ANTONIA ESTELA PÉREZ on Uncovering Plant-Human Intimacy /305

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🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Breathing in the joy and lessons of the plant life surrounding us, Ayana and guest Antonia Estela Pérez share an enriching conversation on the power and magic of coming to know the world around us. Antonia dives into the tension that exists in living in and caring for lands that have been violently colonized, calling listeners to understand plants both in the ways that colonization has affected their legacies and within anti-colonial structures that suggest there are other ways to engage with...

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0:47.0	Hello and welcome to For the Wild Podcast. I'm Iyana Young. Today we are speaking with Antonia Estella
0:54.8	Perez. The communities that are often most in in connection to the plants, whether or not they
1:04.7	realize it or not, are communities of color. Antonia Estella Perez grows medicine, gardens,
1:13.4	and networks that work to interrupt anthropocentric, individualistic,
1:18.1	separatist socialization, and bring folks into a deeper awareness of their ecological
1:23.3	family and belonging. They are first gen born and raised on Lenape territory in New York City,
1:29.6	and descended from the Mapuchi people of Chile. They have cultivated a deeper relationship with
1:34.2	their plant relatives since a very young age, and their passion for open source pedagogy
1:39.5	found at the inclusive healing, learning, and collaborative space urban kuda, along with its medicinal
1:45.4	product line. Well, Antonia, thank you so much for being with us today and having this
1:56.5	grounding conversation that we're about to dive into. I'm really looking forward to exploring
2:01.6	with you and learning more about your work. Thank you so much Iyana. It's an honor to be here.
2:08.3	Awesome. So to start off, I want to ask for listeners who are unfamiliar with your work with
2:16.0	urban kuda. If you could speak a bit on your offerings and mission, and maybe as part of that,
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