Before American democracy was written into law, there were other ways of living on this land.In this five-minute episode of The Revolution Resolution, Anna Malaika Tubbs reflects on Indigenous worldviews that honored balance, community, and gender beyond rigid binaries—worlds where women led, two-spirit people were revered, and children were treated as sacred.These ways of being weren’t erased because they were weak, but because they revealed something dangerous to a patriarchal system built on hierarchy: other, more humane systems had already existed.As we imagine the future of democracy, this episode invites us to remember—and learn from—the wisdom that came long before the one we inherited.Subscribe and share if you’re ready to remember what was never truly lost.

Every day, whether we realize it or not, we’re making a choice.

In this episode, Anna Malaika Tubbs brings the season’s ideas together to name a difficult but liberating truth: the system we live in has long been mistaken for democracy—but democracy, as an ideal, has never been fully realized here.

Rather than assigning blame, this conversation invites clarity. It explores how inherited rules continue when left unquestioned, and how choosing differently—through courage, responsibility, and care—moves us closer to the democracy we’ve always been promised but never given.

This episode isn’t about guilt.
It’s about agency.
And the quiet power of choosing what comes next.

Liberation isn’t something we reach alone.
We find our way back to ourselves more fully when someone chooses to walk beside us.

In this episode, Anna Malaika Tubbs reflects on what it means to accompany one another with humility, presence, and care—without erasing difference or centering ourselves in someone else’s story. Drawing from her mother’s example, she explores allyship as a relational practice rooted in listening, responsibility, and trust.

This conversation invites us to consider how our choices—especially when we hold more space or safety—can widen the path for others, and how shared liberation frees everyone from the limits of a system built on hierarchy and fear.

Before anyone told you who you had to be, you already carried a whole world inside you.

In this episode, Anna Malaika Tubbs explores who we were before the script—before expectations, fear, and hierarchy taught us to shrink, soften, harden, or disappear. Every child enters the world carrying something new, something full of possibility. And yet, most of us were taught to trade that authenticity for survival.

This conversation invites remembrance: of your original wholeness, your brilliance, and the parts of you that were never meant to be erased. Healing, Anna reminds us, is not about becoming someone new—but about restoring who you were all along.

Some of the deepest lessons we carry were never spoken aloud.
They were absorbed in silence.

In this episode, Anna Malaika Tubbs explores how the system reaches us not through laws or textbooks, but through everyday moments—what’s praised, what’s punished, what’s ignored, and what’s left unsaid. Long before we can question it, we learn who we’re supposed to be by watching how the world responds to us.

By understanding how these unspoken lessons shape identity, confidence, and belonging, we begin to loosen their hold—and create space for something truer to take root.

The system we live inside didn’t emerge naturally.
It began as a story—and that story was powerful enough to become a Constitution, a government, and an entire way of life.

In this episode, Anna Malaika Tubbs traces how a specific worldview held by the founding fathers became law, how that law shaped institutions, and how those institutions solidified into what we now call “the system.” This includes the intentional exclusion of women, Indigenous people, enslaved Africans, and immigrants—especially those who were not white or Protestant—from full humanity and belonging.

By understanding how a story became enforceable reality, we reclaim something essential: the knowledge that systems are not destiny. They are narratives that can be revised.

The script we’ve all been asked to live by didn’t come from nature, destiny, or accident.

It was written—by specific men, at a specific moment in history, trying to protect their own power.

In this episode, Anna Malaika Tubbs traces the origins of the system back to the founding of the United States, exploring how fear, insecurity, and a desire to maintain hierarchy shaped the rules we still live with today. This isn’t about villainizing the past—it’s about understanding it clearly enough to loosen its grip on the present.

Because once you see that the system was built from fear, it stops looking inevitable—and starts looking changeable.

So much of what we accept as “just the way things are” is actually a script—one written long before we arrived, and one we were never meant to question.

In this episode, Anna Malaika Tubbs introduces the idea of the script: the invisible story that tells us who to be, who to admire, who should lead, and who should comply. When we learn to see the system as a script rather than truth, its fragility becomes clear—and so does our power to imagine something new.

Because anything written can be rewritten.

This conversation invites you to notice the lines you were handed, question their authority, and begin considering what it might mean to author your own life.