Season 4, ep 26: Weirding Time! with: Uli, Jams, carla joy, and a Time Talks History segment

In the season four opener, Uli, carla, and jams introduce some dreams for season 4, ruminate about other projects on the horizon, and reflect on their year off from making the Grounded Futures Show, and more! Plus, we will hear the first Time Talks History segment about the Doctrine of Discovery.

Thanks for listening! 🌀

Show notes:

• Grounded Futures Book Club on Discord (email or dm us if this link doesn't work)
• Time Talks podcast
• Storyloom
• On Belonging
• Wording Our Worlds workbook
• Vicky Osterweil

Transcripts

Credits:

• The GF Show is created by Uli, carla joy, and jams
• Time Talks History is created by chris time steele
• Music for the show is by Zach F. Bergman/Sour Gout
• Mastered by Listening House/Chris Bergman

Time Talks History sources (in order) and further readings:

• The Racial Contract by Charles W. Mills
• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery by Steven Newcomb
• Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Cesaire
• Race and the Enlightenment: A Reader by Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze
• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy DeGruy
• Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism by J. Kehaulani Kauanui
• The Dawning of the Apocalypse by Gerald Horne

Further Reading:

• American Holocause by David Stannard
• The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
• Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano
• Silencing the Past by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
• Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian Hating & Empire Building by Richard Drinnon
• Killing Rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks

The Grounded Futures Show, Ep 24: The Struggle is Real, with Noleca Radway & Lily Mercogliano Easton

Uli and carla had a deep and vulnerable conversation with Lily and Noleca — two wonderful parents and educators — about the horrors of adult supremacy, the oppression of kids, and some pathways towards undoing adult supremacy and supporting youth freedom. They also talk about the joys and complexities of building trust within this power dynamic, the trappings of adulthood, what youth freedom looks like, and how this way of being in relationship with kids requires a profound resolve and devotion to care and love. There’s so much here, lots of real talk with plenty of curiosity and good humour woven in! And no fear: they both provide some concrete tips, too! #TrustKids

Show Notes:

Raising Rebels Podcast

Noleca’s Instagram

Lily’s twitter

Camp WA WA Segowea

The Story Store

Brooklyn Free School

Trust Kids! Book

Time Talks Podcast

Recommendations:

Lily’s:

Raising Rebels Podcast

Abby Wambaugh (comedian) + IG

Noleca’s:

Dear Mama: The Saga of Afeni and Tupac Shakur

Finding our Way Podcast

Transcripts

Bios

Noleca Radway is the Founder of Queer Media, a family production company specializing in audio and visual art through a Black Queer lens. She is the producer and host of the progressive parenting podcast Raising Rebels. Noleca is also the former Executive Director of the Brooklyn Free School, and now lives in Amsterdam with her partner and their three kids.

Lily Mercogliano Easton is an educator who lives with her three kids and husband in Albany, New York. She grew up at the Free School in Albany and was Head of School at Brooklyn Free School for twelve years. Lily is the Camp Director at Camp WA WA Segowea, and finds the most thriving and joy through parenting and building a trusting relationship with her kids (and one that’s imperfect in all the ways).

Music for our show by: Sour Gout

The GF Show art by Robin Carrico

Edited by Chris Bergman

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The Grounded Futures Show, Ep 23: Queer Brilliance, with Lindz Amer

“I hope that I can put a little bit of healing out into the world because I think we just need a lot more of that. There are a lot of hurt people out there.”

We had a pretty healing and joyful conversation with the fabulous writer, educator, and performer, Lindz Amer! We talked about the importance of creating queer affirming media for little Kids (and their adults), joyfully stitching back together intergenerational connections within the LGBTQ+ communities, and traversing non-affirming spaces. We also get into the muck and nuance of tough topics and realities, such as anti-trans, transmisogyny, the many genders, sexuality, gender performance, power & privilege, socialisation, smashing the cis-hetero-patriarchy, and so much more. Let’s join Lindz in Spreading Queer Joy!

