Lifelines

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 NotesReferences: Gaza Mutual Aid Solidarity NetworkLebanon Solidarity CollectiveAmara Abdal FigueroaVieques, Puerto RicoNerium OleanderSong credits: Laura Mvula - Remedy

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 NotesReferences: The Land in Our Bones by Layla K. FeghaliLebanon Solidarity CollectiveDr. Pierre Malychef - Cartography of Darkness“Anosh Adur”: A History of AmmoniaSong credits: Laura Mvula - RemedyInterbreathing - Jessika Khazrik

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 NotesLi Falasteen Herbal GuideThe Land in Our Bones by Layla K. FeghaliGaza Mutual Aid SolidarityMayan Midwives Herbal ClinicReferences:Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy HarjoPoverty of Philosophy - Immortal TechniqueSong credit: Laura Mvula - Remedy