Chai Chats Podcast

Malek and Parneet speak about building capacity for joy, play and peace. Each shares how they navigated neglect and violence, figuring out how to survive from infancy and the work and commitment in showing up for their little ones inside, now as adults in the process of parenting. Support us:https://www.patreon.com/ChaiChats

We share space with the amazing Sami, a sister-kin-bestie of Parneet. The three of us speak about spiritual work, transformative justice and the shadow that creeps in while doing the work, as well as surviving hardship, violence and oppression while moving steadfast towards love and peace.

We share space with the amazing Sami, a sister-kin-bestie of Parneet. The three of us speak about spiritual work, transformative justice and the shadow that creeps in while doing the work, as well as surviving hardship, violence and oppression while moving steadfast towards love and peace.

Malek and Parneet speak about purchasing land to find safer space, navigating financial choices, figuring out community living and relationships, and the journey to find and hold our own space. They speak about how to move through the various dimensions of an existence free from violence: intrapersonal, interpersonal, communal, systemic, and the cosmic. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/ChaiChats

Malek and Parneet speak about purchasing land to find safer space, navigating financial choices, figuring out community living and relationships, and the journey to find and hold our own space. They speak about how to move through the various dimensions of an existence free from violence: intrapersonal, interpersonal, communal, systemic, and the cosmic.

Malek shares with Parneet a post she recently wrote about the housing insecurity and domestic violence she is currently experiencing and has lived in all her life (tinyurl.com/malekspost) and together, they speak about the spiritual and political work they both do as Brown femmes to live inside of and to fight the violent systems of racialized capitalism and white supremacy. This conversation does the difficult, necessary work of connecting the systems we struggle against and navigate with the daily, granular work of standing in the power we do have as adults who choose to live consciously and with integrity. Illustration by Yuko Shimizu Support us: https://www.patreon.com/ChaiChats

Malek and Parneet speak about white supremacy and colonization as the riots in Minneapolis and throughout the US and Canada take place in justice of George Floyd, and other unarmed and innocent black folks getting killed. We decided to meet each other exactly where we're at and make space for what showed up. This is a conversation that is deeply rooted in a courageous, compassionate call for non-Black people of colour like ourselves to do what we can and to do better. What you'll hear is a passionately, painfully real conversation on how we're showing up for ourselves, for the people we're in relationship with and for the movement to respect/honour/celebrate Black life. We go deep on decolonizing ourselves and divesting from the psychosis that is white supremacy. We look at white supremacy through the lens of psychosis, as an illness of the mindbdysoul's disconnection from reality, and how to navigate and survive these deadly forces that pull us towards fear, hatred and disembodiment. Support us: https://www

After a very long break, Malek and Parneet return to chai chats. The first part is spent discuss physical illness and health related practices as Parneet continues to navigate chronic health issues and Malek begins figuring out body needs with new health information. After, they both discuss the future of chai chats and the struggle in navigating differences in capacity, ability, commitment and how to show up to friendship when physical illness, mental illness, boundaries and needs don't always align.

Parneet and Malek speak about Vipassana in the midst of winter, how it feels moving towards liberation while unlearning abusive mind/body patterns and moving towards instinctive practices through messages that tell us otherwise. Content warning: Physical abuse, childhood abuse

For this episode, we are happy to listen in on the recording of an incredible event put on by SistersInMotion and Climate Justice Montreal called There's Something in the Water: A Book Launch & Community Discussion on Environmental Racism & Land Dispossession. For a full description of the event and soon to come video, visit this link here: https://www.facebook.com/events/775896309415465/ As always, if you like what we do and want to support us, visit our patreon: www.patreon.com/ChaiChats Opening by: 7:20 Sedalia Fazio (Kahnawá:ke) With: 16:32 Author Dr. Ingrid Waldron (Nova Scotia) 53:10 Vanessa Gray (Aawmjiwnaang) 1:13:50 Will Prosper (Montreal Nord) 1:39:45 Ellen Gabriel (Kanehsatà:ke) Panel Moderated by: 2:14:00 Bianca Mugyenyi (Montreal) 3:05:50 Q&A Sound recording by Sarah Shin Wong (https://sarahshin.studio/)

Big questions on the podcast this week as Malek, Dona and Parneet think about how to work and communicate effectively both as individuals and with others. Some topics include urgency vs. importance, pacing & sustainability, and the value of getting a third opinion. We also talk a lot about Malek & Dona's shared vision for SistersInMotion -- to find about more about the project visit sistersinmotionmtl.com If you enjoyed this podcast and want to give back, please consider contributing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChaiChats

