Ckx Questions

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: Nesting Doula Collective Donate: https://www.nestingdoulacollective.com/contribute

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 to give birth locally. Website: www.nestingdoulacollective.com Instagram: @nesting.doula.collective Facebook: Nesting Doula Collective Donate: https://www.nestingdoulacollective.com/contribute

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: @nesting.doula.collective Facebook: Nesting Doula Collective Donate: https://www.nestingdoulacollective.com/contribute

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.nestingdoulacollective.com Instagram: @nesting.doula.collective Facebook: Nesting Doula Collective Donate: https://www.nestingdoulacollective.com/contribute

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, who speak to their time serving as co-chairs of The Circle’s Governing Circle.  Learn More About the Circle Follow The Circle on Twitter

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 mutual aid organizer 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 so much has shifted in the ensuing months, the themes of the dialogue have only taken on new urgency and significance as we mobilize to realize just futures together. Please visit questions.ckx.org/02-02 for full show notes for this episode. 

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 Revolution - Youssef Daoudi Emergent Strategy - adrienne maree brown The work of Arthur Flowers The intro and outro music for CKX Questions is the song “Good Vibes” from Broken Parts’ self-titled album.

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 Strategic Learning and Practice, Kelsey Spitz. Links from our Conversation:  Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown How to Survive the End of the World by Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown (episode: "It's a process") Nothing Missing Leadership with Diane Obed and Jim Drescher

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 Conversation:  Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance Take Action (Decolonizing Wealth Website) Native Americans in Philanthropy NDN Collective

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, refugee and migrant justice organizer, professional fundraiser and full-time hell raiser.”  Links from our conversation:  Change Everything Podcast Migrant Rights Network (Short Film) No One is Illegal Toronto (Facebook and Twitter) The intro and outro music for CKX Questions is the song "Good Vibes" by Broken Parts - check out the full album and support their work here. 

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-contemporary-quebec

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-liberation-in-contemporary-quebec

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