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S2E5- 🌑♑️ History & Education’s Role in Radical Remembering- A friendly chat about {Severance Season 1} w/ John

(This season contains spoilers for the show“Severance”- season 1 aired in 2022 on Apple)What are all the ways that we sever from parts of ourselves?  How does public school utilize the tools of “the break room” to foster compliance rather than embody liberation?  How was Helly’s embodied elitism a catalyst for her Innie to revolt? How does Burt living out his “1st edition” beliefs radicalize Irv into queering his “ramrod straight” self?  What does it take for Dylan to discover that the fingertraps of capitalism are insufficient and isolating?Kristyn with a Why sits down for a friendly chat with her friendJohn Klingler- a public school history teacher and somatics coach.  They discuss the push-pull between the Innies’ search for meaning and mattering with the Outties’ quest to forget.0-7:50: Introduction7:50: Thoughts from a history teacher, parallels between Severance and public schools, “Break room” as “break your will room” & training subconscious that “it is dangerous to rest”27:15: Helly’s Embodied Anti-Capitalism– her elitism is a liability to Lumon on the Severed floor where she is no longer trying to earn secure attachment with her father37:20: Irv’s radicalization1:04:45: Dylan’s radicalization1:14:30: Outro—---------------------------------------------Grateful for all the learning and inspiration alluded to in today’s episode:Work with John atburiedwisdom.comResmaa Menakem’s book: My Grandmother’s HandsCarmen Spagnola’s Hypnotherapy and courses on Secure attachment & Contact Nutrition on The Numinous Network, preorder herbook hereHospicing Modernity (Book)*Prentis Hemphill’s book: What it takes to heal**Prentis uses they/them pronouns, in the pod Kristyn clumsily used “women” to relate Prentis Hemphill’s embodiment work IRL to Reghabi’s reintegration work in "Severance" andpronouns matter.The Hive- in-person and online classes in CincinnatiRoadmap to Liberation withRev. angel Kyodo williamsAs always:----------------------------------Thankful for the musical inspiration for the theme song:Hadestown by Anais Mitchell, specifically“Our Lady of the Underground” andOrpheus’ Song“Hedwig’s Theme” by John WilliamsShout out for the artistic assistance of:Matt Schubbe (Logo)Kevin Carlow (Music and sound editing)

Solstice December 2024

This bonus and first ever mini-sode is a practice of trust--recorded, edited and uploaded in an hour.
Kristyn takes a moment to celebrate the podcast's half revolution around the sun: Timeline peering the last six months, sharing best predictions for early 2025 (more subversive smut coming soon?!), and offering a tearfelt thank you to listeners-
THANK YOU for sitting around my campfire with me the last 6 months.

S2E4- 🌕♊️ Pollinating Pleasure & “Subversive Smut”: A friendly chat about {ACOTAR} with Burju

