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This weekâs podcast is entitled "Disruptive Parent: Peacemaking While Parenting" we interviewed Pastor Angela Lee. Angela is a friend and co-laborer with us in our racial reconciliation workshops. She is passionate about preaching and peacemaking. Angela talks with us about the challenges of pastoring while raising two beautiful girls under 3 and a bonus daughter. Angela is amazing and you will really enjoy this episode!
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Episode 11: Disruptive Pedagogy: Good teachers are competent but great teachers are disruptive.
âNo matter what a child comes with you need to be in that place to help them learn.â Karyn Farrar-Perkins
Does it matter if a child is white or black or yellow or brown? Absolutely! This week Karyn Farrar-Perkins joins us to talk about the importance of resisting âcolorblind educationâ and instead empowering children to embrace their identity in order to greatly impact all of our childrenâs learning. She also speaks on how we should examine what we learned in school in order to rid what we pass on to future generations. Specifically, she talks about how racial inferiority and superiority are shaped and reinforced at every level of the educational system.
This is a long episode but I strongly encourage you to listen until the end, every word is a nugget!
Karynâs book recommendations:
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
So You Want tTo Talk About Race by Ijeoma Olua
Iâm Still Here by Austin Channing-BrownYou can reach Karyn at [email protected].
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Episode 10: Disruptive Educator
In this weekâs episode we speak with the lovely Jasmine Ward, an educator that teaches in the Los Angeles County Jail System. She talks to us about how she disrupts the peace by courageously voicing how the injustice of many of our systems have impacted the lives of the incarcerated while emphasizing the dignity and the humanity that is often disregarded when thinking about the incarcerated. Our favorite quote by Jasmine is âDisruptive peacemaking is intentionally working toward systems that provide equality and equity for all.â We know that you will be inspired and informed listening to this episode.Book recommendations:
Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Davis
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Rethinking Incarceration by Dominique DuBois Gilliard -
Episode 9: Disruptive Public Servant.
We are super excited to share this week's interview with the amazing Eileen Kim, J.D. You will truly enjoy this weekâs podcast. Eileen drops so many nuggets. She talks about what it means to be a prison abolitionist, how she found her voice through activism, and how the movie Hotel Rwanda inspired her to to fight injustice. Just listening to the clip will entice you to listen to the entire episode. Here is one of Eileenâs quotes: "Engaging in activism is about discovering self-love. It is about doing the work for yourself and examining your internal life as much as it is about getting proximate to other people and speaking up on their behalf."You can reach Eileen on instagram: @fireflowerabolitionist
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âGod was always sending a disruptive message to all of our human expectation and always messing with the status quo of the order of things.â
Mayra Macedo-Nolan
This weekâs interview is with Prophetic Pastoral Activist, Mayra Macedo-Nolan. She discusses how her roots and her spiritual formation led her to passionately lead a life in community with all by being a disruptive pastor. Mayra is an amazing example of the importance of doing the peacemaking work both internally and externally. Our favorite quote from Mayra is âWe preach about reconciliation between God and us and reconciliation between me and you... But if weâre not having real conversation, then itâs empty, doesnât go anywhere and stays in a utopian ideal of us all loving one another because we believe in Jesus.â This episode is a must listen!
Contact info: twitter: @mayranolan
Email: mayramacedonolan.com
Book Recs:
Let Justice Roll Down: John Perkins
I Bring the Voices of My People by Chanequa Walker-Barnes
Too Heavy A Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength by Chanequa Walker-Barnes -
âThe reason why I had been able to be so successful in white culture is because I had assimilated so much and that was tremendously costly to me. People always talk about the cost of not assimilating but they never discuss the cost of assimilating.â
This week on Disruptive Peacemakers we talk with Karen GonzĂĄlez, a speaker, writer, and immigrant advocate who works as Director of Human Resources for World Relief. An immigrant from Guatemala, GonzĂĄlez studied at Fuller Theological Seminary. During the conversation she unpacks this amazing quote from her book: âI am a Christian, but I have not ceased to be Latina, Guatemalan, an immigrant, and a woman.â Our conversation with Karen was incredibly deep, personal and informative. She challenges us to re-think how we view immigration and theology.
