Coming Soon: The Religion in Revolt Podcast

Happy New Year! 

Thank you to everyone who has subscribed and shared our work since we launched our newsletter last July. If you’ve enjoyed our work, we’d love it if you shared it on social media and with family and friends. You can invite them to subscribe here. 

We are starting 2024 with an exciting announcement: We launch the Religion in Revolt podcast on May 1. 

We are so proud of the work we have done so far, and we are committed to growing our community—and the podcast is the next step in this. 

The podcast will feature conversations with organizers, professors, artists, and writers who think about the world like we are—people who help us think more deeply about abolitionist building and liberatory work. 

It will also feature Dwayne and I in conversation with each other. Like the writing we have published, we will use our audio storytelling to think about our shared histories and resistance. 

Here are some of the essays that feel representative of the work we will continue doing this year. Dwayne wrote about hope and Palestinian liberation, writing, “There is no hope without action. Hope is a set of unstated, thunderous assertions: about our ability to transform our situation, as well as the limitations of those who would stop us. It’s the sense that we’re not wholly impotent and our oppressors aren’t all-powerful.”

I reported on Stop Cop City and interviewed the Rev. Keyanna Jones about the political repression happening in Atlanta. She described the work being done to protect the Weelaunee Forest and the efforts to allow Black and Brown people to vote for or against Cop City. 

We will keep analyzing and writing about the resistance we see happening worldwide, and with the podcast, we hope to feature many of the voices doing liberation work on the frontlines worldwide. 

We will continue expanding and building on many of the topics that are important to us, from the ecological crisis to detention camps at the border. 

In solidarity,

-Olga