Work Won't Save Us
Work Won't Save Us...so we're on a quest to find what will!
Episodes
✨Szn 1 Recap + Reflection! ✨
Join us for Season 1 recap + reflection between our host, Chanté Martinez Thurmond, and beloved collaborator, Nicole Tay!
Topics include:
✴️ Entanglement with work + capitalism 🕸️
✴️ Defining “good work” 👍🏾
✴️ Questioning the ubiquity of "work" ❓
✴️ Growth + lessons learned thus far 🦉
✴️ What to expect in Szn 2! 🔮
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LINKS TO NICOLE’S CONTENT
Connect with Nicole on TikTok | LinkedIn | Films
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✨In this week’s episode, we are so excited to be joined by WWSU assistant producer, Zaiden Sowle!!
TOPICS INCLUDE:
✴️ Ableism + Disability INjustice
✴️ Disclosing when you have a disability
✴️ Our complicated relationship with assistive tech
✴️ Reliance on work for health benefits
✨Zaiden Sowle (she/they) is a Chicago-based queer, trans* woman, and neuro-emergent youth educator. As a current FoW Fellow at The Darkest Horse ...
✨In this week’s episode, we are so excited to be joined by Malaika Jabli!!
TOPICS INCLUDE:
✴️ Journey to becoming a socialist ✊🏾
✴️ Malaika’s Book: “It's Not You, It's Capitalism” 💁🏾♀️
✴️ Capitalist propaganda + U.S. politics 🇺🇲
✴️ Ways we can start to divest from capitalism 📉
✨Malaika Jabali is a journalist + author whose writing has appeared in The Guardian, where she was a columnist, Teen Vogue, The New Republic, Vox, ...
✨In this week’s episode, we are grateful to be joined by Manish Jain!!
TOPICS INCLUDE:
✴️ Seva: Work as Worship 🙏🏾✨
✴️ 🧟Deadlihoods vs. 🤗Alivelihoods
✴️ Unlearning + Unschooling 🙃
✴️ The shadow side of globalism 🌐
✨ Manish Jain, is a social innovator and leader in the global deschooling + unlearning movement. Over the last 25+ years, he has dedicated himself to developing community-centered, regenerative ways of learning ...
✨In this week’s episode, we are deeply grateful to be joined by Dr. Resmaa Menakem!!
Topics Include
✴️Somatic Abolition 🧘🏾♀️
✴️Rest as a biological imperative 😴
✴️The challenges of “DEI” ⚠️
✴️Slavery didn’t die, it evolved ♻️
✴️Planting seeds for the future 🌱
✨Dr. Resmaa Menakem (MSW, LICSW, SEP) is a Minneapolis-based therapist, best-selling author, and founder of Justice Leadership Solutions and the Cultural Somatics Insti...
✨In this week’s episode, we are grateful to be joined by Dr. Mary L. Gray, PhD!
Topics include:
✴️ How AI technology is shaping work 🤖
✴️ Ghost Work: millions of hidden jobs that fuel the tech industry 👻
✴️ Queer identity + care in the face of capitalism 🦄
✴️ The future of collaboration + data trusts
✨Dr. Gray is Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Cent...
✨Mid-Szn Reflection! ✨
Join us for a special mid-season chat between our host, Chanté Martinez Thurmond, and collaborator, yasmin marrero!
Topics include:
✴️ What has resonated so far 💗
✴️ The interconnectedness of it all ♾️
✴️ Accepting the invitation to be reflective 🪞
✴️ How to share what’s coming up for YOU as a listener! 💌
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LINKS TO YASMIN’S CONTENT
yasmin’s website
✨In this week’s episode, we are grateful to be joined by Ila Malhotra Gregory!!
Topics include:
✴️ Loving labor
✴️ Distinction between schooling vs education
✴️ How school has been a site of oppression and site of liberation
✴️ Weaving as a process, a role and way of being
✴️ The power of youth wisdom + their POV in building liberated futures
✨Ila Malhotra Gregory is an Ecosystem Weaver and Gardener at YouthxYouth. They are ex...
✨In this week’s episode, we are delighted to be joined by Dr. Breeze Harper, PhD!
Topics include:
✴️ The lasting impacts of racialized agricultural capitalism and food sovereignty 🌾
✴️ How work, food, and motherhood influence each other today 🔁
✴️ Our entangled history and co-dependence of endorphinated caffeinated capitalism ☕
✴️ People + practices that inspire us 🤩
✨Breeze holds a PhD in Cultural Geography along with an MA ...
✨In this week’s episode, we are excited + honored to be joined by Dr. Nicole Truesdell, PhD!
Topics include:
✴️ Identity, social location and the history of racialized capitalism 🌐
✴️ Spiritual warfare, colonialism and work 🛡️
✴️ Work, as an institution, relies upon individualism, consumerism and commodification [of our bodies] 🛒
✴️ Sense of self + the power of seeing beyond ourselves 💞
✨In this week’s episode, we are thrilled to be joined by Dr. Douglas Rushkoff, PhD!!
Topics include:
✴️ Late stage capitalism: how the hell did we get here? 🧐
✴️ The history of employment 🌍
✴️ Digital Manifest Destiny 💻
✴️ The importance of returning back home…to ourselves, each other and our communities
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LINKS TO DOUGLAS' CONTENT
Rushkoff.com
Order his most recent book: Survival of the Richest
Connect on Substack
✨ Intro episode to Work Won't Save Us (WWSU)✨
Join us for our debut episode where we intentionally take a moment to introduce you to, and interview, our host Chanté Martinez Thurmond.
Rada Yovovich, co-founder and dear friend to Chanté, serves as our interviewer and special guest host!
Together, the two of them discuss:
✴️ Social Location as a practice + ritual 🌱
✴️ Our definition(s) of work + our relationship(s) to it 💻
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