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âWe often build our politics around fear⊠a fear of vanishing or a fear of bad things happening⊠but what would you imagine if you can imagine if it could actually work?â
Andrea âAndiâ Smith
This week we are so honored and humbled to talk to Andrea âAndiâ Smith, one of the co-founders of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence and the author of Unreconciled: From Racial Reconciliation to Racial Justice in Christian Evangelism. Her work and activism have centered on genocide and acts of violence against Native women. We engage in a conversation on how to challenge what has been the churchâs traditional stance on social justice while also being mindful of the perspectives we hold that drive our activism. Our favorite quote by Andi was âwe are set up to be complicit in each otherâs oppression.â We know that you will enjoy this amazing conversation with Andi! -
Episode 5: Disruptive Asian: Shedding the skin of the Model Minority
âI can hear my motherâs voice⊠âë°±ìžë€ì íëêČ ë§ë€ì§ ë§â "Donât make the white people mad.â
Susie GamezThis week we talked with the amazing Pastor Susie Gamez. Susie covers a lot of topics! She talks about the myth of the perpetual foreigner, the lack of Asian American representation in films, tokenism, and standards of beauty. She also talks about the day she had to choose between her Asian identity and the kids that she grew up with. Finally, Susie explains how true peacemaking is about creating change!
Recommendations:
Books:
The Color of Compromise by Jamar Tisby (both book and video)
Becoming by Brenda Salter-McNeilPodcasts:
Someday is Here podcast
Truthsâ Table
Hope and Hard PillsContact info:
Website - https://www.susiegamez.com/
Instagram - susiekgamez -
Episode 4: Disruptive Community: Creating spaces that empower and affirm the dignity of everyone.
âI canât separate my womanness from my blacknessâ
Kafi Carrasco
This week we delve into "disruptive community" with our dear friend Kafi Carrasco. She talks about growing up in a community that empowered and affirmed her dignity and its importance in creating a positive future for the next generations. She also discusses that creating discomfort is very much a part of peacemaking.
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Episode 3: Disruptive Potluck: What are you bringing to the table?
âAsians are not the virus and Black people are not the villains. Our issue is not with each other itâs with the system of white supremacy."
Dr. Joyce del RosarioThis week we talk about âdisruptive potluckâ with our guest Dr. Joyce Del Rosario! As violence against Asian Americans continues to grow into 2021, Dr. Joyce talks about the upsurge in hatred, racism and violence against the Asian American community. She explains how Asian Americans are often used as a wedge in the black white racial binary through the use of the model minority myth and through invisibility. This binary causes people not to see how Asian Americans show up for justice for black folks. Finally, she talks about âpotluck theologyâ and the importance for everyone to show up fully at the âtableâ.
Book Recommendations:Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, by Cathy Park Hong
Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction To The Women Of The Torah And The Throne, by Wilda Gafney
PBS Documentary: Asian Americans - produced by Renee Tajima-Peña https://www.pbs.org/show/asian-americans/
Inheritance Magazine (https://www.inheritancemag.com/)
The Model Minority Myth and the Wedge Between Black and White America [Updated], by Kenji https://www.inheritancemag.com/stories/the-model-minority-myth-and-the-wedge-between-black-and-white-america
Reclaim Magazine by the Asian American Christian Collaborative (https://www.asianamericanchristiancollaborative.com/articles)Contact info:
Website: https://www.joycedelrosario.com/
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This week we talked about disruptive feedback with Dr. Andrea Humphrey. She shares how she learned that God isnât Americanâ and also talks about her experience as a lead pastor, founder and owner of two businesses, and working in the field of diversity, equity and inclusion.
#disruptivepeacemakers
#disruptivefeedback
#raiseyourvoiceBook recommendations:
âMy Vanishing Country: A Memoir,â Bakari Sellers
âBetween The Word and Me,â Ta-Nehesi Coates
âIâm Still Here,â Austin Channing Brown
âI Bring the Voice of My People,â Chanequa Walker-BarnesContact info:
Website: https://www.drdrehumphrey.com/
Email: [email protected]
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Guest: Jeanelle Austin
âPeacemaking is the process of liberating the most oppressed within your community...â Jeanelle Austin
This week we talk about disruptive advocacy with Jeanelle Austin. She shares her experience in community advocacy in Minneapolis, organizing for racial justice, and the power of creating a memorial that holds a community's grief following the death of George Floyd. Jeanelle is the founder of the Racial Agency Initiative. #disruptivepeacemakers #jeanelleaustin #disruptiveadvocacy #georgefloydglobalmemorial
Book Recomendation: âLong Time Coming,â Michael Eric Dysonâ
George Floyd Global Memorial Fund donations: here
Contact Info:
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://raiofjustice.com
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Friends Erin Takeuchi and John Williams introduce their new show that is centered around what it means to be a disruptive peacemaker.
