Lateral Love: Recent Episodes
4Rs Youth Movement
The 4Rs Lateral Love podcast is a three-part series hosted by Roland Jones that was created to unpack the stigma around lateral violence and the struggles that exist within Indigenous communities when it comes to moving away from intergenerational trauma, toward lateral love. Throughout this series, we will share stories of navigating mental health within our contexts as young organizers and the negative impacts we experience facing lateral violence in our communities. We hope to shine a light on new ways of relating to one another, while being honest about our trauma responses and emotional burnout, and imagining something different for our futures. We hope that through acts of healing and lateral love, like mycelium, networks of young people can help to repair and strengthen our community & family support systems.
Our third episode and final episode of the Lateral Love podcast series features Thomas Snow. Thomas is from the community of Mini Thni also known as Morley, AB. He’s a fluent speaker of Nakoda Sioux (his first language) and has been working as an advocate for his community and for the Nakoda Sioux language since birth. In this final episode, Roland & Thomas will be talking about the importance of men's healing. They break down and discuss masculinity transforming through time and Indigenous fatherhood, and what a concrete idea of men's healing can look like moving forward.
ABOUT OUR GUEST:
Thomas Snow is from the community of Mini Thni also known as Morley, AB and is a fluent speaker of Nakoda Sioux, which is also his first language. He has been working as an advocate for his community and for the Nakoda Sioux language since birth. His post-secondary education was focused on social anthropology and he’s been working within the field of education and delivering land-based learning curriculum and field schools in the Treaty 7 area for post-secondary institutions and organizations since 2016. Thomas is also a documentary producer of CBC’s “Warrior Fathers” and hosts a number of shows on Winderspeaker Radio for Southern and Northern Alberta. Thomas also holds the role of Equity Educator at 4Rs Youth Movement.
Our second episode features Dani Lanouette and Ronald Gamblin, two 4Rs staff members and youth who are community organizers and educators in different ways and capacities. In this episode, Roland, Dani & Ron tackle unpacking the stigma around lateral violence and the struggles that exist within communities surrounding lateral love. We talk about trauma-informed care and discuss histories that contribute to our struggles.
ABOUT THE GUESTS: Dani Lanouette is a queer Two Spirit Anishinaabekwe from Neyaashiinigmiing and Algonquins of Barriere Lake. Born and raised in Ottawa, Dani now lives on Treaty 4 territory in Oskana ka-asastēki (Regina, SK). Dani has been doing community work in different capacities for the last decade and works at 4Rs as the Communications and Community Care Manager.
Ronald Gamblin is an Anishinaabe and Inninew young person born and raised in Winnipeg, MB, Treaty 1 and has familial ties to places such as Cross Lake (Pimicikamak), Pine Creek (Mina’igoziibiing) and Pic Morbert (Netamising zagigan). Ron holds many roles in his community. He’s a community organizer, drummer, a facilitator, an older brother, and a bit of a self-described rowdy guy. Ron is currently the National Learning Community Coordinator for 4Rs.
You can follow Carrington on Twitter @carrchristmas and on Instagram @ceyonce_
Audio editing, original theme music composition, and graphic design work for the project by Vi Levitt
Logo and artwork is done by Mia Ohki and titled “Mycellial Network”
Follow 4Rs Youth Movement on Twitter @4RsYouth and on Instagram @4Rs_youth_movement
This podcast was made possible through financial support from the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch (FNIHB)’s Youth Hope Fund.