Lifelines is a limited series podcast on plantcestral knowledge, mutual aid, and land-based movements for climate healing eco-cultural resilience throughout the world. Each episode will feature a conversation with healing practitioners, community organizers, and earth stewards working to build liberatory lifelines for a regenerative world amidst the polycrises threatening all life on our planet.
This special podcast is made possible with support from Wildseeds Funds.
Co-produced by sára abdullah.
Powered by Podeo (https://podeo.co) — Listen here (https://play.podeo.co/podcasts/22238)
In the final episode of Lifelines, I’m joined by my friends, Hadeel Assali and Hadi Awada. This episode features lessons from the plantcestor olive and what microorganisms can teach us about transformation and restoring life to the land. We continue our exploration of the possibilities of repair and remediation when the wounding to land, water, and people is ongoing, and we share stories from Gaza and Lebanon of how mutual aid reforms and changes our social relations and can be a joy practice.
Hadeel Assali is a former engineer with land remediation experience in the southern US; she is an anthropologist and writer whose research focuses on Gaza, Palestine and anti-colonial relations and repairs with land.
Hadi Awada is a permaculture practitioner and educator from South Lebanon, focusing on soil health, regenerative agriculture, and bioremediation in post-conflict landscapes.
Show Notes
References:
Gaza Mutual Aid Solidarity Network (https://givebutter.com/c/GazaSolidarity)
Lebanon Solidarity Collective (http://chuffed.org/project/lebanonsolidarity)
Amara Abdal Figueroa (https://www.artmattersfoundation.org/grantees/amara-abdal-figueroa-2022)
Vieques, Puerto Rico (https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/156136)
Nerium Oleander (https://landscapeplants.aub.edu.lb/Plants/PlantProfile/%20%20%20%2073beeb52-3747-4994-a058-544a4f0e77f2)
Song credits: Laura Mvula - Remedy
12 Aug 2025
Finding Each Other is the Priority of Our Times
In this episode of Lifelines, I’m joined by my friend, Azuka Khazrik. This episode features lessons from the plantcestor rose, exploration of how attachment styles expand beyond the interpersonal to interface with the polycrises in our world, an expansion of our conception of time, lessons from bioremediation efforts in Lebanon, and remembering the wisdom of our lands, lineages, languages, and our bodies have to heal and preserve our collectivity and relational wounding. Azuka Khazrik nurtures a plural, antimilitarist practice in service of transgenerational healing and collective transcendence. She creates assemblies, teaches, writes, makes music and multi-modal installations, and is the creatress behind the liberationist platforms “ خريطة الظلام Cartography of Darkness” (https://dark.society.systems), AATMA ✦ عتمة and “ܗܽܘܦܳܟܳܐ ܒܟܰܘܟܒ̈ܶܐ Astrorevolt”.
Show Notes
References:
The Land in Our Bones by Layla K. Feghali (https://www.riverroseremembrance.com/book-page)
Lebanon Solidarity Collective (http://chuffed.org/project/lebanonsolidarity)
Dr. Pierre Malychef - Cartography of Darkness (https://dark.society.systems/repository/?attachment_author=pierre-malychef)
“Anosh Adur”: A History of Ammonia (https://dark.society.systems/contribution/a-history-of-ammonia/)
Song credits:
Laura Mvula - Remedy
Interbreathing - Jessika Khazrik
10 Jul 2025
Tending the Life in Front of You
In the debut episode of Lifelines, I’m joined by my collaborator, sára abdullah to discuss our ongoing mutual aid project, Li Falasteen, an herbal guide for the medical workers of Gaza. This episode features lessons from the plantcestor sage, the origin story of the Li Falasteen guide, solidarity across the global South, and explorations of a mutual aid paradigm that inspires radical imagination and practical skill building for changing our material conditions for liberation in the present towards the future.
Show Notes
Li Falasteen Herbal Guide (https://www.riverroseremembrance.com/healingandsumud)
The Land in Our Bones by Layla K. Feghali (https://www.riverroseremembrance.com/book-page)
Gaza Mutual Aid Solidarity (https://givebutter.com/c/GazaSolidarity)
Mayan Midwives Herbal Clinic (https://givebutter.com/mayanmidwives)
References:
Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49622/perhaps-the-world-ends-here)
Poverty of Philosophy - Immortal Technique (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzWj9ZORv8E)
Song credit: Laura Mvula - Remedy
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
3 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 26 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
Quality
38
Social presence
0
YouTube
0
Engagement
32
Contact Lifelines
Guest appearances
Books guests
Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.
Host of Lifelines?
Claim your podcast to manage its listing and keep your show details accurate.
Pod Engine is an independent podcast discovery and analytics service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by this podcast. Artwork and show content belong to their owners. Full legal notice.
Explore this show Podcast research with Pod Engine
