Across forests and movements, there are already blueprints for how people get each other through hard times. Morningstar's lecture moves between Indigenous food and plant knowledge, stories of resistance, and the strange genius of the more-than-human world to ask what it means to stop waiting for a singular savior and start acting like we are responsible for one another. Skunk cabbage making its own heat under snow, hemlock reishi turning dead wood into medicine, ramps appearing only to those who know how to look, and the Haudenosaunee Dish with One Spoon treaty- a commitment to share land, ask consent, and leave enough for others- all become guides for friendship, collective care, and remembering those who have been lost. Alongside them stand human examples: women who braided seeds into their hair before crossing an ocean, grandmothers leading round dances in shopping malls, micro-communities that feed each other and hold each other through grief while refusing the colonial status quo.
This program is co-sponsored by Goethe Institute
Free and Open to the Public
