in deep mourning, and organizing to get answers about Derrick’s murder, and obtain justice in some way in the face of this white supremacist, racist, colonial, militarized so-called justice system.On Saturday, June 25, Derrick’s friends, family & community gathered in Aquatic Park in

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42:32

'Rona Reflections & Queer Resilience, Ep. 41

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2022/06/30

As with all specially designated months, we get to celebrate being queer year round. That said, happy pride friends! And happy belated summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.In December of 2021, just before the Winter Solstice, cat & nicky got to sit down (virtually) with KPFA Radio’s First Voice Apprentice & Full Circle producer Sentient Shiloh AKA DJ Loh to reflect on lessons received in the first two years of global pandemic as queer, community-centered creatives.From roots to relationships,

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56:00

Nakba 74: Resistance Until Liberation & Return, Ep. 40

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2022/05/13

As we approach the 74th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe) in Palestine, Layla Kanaan joins Cat for an in-depth discussion of the history of Zionism, the founding of the settler state of Israel, the ongoing impacts of violence on the Palestinian people, how this struggle is all our struggle, and how we can get involved and act in solidarity for a free Palestine.We learn, too, about local organizations doing solidarity work, and share details about this weekend’s Nakba Day event on May 15.*this

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