Tune in to our sequel episode "Grieving, Zombies, & Power" with Dr. Lewis Gordon. Dr. Gordon is Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at UCONN-Storrs; & Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies. He previously taught at Brown University, where he founded the Department of Africana Studies, and Temple University, where was the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy and founder of the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies and the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought.

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Dr. Lewis Gordon on Grieving, Zombies, & Power (FV Ep. 40)

Dr. Lewis Gordon & I talk about Imhotep, suppressed Kemetic intellectual histories, the healthiness of suffering under oppression, white supremacist narcissism in nutrition & education, & so much more. Dr. Gordon is Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at UCONN-Storrs; & Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies. He previously taught at Brown University, where he founded the Department of Africana Studies, and Temple University, where was the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy and founder of the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies and the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought. For more support in unlearning, remembering & imagining (including online classes), check out liberationspring.com. facebook: www.facebook.com/LiberationSpring twitter: twitter.com/libspring youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCKskexpXNUKU1O16qWxL0Sw instagram: www.instagram.com/liberationspring

Dr. Lewis Gordon on Unlearning Epistemological Bullying (FV Ep. 39)

Let’s talk about Q Anon, the Democrats, & dis-info to watch out for. I’m a political scientist, philosopher, & professor 4 those who don’t know me. Buckle up cuz I’ve got some potentially uncomfortable gems! PS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so we can spread discernment in these deadly times. Your support is legit the only way I can keep up this insurgent education! If you found anything I shared useful, consider coming thru plz : ) PPS- please share widely to help our loved ones make meaning of this moment in a grounded way. I haven’t heard anyone assess the situation in the way that I do here. And since we’re swirling in sloppy hot takes & propaganda, I want you to be exposed to substance and rigor. Patreon: www.patreon.com/liberationspring Paypal: www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_dona…2egif%3aNonHosted More at: liberationspring.com

Q, The Dems & Disinfo (FV Ep. 38)

Nonconformity can be life-giving AF. In a time when omnicide is normal, our very instinct to survive is nonconformist. Having ethics becomes renegade. Caring about your neighbor is countercultural. These are the times we find ourselves in. Let’s talk about it! So sorry that I got cut off at the end, by the way! So offensive ? Feel free to share if you know anyone who could benefit from this discourse! Thanks for having a listen : ) Feel free to share any questions, ideas, or feedback you have about the discourse afterwards, too. I encourage you to be in touch! ? PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. PPS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so I can get this book published asap to support our discernment in these deadly times. Thanks. Patreon: www.patreon.com/liberationspring Paypal: www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_dona…2egif%3aNonHosted More at: liberationspring.com

Non-conformity: Seed #10 (FV Ep. 37)

What do zombification, trauma responses, professionalization, & representative politics have in common? They can all breed the kinda apathy that’s currently plaguing millions of our loved ones. Let’s talk about it. Feel free to share if you know anyone who could benefit from this discourse! Feel free to share any questions, ideas, or feedback you have about the discourses afterwards, too. I encourage you to be in touch! PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. PPS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so I can get this book published asap to support our discernment in these deadly times. Thanks. Patreon: www.patreon.com/liberationspring Paypal: www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_dona…2egif%3aNonHosted More at: liberationspring.com

Apathy Weed #10 (FV Ep. 36)

Is your understanding of consent individualistic? Is it species-ist? If you value consent, let’s talk about robust, stronger understandings of this practice than the way it’s typically talked about within the colonial status quo. Plz share if you know anyone who could benefit from this discourse! And I would love your feedback! Let me know what you found evocative in the comments… PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. PPS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so I can get this book published asap to support our discernment in these deadly times. Thanks. Or throw down this week for Tiny House Warriors! Patreon: www.patreon.com/liberationspring Paypal: www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_dona…2egif%3aNonHosted More at: liberationspring.com

Consent: Seed #9 (FV Ep. 35)

