Indigenous Brilliance's Podcast Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:23:21 -0400 https://indigenousbrilliance.buzzsprout.com en-us © 2026 Indigenous Brilliance's Podcast yes 10f44474-9b48-5483-ba37-35a1b84d63cf Indigenous Brilliance episodic false Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Indigenous Brilliance https://storage.buzzsprout.com/ajopf6qfr4h05o3e9cpqqbtfmxco?.jpg Indigenous Brilliance's Podcast Episode 3: Intentional composting is creative community care process Episode 3: Intentional composting is creative community care process In the final episode of szn 2, Art Ecosystem members Lexi and Karmella chat with friend and community member Kílila Raine (Squamish Nation) about transformative justice, harm reduction and accountability processes in the context of self care, community care, renewal and growth.

This episode closes out the year with an invitation to care for ourselves and care for each other through the messy process of conflict resolution and accountability. We are invited to rest, to step into a space and practice of transformative justice on a fractal level (adrienne maree brown), to compost our conflict, plant our seeds close to home, and tend to growing better futures.

We are reminded by this episode that being accountable to ourselves and each other in community, is a process. We invite you to examine your own process and step into the liberation, creativity, and practice of accountability, with room for mistakes and compassion in our growth along the way. 

Until next szn, 

thanks for tuning in, and thank you to everyone we are accountable to, and in community with! 

kinanâskomitin
xo

*transcription available 01/2023: https://roommagazine.com/podcast/

]]> In the final episode of szn 2, Art Ecosystem members Lexi and Karmella chat with friend and community member Kílila Raine (Squamish Nation) about transformative justice, harm reduction and accountability processes in the context of self care, community care, renewal and growth.

This episode closes out the year with an invitation to care for ourselves and care for each other through the messy process of conflict resolution and accountability. We are invited to rest, to step into a space and practice of transformative justice on a fractal level (adrienne maree brown), to compost our conflict, plant our seeds close to home, and tend to growing better futures.

We are reminded by this episode that being accountable to ourselves and each other in community, is a process. We invite you to examine your own process and step into the liberation, creativity, and practice of accountability, with room for mistakes and compassion in our growth along the way. 

Until next szn, 

thanks for tuning in, and thank you to everyone we are accountable to, and in community with! 

kinanâskomitin
xo

*transcription available 01/2023: https://roommagazine.com/podcast/

]]> Indigenous Brilliance Buzzsprout-11914307 Fri, 23 Dec 2022 06:00:00 -0800 3102 2 3 full false Episode 2: Futurism & Cyber Gardening Episode 2: Futurism & Cyber Gardening In Episode 2: Futurism and Cyber Gardening, co-hosts Karmella Benedito De Barros and Lexi Mellish Mingo chat with Whitney French of Hush Harbour Press about the concept of cyber gardening and creating connections and community both online and offline. Taking inspiration from Black and Indigenous folks across Turtle Island—including the always relevant Octavia Butler—Karmella, Lexi, and Whitney also discuss futurisms for QTBIPOC and how online spaces can help create new futures.

 

Building off the topics of seed saving, growth and gardening as tools and metaphor, we hope this episode serves as an invitation for Black and Indigenous folks to dream and imagine what it might mean to ground and create new futures in online spaces. 

 

Check out season 2 episode 2! Transcription at https://roommagazine.com/podcast/

]]> In Episode 2: Futurism and Cyber Gardening, co-hosts Karmella Benedito De Barros and Lexi Mellish Mingo chat with Whitney French of Hush Harbour Press about the concept of cyber gardening and creating connections and community both online and offline. Taking inspiration from Black and Indigenous folks across Turtle Island—including the always relevant Octavia Butler—Karmella, Lexi, and Whitney also discuss futurisms for QTBIPOC and how online spaces can help create new futures.

 

Building off the topics of seed saving, growth and gardening as tools and metaphor, we hope this episode serves as an invitation for Black and Indigenous folks to dream and imagine what it might mean to ground and create new futures in online spaces. 

 

Check out season 2 episode 2! Transcription at https://roommagazine.com/podcast/

]]> Indigenous Brilliance Buzzsprout-11002787 Sat, 23 Jul 2022 07:00:00 -0700 2813 2 2 full false Indigenous Brilliance Podcast: Love As Rest Indigenous Brilliance Podcast: Love As Rest The Indigenous Brilliance Collective and Art Ecosystem have come together to create season two of the Indigenous Brilliance Podcast (2022)! 

In episode one “Love As Rest”, co-hosts Karmella and Lexi chat about intentional rest as a form of resistance and a necessary practice in sustainable growth and meaningful revolutionary change making.

