Listen on Spotify / Apple / Anchor / scroll down for our podcast player! At the peak of 19th-century hat culture, an ounce of feathers was worth more than an ounce of gold. This extravagant trend, however, was putting once-flourishing bird populations in peril. Enter the bird lady: Harriet Hemenway, a controversial Boston socialite whoContinue reading “Episode 37 – Bird Lady and Lady Bird”
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Episode 23 – Fire – Indigenous Controlled Burning and Incarcerated Firefighters
Listen on Spotify / Apple / Anchor / scroll down for our podcast player! In the final installment of our Elements series, we’re dispelling the myth that there is no such thing as good fire. Olivia tells us about the lost indigenous practice of controlled burning, what happens when colonizers ignore indigenous knowledge, and theContinue reading “Episode 23 – Fire – Indigenous Controlled Burning and Incarcerated Firefighters”
World Is Burning 