Radio Boise, KRBX

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.

This week Dora and Tess have an honest and deep conversation about abolition with abolitionists Ben and A.

Suggested Readings:

• The New Prisoner by Martin Sostrie
• Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon
• Prison Writings: My Life is My Sun Dance by Leonard Peltier
• Anarchism and the Black Revolution by Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin
• Authoritarian Leftist: Kill the Cop in Your Head by Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin
• Carceral Capitalism by Jacky Wang
• We Do This Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
• The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
• “Afropessimism” by Frank B. Wilderson III
• Leonard Peltier: https://freeleonard.org/case/
• Daniel Baker: https://theintercept.com/2021/10/16/daniel-baker-anarchist-capitol-riot/
• Loren Reed and BLM folx: https://wwwaljazeera.com/amp/news/2021/1/19/holdindigenous-man-faces-10-years-for-facebook-comments-during-b

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.