(This season contains spoilers for the show“Severance”- season 1 aired in 2022 on Apple, and this episode contains spoilers for the romantic fantasy (romantasy) series “A Court of Thorns and Roses” (ACOTAR) by Sarah J Maas)How can we increase intimacy with someone by opening ourselves to the stories that are speaking to them?  What can we learn about our own liberation when we engage in acts we have been conditioned to think of as “taboo”?  How can sci-fi and fantasy stories become our guides and companions to help us grapple with the realities of our world?  How can an author’s strategic use of attachment biology and “contact nutrition” enable readers to completely shift their allegiances?  What makes romantasy so fricking compelling, anyway!? Kristyn with a Why sits down for a friendly and integrative chat with her friend and fellow “movement fantasy baker” Burju about creativity, romantasy, and grappling with late-stage capitalism through the lens of “ACOTAR.”0-17:39: Intro, connection to Severance, pollination and polyamory17:45-28:41: Intro to Burju, Burju answers the pod’s 3 questions28:45-45:40: Why we love ACOTAR/How Fantasy helps us see our life 45:40-1:04:28: Our overview of ACOTAR1:04:28-1:16:13:Fiction and Desire/Romantic love as metaphor for a creative practice, secure attachment for the sake of creating1:16:13-1:25:11:Fantasy/Symbols are psychological, not literal/remembering that wealth is a symbol/side-eyeing the hoarded wealth of the romantasy genre’s  justice-minded revolutionary love interests1:25:11-1:33:50: Kristyn breaks down “Contact Nutrition under the Mountain”- how stories wield the tools of attachment to change readers’ minds 1:33:50-1:46:04:Power/TheDionysian roots of Rhysand 1:46:04-2:22:30: “Subversive Smut,” locating ourselves in a story, how romantasy can radicalize readers to feel solidarity with CEO assassins, grappling with what it is to have power and own a business in late-stage capitalism2:22:30-end: When people/practices we thought were the destination end up being stepping stones, how the Feyre character in ACOTAR can help connect us to our own agency—---------------------------------------------Grateful for all the learning and inspiration in today’s episode:Sophie Strand’sSubstack and Writings onDionysis Natalie Wynn’sContrapoints video on Twilight/RomantasyCeleste Davis’Substack onElizabeth Gilberts’ discussionof degraded vs divine masculine and feminineCarmen Spagnola & courses on Secure attachment & Contact Nutrition on The Numinous Network, preorder herbook hereRoadmap to Liberation withRev. angel Kyodo williamsRecommendation for healing for patriarchal males- bell hooksAs always:----------------------------------Thankful for the musical inspiration for the theme song:Hadestown by Anais Mitchell, specifically“Our Lady of the Underground” andOrpheus’ Song“Hedwig’s Theme” by John WilliamsShout out for the artistic assistance of:Matt Schubbe (Logo)Kevin Carlow (Music and sound editing)

S2E3- 🌑♐️ {Severance Season 1}- A Numinous Summary- w/ Carmen Spagnola

(This season contains spoilers for the show“Severance”- season 1 aired in 2022 on Apple)How might someone heal from a coercive relationship or high demand group?  How can we identify fascism and fight tyranny and why must we?  How can we respond when escape is off the table?  When trauma severs the mind from the body, what are the pros and cons of “top down” vs “bottom up” healing modalities?  How can we discern when “wellness” isn’t safe?  How is absurdity a hallmark of collapse?Kristyn with a Why chats with her teacher and mentor Carmen Spagnola about disorganized attachment, cult tactics, fascism, “wellness,” and collapse through the lens of Severance.  --------------------0-11:14 Intro to episode11:14-18:00: Intro to Carmen18:00-31:51: Petey’s Protocol- How to heal from high demand groups31:51-45:31:  The disorganized field of Lumon- How fascism depends on cult tactics of hijacking your nervous system45:31-58:44: When Mark sculpts a tree/When “wellness” isn’t safe- Somatics and “top down” vs “bottom up” healing modalities58:44-1:08:40: Severance is absurd and so is Collapse- "We are in the Bread and Circus Phase"1:08:40-1:21:22:  a liberated future for Helly in Season 2, collectively imagining a better future.1:21:22-end:  If you enjoyed this interview, you can preorder Carmen’snext book!/ OutroScene Links—------------------------Wellness Session—---------------------------------------------Grateful for all the learning and inspiration alluded to in today’s episode:PreOrderCarmen Spagnola’s book hereAlexandra Stein’s book: Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian SystemsTimothy Snyder’s Book: On TyrannyAs always:----------------------------------Thankful for the musical inspiration for the theme song:Hadestown by Anais Mitchell, specifically“Our Lady of the Underground” andOrpheus’ Song“Hedwig’s Theme” by John WilliamsShout out for the artistic assistance of:Matt Schubbe (Logo)Kevin Carlow (Music and sound editing)

S2E2- 🌕♉️ My Real Life Disorganized field on the journey to Secure Attachment- Marital “Discord Mode” with Kevin

