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107. The Black Ecology Episode: Humanity Isn't Wrecking the Planet, Capitalism and White Supremacy Is (And Those Are Fixable!)
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What does gardening have to do with the revolution? It turns out, it has everything to do with it - in this episode, Amirio Freeman, the host of the Loam Listen podcast, talks to us about how Black ecology fosters a sense of connectedness that teaches you if any one part of the complex system that is nature fails, the whole system collapses, and how capitalism has taught us to think of ourselves and our consumption habits in isolation from other parts of the system, to the detriment of all of society.
We also go into a discussion of land rights, and the complicated turns that conversation can take when it comes to African Americans who are descendants of slaves - if we believe in returning the land to indigenous people or the people it originally belonged to, where do Black people fit into that equation?
This is a pretty mind-blowing conversation where we delve even deeper into what elements of our current society come from colonialism and white supremacy, much in the vein of the Decolonizing Parenting Episode, and how radical imagination and rest can be antidotes to the dystopian world we find ourselves barreling towards. Even in the midst of all of these barriers to a more community-driven society (even if we were to encourage foraging and gardening, how many people truly have the time, land, and knowledge required to do it?), Amirio still finds the fact that these barriers are all the products of the socially constructed world that we created heartening, because none of these factors are inherent to humanity. We can decide as a collective to change them, we just have to have the will to do it.
Links:
Amirio's Instagram: @plantasia_barrino
Amirio's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/loam-listen/id1477513600
Braiding Sweetgrass: https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass
Fannie Lou Hamer and her piggy bank: https://lifeandthyme.com/commentary/fannie-lou-hamer-and-farming-as-activism/
The Nap Ministry: https://thenapministry.wordpress.com/
A conversation with Tricia Hersey, the founder of the Nap Ministry, on the relationship between rest and Black liberation: https://atmos.earth/rest-resistance-colonization-black-liberation/
An article about how the USDA was offering grants to marginalized farmers as part of the American Rescue Plan but this was blocked by a group of White farmers: https://www.youngfarmers.org/2021/06/delivering-on-debt-relief-to-black-farmers/
A super useful library of articles on Black Ecology: https://www.bilphenaslibrary.com/blackecology
Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän.
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