#seasonsix — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #seasonsix, aggregated by home.social.
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6.10: The Dilemma of Utopian Joy: Ariel & Christina Discuss
While solarpunks often choose to stand in direct opposition to selfishness, greed, and systemic problems, the choice to be kind and to prioritize joy, sympathy, and understanding is also central to solarpunk in fiction and in real life. As Christina and Ariel discuss, while acts of kindness occur in all sorts of fictions, even cyberpunk and dystopian fictions, acts of kindness in solarpunk stories tend to be transformative, especially for the person or group on the receiving end. They then explore the sacrifices that it takes (and who has to make them) in order to maintain peace, prosperity, and joy in society by two famous solarpunk–adjacent stories set in utopias, “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K. LeGuin and “The Ones Who Stay and Fight” by N.K. Jemisin. Christina is not sure if she’s on board for either of these stories, but she agrees with the premise that now is the time not to walk away in disillusionment, but to fight hard for human rights, justice, and fairness in all of our different political systems and societies.
#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #episode #SeasonSix #utopia #joy #UtopianJoy #kindness #compassion #dilemma #TrolleyProblem #ParadoxOfTolerance
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6.9: There's More to Explore: Diving Deeper Into Fully Automated! a Solarpunk RPG, With Andy Gross
Due to personal issues, Christina couldn't take part in the original interview with Andy Gross about the solarpunk role playing game Fully Automated! that made up S6E2. But she had questions. In this episode, she had a chance to ask them. Before you grab your dice and download the game (for free!) at https://fullyautomatedrpg.com/ have a listen!
https://youtu.be/rVbt259kvoY?si=X8pIWaprFex_XOqS
#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #SolarpunkPodcast #Episode #seasonSix @FullyAutomatedRPG #TTRPG #RPG #postScarcity #roleplaying #tabletoproleplaying #imagination #imaginativeexpansion #games
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6.8: Fighting the Far Right's Attack on Public Education with Dr Sam Myovitch
Across the USA, the far right candidates have been getting themselves elected to local and county school boards. Their goals include financially choking public schools by diverting government funds toward charter schools, often religious in orientation. Tune in to hear what Dr Sam Myovich, retired history teacher turned school board candidate campaign field coordinator, has to say about what’s at stake, the far right’s deployment of fascist tactics in their fight to destroy public education, and what we ordinary citizens can do to fight back against them, save our schools, and protect our very democracy itself.
#solarpunk #episodes #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #SeasonSix #PublicEducation #Schools #SchoolBoards #FarRightAgenda #AltRight #Fascism #Policy #Democracy #Education
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6.7: Restorative Justice & Reconciliation With Rev Nora Jacob
Join us for a conversation with Rev. Nora Jacob on a better way to dispense justice than to subject offenders to a strictly brutal prison experience. A way that, by recognizing that hurt people hurt people, aims to empower, not just victims, but also offenders, to heal. This isn’t just showing mercy to incarcerated people, it significantly lowers the chances that they’ll end up back in prison after their release. That's a win for us all.
#SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #solarpunk #podcast #RestorativeJustice #JusticeSystem #AmericanJusticeSystem #Reconciliation #Episode #SeasonSix #EcoJustice #Justice #Repair #Reintegration #AmericanPrisonSystem #Education #BuildingRElationships #CommunityCare #Empathy
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6.6: Emotional Literacy with Dr Tiffany Millacci
In this week’s episode, Ariel quizzes guest Dr Tiffany Millacci about emotional literacy. What is this relatively new phrase? How can being emotionally literate help us to navigate difficult conversations, awkward interactions, or even generally just having relationships in the first place? Isn’t all this talk of emotions just a different way for the self-help industry to get us to buy stuff?
Join us for a fascinating conversation about a complex topic - we barely skim the surface! But never fear, Dr Millacci has your back; listen in for some good places to start learning more.
Check out our blog for links!
Disclaimer: We’re coming from a white, western viewpoint and we recognize the limitations and strictures of that - even within the same cultures and societies (heck, within the same families) emotional expression can vary wildly according to personality, gender, neurodivergence, whatever your social location. This interview necessarily takes broad strokes to begin a conversation about how to better be in community with each other, and it is our hope that we can continue to showcase how this can vary, taking steps towards a solarpunk future where people can disagree - even on important topics like politics and religion - without violence or relationship rupture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzD821HHgj8
#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #Podcast #episode #SeasonSix #EmotionalLiteracy #EmotionalIntelligence #Community #CommunityBuilding #emotion #emotions #affect #AffectTheory #arguments #relationships #HowToBeInRelationship #psychology #agreements #disagreements #YouTube #video #interview
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6.5: The Challenges and Joy of Fostering Rescue Animals
If you’re a no-kill animal shelter or an animal rescue group and you’ve got more animals than kennels to keep them in, or you’ve got dogs or cats with health or behavioral problems that need sorting out to render the animals adoptable, what are you going to do? You’re going to call an animal fosterer like Rena Curtis to take that animal in, de-traumatize it, teach it some manners, and get its health problems sorted out so it can go a-courtin’ its forever people. Tune in as we discuss this hard, sometimes frightening, occasionally heart-wrenching, but ultimately satisfying work, why there are so many more dogs and cats than homes to put them in, and what we can do to change that situation.
#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #episode #SeasonSix #pets #cats #dogs #fostering #FosterFail #RescueDogs #RescueCats #AdoptDontShop