(This season is related to the show “Severance”- season 1 aired in 2022 on Apple)
How is it that, once you start tracking power, rank, and privilege- you start noticing how the invitation for liberation is always bottom-up?  How do we reach for authenticity in relationships where one person’s pain activates the other’s shame response?  How can we utilize ritual to metabolize and mobilize disorganization while practicing security?  Can cis-het women practice pleasure through embodying moments of the “Mediocre Sitcom Dad” archetype?
Kristyn with a Why engages in an emotionally raw “discord mode” with her partner Kevin. If you like Reality TV- especially fraught emotional predicaments based on historical abandonment wounds and attachment patterns, you may really enjoy this “Reality Podcast.”  
Please tend to your nervous system and listen with caution, while moving/tasking, and/or taking many breaks, or even consider skipping this episode altogether.  Be kind and compassionate to yourself. 💖
(See time stamps and links to the scenes, songs, and resources mentioned in the podcast below.)
0-5:18- Intro, locating this episode post US election, edited on Nov 6th
5:31-13:00- My Reality Podcast, Persephone making Hades listen
13-15:00- Overview of the three parts
15:00-18:00- Intro Part 1, Marriage Ritual, and Content Warning
Part 1 (Recorded Oct 23rd)
18:13-33:20- Ani DiFranco giving Kristyn purpose, the small request that is HUGE, laying to rest her tendency to protect Kevin from her authenticity companioned by Helly’s sacred “FUCK NO!”
33:20-38:16- “Bottom up” versus “top down” strategies for reintegration (What was the protocol that Petey ignored?)
Part 2 (Recorded Oct 23rd, 2 hours after pt 1)
38:26- 1:14:41- Kevin’s  impulse to want to be absolved of culpability in holding space for kristyn's pain, the usefulness of guilt vs shame, the difference in consistency and perfection, the “Capital R” Request of not activating her trauma, and “small r” requests to “plump up her amygdala”  How Kristyn and Kevin’s fear of failure manifests in opposite actions, introducing the archetype of the “Mediocre Sitcom Dad”
Part 3(Recorded Oct 28th)
1:15:00-end Kevin and Kristyn Summarize events of the previous 5 days, and an unrecorded conversation, how Jacob Collier’s Little Blue gave Kevin “bottom up” clarity, “Discord Mode” requires different practices than other modes of conversation (and based on the Power Rank and Privilege), revisiting the “mediocre SHITcom dad”, and the profound practice of the community care that is sourdough.
#severance #attachment #disorganizedattachment #anidifranco #hadestown #reghabi #liberation #imnoheroine #couplestherapy #realityTV #jacobcollier #littleblue #mediocresitcomdad #kevincanfhimself #sourdough
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Grateful for all the learning and inspiration in today’s episode:
My teacher Carmen Spagnola for her marriage miniseries, courses on Secure attachment, Contact Nutrition, and collapse on The Numinous Network 
Roadmap to Liberation with Rev. angel Kyodo williams
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Thankful for the musical inspiration for the theme song:
Hadestown by Anais Mitchell, specifically “Our Lady of the Underground” and Orpheus’ Song
“Hedwig’s Theme” by John Williams
Shout out for the artistic assistance of:
Matt Schubbe (Logo)
Kevin Carlow (Music and sound editing)
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Free Palestine! There are many ways to support the Palestinian people right now. Join a student encampment near you, call or email your congressperson via the JVP’s daily calls or email them here. 94 members of Congress have called for a ceasefire, can you help to add yours to the list? ​
Spread the word on social media, or check out Operation Olive Branch, a mutual aid organization that has compiled a list of GoFundMe’s for those in urgent need. 

