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We discussed:
- Who Ixchel is and the work she's involved in right now.
- How neurodivergent folks experience time differently from neurotypical folks.
- The differences between colonial time and indigenous time.
- Strategies for reclaiming your time from capitalism and dominator culture, including rest and flow.
- The nuances of finding your flow and noticing cycles.
- How folks who are deeply affected by the reality of our society's systems can find rest and decolonize time too.
- Changing your mindset around time scarcity.
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- Kelly Diels
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- Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta
Featured in This Episode
Ixchel Lunar (she/we/they) has over 25 years of experience as an eco-feminist web deva and was the first Latine Vice-Mayor of Petaluma, CA, focused on public access to technology and ecological policy-making. At a mighty 4’10”, they are a light-skinned, Mestize Indigiqueer, vision-impaired, neuro-distinct, and first-time female with Y-DNA, and even ran for congress in 2011. As a survivor of significant childhood trauma, (ACE-Q score is 10+6), Ixchel’s life work is infused with JEDI activism (Justice-centering, Emergence, Decolonizing, Interconnecting). Her curiosities include plants, pollinators, and handmade textiles. They created a wildlife sanctuary for native bees and perezosos (sloths) in the highland jungle of Nicaragua. You can keep up with Ixchel on their website and Instagram.
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