16 NOV 2023 · Join Gloria Lucas of Nalgona Positivity Pride & Luca Yacón of Radically Fit Oakland in this enlightening & heart-to-heart discussion diving deep into the realms of Harm Reduction, Eating Disorders, & Body Movement. This thought-provoking conversation is an exploration of:⁠
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 - Decolonial approaches & navigating whiteness in the Medical Industrial Complex LINKS Follow @NalgonaPositivityPride on IG for more non-conventional eating disorder support. https://www.nalgonapositivitypride.com/ Follow @RadicallyFitOakland for QTBIPOC communtiy rooted in fat liberation + joyful movement. https://www.radicallyfitoakland.com/ MUSIC samples from Combo Chimbita https://combochimbita.com/ TRANSCRIPT coming soon!

29 AUG 2023 · Born and raised in the Bay, Iranian-American singer-songwriter Adrienne Shamszad hops on the mic and shares her voice with We Rise listeners, debuting her first full-length album in 15 years: Wash It All Away! Adrienne's music is dedicated to our collective liberation - and is an intimate incantation of her heart. Equal parts silly and heartfelt, Cat and Adrienne get into it on this episode of the We Rise podcast, and share some new jams from Wash It All Away, both live (and spontaneous!) and from the album. From Adrienne: "The creation of this album has been a process of making peace with myself, and embracing the life I have now. It is allowing me to let go of a lot that has been holding me back, and grieve the loss of what the passage of time takes from all of us. A beautiful outcome of this transformation is that I have found a way to make use of the old dreams that never bloomed; they have become compost for the new dreams that are thriving. It is also my life story. The story of longing for true connection, falling in love, catching glimpses of God, and it’s a story of surrender. I hope hope hope these songs will resonate with YOU." For more! Album release show Aug 31: https://secure.thefreight.org/12814/adrienne-shamszad Adrienne's website: https://adrienneshamszad.com/ BandCamp: https://adrienneshamszad.bandcamp.com/album/a-new-life Adrienne's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/adrienneshamszad

28 AUG 2023 · Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: A Podcast about Indigenous Sovereignty & Collective Storytelling This creative collaboration with indigenous poet & scholar Erika Murcia invites us to explore inquiries about living with greater purpose, presence & rootedness. EP 5: Sacred Rainbows, Weaving Our Crossroads In this bonus episode Cat, Erika, & nicky gather round on Nahuatl, Ohlone & Chinook lands to reflect on the making of Somos Semillas, how their ancestors guide their creative processes, and they share a little preview of their next offering... coming this autumn! As always, there are laughter and tears along the way. Stay tuned for Autumn launch by the equinox! LINKS Episode transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EJgvzyqOU1EjHrnbyL54Wsw7ACIpemeSXUVVWhy8884/edit?usp=sharing Our theme song of this podcast series is Sumergirse by @La.Clave.de.Sol Connect with us atweriseproduction[at]protonmail[dot]me, and follow us on Facebook & Instagram at weriseproduction, & on twitter at WeRise Producers. Connect with Erika Murcia at https://linktr.ee/Mujeryselva Podcast Art by @NicoleGervacio

4 JUL 2023 · Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: A Podcast about Indigenous Sovereignty & Collective Storytelling This creative collaboration with indigenous poet & scholar Erika Murcia invites us to explore inquiries about living with greater purpose, presence & rootedness. EP 4: Sacred Winds, Returning to our Power of Shedding In this episode Erika, nicky & Cat are joined by dancer and creator of healing spaces for healthcare providers, Dr. Uzo Nwankpa, to discuss the power of winds, and how this element shows up in our bodies, our human relationships, and our ancestral relationships with land. LINKS Episode transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/164XnegLb2ZmaGKWdam-SQlEsY6p2iYyGtHQraHYc-Ak/edit?usp=sharing Our theme song of this podcast series is Sumergirse by @La.Clave.de.Sol Connect with us atweriseproduction[at]protonmail[dot]me, and follow us on Facebook & Instagram at weriseproduction, & on twitter at WeRise Producers. Connect with Erika Murcia at https://linktr.ee/Mujeryselva Connect with Dr. Uzo Nwankpa: http://www.wellnesspromoters.net/ & http://www.theuzo.com/ & on IG @UzoNwankpa & @wellness_promoters Podcast Art by @NicoleGervacio Mia Mingus blog post: https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/you-are-not-entitled-to-our-deaths-covid-abled-supremacy-interdependence/

7 JUN 2023 · Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: A Podcast about Indigenous Sovereignty & Collective Storytelling This creative collaboration with indigenous poet & scholar Erika Murcia invites us to explore inquiries about living with greater purpose, presence & rootedness. EP 3: Sacred Fires, Returning to our Sexual Creativity In this episode Erika, nicky & Cat are joined by healer, steward, and guardian Ember Phoenix to discuss the element of fire, and how its sacred force shows up in our communities, relationships, bodies, and more. LINKS Episode transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oV_r9DCxiCeXwVYvcnicifovp4HiQlNf6mZz-8Wkpsg/edit?usp=sharing Our theme song of this podcast series is Sumergirse by @La.Clave.de.Sol Connect with us atweriseproduction[at]protonmail[dot]me, and follow us on Facebook & Instagram at weriseproduction, & on twitter at WeRise Producers. Connect with Erika Murcia at https://linktr.ee/Mujeryselva Connect with Ember Phoenix @SoulThriveApothecary & @MelaninRising.Co. Podcast Art by @NicoleGervacio

23 MAY 2023 · From Queer & Well's Earth Day event: A panel with Christina Chase of National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) & Cat Brooks of Anti Police Terror Project (APTP), moderated by Layel Camargo When we think about communal care it is vital that we talk about the ways in which we take care of each other as queer and trans Black and brown folks. How do we show up for one another in a time when we are fighting to keep ourselves alive against capitalism & white supremacy? Join us for a panel discussion on what it looks like to build community infrastructures & relationships that will help sustain us and keep us moving forward. https://radicallyfitoakland.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=012e0c36293c0bfa211f38252&id=3d6c8ef678&e=e2dee741d1(she/her) is a superfat black and disabled creative problem solver who is passionate about equity, inclusion, and intersectional fat liberation. Christina is the Governance Chair of https://radicallyfitoakland.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=012e0c36293c0bfa211f38252&id=9a1e4b717e&e=e2dee741d1and brings a delightful enthusiasm to fat activist work. She holds a Master of Arts in Education, and is highly skilled in organizational learning, community building, and professional development training. In her free time Christina loves reading science fiction, playing board games, and slaying at karaoke. https://radicallyfitoakland.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=012e0c36293c0bfa211f38252&id=dee23e7ee8&e=e2dee741d1https://radicallyfitoakland.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=012e0c36293c0bfa211f38252&id=e9f020bd47&e=e2dee741d1https://radicallyfitoakland.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=012e0c36293c0bfa211f38252&id=51cd88ae20&e=e2dee741d1is host of Law & Disorder on KPFA and a long-time performer, organizer, and activist. She played a central role in the struggle for justice for Oscar Grant, and spent the last decade working with impacted communities and families to rapidly respond to police violence and radically transform the ways our communities are policed and incarcerated. She is the co-founder of the https://radicallyfitoakland.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=012e0c36293c0bfa211f38252&id=5aca79cb30&e=e2dee741d1 and the Executive Director of The Justice Teams Network. Cat was also the runner-up in Oakland’s 2018 mayoral election, facing incumbent Libby Schaaf. LINKS https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iU7EqdwCPR-fJTk01wadIq2eKl63rQlJfDA2vUJcgGA/edit?usp=sharing https://www.radicallyfitoakland.com/ https://www.geminimoonbotanicals.com/ Audio recording support from https://www.instagram.com/popperzsf/!

