My Name Is Beauty – Jake Skeets

Emergence Magazine Podcast

Emergence Magazine

Spirituality, Science, Religion & Spirituality, Natural Sciences, Society & Culture

4.7 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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We begin Chapter Three with a story that explores language as a technology capable of transforming our lived realities. As a Native scholar and poet, Jake Skeets considers the necessary interrogation of colonial naming and narratives, and how the Indigenous application of writing as a technology can reshape our world as we move into an unknown future. Emergence Magazine, Vol 3: Living with the Unknown explores what living in an apocalyptic reality looks like through four themes: Initiation, Ashes, Roots, and Futures. Every two months we’ll release a new chapter online. Experience “Chapter Three: Roots.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Emergence Magazine's podcast. I'm Emanuel Vaughn Lee, executive editor of Emergence
0:08.1	Magazine, located on the unseated ancestral lands of the Coast Mewalk people of present-day
0:14.7	Marin County. Each week, we feature a new interview, narrated essay, or story, exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality.
0:31.6	This month, we're sharing a collection of stories that reach for what is essential
0:37.8	as we struggle to find our footing in a groundless reality.
0:42.9	Welcome to Roots, Chapter 3 of Living with the Unknown.
0:48.9	We begin this exploration with Denei poet Jake Skeets,
0:53.9	as he seeks ways of reshaping our world
0:57.0	through indigenous language and story, applying native writing technologies to the necessary
1:03.0	interrogation of colonial naming and narratives. One understands the universe.
1:15.6	English commands my tongue like it commands soldiers to bombs, police to triggers,
1:26.6	and poets to poems.
1:28.3	But one is unlike the other.
1:32.3	My poems are unlike bombs and triggers.
1:37.3	At least I hope.
1:40.3	Every day one reconciles the truth that spoken words carry with them the capacity for displacement, death, and erasure.
1:52.0	It's widely believed that words are not violent, that words are somehow two-dimensional, inorganic, flat against the blank piece of paper.
2:05.6	However, one's language carries with it life and energy that move through space and time as if a cosmic force,
2:15.6	a matter of physics and not social construction.
2:20.3	Is language inherent, organic, a natural force, much like gravity?
2:28.3	The answer, I believe, could become the beacon toward a future, a new world, where one is more cognizant of the
2:37.0	weight carried every time one speaks, sets words to page, or keys language into the datosphere.
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