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please visit for the wild dot world slash donate. Hello and welcome to For the Wild. I'm Iama Young. Today we are speaking with

Sylvia Linsed. If you take a point in history and retell the story of it, time is not linear, time is circular.

And so suddenly in retelling that story, you're re-examining or re-weaving a wholly other non-patriarchal possibility,

suddenly that story becomes alive now too, and the history itself can shift and affect us now.

When the Earth is actually speaking through a story,

then justice and Earth's laws are also speaking through that story.

Sylvia Linsstead is a writer and certified wildlife tracker from Northern California and Cecil Coast Miwok territory.

She currently lives in Devon, England.

Her work, both fiction and non-fiction, is rooted in myth, ecology, ancient history,

feminism, and bioregionalism,

and is devoted to broadening our human stories to include the

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