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Erosion: Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams

Erosion: Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams

“Terry Tempest Williams’s fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert. She sizes up the continuing assaults on America’s public lands and the erosion of our commitment to the open space of democracy. She asks: “How do we find the strength to not look away from all that is breaking our hearts?”

We know the elements of erosion: wind, water, and time. They have shaped the spectacular physical landscape of our nation. Here, Williams bravely and brilliantly explores the many forms of erosion we face: of democracy, science, compassion, and trust. She examines the dire cultural and environmental implications of the gutting of Bear Ears National Monument—sacred lands to Native Peoples of the American Southwest; of the undermining of the Endangered Species Act; of the relentless press by the fossil fuel industry that has led to a panorama in which “oil rigs light up the horizon.” And she testifies that the climate crisis is not an abstraction, offering as evidence the drought outside her door and, at times, within herself.

These essays are Williams’s call to action, blazing a way forward through difficult and dispiriting times. We will find new territory—emotional, geographical, communal. The erosion of desert lands exposes the truth of change. What has been weathered, worn, and whittled away is as powerful as what remains. Our undoing is also our becoming.”

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The Alchemy Experience Podcast

The Alchemy Experience Podcast

The Alchemy Experience Podcast: Episode 39 • Collective Consciousness

The collective consciousness is thus, the field that makes up all the consciousness or all living things and we all interact with it. However, consciousness is fractal by nature and thus, if you have a family or a group of people at work or a team, they all form collectives that feed their unique energy signatures in to the bigger collective. It is this interaction with the collective consciousness that reminds us of our own responsibility in what we feed in to the collective, because we all feed into, manipulate and are affected by the collective consciousness. What you are and how you show up, is your contribution.

 

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Our Environment
Podcast
SEI Asia Podcast

SEI Asia Podcast

SEI Asia’s podcast series is a platform for dialogue on critical environmental challenges in Asia and how to address them. Our guests range from environmental experts, think tanks, researchers and policymakers to journalists and civil society who explore collaborative pathways towards improving policy and practice on sustainability challenges in the region.

In this first episode of the SEI Asia miniseries on women environmental defenders, we talk with Tami Alvarez from Sabokahan Unity of Lumad Women and Lia Mai Torres from Center for Environmental Concerns – Philippines about building solidarity and empowerment.

SEI Asia

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Equality & Anti-Oppression
Film
Not Done: Women Re-Making America

Not Done: Women Re-Making America

“An examination on how today’s feminist change-makers continue their predecessors’ efforts to progress toward equality through interviews with activists, writers, celebrities, athletes, and politicians.”

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Equality & Anti-Oppression
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Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC (Advancing Justice | AAJC)

Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC (Advancing Justice | AAJC)

Asian Americans have been part of the American story since its earliest days. From those who travelled to the U.S. as a result of changing immigration policies, to refugees who came to American shores in search of safety, to recent immigrants who continue to join our nation in search of the famed “American Dream,” the one indisputable truth about our community is its breadth, diversity, and resilience.

And yet, we have seen our community ignored in national conversations about the very policies that define our experience: immigration, voting rights, and so much more…

Rooted in the dreams of immigrants and inspired by the promise of opportunity, Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC)  advocates for an America in which all Americans can benefit equally from, and contribute to, the American dream. Our mission is to advance the civil and human rights for Asian Americans and to build and promote a fair and equitable society for all. Advancing Justice is a national nonprofit founded in 1991 in Washington, D.C.

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Equality & Anti-Oppression
Film
Sister Outsider by Audre Lourde

Sister Outsider by Audre Lourde

A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde’s literary and philosophical personae. These essays explore and illuminate the roots of Lorde’s intellectual development and her deep-seated and longstanding concerns about ways of increasing empowerment among minority women writers and the absolute necessity to explicate the concept of difference—difference according to sex, race, and economic status. The title Sister Outsider finds its source in her poetry collection The Black Unicorn (1978). These poems and the essays in Sister Outsider stress Lorde’s oft-stated theme of continuity, particularly of the geographical and intellectual link between Dahomey, Africa, and her emerging self.

