In conversation with a wide range of artists, makers, creators, and caretakers, this podcast takes on two fundamental and interconnected questions: How do we care for ourselves and each other? How do we nurture the Earth? <br/><br/><a href="https://herdeepestecologies.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">herdeepestecologies.substack.com</a>
Her Deepest Ecologies: The Podcast
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In conversation with a wide range of artists, makers, creators, and caretakers, this podcast takes on two fundamental and interconnected questions: How do we care for ourselves and each other? How do we nurture the Earth? <br/><br/><a href="https://herdeepestecologies.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">herdeepestecologies.substack.com</a>
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December 21, 2024
Episode 14: Martha Silano
<p><p>“I am always finding inspiration out there.” </p></p><p>In April, during National Poetry Month, I had the chance to talk with Martha Silano about her writing process, her poetry teachers, her new book (This One We Call Ours, winner of the 2024 Blue Lynx Prize in Poetry) and her recent ALS diagnosis. This conversation was a real gift after taking multiple poetry classes with Martha over the past several years. </p><p>After this interview, I attended Martha’s book launch in September 2024 at Third Place Books in Seward Park and it was incredible to see her community of family, friends, and poets there to support this book and read poems on her behalf. Terrain.org offered a similar reading online and that link is below. Martha has two more books (Terminal Surreal (Acre Books, 2025), Last Train to Paradise: New and Selected Poems (Saturnalia Books, 2025)) scheduled for release in 2025 and she continues to publish her work widely. </p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/martha-silano">Martha’s Bio</a></p><p>Martha Silano’s poetry collections include Terminal Surreal (Acre Books, 2025), Last Train to Paradise: New and Selected Poems (Saturnalia Books, 2025), This One We Call Ours (Lynx House Press, 2024), winner of the 2023 Blue Lynx Prize, Gravity Assist (Saturnalia Books, 2019), Reckless Lovely (Saturnalia Books, 2014), and The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception (Saturnalia Books, 2011). Her awards include North American Review’s James Hearst Poetry Prize and The Cincinnati Review’s Robert and Adele Schiff Award.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.terrain.org/2024/events/tribute-to-martha-silano/"><strong>A Tribute to Martha Silano by Eleven Poets: An Online Reading Hosted by Terrain.org</strong></a></p><p><strong>Possible Diagnosis</strong></p><p>What’s that stone, that one stone edgingtoward the edge? In Italian, for spider,say ragno. Say web</p><p>in a musical spell. I was with a friend,on my last round. When I told herI might be dying,</p><p>she was my dictator of snow, holding meand my gone-berserk nerves.I told her my mother</p><p>puts the relevant clues in crossword puzzles:Riley, refs, and palomas. Isn’t shethe best cheerer-upper ever?</p><p>Maybe I’m a witch for the drama cauldron,maybe I just need more sleep, morenooky, cookies-n-cream.</p><p>Old and unheavy, in need of rest. God?I don’t quite believe, but at nightI let myself go fetal,</p><p>hands pressed like that plastic pair Svennie foundat a thrift store in Shelton. To breathe.To swallow. Now I understand:</p><p>incurable might not be the worst thing. Upsides, like creasingthe cloth napkins, carrying them down to their homein a living room drawer,</p><p>admiring the spotted towhee making a ruckus in dead leaves.I thought it would be like a thumb coming downon a spider’s body, but it was not.</p><p>Published in <a target="_blank" href="https://www.theshorepoetry.org/martha-silano-possible-diagnosis">The Shore</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://magazine.washington.edu/feature/martha-silanos-forthcoming-book-terminal-surreal-explores-her-terminal-illness-diagnosis/">More about </a><a target="_blank" href="https://magazine.washington.edu/feature/martha-silanos-forthcoming-book-terminal-surreal-explores-her-terminal-illness-diagnosis/">Terminal Surreal</a><a target="_blank" href="https://magazine.washington.edu/feature/martha-silanos-forthcoming-book-terminal-surreal-explores-her-terminal-illness-diagnosis/"> coming September 2025</a> in University of Washington Magazine. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/1626393/self-elegies">Self-Elegies</a> recently published on the poetryfoundation.org.</p><p><strong>Her Deepest Ecologies</strong><strong> is recorded at Jack Straw Cultural Center in Seattle, WA. Thanks to their Artist Support Program and studio engineer Ayesha Ubayatilaka. All episodes are available on Substack, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. This podcast is free and available to anyone. For more information or to be considered for a future episode, reach out via email at: </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/8b09bbd7-410c-43ae-ae6a-23f1b6f24d7c?j=eyJ1IjoiNDkzcW14In0.IfXPuLE2JcznnL5IrStv_J029DfVI4wS8RSQp4DfnD0"><strong>jessicagigot@gmail.com</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Her Deepest Ecologies at <a href="https://herdeepestecologies.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">herdeepestecologies.substack.com/subscribe</a>
