Talkin Story

Cameron and Oceana are joined by their colleague, Cendre Hunt, to riff on the experience of organizing and creating solid PGM community in this place settlers call Jefferson County. It's also worth noting that last December, the board of Black Lives Matter of Jefferson County-Well Organized voted to change the name of the organization to Well Organized of Jefferson County . Learn more about Well O...

October, 2025: While we finalize the final episode of Season 2, we want to offer a replay of the conversation we had two years ago with Camelia Jade in Season 1 about making music and community. Not only is it a good segue into the next and final episode, "Creating Community in Place," it's also an opportunity to highlight the artist of the theme song for Season Two. Enjoy! --- In this episode we...

In this episode, Cameron and Oceana sit down with Eileen Kindling Spirit to discuss her experience farming livestock in Jefferson county. Woodbridge Farm is a beautiful, 20+ acre property in Chimacum that she has poured a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into, and is proud to call her home. Eileen Kindling Spirit is originally from Philadelphia and has lived in Jefferson since the 1980’s. She and he...

In this episode, we explore the otherside of giving birth as we chat with a couple local PGM folx - Savannah and Sasha - who both recently have given birth. The effects that community can have on families is poignantly explored in this episode, which could be heard as the second half of the previous episode with Meshell. Sasha Marshall is a local parent, dreamer, and data nerd. She finds joy in bu...

In this episode Cameron and Oceana traverse the vast territory of body sovereignty with our friend Meshell. We touch on food as family, what it's like to try in a body related profession as a PGM, and gender fluidity in a traditionally femme dominated midwifery profession. Their fearless advocacy for culturally relevant agency over the body is nothing short of inspired. Meshell (they/she) is a Xic...

In this episode, Oceana and Cameron get into some provocative material with davy regarding the intersectional identities and how to convey those as an entertainer, without it feeling extractive, as well as the near-taboo topic of colorism inside PGM community. davy is a Chimacum-based farmer, artist, performer, and radically tender human. Their art and the way they move through the world is inform...

Welcome to Season 2 of Talkin' Story. In this first episode, "Writing in Place", Oceana sits down with author/poet Lisbeth White in a conversational ramble through writing grounded in relationship to the Earth, and what impact that can have on our individual and collective liberation. Lisbeth White is an enchantivist writer based in the Pacific Northwest. She is the author of American Sycamore (Pe...

Thank you for joining us for the first season of Talkin Story podcast. Over the course of the past six months of recordings, and the past 9 weeks of episodes, we have traveled through the complex terrain of racialized challenges, profound insights, far more laughs than tears, and many, many moments of delight. What emerged and grew was a sense that our collective capacity and vision can, and in fa...

In our search for the right music for the Landback/Reparations episode, we had the pleasure of crossing paths with renowned flutist, Chiyokten . He spent a bit of time sharing with us how the life he has lived and is living is informed by ancestors, elders, and more-than-human beings. We hope you enjoy this special bonus episode. Paul Chiyokten Wagner is the founder of Protectors of the Salish Sea...

This is a very special episode in which local indigenous people and an African-descended community member talk about their efforts and viewpoints on reparations and landback. It gets personal as well as hopeful. The original flute music in this episode was generously provided by Paul Chiyokten Wagner , a member of the Saanich tribe of Vancouver Island. Chiyokten is a knowledge keeper of Coast Sali...

In this episode with Velda Thomas , we sink into a relational field that includes ancestors, more-than-human-kin, and each other. Velda also reads a beautiful original poem inspired by her recent exploration of communal healing called "For the Benefit of All" which you can find on her Patreon. Velda was born in England, with family ancestry sourced from Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas. Love...

This episode with Ave Avelino, together with co-hosts, Ezra and Lorenzo, uncovers what it is like to grow up in a small, white, progressive town. Finding your way and maintaining a sense of self is not easy but entirely possible, as they describe. Ave Avelino is a second-generation Filipino/mixed-European American. They were born and raised in Port Townsend and have the interesting perspective of...

In this episode we spend a bit of time with local musician and audio engineer, Camelia Jade, on a journey of the senses as we wind our way through culture and the arts on our way to community. Since 2006, Camelia Jade has worked in audio production for music, live sound, radio, podcasts, analog and digital preservation, independent film, on-location recordings as well as youth audio workshops, gal...

Tomoki Sage wanders with us through experiences in the theater that mirror life as a person of the global majority in Jefferson county. Together we deconstruct the persona that wants to fit in the the dominant culture but never quite does and the what that makes possible. Tomoki was a child of the forest. He spent many long hours as a boy running through the woods of Port Townsend without any shoe...

In this episode with JooRi Jun , we wind up our conversation about PGM in schools with an in-depth exploration about the need for radical new models that allow our children to unfurl into their truest selves. Several resources are mentioned in this episode, should you wish to go further down the rabbit hole: Sky Bear ALC - www.skybearalc.org Alliance for Self Directed Education: https://www.self-d...

Cherry Geelan and Aaron Hall take us on a deep dive into the challenges for our PGM students and teachers inside public school systems, where systemic racism continues to reign, despite decades of reform. An independent documentary called, The Right to Read , is specifically mentioned as a beacon of hope and a powerful depiction of effective advocacy for literacy among PGM children. We are pleased...

Darrell Thomas and Melissa O'Neil drop the veil on a personal pivotal moment, stewarding children, and what it takes to support youth and each other as professionals as they make their way in educational systems setup for their failure. Talkin Story is a project of Well Organized: Collaborative Community Driven Organizing in Port Townsend, WA. https://well-organized.org/ We appreciate the support...

Azurite and Corey talk to Lorenzo and Oceana about the significance of culture in this episode. Notably, how the exploration of one’s own cultural ways allows for a kind of rootedness beyond place. Azurite is a biracial Black, neurodivergent, artist, community organizer and mother. Azurite was born and raised in the Southwest before moving to Port Townsend where she has lived for the better part o...

Welcome to Talkin Story! In this first episode, the co-hosts - Oceana, Lorenzo, and Ezra - describe how the podcast came to be and the point of the project. Talkin Story is a project of Well Organized: Collaborative Community Driven Organizing in Port Townsend, WA. https://well-organized.org/ We appreciate the support of the Port Townsend Arts Commission, Jefferson Community Foundation, Finnriver...