S2E1: 🌑♏️ {Severance} and Disorganized Attachment- A friendly chat with Jamie

(This season is related to the show“Severance”- season 1 aired in 2022 on Apple)In what ways is capitalism a cult: a high demand group that thrives off of the confusion and insecure attachment of its members?  How do dystopian “fictional” stories such as Severance equip us for the realities of our present moment?  Kristyn with a Why has a friendly chat with her BFF Jamie about witchy shit (like sourdough, cats, and astrology) as well as an introduction into the themes of attachment- especially disorganized attachment- in the world of Severance.(The Roadmap to Liberation with rev angel Kyodo williams is happening NOW, if you would like to register, you can do sohere)(See time stamps and links to the scenes mentioned in the podcast below.)Intro 0-4:00Settling in with Jamie: 4:04-5:46Sourdough Synchronicities 5:54-9:44Lunation chit chat 9:50–14:50Why Jamie? Our relationship history: 15:00-24:20Why Severance? How we got here?: 24:20- 31:48Intro to Disorganized attachment : 31:55- 43:00What is Secure Attachment?: 43:07–45:06Types/Levels of Severance (and concussion anecdote) 45:10-58:30Examples of the Disorganized field in Severance: 58:34-1:21:26Themes of Severance: 1:21:35-1:26:50SSW Questions/Sourdough/Signoff 1:26:57- 1:31:59My Why/Locating myself in Severance: 1:33:22-1:36:51Signoff/Invitation to rev’s Roadmap 1:37-endScene Links—------------------------Wellness Session—---------------------------------------------Grateful for all the learning and inspiration alluded to in today’s episode:My teacher Carmen Spagnola for her courses on Secure attachment, Contact Nutrition, and Collapse on The Numinous Network The Small and Delicious Life- Ruben’s easiest and most accessible sourdough ever!Roadmap to Liberation withRev. angel Kyodo williamsAs always:----------------------------------Thankful for the musical inspiration for the theme song:Hadestown by Anais Mitchell, specifically“Our Lady of the Underground” andOrpheus’ Song“Hedwig’s Theme” by John WilliamsShout out for the artistic assistance of:Matt Schubbe (Logo)Kevin Carlow (Music and sound editing)—------------------------------------------Free Palestine! There are many ways to support the Palestinian people right now. Join a student encampment near you,call or email your congressperson via the JVP’s daily calls oremail them here. 94 members of Congress have called for a ceasefire,can you help to add yours to the list?​Spread the word on social media, or check outOperation Olive Branch, a mutual aid organization that has compiled a list of GoFundMe’s for those in urgent need.

S2 Intro: 🌕♈️ ManifestDough: Process, Promises, Pleasure, Purpose, & Polyamory

Kristyn is joined live by her husband and sound editor in today’s episode where she revisits and reflects on her relationship to Sourdough and how it is continuing to guide her(See Episode 0: What’s in a Name?)as she is gearing up for a new season of the podcast and any other synchronous pleasures and breadcrumbs that may line the path.
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Grateful for all the learning and inspiration alluded to in today’s episode:
Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way
adrienne maree brown’s “Emergent Strategy”
Sarah Faith Gottesdiener’s Many Moons Lunar Planner (available for preorder now!)
The Numinous Network with Carmen Spagnola for all the Attachment and Contact Nutrition courses and resources
Rev. angel Kyodo williams
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Thank you Resource Generation for the following:
We know that climate disasters are a direct product of all the other systemic failures in our society. For instance, housing insecurity is only magnified by climate insecurity—as climate disasters can, and have, destroyed homes in a matter of minutes. Historically corporate lobbying, funded by wealthy people, has prioritized the expansion of fossil fuels over protecting our communities. In times like these, we lean on our movement partners’ wisdom about how to proceed and support. Today, we are learning from Movement For Black Lives member Southerners on New Ground’s (SONG) wisdom: 
 
“We know that nothing about this disaster or what is happening to our people is natural. It is not natural for police officers and militiamen to guard stocked grocery stores in areas without food or water. It is not natural for workers in Erwin, TN to be missing after being forced to continue working as their town flooded. It is not natural to leave people in cages while cities evacuate. It is not natural to plan to pave over forest wetlands to build a Cop City when flooding in Atlanta worsens each year. It is not natural that our region will have to fight tooth and nail for recovery resources while our government spends billions funding genocide. In the face of it all, we must do the most natural thing we can, we must turn towards each other.”
 