December 20, 2024
Episode 13: Louis Ledford
<p>“I am concentrating on playing live in front of as small an audience as possible.”</p><p>I have always loved Louis Ledford’s music and his captivating storytelling. I enjoyed the chance to talk about songwriting, his life as an artist, and his move to Bellingham from New Orleans. He performs regularly in and around Bellingham, hosts a radio show, and curates music for the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.honeymoonmeads.com/calendar">Honey Moon</a>. After doing a lot of virtual performances during the pandemic, I appreciate his focus right now on playing live, intimate shows where he can “make eye contact” with his audience.</p><p>I have included some videos and links below and featured two of my favorite Louis songs in the interview—enjoy!</p><p><strong>Louis’ Bio:</strong></p><p>Born in the American South, Louis Ledford has carved out a career composing and performing literate Americana roots music. He has produced three solo recordings in association with Waterbug Records, a relationship which began in 2005 when Ledford met label owner Andrew Calhoun at the legendary Texas Kerrvile Folk Festival. Louis has collaborated with folk diva Anais Mitchell on several projects including his singing the role of Hades for a early roadshow performing songs that became the bones of her Tony winning Broadway musical Hadestown. Mitchell recorded his song “When You Fall” for her collaborative album Country EP with Rachel Ries released by Ani Difranco’s Righteous Babe Records.</p><p>His songs are three and one half minute stories that detail seemingly real characters who rise and fall to the melody and rhythm of a piedmont style finger picked guitar. You will hear echoes of Willie Nelson and Guy Clark in his voice. His arrangements invoke c&w, tin pan alley, beatles and the blues.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://louisledford.bandcamp.com/album/treebranch-and-moonlight">https://louisledford.bandcamp.com/album/treebranch-and-moonlight</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.louisledfordmusic.com/">https://www.louisledfordmusic.com/</a></p><p>Listen to Louis on the Radio:</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://spinitron.com/KZAX/show/180182/Unknown-Fidelity">Unknown Fidelity on Bellingham’s KZAX</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.mixcloud.com/UnknownFidelity/">https://www.mixcloud.com/UnknownFidelity/</a></p><p><strong>Music in podcast:</strong></p><p>Big Fat Moon, from Century Plant on Esplanade Ave., 2012</p><p>A Farm in New Hampshire, from Treebranch and Moonlight, 2010</p><p>Learn About the <a target="_blank" href="https://stringbandjamboree.com/">The Subdued Stringband Jamboree</a>: August 7, 8, and 9th, 2025</p><p><strong>Her Deepest Ecologies</strong><strong> is recorded at Jack Straw Cultural Center in Seattle, WA. Thanks to their Artist Support Program and studio engineer Ayesha Ubayatilaka. All episodes are available on Substack, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. This podcast is free and available to anyone. For more information or to be considered for a future episode, reach out via email at: </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/8b09bbd7-410c-43ae-ae6a-23f1b6f24d7c?j=eyJ1IjoiNDkzcW14In0.IfXPuLE2JcznnL5IrStv_J029DfVI4wS8RSQp4DfnD0"><strong>jessicagigot@gmail.com</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://herdeepestecologies.substack.com/">https://herdeepestecologies.substack.com/</a></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Her Deepest Ecologies at <a href="https://herdeepestecologies.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">herdeepestecologies.substack.com/subscribe</a>
December 19, 2024
Episode 12: Emily Gigot
