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Talkin Story

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Stagione 2

Creating Community in Place, with guest Cendre Hunt

Cameron and Oceana are joined by their colleague, Cendre Hunt, to riff on the experience of organizing and creating solid PGM community in this place settlers call Jefferson County. It's also worth noting that last December, the board of Black Lives Matter of Jefferson County-Well Organized voted to change the name of the organization to Well Organized of Jefferson County. Learn more about Well Organized & Nourishing Beloved Community: well-organized.org nourishingbelovedcommunity.com --- Music Credits, Episode 7: Another Holiday, Justnormal The White Birch, Moorland Songs Soft Pine, Jobii Dreamers Of The Shore, Volcan Peaks Stereo Sunrise, Rebecca Mardel, james.lfo --- Talkin Story is a project of Well Organized: Collaborative Community Driven Organizing, in Port Townsend, WA. https://well-organized.org/ Season Two is sponsored by the Jefferson Community Foundation via a Donor Advised Fund. If you'd like to support us, please go to well-organized.org to make a donation to the Talkin' Story podcast. Music is provided with permission by Paramúcura y Chirigüe and selected artists from Epidemic Sound.

Community Thru the Arts (replay of Season One episode), with guest Camelia Jade

October, 2025: While we finalize the final episode of Season 2, we want to offer a replay of the conversation we had two years ago with Camelia Jade in Season 1 about making music and community. Not only is it a good segue into the next and final episode, "Creating Community in Place," it's also an opportunity to highlight the artist of the theme song for Season Two. Enjoy! --- In this episode we spend a bit of time with local musician and audio engineer, Camelia Jade, on a journey of the senses as we wind our way through culture and the arts on our way to community. Since 2006, Camelia Jade has worked in audio production for music, live sound, radio, podcasts, analog and digital preservation, independent film, on-location recordings as well as youth audio workshops, gallery installations and more. As a musician composing on guitar, charango, rhythm and voice, Camelia weaves tradition and innovation into songs that are lush and percussive, joyous or bittersweet. Camelia (pronounced kah-MEL-ee-ah) creates instrumental explorations that become a living soundtrack and sings with a voice that is both soothing and strong. https://cameliajade.com/ --- Talkin Story is a project of Well Organized: Collaborative Community Driven Organizing, in Port Townsend, WA. https://well-organized.org/ Season Two is sponsored by the Jefferson Community Foundation via a Donor Advised Fund. If you'd like to support us, please go to well-organized.org to make a donation to the Talkin' Story podcast. Music is provided with permission by Paramúcura y Chirigüe and selected artists from Epidemic Sound.

Making Home in Place, with guest Eileen Kindling Spirit

In this episode, Cameron and Oceana sit down with Eileen Kindling Spirit to discuss her experience farming livestock in Jefferson county. Woodbridge Farm is a beautiful, 20+ acre property in Chimacum that she has poured a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into, and is proud to call her home. Eileen Kindling Spirit is originally from Philadelphia and has lived in Jefferson since the 1980’s. She and her son Peter are one of the few Black land-owning farmers in Jefferson County. Eileen has a life-long passion for animals and people in need. Note: When this episode was recorded last year, we made an erroneous claim that Woodbridge was the only Black-owned farm in Jefferson, and even Clallam County. We have since learned that is not the case. --- Music Credits, Episode 5: Stereo Sunrise, Rebecca Mardel, james.lfo It's All For You, Volcan Peaks Post Traumatic Love Disorder, Rain Jewels Another Holiday, Justnormal --- Talkin Story is a project of Well Organized: Collaborative Community Driven Organizing, in Port Townsend, WA. https://well-organized.org/ Season Two is sponsored by the Jefferson Community Foundation via a Donor Advised Fund. If you'd like to support us, please go to well-organized.org to make a donation to the Talkin' Story podcast. Music is provided with permission by Paramúcura y Chirigüe and selected artists from Epidemic Sound.

