• Getting to the Root of it with Venus Roots

  • By: niki franco
  • Podcast

Getting to the Root of it with Venus Roots

By: niki franco
  • Summary

  • join niki franco (venus roots), a community organizer, writer, and facilitator of spaces for collective study, as she leans into conversations of radical truth-telling with artists, theorists, and organizers living in a world of rigid binaries and multiple truths. she navigates the urgency of solidarity, ancestral preservation, and dismantling systems of oppression that inform and deform our lives. @venusroots www.venusroots.com
    © 2025 niki franco
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Episodes
  • Audre Lorde and June Jordan's Black Feminism and Palestine, with Marina Magloire
    Aug 27 2024

    In this episode, Niki interviews Marina Magloire, Atlanta-based Black Feminism scholar, professor, and author of We Pursue Our Magic: A Spiritual History of Black Feminism. In this conversation, the two discuss the complicated relationship between two iconic queer Black feminist poets, Audre Lorde and June Jordan, and their opposing views on Zionism for the majority of their lives.

    You can read Marina's essay, Moving Towards Life: Exploring the correspondence of June Jordan and Audre Lorde, Marina Magloire assembles an archive of a Black feminist falling-out over Zionism here.

    Audre Lorde's Uses of the Erotic
    June Jordan's I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies

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    49 mins
  • US Out of Korea, with Jamie Tyberg of Nodutdol
    Jul 26 2024

    In this episode, Niki interviews Jamie Tyberg, organizer with Nodutdol to discuss why the Korean War is so unknown amongst Americans, why there are "two" Koreas, the US' continued and increasing aggression against the Korean peninsula and what that means for the region and the rest of the world, why a ceasefire is not enough, and the fight for reunification of Korean families.

    Nodutdol's latest campaign, US Out of Korea launches all over the US on July 27th.

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    39 mins
  • Why Is The US Calling China Imperialist Towards Africa? with Mikaela Nhondo Erskog
    May 31 2024

    In this episode, Niki interviews Mika Erskog, South African researcher with Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and host of the podcast The Crane: An Africa-China Podcast Dongsheng Collective. They discuss the relationship between China and the African continent, while dispelling the accusations that China is "imperialist," and what young progressive people in Africa are looking towards in this historical moment of self-determination.

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    50 mins

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