My Dad worked w/ the Taliban in the 90s when we lived in Sugarland then New Delhi. Let’s talk about how militarism turns our loved ones into native informants, obedient soldiers, cannon fodder … & liberation loving activists. If you hear people use the word ‘decolonization’ who aren’t actively de-militarizing & de-nuclearizing, come thru for a smart space to learn what’s up. From Fiji to Kaho‘olawe to a neighborhood near you… Feel free to share if you know anyone who could benefit from this discourse! PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. PPS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so I can get this book published asap to support our discernment in these deadly times. Thanks. Patreon: www.patreon.com/liberationspring Paypal: www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_dona…2egif%3aNonHosted More at: liberationspring.com

Militarism: Weed #9 (FV Ep. 34)

Direct action may be the seed of all seeds for us to plant. Let’s learn from Fred Hampton, Elaine Brown, Paulo Freire, Moraga, Marx, & more. Feel free to share if you know anyone who could benefit from this discourse! PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. PPS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so I can get this book published asap to support our discernment in these deadly times. Thanks fam. Patreon: www.patreon.com/liberationspring Paypal: www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_dona…2egif%3aNonHosted More at: liberationspring.com

Direct Action: Seed #8 (FV Ep. 33)

Have you ever sensed that ‘Science’ fronts as objective at the expense of the very humility that legit knowing is contingent upon? Coming from your *most logical and wise self, not some anti-intellectual cop-out. If you’ve been sleeping on all the decolonial feminist scholarship on the philosophy of science that’s proliferated in the past quarter century, let’s get you caught up on some gems. If you’ve ever seen someone weaponize the language of logic, reason, objectivity, or science in a way that you sensed was sketchy but didn’t quite have the language to name, let’s go there. PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. PPS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so I can get this book published asap to support our discernment in these deadly times. plz 

Scientism: Weed #8 (FV Ep. 32)

We’re surrounded by trite clichés about following our hearts. And spaces where people allege to be into emotional intelligence that are then utterly intolerant of oppressed peoples expressing feelings. Feelings, by the way, that Eurocentrism judges as ‘negative’ in a fake binary that lots of people still adhere to. Or the same wannabe influencers who speak softly about the wisdom of our feelings then turn around and treat ethical indignation as a state to ‘process’ and ‘move past’ as quickly as possible. While unironically privileging a performance of social media-ready happiness as a superior emotional state. Contradictions much? What anti-intellectualism! Now, respecting physiological cues can be literally life-saving. Yet, feelings can also be Islamophobic. And classist. And transphobic. And otherwise oppressive. You see, our interpretations of our feelings are mediated by our minds. So when are our feelings trustworthy? When aren’t they trustworthy? How can we relate to our feelings in a way that doesn’t just smuggle our uninterrogated biases into some mystified realm that’s allegedly beyond reproach? Let’s talk about it. PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. PPS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so I can get this book published asap to support our discernment in these deadly times 

Feelings: Seed #7 (FV Ep. 31)

What if the least reliable people about spirituality are those who call themselves ‘spiritual?’ Let’s talk about the new (c)age psy-op and how to unlearn it. Let’s have some respect for the power of spirituality by disentangling it from insultingly commercialized distortions. Why let our ancestral wisdom continue to get tainted by marketing manipulation? In the settler colonial U.S., spirituality is widely associated with anti-intellectualism due to a tragic conflation with the new (c)age psy-op. What a massive con job. Sloppy generalizations, a lack of vetting sources, and the entitlement of rape culture have coalesced into a deadly market of half-truths that ensnare millions of our loved ones. Let’s unpack how these opportunistic scams get perpetuated & how to stop the bypassing so folks can reconnect with power & potential. PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. PPS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so I can get this book published asap to support our discernment in these deadly times. Thanks fam. Patreon: www.patreon.com/liberationspring Paypal: www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_dona…2egif%3aNonHosted More at: liberationspring.com

New (c)Age Lies: Weed #7 (FV Ep. 30)