Indeed, as catastrophic as these moments are, they can also be transformative as communities come together to respond, and in our best moments imagine another world as possible. Please consider donating to Mutual Aid Disaster Relief who are doing incredible work and need our support and any other ways you can redistribute power and be in solidarity.
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Thankful for the musical inspiration for the theme song:
Hadestown by Anais Mitchell, specifically “Our Lady of the Underground” and Orpheus’ Song
“Hedwig’s Theme” by John Williams
Shout out for the artistic assistance of:
Matt Schubbe (Logo)
Kevin Carlow (Music and sound editing)

S1E6: 🌑♍️ The Podcast is the Process, Sourdough as Metaphor, and Polyamorous Practice in Creative Community

How does our creative process actually create us?  How does having a thriving ecosystem of relationships and creative outlets better resource us for ALL our relationships and creative projects?  How can we create community and engage in metaphor to support ourselves?  What does sourdough have to do with any of this??
Kristyn with a Why gets personal and reflects on the process of season 1, sharing more backstory of the last year of the three-year journey leading up to the release of the podcast in this decidedly un-finale episode of “season 1.”
(Free week on The Numinous Network with Carmen Spagnola is September 9-15, join her newsletter if you would like to join me there! <3)
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Free Palestine! There are many ways to support the Palestinian people right now. Join a student encampment near you, call or email your congressperson via the JVP’s daily calls or email them here. 94 members of Congress have called for a ceasefire, can you help to add yours to the list? ​
Spread the word on social media, or check out Operation Olive Branch, a mutual aid organization that has compiled a list of GoFundMe’s for those in urgent need. 
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Grateful for all the learning and inspiration alluded to in today’s episode:
The Numinous Network with Carmen Spagnola
Rev. angel Kyodo williams
As always:----------------------------------
Thankful for the musical inspiration for the theme song:
Hadestown by Anais Mitchell, specifically “Our Lady of the Underground” and Orpheus’ Song
“Hedwig’s Theme” by John Williams
Shout out for the artistic assistance of:
Matt Schubbe (Logo)Kevin Carlow (Music and sound editing)

S1E5: 🌕♒️ ”Crack in the Wall” Invitations to Liberation and Hadestown Vibes

This season focuses on the 2019 film “Little Women” and this episode connects it to the 2019 Tony Award winning musical “Hadestown.”
How are period pieces a prophetic praxis that helps us to view the reality of THIS moment in time?  In what ways is/can our creative practices be liberatory?  How can we reach toward a liberated future when public schools are priming and praising students to obey fascism?  Is Orpheus even a real person, a metaphor for creativity, or a manic pixie dream boy?
Kristyn with a Why dives deep into the themes of liberation in stories- how they invite us to liberation through the cracks in the walls: the 4th wall between us and the characters in stories, the walls we build between “us” and “them”, and the walls of domesticity that we build to keep us from remembering our wildness.  
(See time stamps and links mentioned in the podcast below.)
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Grateful for all the learning and inspiration alluded to in today’s episode:
Anna Kendrick “the characters in musicals don’t acknowledge they are singing”
Sophie Strand’s Disappearing stars and Fake Realism and “Orpheus is a Title” 
Roadmap to Liberation “Prophetic Praxis”
My recovering teacher blog post
Akilah richards’ Raising Free People
Fascism 101: Episode 207 of The Numinous Podcast
Kurt Vonnegut shape of stories
Manic pixie dream girls or stale white wonderbread boys?
Rewilding 101course
Liberated to the Bone book
Rev. angel Kyodo williams
Hadestown Links:
Persephone’s “Crack in the Wall” on Hadestown  (The “song/story” is (a) meta(phor), folks!)
“Wedding Song”-  Orpheus’ Song will bring world into tune and make flowers bloom, and Eurydice chooses to stay with Orpheus (How Jo is in tune when connected to her creativity, and how Meg chooses John despite him being a poor man)
“Hey little songbird”- No good choices in late stage capitalism (Meg stumbles when buying the silk, and Jo “sells out” to Dashwood).
“Flowers” -Eurydice forgets who she is, but vaguely remembers a field of flowers. (Jo isn’t signing her name on her writing and longs for her childhood when her family was enough)
“How Long?”-  Persephone makes Hades listen to Orpheus’ song (How Dashwood’s daughters made him see Jo’s book was worth publishing)
Why we build the wall: Capitalism requires we put up walls and remain disconnected, from ourselves, our creativity, from each other, from the natural world.
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 0-9:36: Intro to “Crack in the wall”
9:36-20:10: Period Pieces as Prophetic Praxis
20:10-36:50: The problem with public schools/Unschooling
36:50-39:22: Meg:John::Eurydice::Orpheus
39:22-46:00:  Creative Practice=Liberation
46:00-52:57: Jo:Orpheus::Beth:Eurydice
52:57-1:01:00: Eurydice:Orpheus::Jo::Creative Practice
1:01:00-1:06:00:  We can all be an Orpheus
1:06:00-1:12:00: Why do we build the wall?
1:12:00-end: Outro/Gratitude
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Thankful for the musical inspiration for the theme song:
Hadestown by Anais Mitchell, specifically “Our Lady of the Underground” and Orpheus’ Song
“Hedwig’s Theme” by John Williams
Shout out for the artistic assistance of:
Matt Schubbe (Logo)
Kevin Carlow (Music and sound editing)
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Free Palestine! There are many ways to support the Palestinian people right now. Join a student encampment near you, call or email your congressperson via the JVP’s daily calls or email them here. 94 members of Congress have called for a ceasefire, can you help to add yours to the list? ​
Spread the word on social media, or check out Operation Olive Branch, a mutual aid organization that has compiled a list of GoFundMe’s for those in urgent need. 
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S1E4: 🌑♌️ The Wealth Wound in {Little Women}

