In conjunction with Jill Goldman’s 2023 ARCANE Space exhibit, Disentanglement/Re-embodiment, the artist presents a series of conversations on “re-embodying equality” with academics, artists, and activists whose work challenges organized domination systems, transforms deeply ingrained cultural and social norms and creates new systems that prioritize non-violence, gender equality, economic equality, environmental sustainability, and non- discrimination.
Heide Goettner-Abendroth
Learning from Matriarchal Societies: Re-envisioning Equality, Economic Justice, and Peace
Jill Goldman in conversation with Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth. Heide is a philosopher, researcher, and founder of the International Academy for Modern Matriarchal Studies and Matriarchal Spirituality (HAGIA). Her book Matriarchal Societies: Studies on Indigenous Cultures Across the Globe, defines scientifically this new field of knowledge and provides a world tour of examples of contemporary matriarchal cultures. Her other books include Matriarchal Societies of the Past and the Rise of Patriarchy in West Asia and Europe and Societies of Peace: Matriarchies Past, Present, and Future.
AnaLouise Keating
Spiritual Activism as a Catalyst for Social Change: A Conversation on Gloria Anzaldúa
Jill Goldman in conversation with AnaLouise Keating. AnaLouise is an American academic and professor of Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies at Texas Woman’s University. Her work focuses on transformation studies: Gloria Anzaldúa, womanist spiritual activism, post-oppositional thought, esoteric wisdom traditions, multicultural pedagogies, U.S. women-of-color theories, and yin yoga. Keating is the author, most recently, of The Anzaldúan Theory Handbook and Transformation Now!: Towards a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change. She worked with Gloria Anzaldúa for the last decade of Anzaldúa’s life, editing Anzaldúa’s interviews/entrevistas and co-editing, with Anzaldúa, This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation. Since Anzaldúa’s death, Keating has edited two of Anzaldúa’s books: The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader and Light in the Dark/Luz en el oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality.
Barbara Alice Mann
Formalized Women-Power: The Social, Political, Economic, and Religious Roles of Iroquoian Women
Jill Goldman in conversation with Barbara Alice Mann. Barbara is a Ph.D. scholar and Professor of Humanities in the Honors College of the University of Toledo. She has authored fifteen books on indigenous histories and practices and works for the rights of the people indigenous to Ohio. An Ohio Bear Clan Seneca, with community recognition, she was the Speaker and/or Northern Director of the Native American Alliance of Ohio for twenty years.
Catherine Coleman Flowers
Multidisciplinary Grassroots-Led Solutions to the Intersecting Challenges of Water and Sanitation Infrastructure, Public Health, and Economic Development.
Jill Goldman in conversation with Catherine Coleman Flowers. Catherine is an internationally recognized environmental activist, MacArthur “genius” grant recipient, and author. She has dedicated her life’s work to advocating for environmental justice, primarily equal access to clean water and functional sanitation for communities across the United States. Flowers is Vice Chair of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council and Member of the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force on Climate Change. She is founding director of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice (CREEJ) and Board Member of the NRDC, The Climate Reality Project, The Center for Constitutional Rights, and the American Geophysical Union. Catherine is also a Practitioner in Residence at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University and Co-Chair of the American Academy of Art and Sciences Commission on Accelerating Climate Action.
Lauren Bon
“Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy”: Addressing Critical Social and Environmental Issues Through Art Intervention
Jill Goldman in Conversation with Lauren Bon. Lauren is an environmental artist from Los Angeles, CA. Her practice, Metabolic Studio, explores self-sustaining and self-diversifying systems of exchange that feed emergent properties that regenerate the life web. Some of her works include Not a Cornfield, 100 Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct, and her studio’s current work, Bending the River, which aims to utilize Los Angeles’ private water right to deliver 106-acre feet of water annually from the LA River to over 50 acres of land in the historic core of downtown LA.
Sumaya Awad
No One Is Free Until We’re All Free: Building Cross-Movement Coalitions to Achieve Collective Liberation
Jill Goldman in conversation with Sumaya Awad. Sumaya is a Palestinian-American writer and activist based in New York City. She directs strategy and communications for Adalah Justice Project. Her writings focus on Palestinian liberation, anti-imperialism, Islamophobia, and immigration. Sumaya is the co- author of “Palestine and Elections” in the collection Strategy and Electoral Politics, released in 2019. She speaks widely at universities and grassroots organizations across the country and is a co-founder of the Against Canary Mission Project, which defends student activists targeted by blacklists for their Palestinian rights advocacy. Her edited volume Palestine: A Socialist Introduction was released in December 2020.
Genevieve Vaughan
The Maternal Gift Economy: A Conversation on Capitalism, Peace, and a Sustainable Future
Jill Goldman in conversation with Genevieve Vaughan. Genevieve is an independent researcher, peace activist, feminist, and philanthropist whose ideas and work have been influential in the intellectual movements around the Gift Economy and Matriarchal Studies. She created the multicultural all-woman activist Foundation for a Compassionate Society (1987-2005) and co-created the network: International Feminists for a Gift Economy (2001-present). Her books include For-Giving, a Feminist Criticism of Exchange (1997), Homo Donans (2006), and The Gift in the Heart of Language: the Maternal /source of Meaning (2015). She has edited Il Dono/The Gift (2004), Women and the Gift Economy (2007), and The Maternal Roots of the Gift Economy (2019).
Kristen Ghodsee
Everyday Utopias: What 2000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About A Good Life: A Conversation On a Radically Hopeful Vision for How to Build More Contented and Connected Societies
Jill Goldman in conversation with Kristen Ghodsee. Kristen is a professor and chair of Russian and East European studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the critically acclaimed author of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence, which has
been translated into fifteen languages, and Everyday Utopias: What 2000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About A Good Life. Her writing has been published in The New York Times and The Washington Post, among other outlets, and she’s appeared on PBS NewsHour and France 24 as well as on dozens of podcasts, including NPR’s Throughline, Vox’s The Gray Area, and The Ezra Klein Show. She lives outside Philadelphia.