This episode we discuss visions of resistance from the “Another World is Possible” Festival with Katherine Lo of Eaton Workshop, artist and healer Jesse Raine Littlebird, and Emmelia Talarico of the No Justice No Pride collective in DC.
Links and more information regrading artists, organizers, films, songs, and more mentioned in the episode
introduction
The Threshold
Kat Lo, Founder & President, Eaton Workshop. Born in Hong Kong, Kat Lo came of age in New England. She wrote her Sociocultural Anthropology thesis at Yale on radical social movements and earned her MFA in Directing & Screenwriting from University of Southern California. Throughout the 2000s, she was an organizer in the global justice movement. She was a Student Delegate for Greenpeace at the original United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in The Hague and Bonn, was an anti-war spokesperson during the War on Iraq, traveled with the Beehive Collective to deliver supplies to the Zapatistas in Chiapas for the 10th anniversary of their uprising and organized conferences against the World Trade Organization and the Free Trade Area of the Americas, amongst other activism. In 2011, Kat unexpectedly joined her father, KS Lo’s, family business. In 2014, while she was living in New York, her father challenged her to create the next step in the evolution of hotels; with the desire to use her family’s resources to do good in the world, she founded and has led Eaton Workshop since. Her vision of Eaton imagines a more just world where all beings are liberated to be their true selves, reimagining hospitality as a platform and catalyst for progressive social change. She opened two pilot Eatons in D.C. and Hong Kong in 2018. She is currently directing a documentary about the relationship between Mies van der Rohe and his grandson. She loves her dogs.
More information about Eaton Workshop’s Another World is Possible Festival
Jesse Raine Littlebird (Laguna/Kewa Pueblos) Born 1992 in Santa Fe, New Mexico is an artist, painter, writer and film director with a passion for telling stories that inspire personal and community action to be the change you want to see in the world. Storytelling through the medium of painting and film is a vital part of life for Jesse with his Indigenous heritage deeply rooted in the oral tradition culture of his Pueblo Indian lineage and growing up in a creative household of art, film and story.
Guest
No Justice No Pride is a collective of organizers and activists from across the District of Columbia. We exist to end the LGBT movement’s complicity with systems of oppression that further marginalize queer and trans individuals. Our members are black, brown, queer, trans, gender nonconforming, bisexual, indigenous, two-spirit, formerly incarcerated, disabled, white allies and together we recognize that there can be no pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.
Twitter @NJNP_DC
land acknowledgment
Insurgent Imagination is produced on the unceded and ancestral homelands of:
The Piscataway of the present day DC-Maryland-Virginia region.
The Tonkawa and Payaya peoples of present day San Antonio.
The Raymatush Ohlone of the present day San Francisco Bay Area.
For more information about the movement to return land to native peoples, visit www.landback.org
OUR theme song
“There Are Black People in the Future” by La’Vender Freddy and is used courtesy of La’Vender Freddy.
The incidental music is by Sergey Cheremisinov, and Pictures of the Floating World. All incidental music is creative commons.
All music used in the podcast has been edited to fit the text.
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