This week on STPT, Danielle Holland and Damithia Nieves deal with the emotional grief of recent and historical state sanctioned violence against children. When processing one’s complicity within oppressive systems, it is imperative to pause, rest, and have snacks on standby.

Then, recovering academic and unapologetic nerd, Anjali Nath Upadhyay (she/they) joins the show. Anjali is academically trained as a political scientist, philosopher, and educator. They are the founder of the adult, grassroots education program, Liberation Spring, and host of the decolonial feminist podcast, Feral Visions. Her long standing curiosities focus on learning and teaching as practices of liberation.

Upadhyay and hosts dive into conversation guided by Liberation Spring’s “pulling weeds and planting seeds.” The weeds must go: cut our losses, send out divine “fuck you’s” to soul crushing systems, and decolonize our traumatized minds. It’s time to plant: delicious seeds of (re)learning, healing relations with curiosity, and dancing on the graves of grind culture.

This week, we plant our garden together. With mutual-aid, collective love and labor, and endless imagination, oh how our garden will grow.