In the fast-paced move­ment of today’s media, its easy to become entan­gled in nar­ra­tives of extinc­tion, loss, a lack of time, and a tremen­dous amount of mis­an­thropy. How­ev­er, when we pause to look with­in the ecosys­tems around us we can find exam­ples of life push­ing through the most dif­fi­cult of cir­cum­stances. Our more than human kin con­tin­ues in defi­ance, refus­ing to cease their own lin­eage under the cur­rent mod­ern par­a­digm of exploita­tion and des­e­cra­tion. In this weeks episode, we look into a thriv­ing life par­a­digm, which places a rev­er­ences for life at the cen­ter of all action, with guest Woman Stands Shin­ing (Pat McCabe). In this expan­sive con­ver­sa­tion, Woman Stands Shin­ing coa­lesces top­ics of Indige­nous sov­er­eign­ty, land back, how gen­der and con­sent behave in dif­fer­ent par­a­digms, and the vital impor­tance of mov­ing out of moder­ni­ty’s obses­sion with intel­lec­tu­al­ism as the pri­ma­ry way of know­ing, into a pow­er­ful call to choose a time­less par­a­digm that is life-affirm­ing for us all.

Woman Stands Shin­ing (Pat McCabe) is a Din grand­moth­er, activist, artist, and inter­na­tion­al speak­er. Her pri­ma­ry work is propos­ing to the Five-Fin­gered-Ones, that par­a­digm is a choice, and point­ing to Indige­nous cul­tures as exam­ples that we have evi­dence that human beings can par­tic­i­pate in par­a­digms in which we can become beings capa­ble of caus­ing all life to thrive.