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Joy Is the Justice We Give Ourselves – J. Drew Lanham
Season 15
“Joy is our lives mattering, / Blackness respected.”
Juneteenth is a day to celebrate and defend freedom, equity, and belonging for Black Ame…
2 years, 9 months ago
Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet – David Abram
Season 15
In this week’s narrated essay, cultural ecologist and geophilosopher David Abram conjures the impossible movements of Alaskan salmon, sandhi…
2 years, 9 months ago
Hidden Bayou – Nathaniel Rich.
Season 15
“Did Nieux Swamp resemble the original deltaic marsh, before it had been ruined by sea level rise, shipping canals, and pipelines? Or had th…
2 years, 9 months ago
Becoming Water: Black Memory in Slavery’s Afterlives – Makshya Tolbert
Season 15
As our physical and cultural landscapes transform around us, what memories remain held by water? What histories of pain and destruction, wha…
2 years, 10 months ago
Saguaro, Free of the Earth – Boyce Upholt
Season 15
Imagine a world where the mountains and glaciers, trees and waterways and animals—everything comprising our living, breathing planet—had as …
2 years, 10 months ago
In the Shifting Embrace of the Ganga – Arati Kumar-Rao
Season 15
Visiting West Bengal during monsoon season, writer and photographer Arati Kumar-Rao bears witness to all that is formed and all that is dest…
2 years, 10 months ago
Dwelling on Earth – Jay Griffiths
Season 15
Soil has been described as the skin of the living world—vital, reactive, fragile and thin. Like our own skin, soil contains and protects a l…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Inward Migration in Apocalyptic Times – Alexis Wright
Season 15
With native ecosystems and Indigenous lifeways perpetually under threat, acclaimed Australian Aboriginal author Alexis Wright considers how …
2 years, 10 months ago
Another Kind of Time – a conversation with Jenny Odell
Season 15
How we experience time is, ultimately, how we experience our lives. In this conversation with Jenny Odell, artist and author of Saving Time:…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Nightingale's Song – a conversation with Sam Lee
Season 15
To mark the beginning of England’s nightingale season, we revisit our conversation with acclaimed folk singer, conservationist, and song col…
2 years, 11 months ago