 

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Black Lives Matter
Book
Film
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Movie Synopsis:
Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend, Khalil, at the hands of a police officer. She quickly begins facing pressure from all sides, and she must learn to find her voice and stand up for what’s right. Content Warning: Racism, police brutality, gang activity, violence, poverty

Book Description:
“Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.

Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr.

But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.”

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Creativity & Healing
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How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong

How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong

Through research, interviews, and stories of lived experience, How We Show Up returns us to our inherent connectedness where we find strength, safety, and support in vulnerability and generosity, in asking for help, and in being accountable. Showing up–literally and figuratively–points us toward the promise of our collective vitality and leads us to the liberated well-being we all want.

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Unity & Oneness
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Edesia

Edesia

Edesia is a non-profit, social enterprise that makes life-saving ready-to-use foods to help end the global malnutrition crisis. Since 2010—through our partnerships with UNICEF, WFP, USAID, and others—we have nourished over 18 million children across 62 countries.

Learn more about Edesia by following them on IG @edesianutrition or visit their website

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Creativity & Healing
Book
Undrowned: Black Femminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Undrowned: Black Femminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subversive and transformative guidance of marine mammals. Our aquatic cousins are queer, fierce, protective of each other, complex, shaped by conflict, and struggling to survive the extractive and militarized conditions our species has imposed on the ocean. Gumbs employs a brilliant mix of poetic sensibility and naturalist observation to show what they might teach us, producing not a specific agenda but an unfolding space for wondering and questioning. From the relationship between the endangered North Atlantic Right Whale and Gumbs’s Shinnecock and enslaved ancestors to the ways echolocation changes our understandings of “vision” and visionary action, this is a masterful use of metaphor and natural models in the service of social justice.

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Creativity & Healing
Book
140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth,

140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth,

Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, artists who spend their lives thinking outside the box guide you to a new worldview; where you and the planet are one.

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Creativity & Healing
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Women who run with the wolves: myths and stories of the wild woman archetype, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD

Women who run with the wolves: myths and stories of the wild woman archetype, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD

In the classic Women Who Run With The Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes tells us about the ‘wild woman’, the wise and ageless presence in the female psyche that gives women their creativity, energy and power. For centuries, the ‘wild woman’ has been repressed by a male-orientated value system which trivialises women’s emotions. Using a combination of time-honoured stories and contemporary casework, Estes reveals that the ‘wild woman’ in us is innately healthy, passionate and wise. Thoughtfully written and compelling in its arguments, Women Who Run With The Wolves gives readers a new sense of direction, a self confidence and purpose in their lives.

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Creativity & Healing
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Big Magic – Creative living beyond fear, Elizabeth Gilbert

Big Magic – Creative living beyond fear, Elizabeth Gilbert

Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration from Elizabeth Gilbert’s books for years. Now, this beloved author shares her wisdom and unique understanding of creativity, shattering the perceptions of mystery and suffering that surround the process – and showing us all just how easy it can be. By sharing stories from her own life, as well as those from her friends and the people that have inspired her, Elizabeth Gilbert challenges us to embrace our curiosity, tackle what we most love and face down what we most fear. Whether you long to write a book, create art, cope with challenges at work, embark on a long-held dream, or simply to make your everyday life more vivid and rewarding, Big Magic will take you on a journey of exploration filled with wonder and unexpected joys.