Show Notes

Lindz IG and twitter

Lindz website

Lindz podcast

Lindz book: Rainbow Parenting

Disclosure Documentary

Recommendations:

YA Queer books:

Jonny Garza Villa

"Felix Ever After" by Kacen Callender

Steven Universe

Astrology: the chani app

Astrology for Writers

A league of our own (reboot)

Doc McStuffins

Vampirina

Spirit Ranges

Blues Clues and You

Sailor Moon

Uli’s

Bluey

Studio Ghibli Movies

Anime Series in general (Pokemon)

carla’s

Little Bear

TRANSCRIPTS

Lindz Amer creates LGBTQ+ and intersectional social justice media for kids and families. They created their beloved LGBTQ+ family webseries Queer Kid Stuff in 2016 which now has 4M lifetime views and counting! Their debut book "Rainbow Parenting: Your Guide to Raising Queer Kid and Their Allies" publishes on May 30, 2023 with St. Martin's Press. Currently, they host the Rainbow Parenting podcast, and perform at schools and libraries across the country, while also writing and consulting for children’s television. They worked with Nick Jr on the Webby award-winning Blues Clues & You “Pride Parade” music video, The Fabulous Show with Fay and Fluffy, an upcoming episode of an extremely paw-pular show, and more! You can watch their TED Talk on why kids need to learn about...

The Grounded Futures Show, episode 22: Dreaming a Future, with carla and Uli

Delighting in our Friends!

Uli and carla spend episode 22 delighting in pals, AKA celebrating awesome artists, storytellers, and musicians who range in ages 3 - 63. This is an uplifting episode where they share wonderful songs, swoon over friends, and weave in other musings — including how they each find thriving in the everyday! Happy Palentines!

💫 YOU ARE LOVED💫

Show Notes:

• Cat: @the_invisible_museum_

• ck nosun: @cknosun

• Grant Hoskins aka @gadzooksbazooka

• Jamie-Leigh Gonzales: storyloomdesign.com

• Uilliam’s art

• Julie Flett: julieflett.com

• Hari Alluri: @harialluri

• kitty lu bear: @fungifemme

• https://www.emergencyhearts.com/

• Time

• I'm Still Here (U.S. Political Prisoner Never Forgotten version) | scott crow, Televangel, Time, David M. Williams, Dissonance | eMERGENCY heARTS

• "Happiness in You" by Nadya Geta

• "A False Awakening" by AwareNess

Other Music played:

• Queen

• Aurora

• Burial

Music for our show by: Sour Gout

The GF Show art by Robin Carrico

Sound Editing by Chris Bergman

Transcripts

Thanks for listening!

The Grounded Futures Show, Ep 21: Sparks In-Between, with Scott Branson

“thinking alone is not as exciting as thinking together”

Scott Branson, a Jewish transfemme anarchist writer, and artist, joined carla and Uli for an inspiring virtual walk to think (and feel) together. They go deep into Trans worlding and talk pathways to gender abolition, discovering voice, embracing not knowing, sampling ideas, learning through play and making mistakes, practical anarchism, and more! This joyful conversation covers a lot of ground, including a poetry reading!

TRANSCRIPTS

Show Notes:

Scott’s webpage

Scott on IG:

Scott on Twitter

Practical Anarchism: A Daily Guide

Gay Liberation after May 68

The Abolition of Prison

How I Became a Genre Bender and Found a Voice

Women on the Edge of Time

The Dispossessed

The Earthsea Trilogy

Witch Hat Atelier

“We study with any person who can teach us.” -- Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time

Favourite quote by Ursula K, Le Guin:

“But he had not brought anything. His hands were empty, as they had always been.” -- the Dispossessed

Recommendations:

• I, Tituba Black Witch of Salem, by Maryse Condé
• Akata Witch
• Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy

Scott’s Poem:

where had we left you?