Birthing in Place, with guests Savannah Hansel and Sasha Marshall

In this episode, we explore the otherside of giving birth as we chat with a couple local PGM folx - Savannah and Sasha - who both recently have given birth. The effects that community can have on families is poignantly explored in this episode, which could be heard as the second half of the previous episode with Meshell. Sasha Marshall is a local parent, dreamer, and data nerd. She finds joy in building up community and watching things flourish through the chaos. As an enrolled Haida tribal member, mother of three, wife, and golden doodle mamma, Savannah Hansel is a verified NW boss lady. She grew up between Port Townsend, where her dad's family lived since the 1960s, and Seattle's Native Alaskan diaspora on Capitol Hill. Over the past 20 years in PT, she has managed restaurants, worked in healthcare, run for county office on a substantive progressive platform, and was sponsored by the local Democrats as a fellow in a state democratic leadership program. Savannah takes pride in her work at Centrum promoting the next generation of youth creatives. At home, she's a masterful cook and food preserver, and fierce leader for her family. --- Music Credits, Episode 4: Reunited, Feinberg Trevande, William Claeson Bastard, Ramin --- Talkin Story is a project of Well Organized: Collaborative Community Driven Organizing, in Port Townsend, WA. https://well-organized.org/ Season Two is sponsored by the Jefferson Community Foundation via a Donor Advised Fund. If you'd like to support us, please go to well-organized.org to make a donation to the Talkin' Story podcast. Music is provided with permission by Paramúcura y Chirigüe and selected artists from Epidemic Sound.

A Body in Place, with guest Meshell Orozco

In this episode Cameron and Oceana traverse the vast territory of body sovereignty with our friend Meshell. We touch on food as family, what it's like to try in a body related profession as a PGM, and gender fluidity in a traditionally femme dominated midwifery profession. Their fearless advocacy for culturally relevant agency over the body is nothing short of inspired. Meshell (they/she) is a Xicana Partera, a Certified Professional and Licensed Midwife (CPM, LM) and a Community Herbalist who centers community and ancestral knowledge in their work. Learn more about Raices Midwifery: raicesmidwifery.com IG - @raicesmidwifery --- Music Credits, Episode 3: No Distractions, Staffan Carlén Starry Night, Collin Lim Tarifa, Vendla There is Always Tomorrow, Staffan Carlén --- Talkin Story is a project of Well Organized: Collaborative Community Driven Organizing, in Port Townsend, WA. https://well-organized.org/ Season Two is sponsored by the Jefferson Community Foundation via a Donor Advised Fund. If you'd like to support us, please go to well-organized.org to make a donation to the Talkin' Story podcast. Music is provided with permission by Paramúcura y Chirigüe and selected artists from Epidemic Sound.

Creating Art in Place, with guest davy (Bobby4Bobby)

In this episode, Oceana and Cameron get into some provocative material with davy regarding the intersectional identities and how to convey those as an entertainer, without it feeling extractive, as well as the near-taboo topic of colorism inside PGM community. davy is a Chimacum-based farmer, artist, performer, and radically tender human. Their art and the way they move through the world is informed by their experiences as a mixed race queer person. They are one half of the drag performing duo Bobby4Bobby. Find Bobby4Bobby on Instagram: @bobby.4.bobby --- Music Credits, Episode 2: Aguas de Cordillera, Paramúcura y Chirigüe Morgontimma, Christian Nanzell Gratitude Loop, HATAMITSUNAMI Kiri o koete, Sugoi --- Talkin Story is a project of Well Organized: Collaborative Community Driven Organizing, in Port Townsend, WA. https://well-organized.org/ Season Two is sponsored by the Jefferson Community Foundation via a Donor Advised Fund. If you'd like to support us, please go to well-organized.org to make a donation to the Talkin' Story podcast. Music is provided with permission by Paramúcura y Chirigüe and selected artists from Epidemic Sound.

Writing in Place, with guest Lisbeth White

Welcome to Season 2 of Talkin' Story. In this first episode, "Writing in Place", Oceana sits down with author/poet Lisbeth White in a conversational ramble through writing grounded in relationship to the Earth, and what impact that can have on our individual and collective liberation. Lisbeth White is an enchantivist writer based in the Pacific Northwest. She is the author of American Sycamore (Perugia Press, 2022), and co-editor of Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power (North Atlantic Books, 2023). Her nonfiction chapbook, A Most Natural Thing: An Elemental Memoir (Red Mare Press, 2025), won The Master’s Review Open Chapbook contest. Lisbeth has received support for her work from Artist Trust, VONA, Callaloo, Tin House, Roots.Wounds.Words., The Watering Hole, and Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference. She is a 2025 Periplus fellow and is at work on her first novel. Lisbeth's website: http://www.lisbethwrites.com Lisbeth's socials: IG: @earthmaven, Bluesky:@earthmaven.bsky.social Dr. Daneil Black HBCU Commencement Address https://youtu.be/F25OAzSzhfM?si=wm_zMrbKirbsxerK --- Music Credits, Episode 1: Aguas de Cordillera, Paramúcura y Chirigüe Effort, Katori Walker höstlöv, bomull månskensvals, bomull --- Talkin Story is a project of Well Organized: Collaborative Community Driven Organizing, in Port Townsend, WA. https://well-organized.org/ Season Two is sponsored by the Jefferson Community Foundation via a Donor Advised Fund. If you'd like to support us, please go to well-organized.org to make a donation to the Talkin' Story podcast. Music is provided with permission by Paramúcura y Chirigüe and selected artists from Epidemic Sound.

