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Come journey with What the World Will Become. Together, we'll engage with the narratives of awe-inspiring activists, each carving their own path towards a more peaceful and just world in the face of challenging circumstances. For over 20 years, I've been researching and witnessing firsthand the profound impact of violence on women from Rwanda to Colombia. Yet, amidst the trauma, their resilient beauty shines brightly, as they forge new paths filled with love, joy, and courage.

Join me as we connect with a Kurdish feminist from Iraq, a Cuban activist living in exile, queer Afro-Colombian activists, and more. Each of them brings unique experiences and perspectives to their activism, using channels such as poetry, human rights advocacy, art, spirituality, and collective healing. These fragments and pieces of their work offer us a blueprint for building a world free from violence. As we hear their stories, I hope you'll be inspired to incorporate aspects of their work into your own life. Let's explore together the fragments and pieces of what the world will become.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Welcome to what the World Will Become, a podcast
about the humans' who dedicatetheir lives to building a more
free and just world.
My name is Marie Berry.
I'm a feminist researcher andwriter, and I've spent the
better part of the past 20 yearsresearching and thinking about
how women experience war and itsaftermath.
I've done research in placeslike Rwanda, bosnia, kenya,

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nepal and Colombia, and I'veinterviewed hundreds of women
whose lives have been shaped byviolence.
Along the way, I have beenrepeatedly struck by two
simultaneous truths the first isthat violence is devastating,
leaving those who survive itwith trauma and grief that can
last for years and evengenerations.
But the second is that, even inthe most bleak and impossible

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of situations, there is often agreat beauty, a way that those
who suffer from violence findlove, joy and resilience that
can creatively forge new pathsforward, paths that offer us
profound hope and possibilityfor building a more just and
free world.
On this podcast, I interviewactivists from all across the

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world who are forging thesepaths forward in the context of
deep difficulty.
These activists offer us, andoffer me, a blueprint for how we
might build a world that isfree from violence.
The title of this podcast isinspired by abolitionist scholar
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, whoreminded us that quote.

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What the world will becomealready exists in fragments and
pieces, experiments andpossibilities.
So please join me in thisseason of what the world will
become to hear stories fromthose whose experiments have
profoundly inspired me.
You'll hear from a Kurdishfeminist from Iraq who was
displaced during SaddamHussein's genocidal campaigns as

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a child and who uses poetry asa way of inviting us to think
about trauma, grief and repair.
You'll meet an activist fromCuba who lives in exile after
fighting tirelessly for humanrights.
A pair of queer Afro-Columbianactivists join me who have
created a space for Black, trans, gender expansive people in
Cali, colombia, where they canbe safe and heal through art,

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spirituality and collectiveness.
My hope is at the end of eachepisode, and indeed the whole
season, you are inspired bythese stories and find small
ways to bring bits of their workinto your own lives.