Work Won't Save Us

✨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

Connect with yasmin on Instagram, Threads, or Linke...

✨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 💞 

✨Dr. Truesdell holds a doctorate in S...

✨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

Bio

Order his most recent book: Survival of the Richest

Connect on Substack

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✨ 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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