Decolonize Yourself
Decolonize Yourself is a podcast on how to decolonize your mind, body, spirit, and relationships. If you seek to create oppression-free spaces in yourself, in your spheres of influence, and cultivate oppression-free spaces with others, then this podcast is for you.
Episodes
6 episodes
E5: Decolonizing Social Work with Cárol Mejía
In this episode, Cárol Mejía, MSW, helps us to reorient our minds and spirits by evoking the powerful metaphor of water and by reviving our sense of wonder. The work of decolonizing social work not only includes "dream[ing] up new processes alo...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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38:24
E4: Decolonizing Public Health Research with Abaki Beck
Aditi Mayer, a sustainable fashion and labor rights activist, reminds us that "a return to Indigenous wisdom is the first step towards decolonization" (Green Dreamer podcast, Episode 253). We get a sense of what this "return to Indigenous wisdo...
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Episode 4
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37:40
E3: Decolonizing Dance and Yoga with Chitra Vairavan
In this episode, dancer, choreographer, and artist Chitra Vairavan speaks with SooJin about how her experience with racism and caste discrimination as a Tamil, non-Brahmin artist spurred her to crea...
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Episode 3
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40:40
E2: Decolonizing the Mind with Alexs Pate
In this episode, Alexs Pate, writer, author of Amistad, founder of the Innocent Classroom, and CEO of Innocent Technologies, joins SooJin to share his journey of removing the "guilts" - the ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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43:53
E1: Decolonizing the Mind with SooJin Pate
In the inaugural episode of Decolonize Yourself, host Dr. SooJin Pate shares her journey of decolonization: what prompted it, what motivated her to commit to decolonization, and some of the initial steps she took to decolonize her mind. She dis...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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