For The Wild
For The Wild is a slow media organization dedicated to land-based protection, co-liberation, and intersectional storytelling. We are rooted in a paradigm shift away from human supremacy, endless growth, and consumerism. Our work highlights impactful stories and deeply-felt meaning making as balms for these times.
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ILLUMINATING WORLDVIEWS on The Art That Reclaims Us S1:4
ILLUMINATING WORLDVIEWS on The Art That Reclaims Us S1:4In this resounding end to our Illuminating Worldviews series, Ayana speaks with artists Dr. Aubyn O’Grady and Jackie Olson about collective art and creative processe...
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ILLUMINATING WORLDVIEWS on AI and Courting the Otherwise S1:3
ILLUMINATING WORLDVIEWS on AI and Courting the Otherwise S1:3How might we face the end? Continuing our Illuminating Worldviews series, Vanessa Andreotti and Ayana delve into questions of what it means to live well during ...
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ILLUMINATING WORLDVIEWS on Land, Language, and Love S1:2
Continuing our Illuminating Worldviews series, we hear from X̱ʼunei Lance Twitchell in conversation with Guná Jensen exploring the vital work of Tlingít language revitalization. Together, they reflect on the deep emotional resonance of...
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ILLUMINATING WORLDVIEWS on Emotional Competency S1:1
Over the past months, For The Wild has journeyed to the Yukon in partnership with Illuminating Worldviews. Illuminating Worldviews is a space for examining the worldviews in which we find ourselves and to learn how they actively shape the mater...
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JOANNA MACY on the World as Lover and Self⌠HOMAGE⌡ /371
On July 19th, Joanna Macy, beloved teacher and past guest, passed away peacefully at home in Berkeley, California. In honor of her legacy, we are rebroadcasting her episode “The World as Lover and Self,” originally released in 2015 when the sho...
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ANDREA GIBSON on the Blessings of the Wound [HOMAGE] /370
We are rebroadcasting our extended conversation with Andrea Gibson as we honor their death on July 14th, 2025. The conversation, originally aired In September of 2023, was entitled “The Blessings of the Wound.” For so many of us wh...
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Stepping Into Wilder Form, 2025
Hey For The Wild community, it’s Ayana. It’s been a minute. Life has been moving—fast, deep, and full. I’ve grown, and with that growth, a clearer sense of what I want to share with you has come into focus.After nearly a decade ...
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Earthly Reads: Prentis Hemphill on What It Takes to Heal 1:6
In the sixth and final episode of our Earthly Reads series, we are honored to welcome back Prentis Hemphill, author of What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World.
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Earthly Reads: Alexis Pauline Gumbs on Survival Is a Promise S1:5
In the fifth episode of our Earthly Reads series, we dive into a conversation with the renowned Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. This episode offers a preview of the live Earthly R...
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Earthly Reads: Céline Semaan on A Woman is a School S1:4
Join us for the fourth episode of our new Earthly Reads series. In this episode, we are joined by the incredible Céline Semaan, founder of Slow Factory and author of A Woman is a School. Sharing stories from her childhood i...
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Earthly Reads: Marcia Bjornerud on Turning to Stone S1:3
Join us with Marcia Bjornerud for a brilliant conversation on a life dedicated to the physical Earth. This conversation is the third episode for our new Earthly Reads series. Together, Ayana and Marcia discuss Marcia’s new book, Tur...
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Earthly Reads: Tricia Hersey on WE WILL REST! The Art of Escape S1:2
Continuing the first season of our Earthly Reads series, we are thrilled to share a new conversation with beloved guest Tricia Hersey. Sharing sweet balm from her new book WE WILL REST! The Art of Escape, Tricia reminds us ...
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Earthly Reads: adrienne maree brown on Loving Corrections S1:1
We are excited to announce the first season of our Earthly Reads series featuring conversations with some of our favorite authors including adrienne maree brown, Marcia Bjornerud, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Prentis Hemphill Tricia Hersey, and Céline...
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The Year Ahead (2025)
For The Wild is sending our deepest wishes for abundance and slowness as we enter 2025! Now especially, the future of independent media and critical, thought provoking content seems uncertain. In times like these, the For ...
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SLOW STUDY ANNOUNCEMENT - We Will Dance With Mountains: Vunja! with Bayo Akomolafe
For The Wild is thrilled to share that we’re launching our second Slow Study with Bayo Akomolafe and The Emergence Network. These slow studies are a unique collaboration between The Emergence Network and For The Wild focused on making the We...
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FOR THE WILD on Slow Media
We’re calling in slow media.Feeling into the need for slow, emotionally grounded, and resonant content, we’ll be pausing weekly episodes to fully embody a slow media approach. The past ten years of interviews have shown us how media shou...
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DORI MIDNIGHT on Spinning Webs of Support [ENCORE]
This week we are rebroadcasting our episode with Dori Midnight, originally aired in October 2022.“With a prayer to imagine beyond the current structures and systems, and kind of weave ourselves into, and be wra...
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KIMBERLY ANN JOHNSON on Pleasure as Pathway [ENCORE]
This week we are rebroadcasting our episode with Kimberly Ann Johnson originally aired in April 2023. Feeling into the state of our nervous systems and our relationships with each other and ourselves, this episo...
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SOPHIE STRAND on Myths as Maps [ENCORE]
This week we are rebroadcasting our episode with Sophie Strand which originally aired in November 2022. In this winding and lucid conversation, guest Sophie Strand invites us to investigate our relationality, to embrace ro...
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MAYA KHOSLA on What the Forest Holds [ENCORE]
This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Maya Khosla which originally aired in November 2022.What can the forest teach us of grief, of joy, of humanity? This week, poet and scientist Maya Khosla invites listeners into the fore...
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ROSS REID How We Talk About What Matters /369
Inviting listeners into his deep connection with the forest and the natural world, Ross Reid brings an inspirational energy and commitment to this interview. Connecting around their shared love for old growth and wild places, Ross and Ayana ...
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JAROD K. ANDERSON on Reclaiming Limits [ENCORE]
This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Jarod K Anderson, originally aired in January 2023. Bringing us into his world of nature, awe, and magical poetry, guest Jarod K. Anderson reminds us that our human journey is wort...
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THREE BLACK MEN on the World as Ritual /368
This week we are thrilled to bring you a special conversation from a dear friend of the podcast, Bayo Akomolafe. Recorded while in Ghana for the Three Black Men Tour, this conversation features the voices of Bayo Akomolafe, Resmaa Menakem, O...
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Episode 368
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ADRIENNE MAREE BROWN on Pleasure as Birthright [ENCORE] /367
This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with adrienne maree brown which originally aired in April 2019.adrienne maree brown begins this week’s episode by asking, “If we were not ashamed of our pleasure, what would become ...
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Episode 367
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ERIK ASSADOURIAN on Dreams of the Long Future /366
Introducing listeners to his way of worship and connection to the Earth, this week’s guest Erik Assadourian offers insight into the religious framing and practical applications of the Gaian way. Erik shares his spiritual path of recognizing ...
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