Hoorf! Radical Care in a Late-Capitalist Heckscape

Send us Fan Mail CN: This episode contains swearing Elle and her guest Mer Yayanos share a deep, abiding appreciation for their therapists, slow moments with partners, creative collaborations, and butts. Most of this episode is dedicated to the first bits – these two queerdo artists dive into their particular feminisms, sharing parts of their burnout and healing journeys, and why they won’t be bre...

Send us Fan Mail Content Note: This episode contains swearing Accessibility doesn’t have to suck! Artist Kim Hopson was born with one arm; she is really, really tired of the limiting narratives for disabled folks, finding herself the recipient of either pity, or the “attagirl!” for performing basic life tasks. What’s more, she’s tired , from parenting her two young children in a world built for pe...

Send us Fan Mail San Diego-based artist Kat Furtado creates complex layered art out of beautiful, small moments of wonder. In this episode, Kat shares her journey from using art as a way to quiet her mind after the birth of her first child, to becoming a full time artist. It’s a jam-packed episode, full of small moments and unexpected side trips: the Netflix infinity documentary, hummingbirds, din...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Elle and her guest, queer and autistic theologian Chloe Specht, discuss religious deconstruction, the process of identifying and unlearning harmful doctrines and choosing which beliefs and practices (if any) we carry with us into our adulthoods. While we may find ourselves deconstructing for myriad reasons, this conversation touches on personal experiences with ho...

Send us Fan Mail Exhausted, burned out, and isolated in your chaotic life? Join artist and caregiver Elle Billing for the introductory episode of Hoorf! as she shares her journey through burnout, illness, and disability, and how she is cultivating connections to heal from the pain and exhaustion of living today. It’s Hoorf! 101, and you’re invited. Subscribe to Hoorf! Radical Care in a Late Capita...

Send us Fan Mail What is love? And how can we love better if we haven’t first come to an agreement on what love even means? On this episode, Elle and her guest, Chicago poet and Hoorf! editor Ricki Cummings, dig into their shared affinity for bell hooks’ All About Love. Their wide-ranging conversation touches on the frustrations of domestic labor, lonely chickens, and giving our children a better...

Send us Fan Mail Exhausted, burned out, and isolated in your chaotic life? Self-care isn’t enough. In each episode of Hoorf! Podcast, Elle Billing and her guests discuss the challenges of living compassionately with honesty and humor. Honoring Angela Davis’ definition of the word radical – that “grasping at the root” – we are digging at the roots of systemic problems in a conversational format, ge...