Rising against growing wealth inequality and resource consolidation, guest Morgan Curtis asks how we might, rather, shape our world in reciprocity, mutual aid, and intentional community. This week, Ayana and Morgan dive deep into the need for repair, healing, and acknowledgement as we face the historical roots of modern inequity. Morgan centers her work by listening deeply to the call for radical change. This heartfelt and expansive conversation calls for us to unlearn the ways racial capitalism has taught us wealth should be passed down. Perhaps the world that we are longing for is one where abundance is not wealth, but rather right relationship - with land, with ancestry, and with each other.
Guided by the call to transmute the legacy of her colonizing and enslaving ancestors, Morgan is dedicated to working with her fellow people with wealth and class privilege towards redistribution, atonement, and repair. As a facilitator, money coach, organizer and ritualist, she works to catalyze the healing of relationships with self, family, ancestors, community, and the land, enabling the surrender of power and control so that resources can flow towards racial, environmental, and economic justice. She is in the process of redistributing 100% of her inherited wealth and 50% of her income to primarily Black- and Indigenous-led organizing and land projects. Morgan is a resident of Canticle Farm, a multi-racial, inter-faith, cross-class, intergenerational intentional community in Lisjan Ohlone territory (Oakland, CA). She is currently a graduate student at Harvard Divinity School, where she is studying the spiritual dimension of the reparations work required of white people.
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Music by Andy Tallent, Handmade Moments, and Ela Spalding. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points.
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DIANA FRIEDRICH on The Beauty and Promise of Rewilding/ 339
DR. BÁYÒ AKÓMOLÁFÉ on Ontological Mutiny /338
ABENA OFFEH-GYIMAH on Sacred Seed and Soil /337
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SAMANTHA ZIPPORAH on The Womb Continuum /336
ISMAIL LOURIDO ALI on Building Informed Drug Culture /335
The Edges in the Middle, III: Báyò Akómoláfé and Indy Johar
AMY WESTERVELT on Uncovering Extraction /334
ANN ARMBRECHT on Sacredness in Supply Chains /333
RACHEL CARGLE on a Renaissance of Our Own /332
KIMBERLY ANN JOHNSON on Pleasure as Pathway /331
The Edges in the Middle, II: Báyò Akómoláfé and V
JENNY ODELL on the Attention Economy [ENCORE] /330
john a. powell on Institutions of Othering and Radical Belonging [ENCORE] /329
The Edges in the Middle, I: Báyò Akómoláfé and john a. powell
TYSON YUNKAPORTA on Unbranding Our Mind [ENCORE] /328
GABES TORRES on Journeying Together /326
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