For The Wild

This discussion with Christian discusses fungal diversity, the global mushroom market, migration patterns, and invasive versus native fungi. We also look at the reality that the Earth is poised to experience a significant decrease in fungal diversity due to climate change. Support the show

Dr. TallBear and Ayana confront western science’s continued appropriation of Indigenous sexuality, ancestry, and creation while unearthing our universal desires for love and belonging. Support the show

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We are invited by this week’s guest, Dr. Bayo Akomolafe, to pause and abandon solutionism, step back from the project of progress, and dance into a different set of questions: What does the Anthropocene teach us as a destabilizing agent that resists our taming? How can we show up in our movements of justice if “the ways we respond to crisis is part of the crisis”? Support the show

Ayana and Kyle discuss Kyle’s body of work on dystopia and fantasy in climate justice, the reproduction of settler structures, Indigenous science, vulnerability discourses, and “decolonizing allyship.” Kyle concludes with the ever present reminder that our work must be rooted in consent, reciprocity, and trust. Support the show

This expansive conversation touches on Dr. Marya’s work to decolonize medicine, the pervasiveness of medical debt, the need for medical reparations, and the fruitfulness of community-based medicine. We explore how society might look like if the pursuit of health and wellbeing for all was at the foundation of our organizing. Support the show

Ayana and Mike’s conversation touches on the history of cattle ranching and grazing rights, trophic cascades and the vitality of death, the violent lineages of conservation, and ecological restoration as an antidote to species loss.Support the show

We are joined by Mariame Kaba for an expansive conversation on Transformative Justice, community accountability, criminalization of survivors, & freedom on the horizon. Mariame addresses punishment as an issue of directionality while reminding us why it is vital to have the prison abolition movement in conversation with the movement for climate & environmental justice. Support the show

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In honor of Truthsgiving, join us as we meditate upon the true spirit of giving. Lyla and Ayana unravel the great potential held within the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and well as some of its false assumptions, and propose Indigenous-led frameworks for sovereignty. Lyla reminds us that when we yearn to speak the language of life, love and healing, we must turn to poetry.Support the show

Tune into this episode to hear Ayana’s conversations with six storytellers who are shifting the landscape of conservation from behind their cameras, bold media strategies, and work in the field: Tiffany McNeil, Dr. Ayana Flewellen, Meaghan Brosnan, Rodrigo Farias, Kaitlin Yarnall and Faith Musembi.Support the show

This week For The Wild is joined by Tamo Campos, extreme snowboarder, youth facilitator, and filmmaker, to discuss a myriad of topics from warming winters, the outdoor sports industry, community building, fish farming, and many of the stories told in Beyond Boarding’s film, The Radicals. We begin our conversation with Tamo looking at the narrative around outdoor recreation and the privileges many of us hold, as an entry point into how we can change our relationship with the mountains, rivers, oceans, and communities for the better. At the root of our conversation with Tamo are two powerful proclamations on relationship and responsibility. Tamo is clear in that we all have a responsibility to community, place, and Earth. By centering this responsibility, we are empowered to act in accordance with our true value system. Tamo Campos is a 29-year-old filmmaker, youth facilitator & extreme snowboarder based in the Pacific North West. His father is from Chile and his mother’s heritage is from Japan. Tamo co-founded the environmental organization Beyond Boarding, a non-profit collective that combines a love of outdoors with environmental outreach and action. Whether it’s working with youth outdoors or leading environmental film projects, Tamo embeds himself in the community wherever he goes and is dedicated to combining social impact with his adventures in sport, activism, and filmmaking. Campos currently resides in a converted waste vegetable oil-powered ambulance with a small yet cozy wood stove. Beyond Boarding’s recent film, The Radicals, highlights ecological restoration work in Xwísten territory, the Musgmagw Dzawada'enuwx Nation’s decades-long protection of wild salmon from fish farms, and Haida Gwaii weavers using art as a form of resistance. These instances remind us of the need for systems change, and in conversation with Ayana, Tamo points out how for too long we have conflated consumer change with systems change through actions like so-called sustainable consumerism. We can’t buy ourselves out of the problems we are in, we must look to relationship, youth stewardship, and community building as the antidote to a commodified world ♫ Music by Jeffrey Silverstein + REFERENCES AND RECOMMENDATIONS + Watch Tamo Campos & Beyond Boarding’s Film, The Radicals. Watch Wild Salmon, Sovereignty, & Resistance (A Musgamagw Dzawada'enuxw Mural Story) To learn more about PRV & the threat of fish farms, listen to For The Wild’s interview with Alexandra Morton, “On the Virulence of Farmed Salmon / 78.” For further updates & resources on open fish farms and wild salmon runs, visit WildFirst.CA

Listen in to Part Two of this intimate conversation as Ayana and Pavini share their reflections on the forest as a teacher of wild love, the field of eros within and beyond the realm of sex, the cyclical nature of death as communion, and strategies for connecting with ancestors of blood and heart. Support the show