This season focuses on the 2019 film “Little Women”Wouldn’t Sally have a more intimate friendship with Meg if she were better attuned to the gap in their economic realities?  If Laurie weren’t so worried about pleasing his rich grandfather would he feel free to pursue his creativity?  How did forming attachment with Beth provide the catalyst for Mr Lawrence to move from a place of “charity” to “reciprocity”?  In what ways does Aunt March’s scarcity mindset and hoarding tendencies keep her from being able to live her life in alignment with her values?  Kristyn with a Why dives deep into the “wealth wound” in this episode- extending compassion to four people to whom capitalism has severed from earning secure attachment: with their friends, family, community, and themselves. **We will never pretend that people in up-power positions in systems of domination and oppression are harmed in equal or greater ways than those in down-power positions within those systems.  And yet, in order to be ignorant of your power and complacent within these systems- one must be severed from their sense of shared humanity, and this is a wound that needs tending (but never at the expense of folks in down-power positions).**(See time stamps and links to the scenes mentioned in the podcast below.) 0-6:26: Content Warning6:26-10:44: Land Acknowledgment, Locating my positionality in the story of Little Women10:45-13:00: Introduction to “the wealth wound”13:00-17:24: Sally17:24-23:28: Laurie23:30-28:14: Mr. Laurence28:14-39:50: Aunt March 39:50- 46:35: Unpacking my personal positionality in this story46:35- 49:00: Striving for the Marmee life: divesting by increasing community49:00-end: Outro/GratitudeScene Links—------------------------Sally at thedress shopMr Laurence andBethAunt march and Amy Marmee:Breakfast to Hummels—---------------------------------------------Grateful for all the learning and inspiration alluded to in today’s episode:Land Acknowledgement*Resmaa Menakem’s book “My Grandmother’s Hands” is a great resource at looking into how systems of domination impact bodies differently depending on their power in that system- specifically racialized trauma*Dra Rocio Rosales Mesa- for more compassionate holding towards unlearning and healing from colonial programming.Carmen Spagnola and The Numinous Network Toi Marie-Instagram- “The responsibility of white wealth”“Selling labor for currency” Rev. angel Kyodo williamsAs always:----------------------------------Thankful for the musical inspiration for the theme song:Hadestown by Anais Mitchell, specifically“Our Lady of the Underground” andOrpheus’ Song“Hedwig’s Theme” by John WilliamsShout out for the artistic assistance of:Matt Schubbe (Logo)Kevin Carlow (Music and sound editing)—---------------------------------------------Free Palestine! There are many ways to support the Palestinian people right now. Join a student encampment near you,call or email your congressperson via the JVP’s daily calls oremail them here. 94 members of Congress have called for a ceasefire,can you help to add yours to the list?​Spread the word on social media, or check outOperation Olive Branch, a mutual aid organization that has compiled a list of GoFundMe’s for those in urgent need. —---------------------------------------------