My name is Phyllis Wilson and this is We’re All Alright, the show that explores all the reasons we have to be hopeful–even joyful–about humanity and about our world today.
My goal is to reconnect us with the humans at the heart of the issues, and from that place, explore deep and powerful questions about the world we share and how we think about it.
So instead of feeling like all is lost, we start to wake up every morning and think, cool, we’re going to be alright.
I’m thinking about parents and parenting. How much of who we are do we owe to our parents? And how much of how they are–and were–do they owe to us?
1 May 2022
Are We Our Personalities?
As we’re digging into the questions of who or what can tell us who we are, and the limitations of any person or tool that attempts to do that, I’m thinking about typologies. Our interest in them, our reliance on them, and what that means–what we’re making that mean–about ourselves and about each other.
24 Apr 2022
Are We The Roles We Play?
Today, I’m thinking about the complexity of identity.
Yes, we choose who we are, and how much any particular role defines us. But we also can’t disregard, dismiss, or discount other people’s perceptions of us, because they, too, make us who we are.
17 Apr 2022
Are We Our Bodies?
With the emergence of the Body Positivity movement onto the global stage via social media in the last 10 years, I’m thinking about our bodies.
10 Apr 2022
Are We Our Politics?
Political identity encompasses how and why we choose to define ourselves as members of, in alignment with, or in relation to, political parties, and how we perceive others who do so, especially those of opposing parties.
What are we really doing when we adopt a political identity? And is it even useful?
30 Jan 2022
Where Do We Go From Here? (The Good Place, Naturally)
Today, I’m thinking about two of my favorite episodes of The Good Place and how they illustrate the complications of logic in modern life and what it means to be working to make the world a better place.
23 Jan 2022
Media: Where "Truth" Meets Human Nature
In this episode, we explore the topic of Media. What do we even mean when we say “the media?” Why do we choose one news or information source over another? And if there are no reliable news sources, whose version of events do we trust?
16 Jan 2022
Are Cults on the Rise?
I've been thinking about my own relationship with cults, or more specifically, cult-thinking, and about how easy it is, not just for any one of us to find ourselves accidentally in or in close philosophical proximity to a cult, but also how easy it could be for any of us–especially those of us who are teachers, coaches and mentors–to find ourselves leading one.
It’s not as far-fetched as it sounds.
9 Jan 2022
Rethinking Haiti, Colonialism, and Freedom with Samoa Blanchet
As a follow-up to the last episode about immigration, migration, and national identity, I invited one of my very favorite people, Samoa Blanchet, to talk about what her home country of Haiti is really like, and for a discussion of how we form perceptions, how they endure, and how we might change them.
2 Jan 2022
Immigration and State-Hood: Are All Who Wander Lost?
The lingering–and still raging–pandemic has claimed the lives of over 5 million people worldwide, and has laid bare the incredible disparities in wealth, education, access to basic medicine, shelter, food, and clean water among every nation on the planet.
In this context, I’m thinking about borders, immigration and migration, national identity, and about unity and division in an increasingly global world.
12 Dec 2021
The Power of Looking For The Good
Today, I’m joined by my producer, Sean McMullin to have a conversation about why I started this podcast and why I’m so passionate about the practice of hope, of believing that We’re All Alright.
5 Dec 2021
What Does Justice Mean in the Freedom of Truth Era?
Personal choice–in schooling, in restorative justice–has been a theme of this podcast so far. Thinking about restorative justice especially, in this climate of “personal choice” raises more questions than it answers. It seems almost preposterous to consider whether restorative justice processes could play out successfully in our culture as it is. What does justice mean in this “freedom of truth” reality we’re living in?
28 Nov 2021
How Should We Practice Justice?
Phyllis explores how the US prison system was developed as a more humane alternative to corporal punishments, why the post-emancipation Black Codes led to the disproportionate incarceration of formerly enslaved people, and how we can define justice in a framework of relationship and integration and other models of non-punitive justice
28 Nov 2021
The (Mis)Education of... All of Us?
Phyllis Wilson presents a brief history of compulsory public schooling and the grim realities of child labor, American homeschooling and its surprising ties to post-Civil War Black communities, and who personal choice in education leaves behind and how we can imagine a way forward.
28 Sept 2021
Introducing We're All Alright
My name is Phyllis Wilson and this is We’re All Alright, the show that explores all the reasons we have to be hopeful–even joyful–about humanity and about our world today.
My goal is to reconnect us with the humans at the heart of the issues, and from that place, explore deep and powerful questions about the world we share and how we think about it.
So instead of feeling like all is lost, we start to wake up every morning and think, cool, we’re going to be alright.
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