Episodes

This is really the only podcast episode about America 250 you need to listen to this year.  We're talking all about America, this totally weird wonderful place we're living in (that, much like a family, is kinda effed up but we are nevertheless tied to in wonder, frustration, appreciation, and codependency) , and the ladies of the Revolution that pretty much made it all happen. Quick reminder that women gave birth to 100% of the US population - and you'd think thank you ladies, that is MORE than enough, but no - wait until you hear about just how much they did.

We recorded this episode with a storm radar glowing beside us, true summertime style! Join us as we joke our way through Michigan good-weather guilt and then pivot into a serious as in seriously thought-provoking new book that questions the political truths we’re taught to accept. Heather Marsh’s Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale, pushes us to ask why representative democracy so often turns into oligarchy and what technology changes about power, voice, and responsibili...

"Imagination is a memory moving both forward and backward in time." - Barbara Mor, The Great Cosmic Mother Now just imagine that both yesterday and tomorrow have the full show notes and not the autogenerated ones and you just so happened to visit on this day. We're joking of course - the autogenerated notes are temporary - new ones will be updated soon. All the contact info is correct! --------Autogen summary The world can feel like it’s sliding into something colder and meaner, ...

Mother’s Day and Memorial Day show up like clockwork, but the stories we tell about them are missing the peaceful roots. We go back to the nineteenth century to recover what got sanded down: Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation is not soft-focus nostalgia, it’s a direct anti-war demand for women to refuse a world that sends husbands home “reeking with carnage” and trains sons to injure other people’s sons. From there, we follow the on-the-ground organizing that made “Mother’s Day” real b...

Wonder how you got trapped in the machine? We've got all the answers for you. Using our book of the moment, The Great Cosmic Mother, we break down how ancient goddess-centered cultures that were so real and connected through birth, death, creativity, ecstacy, and the earth - got totally crushed and rewritten with a patriarchal influenced monotheistic jealous god. The change coincided with a rise in conquering, violence, and a focus on production - a desire to change humans into worker b...

We cheese out enough with the whole biting an apple/biting knowledge analogy in this episode so we'll spare you here in the show notes. We are back for season two - starting the first in a 3 (or 4, we'll see) episode series where we read and discuss and tangent about The Great Cosmic Mother. The biggest feminist text you aren't carrying around in your handbag, but should. SK & JV discuss some major points, read some major quotes, and majorly go off the rails - this book is the...