<p><p>“We’ve extracted all the materials we really need to clothe ourselves.”</p></p><p>My sister has worked in the textile and apparel industry for many years. Her work is focused on sustainability and we had a great discussion about clothing, waste, fabric quality, fiber types and processing, and the future of textiles. As someone who has been focused on sustainable food systems, it was very illuminating to learn about the potential and obstacles associated with sustainable supply chain management in apparel. Our conversation tackled the <strong>life cycle of a shirt</strong>, which brought up a variety of ideas, initiatives, and complexities around sustainability.</p><p>I have created a glossary of terms below and included some additional links.</p><p><strong>Emily’s </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilygigot/"><strong>Bio</strong></a><strong>:</strong></p><p>Emily is a Seattle-based corporate sustainability leader. With diverse experience spanning apparel, international community development and sustainability, she’s a Pacific Northwesterner who’s happy to be back in Seattle after years living and working in Los Angeles, Thailand and Peru. She holds an MBA in Sustainable Business a BA in Diplomacy and World Affairs.</p><p><strong>Glossary of Terms</strong></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://erefdn.org/advancing-circularity/">Circularity</a>-keeps materials moving through reuse, repair, redistribution, and recycling. This is the most powerful way to preserve natural resources and minimize emissions that cause climate change.</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://deohs.washington.edu/sites/default/files/brochures/microfiber-factsheet.pdf">Microfiber</a>-a polyester and nylon (polyamide) fiber that is used to make fabric. The fiber is split many times smaller than a human hair. </p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://fashionforgood.com/our_news/not-so-micro-an-exploration-of-the-impact-of-fibre-fragmentation-2/#:~:text=Fibre%20fragments%20have%20a%20negative,through%20waterways%2C%20air%20and%20soil.">Fiber Fragment</a>-*updated* term for microfiber. They have a negative impact on our environment and our health too. They shed due to chemical processing, mechanical stress and natural weathering. They are released and transferred through waterways, air and soil.</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://global-standard.org/">Global Organic Textile Standard</a>-developed by leading standard setters to define world-wide recognized requirements for organic textiles. From the harvesting of the raw materials, environmentally and socially responsible manufacturing to labelling, textiles certified to GOTS provide a credible assurance to the consumer.</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/fashion-clothing/what-fast-fashion-why-it-problem">Fast Fashion</a>-widely considered to be low-quality apparel produced rapidly to follow current trends in the industry and sold at rock-bottom prices. Although the monetary cost is low, textile workers and the environment are paying a high price. Fast fashion is cheap because workers are not paid adequately. Clothes are poorly made, widely purchased, rarely worn and quickly thrown away.</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://textileexchange.org/manmade-cellulosics/">Man-made cellulosics</a> -regenerated fibers usually made from the dissolved wood pulp or “cellulose” of trees. Viscose, lyocell, and modal are all kinds of man-made cellulosics. Because they’re plant-based, MMCFs are renewable, and so have the potential to be a climate-friendly material if the wood is sourced sustainably and the processing chemicals are handled properly.</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/california-responsible-textile-recovery-act-passed/729095/">Responsible Textile Recover Act</a>-California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed this into law October 2024, making apparel and textile producers responsible for creating a plan to collect, repair and recycle their products.</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://kingcounty.gov/en/dept/dnrp/waste-services/garbage-recycling-compost/services/textile-recycling">Threadcycle</a> in King County</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.stitchclinic.com/difference-between-fabrics/">Knits, Wovens, Non-Woven Fabrics</a></p><p>Emily referenced Ghana in our talk. I wanted to share this recent and important PBS feature (November 2024) on waste in the textile industry. </p><p><strong>Her Deepest Ecologies</strong><strong> is recorded at Jack Straw Cultural Center in Seattle, WA. Thanks to their Artist Support Program and studio engineer Ayesha Ubayatilaka. All episodes are available on Substack, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more information or to be considered for a future episode, reach out via email at jessicagigot@gmail.com.</strong></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Her Deepest Ecologies at <a href="https://herdeepestecologies.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">herdeepestecologies.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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