Romantic love is a weapon of capitalism w/ comrades
The Red Nation Podcast
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🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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TRN Podcast host Jen Marley talks with comrades Levi Harter and another comrade about the colonial origins of "romance", how "love" has been commodified, and the necessity of reclaiming love as a part of revolutionary praxis.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi comrades and relatives. It's Jen here. I'm super excited to share the most recent Red Nation podcast episode with you. It's all about love. The colonial love that is. This episode is extra near and dear to my heart, considering all the hate that we've been getting for the work that we do. I want to remind y'all that your subscriptions and donations allow us to continue to do the work that we do. I want to remind y'all that your subscriptions and donations allow us to continue |
| 0:23.3 | to do the work that we do, not just the media work, not just the podcasting, but our community |
| 0:28.8 | work and on the groundwork as well. All of your support is deeply appreciated. So please consider |
| 0:35.3 | becoming a patron or sending a donation. This episode is available |
| 0:41.3 | in full to patrons only, or you can watch the full episode on YouTube. Again, thank you so much, |
| 0:47.5 | comrades and relatives. No. Hello, hello, comrades and relatives, welcome back to the Red Nation podcast. |
| 1:25.1 | I'm Jen Marley. |
| 1:26.8 | Today we are joined by two very special guests whom I love |
| 1:30.9 | very much to talk about love. We've got Levi Harder, Oglala Lakota, awesome, indigenous educator, |
| 1:40.5 | and we've also got our comrade Myra. She has rolled with us for many of our delegations. |
| 1:47.9 | She's a wonderful translator and it's always teaching me so much. |
| 1:51.9 | So would you too like to introduce yourselves? |
| 1:54.4 | Hi, everybody. |
| 1:56.1 | My name is Maida. |
| 1:57.1 | I am originally born in Panama from Mexico. I have a tribalized persona from Mexico, |
| 2:05.9 | and I feel very much honored to be here, as always, with comrades and very much in love. |
| 2:13.1 | Hamitaki Api, Levi Harder, Machiaapi. Hello, relatives. Hi, Jan. Hey, Mara. My name is Levi Harder. As Jen said, I'm |
| 2:20.9 | O'Gala Lakota. I grew up north of St. Louis on the Illinois side of the river, small rural hometown, |
| 2:28.4 | back and forth between there and Hot Springs and Pine Ridge and Buffalo Gap and South Dakota growing up, |
| 2:35.2 | where my dad's from during summertime. And yeah, currently I'm living in Seattle, Washington. I'm an educator |
| 2:41.7 | within Seattle Public School districts. Yeah, and I'm super honored. Thank you for having me out, |
| 2:48.3 | and I'm really looking forward to this. |
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