For the month of February (Black histories and futurisms month), we are intentionally prioritizing rest as an act of self love, collective love and community. We hope this episode serves as an invitation for all Black folks to lean into a deepened sense of rest this month. And for all those participating in decolonial movement work to find deep rest and rejuvenation to allow you to continue doing your amazing and beautiful work.


]]> The Indigenous Brilliance Collective and Art Ecosystem have come together to create season two of the Indigenous Brilliance Podcast (2022)! 

In episode one “Love As Rest”, co-hosts Karmella and Lexi chat about intentional rest as a form of resistance and a necessary practice in sustainable growth and meaningful revolutionary change making.

For the month of February (Black histories and futurisms month), we are intentionally prioritizing rest as an act of self love, collective love and community. We hope this episode serves as an invitation for all Black folks to lean into a deepened sense of rest this month. And for all those participating in decolonial movement work to find deep rest and rejuvenation to allow you to continue doing your amazing and beautiful work.


]]> Indigenous Brilliance Buzzsprout-10052936 Thu, 10 Feb 2022 15:00:00 -0800 1918 2 1 full false The Indigenous Brilliance Podcast (Episode 6): Issue 44.3 Indigenous Brilliance The Indigenous Brilliance Podcast (Episode 6): Issue 44.3 Indigenous Brilliance In this episode of the Indigenous Brilliance Podcast, we celebrate the long awaited Issue 44.3 Indigenous Brilliance going to print (IN FULL COLOUR)! In honour of this special occasion for the Indigenous Brilliance team, co-host Karmella Benedito De Barros shares space with author and storyteller Crystal Harrison Collin for some storytelling and conversation. Just a taste of the brilliance you can find in Issue 44.3. Get your copy today! https://roommagazine.com/shop/indigenous-brilliance/

Crystal Harrison Collin is a Mother, Grandmother, writer, storyteller, student and community worker from Sioux Lookout Ontario. We are grateful to witness Crystal read her submission “Mishkikamiin” in celebration of our Issue 44.3 Indigenous Brilliance launch. Give it a listen, and get your copy of Issue 44.3 on the Room Magazine website shop page.


In this episode, Crystal shares her short story “Mishkikamiin”, which came to her in a dream. This story is one of community, ancestral connection, cultural reclamation and liberation told through the perspective of a shape shifting human/berry, who protects her community from dangerous giants. Crystal shares about building and maintaining a writing practice as a new writer and full time mother during the pandemic. As well, she shares about writing stories from dreams and writing as an extension of culture and traditional storytelling. This sharing of our stories is “good medicine, and reclamation of identity” as Indigenous people Crystal shares. She encourages all Indigenous people to find ways to share our stories and dreams.

A special shout and and congratulations to the Indigenous Brilliance team; Patricia Massy, Jessica Johns, jaye simpson, Emily Dundas Oke and Karmella Benedito De Barros! We hope you pick up a copy today! Link is below.

https://roommagazine.com/shop/indigenous-brilliance/

https://www.instagram.com/indigenousbrilliance/

]]> In this episode of the Indigenous Brilliance Podcast, we celebrate the long awaited Issue 44.3 Indigenous Brilliance going to print (IN FULL COLOUR)! In honour of this special occasion for the Indigenous Brilliance team, co-host Karmella Benedito De Barros shares space with author and storyteller Crystal Harrison Collin for some storytelling and conversation. Just a taste of the brilliance you can find in Issue 44.3. Get your copy today! https://roommagazine.com/shop/indigenous-brilliance/

Crystal Harrison Collin is a Mother, Grandmother, writer, storyteller, student and community worker from Sioux Lookout Ontario. We are grateful to witness Crystal read her submission “Mishkikamiin” in celebration of our Issue 44.3 Indigenous Brilliance launch. Give it a listen, and get your copy of Issue 44.3 on the Room Magazine website shop page.


In this episode, Crystal shares her short story “Mishkikamiin”, which came to her in a dream. This story is one of community, ancestral connection, cultural reclamation and liberation told through the perspective of a shape shifting human/berry, who protects her community from dangerous giants. Crystal shares about building and maintaining a writing practice as a new writer and full time mother during the pandemic. As well, she shares about writing stories from dreams and writing as an extension of culture and traditional storytelling. This sharing of our stories is “good medicine, and reclamation of identity” as Indigenous people Crystal shares. She encourages all Indigenous people to find ways to share our stories and dreams.

A special shout and and congratulations to the Indigenous Brilliance team; Patricia Massy, Jessica Johns, jaye simpson, Emily Dundas Oke and Karmella Benedito De Barros! We hope you pick up a copy today! Link is below.

https://roommagazine.com/shop/indigenous-brilliance/

https://www.instagram.com/indigenousbrilliance/

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