10 MAY 2023 · From Queer & Well's Earth Day event: A Conversation with Layel Camargo of Shelterwood Collective & Inés Ixierda of Sogorea Te Land Trust As queer Black and brown folks, what does it look like to be reconnected to land our ancestors stewarded before colonialism & white supremacy? What are the ways we can come back to this land and rebuild not only the land itself, but our relationships to it. How are organizations like Sogorea Te Land Trust & Shelterwood Collective creating spaces and avenues for us to take part in these practices? Join us for a discussion on the importance of our relationship to land and how to strengthen those bonds during a time of climate crisis and change. Layel Camargo (them/them) is Co-Creator & Cultural Strategy Lead of https://radicallyfitoakland.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=012e0c36293c0bfa211f38252&id=19076359a6&e=e2dee741d1. Layel is Yaqui and Mayo of the Sonoran Desert. As a transgender and gender non-conforming person, they’ve dedicated the last decade advancing climate justice through storytelling by creating campaigns like ‘Climate Woke’ with The Center For Cultural Power and supporting media projects like ‘The North Pole Show’ with Executive Producers Rosario Dawson and Movement Generation, Justice and Ecology Project. They are the producer and host of https://www.spreaker.com/show/did-we-go-too-far, a climate justice podcast. Most recently, Layel was named on the Grist 2020 Fixers List. They graduated from UC Santa Cruz with degrees in Feminist Studies and Legal Studies. Inés Ixierda is an interdisciplinary Mestizx artist and media maker with a background in youth work, decolonial nonprofit administration, and community organizing. She leads Sogorea Te Land Trust's art and media, coordinates projects, organizes events, and works on the land with plant medicines. https://radicallyfitoakland.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=012e0c36293c0bfa211f38252&id=22b17a0493&e=e2dee741d1 is an urban Indigenous women-led land trust based in the San Francisco Bay Area that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people. Sogorea Te’ Land Trust cultivates rematriation and calls on us all to heal and transform the legacies of colonization, genocide, and patriarchy and to do the work our ancestors and future generations are calling us to do. LINKS https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qm4HwyLBaKstZtsHPxhhJ2tQgFqdBwJSOMpOPj4sYaA/edit?usp=sharing https://www.radicallyfitoakland.com/ https://www.geminimoonbotanicals.com/ Audio recording support from https://www.instagram.com/popperzsf/!

27 APR 2023 · Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: A Podcast about Indigenous Sovereignty & Collective Storytelling This creative collaboration with indigenous poet & scholar Erika Murcia invites us to explore inquiries about living with greater purpose, presence & rootedness. In this episode we are reclaiming Earth Mother and the soils as part of who we are, what we're made of. Erika, nicky & Cat open into this longing to celebrate our bodies, illuminating body as decolonial prayer. LINKS Episode transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BDPSOgP_ruhR0AXCwS5ZNQzBqa_YnHbZ3nbRowbmQqw/edit?usp=sharing Sumergirse by La Clave de Sol: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2NvLWNh9sNxdDhnFCkAOQ1?si=ajZr2gDlTga52lQA09NzuA & on IG @la.clave.de.sol Connect with us at weriseproduction[at]protonmail[dot]me, and follow us on Facebook & Instagram at weriseproduction, & on twitter at WeRiseProducers. Connect with Erika Murcia at https://linktr.ee/Mujeryselva

