Recovery for the Revolution

What was it like to watch the Ultimatum: Queer Love, Season 2 in a time of resistance to escalating wintery raids and kidnappings in Los Angeles and across Turtle Island, in times of escalating g-cide in Gaza, Congo, Sudan, bombings in Iran, and threats to queer and trans people on Turtle Island and across the globe? What does after-care look like as we process how the show impacted us? What was t...

What does it mean to watch the Queer Ultimatum Season 2 on Netflix in a time of resistance to escalating wintery raids and kidnappings in Los Angeles and across Turtle Island, in times of escalating g-cide in Gaza, Congo, Sudan, and threats of war with Iran? Does TV keep us from being in movement, or can it provide harm reduction in times of resistance and escalation of harms from systems of oppre...

So many of us are feeling hopeless and scared as so much upheaval and threat has escalated in the United States empire and all over the world. So many of us are feeling like we might want to drink or use or feeling like we might not be able to exist in response to the escalating threat and chaos of these times. This episode is all about helping us get clear about what we can control, and what is o...

Resisting covid resists colonial, capitalist violence. Resisting covid honors the trans and queer, Black, Indigenous, and people of color, disabled, immunocompromised, drug using, s3x worker, HIV+ ancestors who did everything so we can live. According to the World Health Organization, 7 million people have died from covid since the start of the pandemic, and nearly 780 million covid cases have bee...

Election Day and the aftermath has been rough. In this episode, Host Carolyn Collado (they/them), and guest, Laila Makled (they/he) overview some of the themes, conflict, and connections that arose in the aftermath of the 2024 Election in the US imperial core. They reflect on their own grief and processing since Election Day, share strategies for building systems of care and community, and contemp...

We're often told in recovery that we have to survive Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. In this episode, host Carolyn Collado (they/them) reflects on why the holiday season can be challenging for those on a recovery journey. They talk about the colonial root of these holidays, the family dynamics that might harm us, the struggles around pressure to drink and use other substances, or the grief...

No matter what happens on Election Day, one thing won’t change: our need for each other and community. In this episode, Host Carolyn Collado (they/them), and guest, Laila Makled (they/he) discuss preparing for Election Day in the imperial core, what it means to have choice, and grounding in our north star of building power to end racial capitalism. They acknowledge the grief that came with seeing...

When you pursue collective liberation, you will lose people, places, and things. In this episode, host Carolyn Collado (they/them) discusses their journey of loss in pursuit of collective liberation, deconditioning from systemic oppression, and reflects on collective traumas like the covid 19 pandemic and the aftermath of the lockdown as society abandoned collective care, the racial uprisings of 2...

Colonization is one of the worst things to ever happen on this planet. In this episode, Carolyn talks about what is colonization, how have its impacts been felt historically and today, and how we can heal from colonial trauma as part of decolonization and resistance. We’ll explore colonization’s psychological warfare, its extraction of resources that have created poverty and displacement all over...

A year ago, Oct 7th, 2023, began an escalating mass unaliving of over 350,000 in Palestine after 70+ years of ongoing gslide that called for the world to change, to resist imperialism, capitalism, and colonization. This episode calls us to reflect on how you have changed this year. Host Carolyn Collado discusses their own experience recognizing the interconnectedness of global struggles against im...

More of us can feel suicidal than we feel we can say out loud. Systems of oppression are hostile to life, and make us feel like we can’t be here. Our suicide prevention care doesn’t consider how systemic oppression like colonization, capitalism, and patriarchy impacts suicidal ideation. Mainstream suicide care currently centers institutions and police, which can be dangerous and traumatizing. This...

Feeling and processing the impacts of systems of oppression is a powerful form of resistance.  In this episode, Carolyn Collado (they/them) explores how capitalism works to prevent us from feeling by keeping us busy and hustling. The extraction of resources through colonization and the pressure to produce have been ingrained in our lineages. Slavery and violence were used to enforce constant produ...

We don't talk about how substance use struggles, recovery, addiction, sobriety/being sober curious connects with systemic oppression. This podcast episode features Carolyn Collado (they/them)'s recovery journey and how systemic oppression, such as racism, patriarchy, and colonization, influenced their struggles with substances, people pleasing, perfectionism. Carolyn shares their experienc...

Recovery for the Revolution focuses on recovery from the impacts of colonization, capitalism, and systemic oppression, and how that recovery can lead us to collective liberation. Mainstream recovery, addiction, and sober/sober curious spaces ignore or flat out deny discussion of how systemic oppression informs how we use, why we use or lean into codependency, people pleasing, and perfectionism, or...