What If?

Climate on our planet is changing faster than our systems can respond. Our rising temperatures and unnatural disasters are treated as environmental problems instead of human ones. But what if climate wasn't something to manage or to survive? What if it was a relationship we were responsible for stewarding? In this episode, Cheyenne Kippenberger and Daydriane explore what becomes possible when...

We've been told success means more. More money, more work, more achievement. But what if success was something different? In this episode, Jessica Norwood joins Daydriane to imagine success as something shared and what becomes possible when we believe there is enough for everyone. Mentioned in this episode: Runway Believe-In-You Money by Jessica Norwood

For generations, justice has meant punishment or progress on paper, but real justice requires repair; returning what was taken and building what should have been there all along. In this episode, Robin Rue Simmons talks with Daydriane about what real repair looks like. Mentioned in this episode: FirstRepair Evanston Local Reparations Initiative

We live in a world where harm meets punishment. But what if justice looked different? What if we actually knew how to repair what's been broken? In this episode, Danielle Sered joins Daydriane to imagine a world where repair is rooted in truth and how telling the truth makes new futures possible. Mentioned in this episode: Common Justice FWD.us⁠ Community Scale for Healing Possibilities Until...

What would it mean to live on land that remembers you? And what would it mean if that land was returned to the people it was taken from? In this episode, Brea Baker joins Daydriane to imagine a future where returning land also returns our sense of home. Mentioned in this episode: BLIS Collective Resource Generation Rooted by Brea Baker A Is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara The 1619 Project: Born o...

For generations, we've been told that poverty is personal failure, that if you just work harder, plan better, save more, you'll make it. But that story has never been true. In this episode, Natalie Foster and Daydriane explore what a world without rent might look like. Mentioned in this episode: ⁠ Economic Security Project ⁠ ⁠ Tenant Union Federation ⁠ Montgomery County’s ⁠ Attainable Hous...

What if the future isn’t something that happens to us, but something we can shape right now? What if the systems we live under weren’t about having power over, but caring for? The world we know was imagined once. So what happens if we start imagining something better? This is What If: a place to imagine the worlds we’re already beginning to build.