Fabric Podcast

Ihotu Ali has been reimagining healing that we all need. All of who we are, but also ALL of us; the collective. Her focus on cultural and intercultural healing has been so inspiring to us. Go to IhotuAli.com to learn more.
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Ihotu shared this song in the live gathering to reflect our our people: "Stand Up" - Performed by Cynthia Erivo. Powerful.  https://youtu.be/sn19xvfoXvk 
"Sweetgrass, Not Tear Gas" poem from Women's Press
This Was 2020 Anthology of Minnesotans writing on the pandemic and uprising (poem can also be found here)
African roots of inoculation from smallpox (Washington Post, 2020)
Susto & Soul Loss
On white body trauma and ancestry - My Grandmother's Hands
Spiritual Herbalism
The Healing Wisdom of Africa
For circle practice around conflict (this could be helpful around the holidays and with family conflicts!)

Poet Michael Kleber-Diggs speaks with Greg Meyer and shares how he has used poetry to reimagine the world he grew up in, the world he lives in now and, perhaps the world we could live in together.  Michael’s new book is called Worldly Things.  

Amara Solomon Kamara, contributing author to Green Card Voices' graphic novel, Our Stories Carried Us Here shares his story and helps us learn to know, value, and tell our own stories to reimagine our world..
Learn more about Story Stitch - Green Card Voices Check out Fabric’s October Book Club  to order the discounted book

Stirrings often challenge how we’re investing our life.  It can feel unsettling to even wonder about how we’re spending our time, our efforts, our jobs, our hopes. That’s why we’re doing it together!
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Stirrings will sometimes seem to keep making noise until we wake up. Often they do it through (and about) the relationships we have, so we’re talking about it!
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We often miss (or ignore) the rumblings of change echoing deep within us. Stirrings signal a coming change and together we can learn to listen for them.Link: Outline

Should God make sense to us? Or perhaps be so far outside our natural order that anything God does is an interruption to how the world normally works? This episode dives in to that vast gray area between--an important place for us to be as Fabric.(Rebroadcast from a live gathering in Minneapolis, MN in January of 2020)

There's a transformation that's happening within the worlds of spirituality and religion.  It's like a (long-overdue) skin we're shedding.  Whether you feel pain, numb, excitement, curiosity, fear or something else, this conversation (rebroadcast from before we entered the pandemic) points to who we are as Fabric. As we celebrate 15 years as a community, it seemed like a great place to return!