Larger, Freer, More Loving

Feb 11 2025 15 ep. 64 mins 7
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We hope to aid ourselves and others in a journey towards living a “larger, freer, and more loving” life through critically engaging the popular culture that we live in, particularly with a focus on justice, care, the Arts, and community.

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Welcome Back: it's only been 3 weeks?

Feb 11 2025 79 mins  
It's good to be back with you all. It's been a minute since we've had an episode. In this episode, Matt LaVine and Dwight K. Lewis Jr discuss the impact of the first three weeks of the second Trump administration on marginalized communities. They emphasize the importance of community, resilience, and activism as a response to the administration's actions. Dwight shares his personal

Race Equity: nurturing Peace, Healing, and Joy

Apr 19 2023 67 mins  
It's good to be back with you all. It's been a minute since we've had an episode. But no matter what you listen to us for, we've got a feeling that this episode is for you! Because today, we've got with us multi-hyphenate, Hanif Fazal—an activist, a writer, a race equity facilitator and consultant, a business owner, awesome father, brother, and son. We're talking about his new bo

Black Planetary Ecology: Diamonds in the Cave

Apr 18 2022 68 mins  
Today, we were lucky enough to have a conversation with a scholar, public intellectual, and activist who happens to be one of our favorite human beings on the planet – Dr. Claudia Ford. We began by asking Claudia to explain the relation between Planetary Consciousness and Blackness. From there, she talked about the intersection of Black ecology and Afro-pessimism. This led to a d

Rage & Social Justice: a new beginning

Mar 16 2022 65 mins  
Welcome back for our second episode of season 2 which, as we said last time, is going to forefront things like the role of emotion in racial justice and social justice work more broadly, concepts of transformation and revolution, and uplifting ways of being and knowing that are marginalized in our white supremacist, patriarchal, capitalist world. We were lucky enough to have a scho

Returning to a “Larger, Freer, More Loving” Life

Feb 15 2022 67 mins  
Alright, welcome folks. We are back at it again with SEASON 2. We are extremely excited about this season and what we have in store for you all. In this episode, we talk about transitions we’ve both been going through since Season 1, what’s been happening in the worlds around us, and how those things came together in our thinking about themes for Season 2. We talk about protest

First Thoughts on Trump's Executive Order Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping

Oct 20 2020 33 mins  
In this episode, we began thinking through Trump's Executive Order Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping. It is a little raw.... which we took to be a good thing. We hope that this raises awareness!

A Counter Narrative using Non-western, Anti-western, and Other-western Philosophers and Philosophies

Sep 24 2020 88 mins  
Today, we had three scholars that do fantastic research on counter narratives and counter histories in philosophy, John Harfouch, Meena Krishnamurthy, and Peter K.J. Park. We begin by defining counter narratives or histories in philosophy; then engage the ways that western and white power limits counter narratives and the emotions that motivate them. Following that, we discuss a nu

The @talkingwings Collective on “The North Country Art, Land, and Environment Summit”

Sep 21 2020 36 mins  
Today, we’re following up with our second quickcast—this time with artists and activists of the Talking Wings Collective, Blake Lavia and Tzimu Aguilar-Izzo, who are hosting the North Country Art, Land, and Environment Summit throughout the month of September and into October. We talked about the ways that art, land, and environment intersect, especially the role that art plays

Christina Van Dyke: A Lesson in Communal Love

Sep 16 2020 39 mins  
Today, we did something new for the show—a quickcast—an in-depth account of some one individual issue that grabs our attention off of the planned episodes. This brings us to our guest, Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Calvin College, Christina Van Dyke. Christina stepped down from your full professor position to protect a vulnerable junior faculty member. We wanted to highlig

Black Masculinities: the super predator-not

Sep 10 2020 89 mins  
Today, we’re talking with Tommy Curry and John Youngblood about Black masculinities. We begin by talking about the Black male experience, particularly in academia, as a means of defining Tommy’s man-not and the multiplicitousness of Black masculinities. Following that, we apply this knowledge as a critique of intersectionality with the hopes of propelling intersectionality towa