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Featuring chats about community care and mobilization, rest as resistance, growing connections in cyberspace, surviving and thriving during a global pandemic and more, The Indigenous Brilliance Podcast centers Black and Indigenous solidarity building, intersectional learning and decolonizing the arts and literature scene on xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlilwəta’Ɂɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) First Nations territories, colonially known as Vancouver, BC. Music by Edzi'u and transcription by Lexi Mellish Mingo. Transcription at roommagazine.com https://roommagazine.com/podcast/

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Episode 2: Futurism & Cyber Gardening

July 23, 2022 • Indigenous Brilliance • Season 2 • Episode 2

In Episode 2: Futurism and Cyber Gardening, co-hosts Karmella Benedito De Barros and Lexi Mellish Mingo chat with Whitney French of Hush Harbour Press about the concept of cyber gardening and creating connections and community both online and offline. Taking inspiration from Black and Indigenous folks across Turtle Island—including the always relevant Octavia Butler—Karmella, Lexi, and Whitney also discuss futurisms for QTBIPOC and how online spaces can help create new futures.

Building off the topics of seed saving, growth and gardening as tools and metaphor, we hope this episode serves as an invitation for Black and Indigenous folks to dream and imagine what it might mean to ground and create new futures in online spaces.

Check out season 2 episode 2! Transcription at https://roommagazine.com/podcast/