One of the greatest gifts that you could give your imagination is learning about the abolitionist movement (and getting involved). While oppressive injustice would have us in-fighting over toxic crumbs, abolitionism invites us to have standards, respect, and dignity. Previously impossible within this nightmarish empire. Let’s talk about it. While the capitalist mainstream would make excuses for perpetuating horrific atrocities, abolitionism draws on thousands of peer-reviewed studies to make an undeniably compelling case for life-affirming alternatives. Give thanks that we can move from weaponized & implanted ignorance to having humility. Let’s learn from some prolific scholar-activists who have been proving for decades that abolition is the only sensible way forward. PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. PPS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so I can get this book published asap to support our discernment in these deadly times. Or you could make any offerings this week out to Critical Resistance plz 

Abolition: Seed #6 (FV Ep. 29)

When violent crime is discussed in mainstream echo chambers, is the term more likely to be associated with polluting lakes & damming rivers or a stabbing? I’ll bet you know the answer. Yet, which is overwhelmingly more catastrophic for people and the planet? What a deadly bias. Who & what benefits from that limited interpretation of crime? Who and what doesn’t? There we go again with that *disproportionate focus on individuals obscuring institutional wrongdoings. Not only have conventional notions of crime in the settler colonial US always been anti-Indigenous, anti-Black, classist, homophobic, and transphobic. They also open the floodgates for incarceration, banking off caged labor, increased surveillance, ripping apart families, siphoning off taxpayer dollars from vital social services, and pitting communities against one another. Ultimately, one of the most dangerous consequences of “normal” understandings of criminality is that they let annihilationist companies off the hook as they’re racing to push humanity off a cliff into unbridled climate chaos. In a settler colonial empire, who gets to define crime? And who pays the price? Let’s unlearn propaganda around criminality to clarity which corporate culprits really need 2 be held accountable. PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. PPS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so I can get this book published asap to support our discernment in these deadly times. Or you could make any offerings this week out to @CriticalResistance plz ? Thanks fam. Patreon: www.patreon.com/liberationspring Paypal: www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_dona…2egif%3aNonHosted More at: liberationspring.com

Criminality: Weed #6 (FV Ep. 28)

How does our knowing get impacted by subjectivity, values, & identity? Find out thru this talk on feminist & indigenous epistemologies & so much more. Plz lemme know in the comments what you found evocative- I’d love to hear. Also plz be forewarned that I nerd out on theory a lil’ in the intro, but then it gets less jargon-y : ) PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. PPS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so I can get this book published asap to support our discernment in these deadly times. Thanks fam. Patreon: www.patreon.com/liberationspring Paypal: www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_dona…2egif%3aNonHosted More at: liberationspring.com

Context: Seed #5 (FV Ep. 27)

What is co-optation? Let’s talk green-washing, diversity & inclusion campaigns, misunderstanding decolonization, land acknowledgements, & more. Just cuz someone’s talking about a thing doesn’t mean they know what they’re talking about! For example, they might be a business trying to bank off of a social movement. As a matter of fact, did you know exactly that was actually one of the first major experiments in public relations (aka advertising) in U.S. history? Yep, Edward Bernays tried to sell women cigarettes by coupling their consumption with the suffrage movement in the US. He came up with the catchy slogan ‘torches of freedom’ & did some savvy product placement at an event and it caught fire. To the order of countless women subsequently getting hooked and dying of lung cancer & other cigarette-related diseases. So what is co-optation exactly? Merriam-Webster calls it “the act or an instance of co-opting something: a taking over or appropriation of something for a new or different purpose. // the co-optation of the raised fist as a patriotic symbol- Niela Orr” is given as an example. Co-optation is one of the perennial concerns of movements for collective liberation. Liberals, politicians, businesses, and celebrities consistently try to subsume the potency and resonance of revolutionary organizing to serve their own aims. They parrot style and lack substance. And distract a whole lotta our loved ones who could have otherwise gotten connected with legit groups and community spaces and purpose and power. PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. PPS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so I can get this book published asap to support our discernment in these deadly times. Thanks fam. Patreon: www.patreon.com/liberationspring Paypal: www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_dona…2egif%3aNonHosted More at: liberationspring.com

Co-optation: Weed #5 (FV Ep. 26)

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