DreamRadically Podcast
Season Two hosts from left: Dana Mahmoud, Kelli Pyron Alvarez, Christine Thomas, aurelius francisco, and Youssef Kamel.
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DreamRadically Podcast highlights community leaders, organizers, educators, artists, students, and more to imagine a future of liberation and what is necessary in the present to create that future. This podcast brings voices of people who are on the ground doing the work for structural change in our communities and provides lessons for us all to embark on the path of liberation. Join us as we DreamRadically!
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Take a look at Season 1 of the Pod!
Episode 10: Organizing is Love
In this episode, aurelius francisco is joined by BLM OKC Executive Director and longtime community organizer Rev. T. Sheri Dickerson to discuss community organizing as an act of radical love.
Episode 9: Immigrant Justice: Beyond the ‘Other’
In this episode, aurelius francisco is joined by community organizer and strategist Cynthia Garcia to discuss the movement for immigrant justice.
Episode 8: On Whiteness: Lessons From an Aspiring Ally
In this episode, aurelius francisco is joined by Student Affairs practitioner Erin Simpson to dive into whiteness and what it means to be an aspiring ally.
Episode 7: Towards Black Liberation, One Sexist at a Time
In this episode, aurelius francisco is joined by Dr. Rev. Eric Gill & FLM’s own Tevin McDaniel to share their honest reflections and learnings on Black male patriarchy and the need for Black men to unpack, unlearn and reengage with our work understanding that patriarchy will never serve Black liberation but only upholds white supremacy.
Episode 6: Punitive to Restorative Justice
In this episode, aurelius francisco is joined by Malika Cox, a restorative justice practitioner to discuss the practice and how it can shift the culture of punishment within our society.
Episode 5: Let’s Talk About Abolition
In this episode, aurelius francisco is joined by Dr. Sabina Vaught to discuss all things prison industrial complex abolition. Dr. Vaught and aurelius get into what abolition really means in the heat of Freedom Summer 2020 in which the demand to Defund and Abolish the Police sparked public consciousness questioning the role of policing in our lives, leading to broader questions of the carceral state. Dr. Vaught works through these complex issues as only an educator can.
Episode 4: Authentic Masculinity
In this episode, aurelius francisco is joined by Miles Kelly and Dr. Rodney Bates to discuss authentic masculinity – problematizing toxic or normative performances of masculinity rooted in patriarchal systems that harm communities. This episode is broken up into two parts, spanning topics from hip-hop to Black feminism.
Episode 3: Organizing in the Deep Red
In this episode, aurelius francisco talks with Tasneem Al-Michael to discuss the ins and outs of political organizing in hyper-conservative states like Oklahoma and the role of young people in community organizing.
Episode 2: Religious Left
In this episode, FLM’s own Youssef Kamel joins aurelius francisco with guest Rev. Lori Walke to discuss the many ways religion has been used as a tool of oppression, and how the teachings of God more closely align with a progressive worldview that values human dignity.
Episode 1: The Dream
The genesis of DreamRadically Podcast. Host aurelius francisco is joined with his co-founders Ali Carter and Tevin McDaniel to discuss the radical dream that is Foundation for Liberating Minds. The founders discuss what brought them to found this org and the dreams that they are working to bring to reality through FLM.