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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: Macarena Gómez-Barris refuses to abandon the hope for a future after extractivism
Description: Macarena Gómez-Barris is a writer and scholar with a focus on queer ecologies and decolonial theory and praxis. She is author of The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (2017) and Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Américas (2018), among several other texts. She is working on a new book, At the Sea’s Edge that reflects on the space between land and sea, as well as other creative writing projects.
In this conversation she talks about solidarity. Solidarity in and among the Global South, against empire and extraction, and for a world to come. Ther...