a long necked white creature

bobbing in the distance

on the lake

it was clear we had overlooked

the mysteries of the world

so white i wondered how it kept clean

in polluted waters

i can’t wear white pants without staining

the sun doesn’t cause waves but lets us see them

and the lake ripples into this white protuberance

a child’s drawing of a sea dinosaur smiling

so happy to be here

where had we left you?

but that’s the best we could have done

on the pier no one sees

she swims unnoticed

except by me, in my quick glance,

and i decide to avert my eyes

and let her be

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​​Scott Branson is a Jewish transfemme anarchist writer, teacher, organizer, musician and artist. Scott is also a co-host on the anarchist radio show/podcast The Final Straw Radio. Their book, Practical Anarchism: A Daily Guide, just published by Pluto Press, offers ways to infuse everyday life with ideas of mutual responsibility and collective liberation, combining anarchist and queer/feminist approaches to relationships, work, and living. Their translation of the queer theorist and gay liberation militant Guy...

The Grounded Futures Show, Ep 20: Alchemizing Futures, with Shaunga Tagore

“My desire is for everything in my life to be rooted in thriving, or the timeline of thriving.”

The magical episode where carla and Uli receive some deep healing via their wonderful guest, the quantum communicator, storyteller, weaver, and creatrix, Shaunga Tagore. Shaunga talks about their paradigm shifting project: Otherworldly Giants, as well as embracing ancestral connections, grief as love, communing with the cosmos and land, and of course, some Buffy! Enter into this magical portal with us, and feel and hear so much more!

Show Notes

Shaunga’s Otherworldly Giants: https://shaungatagore.com

Shaunga’s podcast: https://shaungatagore.com/channel/

Recommendations:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

She-ra: the Princess of Power + the 80s version

Transcript

Bio:

Shaunga Tagore is a queer, prizmatic (non-binary) theatre artist, writer, speaker, cat mama & Buffy enthusiast. (And they weren’t kidding when they called her, well, a witch.) Her witchy powers and ancestral roles include, but are not limited to: quantum communicator, creatrix, death doula, time keeper & grief worker. Shaunga is the founder of Otherworldly Giants, a creation company and storytelling school where we create and study stories that serve as altars for building a new world paradigm. Shaunga has spent the last decade working as an astrologer, cosmic coach, artist, and producer, primarily in queer, racialized, survivor, and disability justice oriented communities.

Music for our show by: Sour Gout

The GF Show art by Robin Carrico

Thanks for listening!

The Grounded Futures Show, Ep #19 Liberated Care, with Zena Sharman

“I think about care as a process, as an ongoing act of weaving — that it is this active thing that we do, that happens in relationships, that happens in communities.”

Zena Sharman joins the show to talk casting spells and weaving webs of care beyond institutions. This episode is all about intergenerational solidarity, and queering kinship and care in the everyday. Zena is a writer, speaker, strategist and LGBTQ+ health advocate and our conversation goes deep into the radical possibilities for care as an ongoing, consensual process — from grief care to ageing and dying, to gender open parenting, to centring pleasure and disability justice in health care.

Show Notes

Follow Zena on Twitter

Zena’s two books:

The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health

The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care

Photo of Zena for show is by K. Ho

Recommendations:

• Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s books Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice and The Future is Disabled
• 
  
• Megan Linton’s Invisible Institutions podcast
• 
  
• Hil Malatino’s book Trans Care (the free open access version is available here)
• 
  
• Jules Gill-Peterson's article Doctors Who? Radical lessons from the history of DIY transition
• I didn't mention it during the interview, but this podcast interview The Legend of the Orchi Shed with Guest Eilís Ni Fhlannagáin is another wonderful example of an oral history about trans DIY health care
• The book Trans Bodies, Trans Selves (second edition)
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• Katie Batza’s book Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics in the 1970s
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• Dean Spade's mutual aid course syllabus, which includes Katie Batza's book alongside other health-related titles like Alondra Nelson’s book Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination...