When you pursue collective liberation, you will lose people, places, and things. In this episode, host Carolyn Collado (they/them) discusses their journey of loss in pursuit of collective liberation, deconditioning from systemic oppression, and reflects on collective traumas like the covid 19 pandemic and the aftermath of the lockdown as society abandoned collective care, the racial uprisings of 2020 and the abandoning of Black liberation movements once it stopped trending, witnessing genocide in Palestine, and the grief in witnessing support of Kamala Harris in the face of her direct complicity with the genocide. All of these events have led to a lot of losses in relationships with others like family, friends, and lovers, with how we navigate capitalism, and how we navigate our society, and we don't talk about the grief of these changes and losses enough.

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

01:17 - capitalism punishes us if we don’t conform to social norms

05:04 - queerness and losing relationships with family and peers

07:24 - race, respectability, and losing people, places, and things

09:10 - racism in Alcoholics Anonymous and struggles to recovering from systemic oppression

15:19 - 2020, covid 19, and collective loss

21:48 - coming into gender and sexual identity in 2020

27:12 - neurodivergence and disability learning in 2020

31:08 covid19 pandemic and collective care loss

40:41 - grieving witnessing a year of mass unaliving 45:29 - grieving the crunch of capitalism

47:43 - the grief of people supporting Kamala Harris in the face of her complicity with genocide

50:05 - dating and vetting based on collective grief and values

51:02 - questions for reflection and calls for community building