Lifelines

Adding Life is the Repair

In the final episode of Lifelines, I’m joined by my friends, Hadeel Assali and Hadi Awada. This episode features lessons from the plantcestor olive and what microorganisms can teach us about transformation and restoring life to the land. We continue our exploration of the possibilities of repair and remediation when the wounding to land, water, and people is ongoing, and we share stories from Gaza and Lebanon of how mutual aid reforms and changes our social relations and can be a joy practice. Hadeel Assali is a former engineer with land remediation experience in the southern US; she is an anthropologist and writer whose research focuses on Gaza, Palestine and anti-colonial relations and repairs with land. Hadi Awada is a permaculture practitioner and educator from South Lebanon, focusing on soil health, regenerative agriculture, and bioremediation in post-conflict landscapes. Show Notes References: Gaza Mutual Aid Solidarity Network [https://givebutter.com/c/GazaSolidarity] Lebanon Solidarity Collective [http://chuffed.org/project/lebanonsolidarity] Amara Abdal Figueroa [https://www.artmattersfoundation.org/grantees/amara-abdal-figueroa-2022] Vieques, Puerto Rico [https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/156136] Nerium Oleander [https://landscapeplants.aub.edu.lb/Plants/PlantProfile/%20%20%20%2073beeb52-3747-4994-a058-544a4f0e77f2] Song credits: Laura Mvula - Remedy

Finding Each Other is the Priority of Our Times

In this episode of Lifelines, I’m joined by my friend, Azuka Khazrik. This episode features lessons from the plantcestor rose, exploration of how attachment styles expand beyond the interpersonal to interface with the polycrises in our world, an expansion of our conception of time, lessons from bioremediation efforts in Lebanon, and remembering the wisdom of our lands, lineages, languages, and our bodies have to heal and preserve our collectivity and relational wounding. Azuka Khazrik nurtures a plural, antimilitarist practice in service of transgenerational healing and collective transcendence. She creates assemblies, teaches, writes, makes music and multi-modal installations, and is the creatress behind the liberationist platforms “ خريطة الظلام Cartography of Darkness” (https://dark.society.systems), AATMA ✦ عتمة and “ܗܽܘܦܳܟܳܐ ܒܟܰܘܟܒ̈ܶܐ Astrorevolt”. Show Notes References: The Land in Our Bones by Layla K. Feghali [https://www.riverroseremembrance.com/book-page] Lebanon Solidarity Collective [http://chuffed.org/project/lebanonsolidarity] Dr. Pierre Malychef - Cartography of Darkness [https://dark.society.systems/repository/?attachment_author=pierre-malychef] “Anosh Adur”: A History of Ammonia [https://dark.society.systems/contribution/a-history-of-ammonia/] Song credits: Laura Mvula - Remedy Interbreathing - Jessika Khazrik

Tending the Life in Front of You

In the debut episode of Lifelines, I’m joined by my collaborator, sára abdullah to discuss our ongoing mutual aid project, Li Falasteen, an herbal guide for the medical workers of Gaza. This episode features lessons from the plantcestor sage, the origin story of the Li Falasteen guide, solidarity across the global South, and explorations of a mutual aid paradigm that inspires radical imagination and practical skill building for changing our material conditions for liberation in the present towards the future. Show Notes Li Falasteen Herbal Guide [https://www.riverroseremembrance.com/healingandsumud] The Land in Our Bones by Layla K. Feghali [https://www.riverroseremembrance.com/book-page] Gaza Mutual Aid Solidarity [https://givebutter.com/c/GazaSolidarity] Mayan Midwives Herbal Clinic [https://givebutter.com/mayanmidwives] References: Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49622/perhaps-the-world-ends-here] Poverty of Philosophy - Immortal Technique [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzWj9ZORv8E] Song credit: Laura Mvula - Remedy