Birth justice is an intersectional movement. We need housing for all, abolition, decolonization, land defence, harm reduction, and more! In this final episode, Simone and Tahia discuss birth as the belly button of community work and invite everyone to join. Website: www.nestingdoulacollective.com Instagram: @nesting.doula.collective Facebook: Nesti…

The Nesting Doula Collective was hosted by Kwakiutl First Nation to train 20 Indigenous birth workers who are trying to bring birthing back to their territories. Years of settler-colonialism displaced pregnant and labouring people to birth without their loved ones. Doulas, Midwives, and elders are hoping to build confidence and empower life givers …

Birthworkers Tahia Ahmed and Simone Blais from the Nesting Doula Collective discuss the importance of organizing outside “the system”. They unpack birth justice and how the collective came to be. As well as the need for mutual-aid and accountability to the community in all our social justice work. Website: www.nestingdoulacollective.com Instagram: …

This 3-part mini-series is brought to you by Tahia Ahmed + Simone Blais and will be airing weekly on Thursdays between September 14 - 28, 2022. Mini-series Breakdown: Episode 1 - The Power of Autonomy Episode 2 - Health Autonomy for All Episode 3 - Birth Work at the Intersections Stay connected + support the Nesting Doula Collective: Website: www.n…

As the Circle prepares to host its biannual All My Relations Gathering virtually later this spring, we are pleased to share with you a series of conversations that took place at and after All My Relations 2019. The episode opens with reflections from the Circle’s CEO Kris Archie that set the stage for a conversation between Tim Fox and Sara Lyons, …

Season 2 of CKX Questions continues with a conversation with Renelyn Quinicot — sharing reflections on movement(s), breath, and decolonizing wellness spaces. Please visit questions.ckx.org/02-05 for full show notes for this episode.

Season 2 of CKX Questions continues with a conversation with Iman — sharing reflections on mutual aid, grassroots organizing and community care . What does mutual aid organizing look like in the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic? Please visit questions.ckx.org/02-04 for full show notes for this episode.…

Season 2 of CKX Questions continues with a conversation with Robyn Beckett - a public health professional involved in organizing with the Decent Work and Health Network, Fight for $15 & Fairness and Climate Justice Toronto. Please visit questions.ckx.org/02-03 for full show notes for this episode.

Season 2 of CKX Questions continues with a conversation with social justice practitioner Michele Kumi Baer — sharing her reflections on the importance of accountability in social change work, confronting the nonprofit industrial complex and the urgency of just transitions and transformations. Our conversation was recorded in late February - while s…

Season 2 of CKX Questions kicks off with a conversation with interdisciplinary artist and facilitator Rup Sidu — sharing his reflections on compassion, creativity and change in uncertain times. For more information about Rup and his work, please visit ruploops.com. Show Notes MONK! Thelonious, Pannonica, and the Friendship Behind a Musical Revoluti…

In this final episode for Season 1 of CKX Questions we turn the microphone back upon CKX, and look on the year that was and what it means to be exploring the question “how do we embody the just futures we strive for?” through the work and through this podcast. I’m joined in conversation by CKX’s Managing Director Lee Rose and CKX’s Director of Stra…

In this episode of CKX Questions we sit down for a conversation with Edgar Villanueva - member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, Chair of the Board of Directors of Native Americans in Philanthropy, Vice President of Programs and Advocacy at the Schott Foundation for Public Education and author of Decolonizing Wealth. Links from our Conversatio…

In this episode of CKX Questions we sit down for a conversation with Maya Menezes - Senior Manager at The Leap (where she is the co-host of the Change Everything podcast), an organizer with No One Is Illegal Toronto and an organizer of PowerShift. And it is the way that the latter summarized her work that resonated most for us - “Maya is a climate,…

In this episode of CKX Questions we continue our conversation with Alexa Conradi. Alexa's book "Les angles morts: Perspectives sur le Québec actuel" has recently been translated into English by Catherine Brown ("Fear, Love, and Liberation in Contemporary Quebec"). Learn more about the book here: https://btlbooks.com/book/fear-love-and-liberation-in…

In this episode of CKX Questions we sit down with author and feminist activist Alexa Conradi, whose book "Les angles morts: Perspectives sur le Québec actuel" has recently been translated into English by Catherine Brown ("Fear, Love, and Liberation in Contemporary Quebec"). Learn more about the book here: https://btlbooks.com/book/fear-love-and-lib…

Welcome back to CKX Questions, Season 1. In this episode, we present the second half of our conversation with Aslam Bulbulia on "Building Decolonial Solidarity." Learn more about Aslam's work here: https://about.me/abulbulia

Welcome to the first episode of CKX Questions, Season 1. In this episode, we present the first half of our conversation with Aslam Bulbulia on "Building Decolonial Solidarity." Learn more about Aslam's work here: https://about.me/abulbulia

Community Knowledge Exchange (CKX) is a social change agency committed to leading with love, decolonizing our practices and recentering from the margins. In this promo episode, learn more about our approach and our programming for the year ahead.

Hosted by Lee Rose, Kelsey Spitz and Alexander Dirksen of Community Knowledge Exchange (CKX). www.ckx.org/questions