We gather here today as friends to seek and hold communion while challenging the status quo on all things life, love, God, and death. Together we aim to spread light and facilitate collective liberation through authentic, loving conversation.
About the hosts:
Katerina is a love poet, creator, and weaver of the sacred into the everyday.
Mercedez is an artist, activist, and devout advocate of joy, play, and healthy hedonism.
Pedro is a leader in consciousness and cultural transformation, poet, rapper, and purveyor of God's love and light.
“When education is not liberating, it becomes the dream of the oppressed to become the oppressor.”**
Welcome back to Communion! We're so glad you're here. In this episode we discuss:
Backlash for challenging toxic gender norms
The reinforcement of patriarchy by women
What would the matriarchy do?
Systemic perceptions of beauty
Pedophilia in our collective conscious, determining our body standards, influencing our psyches
Realizing our own complicity within bondage
Fasting to discover the Self outside of prescribed roles
Travel as a source of liberation and grief
The power of queerness and alternative labels as a way of decentering men
The fluidity of love, energy, and identity
**paraphrased from Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" (https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Paulo+Freire%27s+%22Pedagogy+of+the+Oppressed%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&mstk=AUtExfB7XBEpdkDzWfMdFnWVRgNaGNylSUYDh1QIcdy__pL-ezg7OQ1fk1if4Z02d0TLMSUdxusPCcYAeK_ne0zvBqYP1FQ4YZvh2bfS6weO0rZIb3Q6icpjJKKzVgd3a4Rd1le_3GV7iHqn8puk_8elBAAofq7XgwgjoiNO6dUg1H6S5gQ&csui=3&ved=2ahUKEwii3pSb1fiTAxWFMUQIHTi9HPEQgK4QegQIARAB)
7 Jan 2026
Poetic Terrorism
“We need to be shocked into beauty.”
Welcome to the Temporary Autonomous Zone.
In this episode, we discuss being “stuck” in the body, and Hakeem Bey’s concept of Temporary Autonomous Zones: an artistic means of transcending the rules of our current realities. We delve into our relationships with our bodies, their wisdom, and the dangers of overidentification with them. We discuss liberatory tactics such as Poetic Terrorism to disrupt the mundane and shock people into beauty – as well as the burdens that come with being the disruptor. We discuss when to stay and fight, the love and freedom in letting go, and the role forgiveness plays in it all.
Chapters
00:00 Feeling Stuck in the Body
03:01 Exploring Temporary Autonomous Zones
07:42 The Concept of Poetic Terrorism
12:44 Body and Identity: Personal Journeys
18:57 The Wisdom of the Body
27:15 The Role of the Disruptor
35:20 Navigating Family Dynamics, Ideological Differences, Erasure, and Harm
40:34 The Burden of Being a Change Maker
43:27 The Freedom in Letting Go
55:17 Creating Space for New Beginnings
23 Nov 2025
Jesus Does Not Need a Gram
"Sometimes we discover what something is by subtraction. So you're actually shaping a new reality by removing things that obscure that reality."
Pedro is newly employed, Mercedez is lost in the present, and Katerina is becoming famous... and the rapture still hasn't hit, yet. In this episode we explore:
Navigating our professional coming out
Finding out where all the "No's" go
Growing like bamboo
Staying your soul's course
Social media's role in society and the artist's life
Disappearing to be found and the art that emerges from that place
Using obsession as a gift and precision in where we aim it
"I have this vision of myself for a reason." PERIOD. Namaste, friends.
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