Dancing on Desks

This episode takes its name from the first pages of Toni Cade Bambara’s novel The Salt Eaters, where healer Minnie Ransom tells activist Velma Henry, “wholeness is no trifling matter.” We join mama, y...

3 Nov 202345min

In our third season of Dancing on Desks, we are exploring pleasure. We are guided by two questions: How might our personal rest and pleasure practices sustain our collective liberation? And how are ou...

29 Sep 202342min

For our final episode, we’re joined by prison abolitionists Comrade BIM, from the Vaughn 17, and Fariha and Bee, organizers with DCIWOC, DC Incarcerated Workers Organizing Coalition. BIM is a member o...

1 Jun 20231h 8min

Black queer parents Kristianna and Rose share lessons and blessings from the frontlines of caregiving, discussing parenting as freedom work, unlearning unfreedom, letting their children teach them abo...

7 Apr 20231h 21min

We’re giving away a copy of Lessons in Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators, which was compiled, edited, and dreamed of by folks in the Education for Liberation Network & Critical Resista...

18 Mar 20232min

Read our Retraction & Care Note regarding our removal of the Jenny Sazama reference in the original posting of this episode. LINK In this episode, the second in our series on Undoing Settler Coloniali...

3 Mar 20231h 19min

In this episode, a first in our series on Undoing Settler-Colonialism, we speak with Hi’ilani Shibata and Kiliona, educators at Ka Waihona o ka Na’auao in Nānākuli on the Leeward Coast of O’ahu, Hawai...

3 Feb 20231h 33min

Audre Lorde’s “The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power” shapes our reflections on practicing refusal in community with our colleagues. We speak with Natalia Foreman and Pam Segura of the NYC-based...

2 Des 20221h 13min