Radio Boise, KRBX

Catch “Collective Ideation” on Wednesday 7/19 from 3pm-4pm! We’ll be talking about the second half of The Parable of the Sower. We talk about the many prophet visions of Octavia Butler and the parallels between the book and where we are currently situated (empathy, climate change, social and political violence, food insecurity, and more).

Tess and Dora talk about what discernment is in our daily lives and how to work with it to make better decisions.

Tess and Dora play the songs that our guests from this past year chose as their favorites.

Join us as we explore these themes!

Join us for this week's episode with Dr. Christina Ivey. She is a rhetoric and culture scholar that focuses on issues of gender, difference, and identity. Essentially, they found a way to turn their neurodivergent special topics into a career that allows them to infodump to anyone willing to listen. She is also a Pisces who stereotypically cries at least once a day.

We are so excited to share this recording of a Storyfort event with our listeners! We were lucky enough to have captured the stories of these farmworker and immigration activists during Storyfort.

Moderator: Dora from Collective Ideation

Storytellers:

• Irene Ruiz
• Alejandra Hernandez
• Mari Vega
• Bobby Gaytan
• Rosseli Guerrero

Note: We apologize for having to edit this event into our one hour show. We edited out the celebratory wooing and clapping between speakers and the Q&A. We did keep the stories whole.

In this episode we speak with a community member about the movement to Stop Cop City in Atlanta, GA and how Cop City impacts cities all over the nation. Everything is interconnected folx.

Please see our Instagram page for additional resources from the show.

This week Dora and Tess have an honest and deep conversation about the political unrest in Iran.

Please join us this week for an engaging conversation with 2C Mutual Aid.

You can find them @mutualaid2C on Instagram.

Join us as Tess and Dora chat with Melanie Fillmore about their critical research and work around data and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP). We chat about a grounded practice of writing daily, Tommy Orange's brilliant novel There, There, and re-claiming and re-connecting with identity.

Melanie Fillmore (they/them/she/her) is an urban mixed Hunkpapa, Lakota of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North and South Dakota. As a seeker of beloved community, their work is an iterative process to understand the impacts of imperialism, settler-colonialism, and violence against marginalized communities in data. They envision a future of community led practices guiding policy research rooted in intersectional ancestral wisdom and lived experience. They hold a master’s degree in political science, a graduate certificate in user experience research, and are currently a 3nd year PhD candidate in The School of Public Service in the Public Policy and Administration Program. Their dissertation work studies collaborative governance on Idaho’s missing and murdered Indigenous persons policy.

Tess and Dora discuss what Transformative Justice means and how to apply it in your daily lives. This conversation is important in understanding some of the theory behind political activist movements today.

In today's episode, Tess and Dora go back to the beginning. We sit down with each other to discuss how the show is progressing and intentionally build our space that focuses on community. We also talk about the conference we went to last week and what we learned about our national community.

Dora and Tess talk about culture, folklore, and how the storytellers are culture keepers. We delve into the folkloric aspects of dia de los muertos and stories that tie us back to our cultural heritage.

Dora and Tess have a conversation with Grace Lovera about Horror films and society. Grace is a writer, artist, and VHS Mixtape maker. Graduating with a BFA in Narrative Arts from Boise State University in May of 2021, she has been active in the local literary community since 2014, working with Storyfort from 2015 - 2019, and collaborating with others along the way. Grace currently maintains a horror fashion blog that she started in 2020 called Horror Fashion Review. She breaks down female character arcs in horror films based on outfit choices while weaving in non-fiction elements. She also started her own personal production label for all of her creative VHS mixtapes called Bubble Gum Video. She is currently working on a Horror Fashion Review coffee table book and finishing up a new zine taking on the Wedding Horror subgenre that will be released November 12th. Grace will be doing a showcase for the blog along with hosting a “Final Girl” costume contest at this years Scaryfort even

In this week's episode, Dora and Tess speak with guest, Bibiana Ortiz. They talk about being able to listen to oneself, releasing avoidance, and what they are creating space for.

Bibana is a a reader, sibling, and community member. They recently graduated from Boise State with degrees in Ethnic Studies (shoutout to the Dept of Ethnic Studies!) and Sociology with minors in Korean & Gender. Currently they’re re-reading the Xenogenesis Series by Octavia E. Butler and Work Will Not Love You by Sarah Jaffe. They’ve worked as a facilitator, public speaker, and consultant. Bibiana believes writing and reading every day is essential for life.

Outro song is "Where I'm From" by Raven Lanae (ft. Mareba)

Tess and Dora speak to Anders Tobiason, an academic librarian from Boise State University. They discuss censorship and the banning of books and information in today's society.