Grounded Futures Show
the Grounded Futures Show is hosted by carla joy bergman and Uilliam Joy, and sometimes jams! Season 4 coming October 2024! Uilliam (Liam) and carla discuss topics ranging from climate collapse to identity to how youth can gain new skills to thrive amid current and ongoing disasters that we are collectively facing. The show will take a deep dive on these issues, and be in conversations with incredible guests. We are a Gen-X and a Gen-Z, and we are keen on tearing down the walls between generations together and on our show! Grounded futures show is produced on Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-waututh lands, but our guests are from around the world . The music for our show is by Sour Gout. new show art is by, Jamie-Leigh Gonzales the show art for season 2 & 3 was by Robin Carrico IG: @somegaywizard *transcripts are at grounded futures.com *** Please note: season one was based on training youth, and we are grateful to all our guests who joined us on our learning journey! As of June 22, 2022 this season has been archived. Thanks for listening!
Episodes
Season 4, ep 26: Weirding Time! with: Uli, Jams, carla joy, and a Time Talks History segment
In the season four opener, Uli, carla, and jams introduce some dreams for season 4, ruminate about other projects on the horizon, and reflect on their year off from making the Grounded Futures Show, and more! Plus, we will hear the first Time Talks History segment about the Doctrine of Discovery.
Thanks for listening! 🌀
Show notes:
...The Grounded Futures Show, Episode 25: Remaining Unbroken, with chris time steele
“I've always been a rapper, since I was 12. So that's what I do. And it's the way I communicate best and most vulnerable.”
In their last episode of the season, Uli and carla share a wonderful talk-about with the always inspiring chris time steele! A dreamer, writer, and poetic historian, chris’ digs into many topics, from Hip Hop to basketball...
The Grounded Futures Show, Ep 24: The Struggle is Real, with Noleca Radway & Lily Mercogliano Easton
Uli and carla had a deep and vulnerable conversation with Lily and Noleca — two wonderful parents and educators — about the horrors of adult supremacy, the oppression of kids, and some p...
The Grounded Futures Show, Ep 23: Queer Brilliance, with Lindz Amer
“I hope that I can put a little bit of healing out into the world because I think we just need a lot more of that. There are a lot of hurt people out there.”
We had a pretty healing and joyful conversation ...
The Grounded Futures Show, episode 22: Dreaming a Future, with carla and Uli
Delighting in our Friends!
Uli and carla spend episode 22 delighting in pals, AKA celebrating awesome artists, storytellers, and musicians who range in ages 3 - 63. This is an uplifting episode where they share wonderful songs, swoon ove...
The Grounded Futures Show, Ep 21: Sparks In-Between, with Scott Branson
“thinking alone is not as exciting as thinking together”
Scott Branson, a Jewish transfemme anarchist writer, and artist, joined carla and Uli for an inspiring virtual walk to think (and feel) together. They go deep into Trans worlding and talk pathways to gender abolition, discovering voice, embracing not knowing, sampling ideas, learning through play and mak...
The Grounded Futures Show, Ep 20: Alchemizing Futures, with Shaunga Tagore
“My desire is for everything in my life to be rooted in thriving, or the timeline of thriving.”
The magical episode where carla and Uli receive some deep healing via their wonderful guest, the quantum communicator, storyteller, weaver, and creatrix, Shaunga Tagore. Shaunga talks about their paradigm shifting project: Otherworldly Giants, as well as embraci...
The Grounded Futures Show, Ep #19 Liberated Care, with Zena Sharman
“I think about care as a process, as an ongoing act of weaving — that it is this active thing that we do, that happens in relationships, that happens in communities.”
Zena Sharman joins the show to talk casting spells and weaving webs of care beyond institutions. This episode is all about intergenerational solidarity, and queering kinship and care in the everyday...
Grounded Futures Show, Ep #18: Feels Real Good, with Khari McClelland
“To be human is to be creative, and to allow yourself that privilege is where it is at…"
Khari McClelland, an award-winning musician and creative facilitator, joined us to launch season three! In this episode, Khari speaks about creating with and for community through time, what it means to be a just person, and the importance of growing and tending all o...
Grounded Futures Show, Ep #17: Feeling and Building More, with Eleanor Goldfield
“We need to connect to what feels like justice, what feels like freedom, and not just what sounds like it.”
The fabulous creative radical, Eleanor Goldfield joins us to talk about the importance of amplifying censored stories and radical ideas, rights vs Justice, the limits of language, the inherent violence of the state, finding ways to embrace pocket...
Grounded Futures Show, Season 2 - Ep #16
This is part one of our mini series on: Schooling, Education, and Finding Your Way
“I just have such a joy and a heart for helping parents to be what they really want to be with their kids, and really help that relationship flourish and move forward.”
Uilliam and carla sat down with Meghan Carrico, a long time participant and educator in creating alternate pathways to learning in commun...
Grounded Futures Show, Season 2 Episode #15
“Gathering people around food is a big part of what everyday thriving looks like in my life. And, even as the world falls apart, we will still probably have to eat dinner.”
We sat down with the wonderful Tahia Ahmed, a full-spectrum birth worker who connects birth, land, and racial and climate justice together in new and beautiful ways. We dive into conversations about our interdependen...
Grounded Futures Show, Season 2 Episode #14
“I love people, I'm just like that. I think that's what the motivation for the work is.”
We had a lot of fun talking with Dean about so many ideas and actions -- and we took a lot of passion paths together! You’ll hear about his early days of talking back to power, to building queer and trans solidarity, working across differences, to finding concrete ways to accompany each other during h...
Grounded Futures Show: Season 2 (Bonus episode)
In this short bonus episode, Liam and carla take a moment to celebrate the Grounded Futures Platform by sharing some jingles for two new shows: Resonant Rest and Mentorship in Motion! You'll hear from Oceaan Pendharkar, Melissa Roach, Jamie Leigh Gonzales, and Rebecca Peng... and some other news!
Grounded Futures: Season 2, Episode 13
“Neuroqueer is both an adjective and a verb. And so, automatically, the word has multiplicity built into it. And it invites you to play with the idea that who you are can also be an action.”
We are thrilled to welcome Kitty Sipple back to the show to talk about the roots and lineages of sanism, neuroqueerness, and Madness. Weaving them together in profound and powerful ways, Kitty also shares ...
Grounded Futures Season 2, episode 11
“As radicals we need to be offering a different exit from middle class life.”
Season two begins with a joyful bang! Liam and carla talk with the wonderful Nick Montgomery about radical exit plans, the limits and problems of “rights”, generational myths, the importance of cultivating alternatives, finding joy and humour amid disasters, and more
Music for our show by: Sour Gout
Links from our seg...
Meet Uilliam and carla! Co-hosts of the Grounded Futures Show!
The Grounded Futures Show is hosted by carla joy bergman and Uilliam Joy. Uilliam (Liam) and carla discuss topics ranging from climate change to identity to how youth can gain new skills to thrive amid current and ongoing disasters that we are collectively facing. The show will take a deep dive on these issues, and be in conversations with incredible guests.
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