Kailea Frederick & Kate Weiner: Inspiring cultural shifts through heart-centered storytelling (ep300)
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Kailea Frederick and Kate Weiner join us in this episode to discuss:
the significance of reorienting toward matriarchy in ecology and economy;
the power of a print publication that prioritizes beauty and embodiment;
how sensitivity can be an immense source of strength; and more.
Musical feature: Trust The Sun by Luna Bec (IG: @lunabecmusic, Spotify: Luna Bec).
“That dance class really opened my perspective. I realized that embodiment, dance, movement, and art were just as valid entry points into speaking about climate change as science.”
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Here’s Kailea on how Loam publishes as praxis:
“Being a climate justice storyteller is so much about moving away from extractive storytelling, and that is definitely a core value that we work with at Loam. There’s a lot of consent that we practice when putting pieces together with our contributors—we always make sure that our contributors, if they’re writing or speaking about a story [that is not their own personal story], that the reader has a really clear, contextualized understanding about who [the contributor] is in relationship to the people that they’re covering. There has to be a real embodied place that the contributor is speaking or writing from.
If [one of our contributors] tells a story that’s touching on their own life, we oftentimes ask that contributor to provide a deeper context into who they are as a person and why it is that they do the work they do. We want to be able to connect with our readers from a space that feels not just aligned in terms of values but can leave an impact.
We’re not a normal style of journalism because journalism sometimes can feel cold and removed. We’re trying to create heart-centered ways of connecting to people around large topics—like the climate crisis, issues related to social justice, or topics related to the ways that we choose to self-identify.”
About Kate Weiner
Kate Weiner is the Creative Director of Loam as well as a 2015 Brower Youth Award winner, a 2017 recipient of the John Goddard Prize for Environmental Conservancy, and a 2018 Spiritual Ecology Fellow. Kate was a beneficiary of the Boulder Arts Commission Professional Development Grant and is currently organizing an Artist-Activist-in-Residency at BPL.
About Kailea Frederick
Kailea Frederick is a mother of Tahltan, Kaska and Black American ancestry. She is a graduate of the International Youth Initiative Program and a Spiritual Ecology and Boards & Commissions Leadership Fellow. She has served twice as a youth delegate to the United Nations Climate Change conferences. Currently, Kailea is the Editor for Loam and the Vice - Chair of the Petaluma Climate Action Commission. You can reach her through EarthIsOhana.com.