This is a very vulnerable episode in which we each talk about our relationships as first-and-second-generation migrants to the places our families are from. We are so used to hearing about these countries from other (read: white) people's perspectives but what about those of us living in diaspora? How do remember and reconcile; relate and rebuild? If you enjoyed this podcast and want to give back, please consider contributing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChaiChats

We got together the day after our live show with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarinsha to debrief and decompress. We of course talk again about her incredible book Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice and we get into some of our own access needs in how we communicate with one another plus some of the BTS process that went into the show. If you enjoyed this podcast and want to give back, please consider contributing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChaiChats

Welcome to our second annual live show with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarinsha! First you'll hear Leah reading from their latest book Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice and afterwards we all sit down together to discuss some of the themes in the book from ableism to creating care webs & collective access to femme leadership & hyper-accountability to all the time some of us are spending in bed. This podcast has been edited for length but the entire show was livestreamed on our FB page - check it out at facebook.com/ChaiChats/videos/998427567021726 Special thanks to all of the people and orgs who helped make this event happen (find them listed at facebook.com/events/289281308463575) and shout out to the folks doing this work on the ground like The DisAbled Women's Network of Canada and The Avalanche on CKUT 90.3FM. If you enjoyed this podcast and want to give back, please consider contributing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChaiChats

This conversation is inspired by Vivek Shraya's latest book I'm Afraid Of Men - we all agree it's incredible and encourage everyone to go read it. We talk about everything from our religious & cultural upbringings ("if bro-bro is lusting that ain't on me") to what our current understandings of femininity & masculinity are in service to. Plus we revisit Dona & Parneet's epic convo from the Our Earth Our Bodies episode! Malek actually interviewed Vivek about her book - find their convo at https://www.mcgilldaily.com/2018/11/vivek-shraya-im-coming-for-everyone-including-me. If you enjoyed this podcast and want to give back, please consider contributing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChaiChats

This episode is a doozy. Its Parneet, Dona, with special guests Angie, Taha and later on SJ. We speak about everything from diva cups, to our real names, to remembering/not remembering certain names, video games, preparing duck for dinner, what to do with single socks, welding and whatnot. Image from Tumblr/Diva Cup Shots

Its just Dona and Parneet this time. We start with a blessing verse over breakfast and then speak about building the ability to freestyle, be creative, dance and stay creative. We discuss the difficulty in keeping creative momentum going and how space, family and social environment influences our internal experience of figuring out what we desire and going for it! We also speak about getting sexually harassed outside of a show by two white men and celebrate the ways we protected ourselves and our energy. We also speak about how difficult it is to negotiate our energy, space and boundaries as women and what it means to connect to instinct in this unpredictable misogynistic world that has forced women in many ways to unlearn/mistrust our instincts. We invite you to join us and yell NOOOO if it feels good to do so while putting your hand out in a STOP movement. May we all be safe and supported in all we do. If you enjoyed this podcast and want to give back, please contribute to our patreon: www.patreon.com/C

This chai chats is Malek and Parneet. We speak about friendship and relationships, connection to each other and reaching out in times of sickness/unwellness and how vulnerable and difficult this is. We talk about how relationship building is part of the movement, how we need to learn to connect and stay in relation with each other with political movements. The ripple effect of how we relate to our own emotions affects how we relate interpersonally which affects how we relate systemically.

We share chocolate mousse cake on Dona’s couch and Malek speaks about how to live a life as a single person, how to settle down into the present experience rather than live as if waiting for something else to happen. We speak about the struggles in doing things for oneself, and share our unique experiences in moving towards self-love/self-hood. We speak about how our internal experience of aloneness can be so different based on the perspective we take on, whether we are judging/pathologizing that loneliness/aloneness and the quality of it experientially based on our pasts and histories. We speak about freedom and the pursuit of freedom being so unique to each of us based on our history, circumstances and personality.

We have a delicious breakfast together and speak about the important of speaking from our own experience, our own truths and how challenging it is to not centre other people in our narratives. How to navigate relationships with integrity? How do we participate in hurting each other and ourselves by not standing in our truth? We speak about our roles and responsibilities in each others lives in community, what jobs have we consciously and unconsciously taken on in trying to heal/help one another? We discuss the idea of what collective conflict resolution infrastructure looks like. We agree we don’t know anything as we try to figure this all out. Content Warning: We speak about blood a lot as a metaphor for how we spill our messiness on each other. Intro track: Lizzo Scuze Me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjILCNcHevY If you enjoy our chats and would like to give back, support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChaiChats