Recommended Reads, Podcasts and More

These are resources that have influenced my work and helped guide me in my journey of love & liberation. May they bring you clarity, vision and inspiration 💜

Podcasts

Episode Title	Podcast	Description
Dr. Rupa Marya & Raj Patel on Deep Medicine	For the Wild	Human illness is not an individual problem that implies something is wrong with you. It's a reflection of the greater the whole, of the way we mistreat the Earth
Mapping Breath with Allison Post	​15 Minute Matrix	Connecting somatics to physical/spiritual/mental unwellness
Decolonizing Sex	All My Relations	How Monogamy is a product of settler colonialism
A people's guide to capitalism with Hadas Thier	Upstream	a clear summary of how Capitalism is inherently a system of exploitation. they don't use big confusing jargon. a good breakdown!
Sexy Sacred	All My Relations	The negative impact of colonization on our relationship with sexuality from indigenous perspectives
Laziness Does Not Exist	Upstream	"Laziness" has been weaponized to exploit people under capitalism. Brilliant conversation
The Serviceberry: an Economy of Abundance	Emergence Magazine	Gift economics. How to share resources with each other in a way that doesn't promote hoarding/exploitation (a capitalist trauma response), but encourages reciprocity
Indigenous Economics	Upstream	Brilliant indigenous wisdom
Alok Vaid Menon: The Urgent Need for Compassion	The Man Enough Podcast	​Alok Vaid Menon poetically breaks down the harm of the gender binary and the harm in using "I don't understand" as an excuse to ignore compassion
In case it helps / bell hooks asé	How to Survive the End of the World	Adrienne Maree Brown shares how they process grief
Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osario on Reclaiming Aloha	For the Wild	Talks about how white colonial settlers redefined the word "Aloha" to submit indigenous Hawaiian people to exploitation. They share how Indigenous Hawaiian culture has been traditionally non-monogamous and non-hierarchical. Imperialist culture introduced the concept of the nuclear family as a divide and conquer strategy
The Sovereign Body: How Seeing Our Bodies As Independent Actually Help Us Connect To Them	Holistic Life Navigation	The body is sovereign being that we are tasks with caring for. If the human body is a flower, spirit is the gardener. The same way we love and respect the Earth by stewarding the Earth, it is our responsibility to steward the body with love and care...which asks us to slow down and receive our body's communication.
Navigating How my Capacity Runs my Business	Holistic Life Navigation	This episode is for folks who run their own business or who work for other people. Luis simply shares about the practice of being in relationship with the body via slowing down and tuning in. Whether or not you have the ability to listen to your needs (if your employer sets your boundaries for you), it's a loving practice to be attuned and admitting to yourself with honesty where your capacity is at in any given moment.
Surviving the Collapse, Permaculture and Agroecology, Native Seed Bombing, and Much More with Andy C. from Poor Prole’s Almanac	Upstream

YouTube Videos

Video Title	Description
Monogamy Is Not The Only Respectable Option: How Lindy, Aham & Roya Found Utopian Love in Polyamory	A story of three people healing relationship wounds through non-monogamy
Uses of the Erotic: the Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde	Audre Lorde described herself as a “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet"
Brother Earth	comedy music video about the health of the planet

Audre Lorde

Books

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Book Title	Author	Description
Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation	Jasmine Syedullah, Lama Rod Owens, and angel Kyodo Williams	This book has deeply impacted the way I relate to the world around me. It clearly lays out how liberation is not individual - its collective. We're not free until we're all free.
Polysecure	Jessica Fern	The first published literature that applies attachment theory through a lens of non-monogamy
All About Love	Bell Hooks	What would love look like outside of a dominator paradigm?
The Will to Change	Bell Hooks	A must read for men and people in relationship with men. Analyzes the ways Patriarchal social conditioning interferes with loving one another
How to do the Work	Dr. Nicole LePera	How to reprogram your subconscious mind by welcoming your emotional experience and regulating your nervous system
Pleasure Activism	Adrienne Maree Brown	Censoring our own pleasure is internalized oppression. Reclaiming your birth right to pleasure is a form of social justice activism, not to mention an essential part of self care
Emergent Strategy	Adrienne Maree Brown	Celebrates change and reveals how patterns in the animal and plant world are bigger reflections of the whole
Parable of the Sower	Octavia Butler	Sci-Fi dystopian novel about what will happen in the future if we change nothing about the way we relate to each other and the earth. A true prophecy. Mind blowing. Must read. Check out the sequel, Parable of the Talents
Undrowned	Alexis Pauline Gumbs	Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
Come as You Are	Emily Nagoski	a combination of anecdotal and scientific evidence to help people feel empowered about female sexuality