02. tending the revolution

I recorded this episode the day after the bombings in Rafah, a night that has stayed with me like so many of the nights we have witnessed over the last seven months.

On this episode, I share my story of being a public health worker deployed to the COVID-19 pandemic response in 2020 and 2021 – like so many thousands of public health and health care workers.

Tune in to hear about why I hate the word “burnout” and what I use instead. You'll hear about recovery, the return of a creative spark, and my dream for what comes next – including a little sneak peek of this summer's community of practice, THE PEOPLE’S HEALTH. Enrollment opens on June 20!

Links

• Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler
• THE PEOPLE’S HEALTH: Join the waitlist
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What is a practice of intimacy?

• how do we define practice, and intimacy? what are our intimate practices?
• how is practice emergent? how is intimacy modulated by power?

Links

• Stephanie Tillman, Feminist Midwife: “vulnerability, safety, love, risk, nakedness, and tenderness.”
• Mariame Kaba: “Safety is not something that I can possess in a permanent, personal way. Safety isn’t a thing: it’s a social relation.” (h/t Ayana Zaire Cotton)
• Sonya Renee Taylor in conversation with Prentis Hemphill
• adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy
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• Follow us on insta: @shivanimb and @tulsistrategies
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Welcome to INTIMATE PRACTICE, a podcast about power, trauma, relational skills, and intersectional praxis. On this show, we'll explore the questions that are the foundation for equity and justice work:

• How do we steward power well, when power has been wielded against us?
• How do we mend what has been torn by conflict or trauma, and how do we repair what needs to be restored?
• How do we imagine and create what could be, instead?

Subscribe to join us in the exploration.

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