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Creativity & Healing
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Grace Petrie – musician

Grace Petrie – musician

A folk singer, songwriter and activist from Leicester, UK, Grace has been writing, recording and touring relentlessly ever since 2010 when she started to attract attention with her emotive anthem ‘Farewell to Welfare’, which captured perfectly the spirit of the new wave of dissent in austerity Britain

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Rising Strong, Brené Brown

Rising Strong, Brené Brown

Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.  The physics of vulnerability is simple: If we are brave enough often enough, we will fall. The author of Daring Greatly and The Gifts of Imperfection tells us what it takes to get back up, and how owning our stories of disappointment, failure, and heartbreak gives us the power to write a daring new ending. Struggle, Brené Brown writes, can be our greatest call to courage, and rising strong our clearest path to deeper meaning, wisdom, and hope.

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Creativity & Healing
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The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love, Sonya Renee Taylor

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love, Sonya Renee Taylor

Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive off our inability to make peace with difference and injure the relationship we have with our own bodies.

The Body Is Not an Apology offers radical self-love as the balm to heal the wounds inflicted by these violent systems. World-renowned activist and poet Sonya Renee Taylor invites us to reconnect with the radical origins of our minds and bodies and celebrate our collective, enduring strength. As we awaken to our own indoctrinated body shame, we feel inspired to awaken others and to interrupt the systems that perpetuate body shame and oppression against all bodies. When we act from this truth on a global scale, we usher in the transformative opportunity of radical self-love, which is the opportunity for a more just, equitable, and compassionate world–for us all.

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Creativity & Healing
Podcast
Huberman Lab, Dr. Andrew Huberman

Huberman Lab, Dr. Andrew Huberman

The Huberman Lab Podcast discusses neuroscience—how our brain and its connections with the organs of our body controls our perceptions, our behaviors, and our health. The podcast also discusses tools for measuring and changing how our nervous system works.

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Creativity & Healing
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Think Like a Monk, Jay Shetty

Think Like a Monk, Jay Shetty

Jay Shetty, social media superstar and host of the #1 podcast On Purpose, distills the timeless wisdom he learned as a monk into practical steps anyone can take every day to live a less anxious, more meaningful life. Jay Shetty is a storyteller, podcaster, and former monk. Shetty’s vision is to Make Wisdom Go Viral. He is on a mission to share the timeless wisdom of the world in an accessible, relevant, and practical way.

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Creativity & Healing
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How to do the work, Dr. Nicole LePera

How to do the work, Dr. Nicole LePera

Drawing on the latest scientific research, clinical psychologist Dr Nicole LePera serves up an inspiring and empowering guide for self-healing and letting go of the things that prevent you from leading a fulfilled life.

As a clinical psychologist, Dr Nicole LePera found herself frustrated by the limitations of traditional psychotherapy. Wanting more for her patients – and for herself – she began a journey to develop a united philosophy of mental, physical and spiritual health that equips people with the tools necessary to heal themselves.

After experiencing the life-changing results herself, she began to share what she’d learned with others – and The Holistic Psychologist was born. Now Dr LePera is ready to share her much-requested protocol with the world.

In How to Do the Work, she offers both a manifesto for self-healing and an essential guide to creating a more vibrant, authentic, and joyful life. Drawing on the latest research from both scientific research and healing modalities, Dr LePera helps us recognise how adverse experiences and trauma in childhood live with us, keeping us stuck engaging in patterns of codependency, emotional immaturity, and trauma bonds. Unless addressed, these self-sabotaging behaviours can quickly become cyclical, leaving people feeling unhappy, unfulfilled, and unwell.

In How to Do the Work, Dr LePera offers readers the support and tools that will allow them to break free from destructive behaviours to reclaim and recreate their lives. Nothing short of a paradigm shift, this is a celebration of empowerment that will forever change the way we approach mental wellness and self-care.

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Creativity & Healing
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Make Good Art, Neil Gaiman

Make Good Art, Neil Gaiman

In May 2012, bestselling author Neil Gaiman delivered the commencement address at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, in which he shared his thoughts about creativity, bravery, and strength. He encouraged the fledgling painters, musicians, writers, and dreamers to break rules and think outside the box. Most of all, he encouraged them to make good art.

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