5 APR 2023 · Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: A Podcast about Indigenous Sovereignty & Collective Storytelling This creative collaboration with indigenous poet & scholar Erika Murcia invites us to explore inquiries about living with greater purpose, presence & rootedness. Episode One: Sacred Waters, Returning to Our Natural Flow offers expansive praxis for a calling to calmness, to flowing slowly as we dive into the depths of our dialogue, and our ancestral soul's water baggage. This episode features Somos Semillas collaborators: Nicky & Cat of We Rise Production, and Erika of Sanadora Práctica Creativa. Through multimedia, digital and live productions, We Rise Production challenges audiencesto think critically about the systems that oppress us all, and uses art to inspire active solidarity.We vision for the future with empathy and intellectual rigor. ​We move with ancestors and future generations in mind, knowing that it is our responsibilityto be accountable to our communities. Creative collaboration and storytelling are our methodsfor disseminating knowledge. These offerings are intended to help us remember what colonization tries to erase and to inspire change, big and small, loud and subtle.We ride the cusp of what our ancestors have known and what remains unknown,what has been done in acts of bravery and brilliance, and what we are capable of creating. Catherine Duval Petru aka Cat (she/her) is a queer Jewish cultural producer born & raised in Huchiun, Ohlone land known to many as Oakland, California. Influenced by this land at the epicenter of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, and the survivor spirit of her paternal grandmother, Cat’s pulse beats for our freedom movements. A dancer & pollinator, Cat brings whimsy & focus to supporting artists, educators, organizations, activists & visionaries tell stories that nourish our imaginations for collective liberation. ​As co-founder & co-director of We Rise Production, Cat brings her experience as an audio producer (trained at KPFA Radio’s community-based First Voice Apprenticeship Program in Berkeley), as well as her knack for writing & passions for accessibility & facilitation, to all her collaborations. NICOLE GERVACIO (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Huchiun, occupied Ohlone territory also known as Oakland, California. Their parents and grandparents immigrated from Luzon and the Bisayan islands. Inspired by bodies and memory, her work explores identity, permanence versus impermanence, and is often driven by a fear of forgetting – a response to the colonization, silencing, and invisiblization of their communities as well as many others under U.S. imperialism. nicole aims to heal the cultural & historical amnesia we inherited from the ongoing violence of colonialism that harms people, beings, and land and has us facing multiple crises today. The responsibility and purpose of being an artist is a dance she navigates by dreaming and creating with ancestors and future generations in mind. nicole has been a collaborator of Liberation Spring since 2016 and is the co-founder and co-director the cultural production collective We Rise - both continue to deepen her work as an artist and activist. Nhttp://nicolegervacio.com Erika Murcia a Poet, and editor. Daughter of Mesoamerican diaspora. Co-author of the anthology Mamahood Sovereignty, a collection of essays on how womxn embody our Creativity. I created the Sanadora Práctica Creativa classroom honoring Native Mesoamerican teachings to support children of the global diaspora's healing journeys through Breastfeeding their Creative Praxis. As a human, I enjoy dancing, hugging trees, and drinking high-quality coffee. Now I walk my talk in Mesoamerica and wherever Earth Mother calls my heart. LINKS Episode transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M0o-ttGzuIIqQCmiSXj7l-U0e1sTIdKHCjuGr-Z2i1Y/edit?usp=sharing Sumergirse by La Clave de Sol: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2NvLWNh9sNxdDhnFCkAOQ1?si=ajZr2gDlTga52lQA09NzuA & on IG @la.clave.de.sol Connect with us at weriseproduction[at]protonmail[dot]me, and follow us on Facebook & Instagram at weriseproduction, & on twitter at WeRiseProducers. Connect with Erika Murcia at https://linktr.ee/Mujeryselva

21 MAR 2023 · Somos Semillas, We Are Seeds: A Podcast about Indigenous Sovereignty & Collective Storytelling This creative collaboration with indigenous poet & scholar Erika Murcia invites us to explore inquiries about living with greater purpose, presence & rootedness. How do we want to be seeds now? In Episode 0, Erika, nicky, & Cat are accompanied by writer & astrologer Karina Falcon to illuminate connections between the indigenous concept of zero with Spirit and the sacred element ether. 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐧? Karina Falcon is Mexican Transgenerational Consultant, Writer, Poet and Editor centered in the Sacred Feminine Wisdom. She has been practicing the way of the Medicine Wheel from ancestral medicine such as traditional mexican healing, astrology, Native American and Maya-Tolteca spirituality for about 18 years. In 2013 she founded Mujer Lunar [MoonWoman] https://www.mujerlunar.com/a portal for Spanish speaker women who wanted to explore their sacredness through Ancestral Feminine Wisdom and Visionary tools that help them be grounded while weaving their heart’s intent in form of projects and entrepreneurial deeds. In 2016, Karina co-founded Carpa Lunar [Moon Lodge] https://www.carpalunar.org/ a school in which indigenous teachings, familly constellations work and mindfulness is held in every course and training. Stay connected with Karina: https://www.mujerlunar.com/ & https://www.carpalunar.org/ & on IG @mujerlunarka & @sagradamujerlunar Our theme song is Sumergirse by La Clave de Sol. Visit http://www.weriseproduction.com/ to sign up for our newsletter and support our expansive labor! Muchas gracias, thank you for listening! Invite your comadres, aunties, relatives and extended communities to listen to our stories! LINKS Episode transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PV-iQB5HJ3H8CEY_S1S6SzhJjKTCLwS0vW5ISWgfF_Y/edit?usp=sharing Sumergirse by La Clave de Sol: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2NvLWNh9sNxdDhnFCkAOQ1?si=ajZr2gDlTga52lQA09NzuA & on IG @la.clave.de.sol Connect with us at weriseproduction[at]protonmail[dot]me, and follow us on Facebook & Instagram at weriseproduction, & on twitter at WeRiseProducers. Connect with Erika Murcia at https://linktr.ee/Mujeryselva