“We need to let our comrades be as brave as they wanna be, as brave as they can, and sometimes braver than us, and hopefully they inspire us.” Mark k. Tilsen is an Oglala Lakota Poet Educator from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He...
“The way that I organize is deeply offensive to anyone who’s really got a vested interest in a power dynamic being at play…” Community organizer Sierra Ramírez joins the show to talk about carving worlds, infighting, fear, and the...
Nietzsche wrote that “One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.” Today, carla and Eleanor dive into the starbursting chaos, weaving through multitudes: discomfort, thriving, learning, boundaries and...
“We need to think about how we speak to people who have lost all agency, lost all hope and are living in a nihilistic existence – that’s the sleeping giant that’s gonna change things.” Eugene Puryear is a longtime journalist and...
Hey all! Happy May Day! Just a quick message about some rad episodes to check out, and some updates on upcoming Silver Threads shows.
“Love is older than doubt, so curiosity is older than doubt. Creation comes from curiosity.” Hari Alluri joins the show to share poetic musings on everything from the concept of home to masculinity, weaving his own poetry between and...
“Right now radicalism feels like a locked, very heavily loaded, hidden treasure chest.” After 15 years of a fully nomadic lifeway, Korean diasporic experimentalist Jimmy Betts is stationary. And while the parked isolation of now being an...
“There is so much need for this storytelling. I want to be the bridge between these Kashmiri stories and the world.” Ifat Gazia was born and raised in the most militarized place on earth, Kashmir. She grew up listening to stories of...
“The Black Panther Party allowed me to have a more developed view on what freedom might look like.” Anarchist Panther Elder Ashanti Alston joins the show to talk about rifts and icons, of reading beyond the page and into life, of deep...
“Mutual aid is actually the work of building the world that we want to live in.” Natacia is an organizer with a broad and varied base of experience that’s taken her across the globe and across the spectrum of charity, solidarity...