Teaser: What the World Will Become

Come journey with What the World Will Become. Together, we'll engage with the narratives of awe-inspiring activists, each carving their own path towards a more peaceful and just world in the face of challenging circumstances. For over 20 years, I've been researching and witnessing firsthand the profound impact of violence on women from Rwanda to Colombia. Yet, amidst the trauma, their resilient beauty shines brightly, as they forge new paths filled with love, joy, and courage.

Join me as we connect with a Kurdish feminist from Iraq, a Cuban activist living in exile, queer Afro-Colombian activists, and more. Each of them brings unique experiences and perspectives to their activism, using channels such as poetry, human rights advocacy, art, spirituality, and collective healing. These fragments and pieces of their work offer us a blueprint for building a world free from violence. As we hear their stories, I hope you'll be inspired to incorporate aspects of their work into your own life. Let's explore together the fragments and pieces of what the world will become.

Transcript

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Welcome to what the World Will Become, a podcast about the humans' who dedicate their lives to building a more free and just world. My name is Marie Berry. I'm a feminist researcher and writer, and I've spent the better part of the past 20 years researching and thinking about how women experience war and its aftermath. I've done research in places like Rwanda, bosnia, kenya, nepal and Colombia, and I've interviewed hundreds of women whose lives have been shaped by violence. Along the way, I have been repeatedly struck by two simultaneous truths the first is that violence is devastating, leaving those who survive it with trauma and grief that can last for years and even generations. But the second is that, even in the most bleak and impossible of situations, there is often a great beauty, a way that those who suffer from violence find love, joy and resilience that can creatively forge new paths forward, paths that offer us profound hope and possibility for building a more just and free world. On this podcast, I interview activists from all across the world who are forging these paths forward in the context of deep difficulty. These activists offer us, and offer me, a blueprint for how we might build a world that is free from violence.

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The title of this podcast is inspired by abolitionist scholar Ruth Wilson Gilmore, who reminded us that quote. What the world will become already exists in fragments and pieces, experiments and possibilities. So please join me in this season of what the world will become to hear stories from those whose experiments have profoundly inspired me. You'll hear from a Kurdish feminist from Iraq who was displaced during Saddam Hussein's genocidal campaigns as a child and who uses poetry as a way of inviting us to think about trauma, grief and repair. You'll meet an activist from Cuba who lives in exile after fighting tirelessly for human rights. A pair of queer Afro-Columbian activists join me who have created a space for Black, trans, gender expansive people in Cali, colombia, where they can be safe and heal through art, spirituality and collectiveness. My hope is at the end of each episode, and indeed the whole season, you are inspired by these stories and find small ways to bring bits of their work into your own lives.