Stagione 1

Talkin Story: It's a Wrap on Season 1

Thank you for joining us for the first season of Talkin Story podcast. Over the course of the past six months of recordings, and the past 9 weeks of episodes, we have traveled through the complex terrain of racialized challenges, profound insights, far more laughs than tears, and many, many moments of delight. What emerged and grew was a sense that our collective capacity and vision can, and in fact is, generating unique and resilient ways of living and creating in these shifting times. We extend our deep thanks and appreciation to the many contributors to this podcast, for sharing their insight, perspective, wisdom, struggles and hope. As we turn our attention towards season two, please consider supporting us on this journey. Sponsorship inquiries can be addressed here: info@well-organized.org This episode concludes with the playing in full of our theme song, "Melanin" by Ben Wilson, in collaboration with Ave Avelino, and Morgan Tigerman, which has been a wonderful contribution. You can also find it on Spotify here: Melanin by Ben Wilson ----- Talkin Story is a project of Well Organized: Collaborative Community Driven Organizing in Port Townsend, WA. https://well-organized.org/ We appreciate the support of the Port Townsend Arts Commission, Jefferson Community Foundation, Finnriver Farm and Cidery, Addieun Foundation, the Community Equity Initiative, as well as private in-kind and monetary donations. Thank you!

Landback/Reparations

This is a very special episode in which local indigenous people and an African-descended community member talk about their efforts and viewpoints on reparations and landback. It gets personal as well as hopeful. The original flute music in this episode was generously provided by Paul Chiyokten Wagner, a member of the Saanich tribe of Vancouver Island. Chiyokten is a knowledge keeper of Coast Salish ways of educating and governing pertaining to co-creating Paradise from the time of the animal people to before Settler colonial contact. He is also a Frontline warrior and has spent much time at many indigenous lead occupations, most recently Fairy Creek. Most importantly, he is the founder of Protectors of the Salish Sea an Indigenous led group who has occupied the Washington State Capitol three times to help create a future for our wild salmon, our whales, the circle of life and all children. Jessaca Lee is a Łingít two-spirit femme with two lineages indigenous to Turtle Island, as well as European ancestry. She was raised on Łingít aaní and Dena’ina territory, born into the Tongass rainforest of Southeast Alaska where a piece of her heart will always remain. She now resides in Qatáy (Port Townsend), with gratitude to the traditional people of this land, the Chemakum, S’Klallam, Twana, Makah and more. She is growing roots and weaving dreams of a permanent home. While bed-bound from chronic illness in early 2019, she imagined the Jefferson County Anti-Racist Fund into being. JCARF is a grassroots community project, providing white folks with an opportunity to enact reparations and mutual aid. Naiome Dawn Krienke is a mixed tribal woman working on rematriating the lands of their ancestors and bringing back traditional ways. Chasity Sade is a mother, naturalist, earth-tender and mentor to youth. Connecting with her ancestral roots, supporting indigenous empowerment, and upholding social justice are all dear to her heart. She has lived in Chimacum, Washington for twelve years, intent on cultivating right relationship with the land and the people of the land. Talkin Story is a project of Well Organized: Collaborative Community Driven Organizing in Port Townsend, WA. https://well-organized.org/ We appreciate the support of the Port Townsend Arts Commission, Jefferson Community Foundation, Finnriver Farm and Cidery, Addieun Foundation, the Community Equity Initiative, as well as private in-kind and monetary donations. Thank you!

Communal Healing

In this episode with Velda Thomas, we sink into a relational field that includes ancestors, more-than-human-kin, and each other. Velda also reads a beautiful original poem inspired by her recent exploration of communal healing called "For the Benefit of All" which you can find on her Patreon. Velda was born in England, with family ancestry sourced from Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas. Love of creative expression has been a constant thread running through Velda’s life. Whether visual, written or performance she has dabbled in it all: blending genres to expose distinct hybrid forms of personal expression. Current practices and interests include sound, somatic movement, clay, printmaking, poetry and personal narrative. www.veldathomas.com www.patreon/veldathomas.com Book - Blended - Perspectives on Belonging Art Deck - Bless the Horses - An Equine Wisdom Deck IG - veldathomas11 FB - Velda Thomas and Stardust Press --- Talkin Story is a project of Well Organized: Collaborative Community Driven Organizing in Port Townsend, WA. https://well-organized.org/ We appreciate the support of the Port Townsend Arts Commission, Jefferson Community Foundation, Finnriver Farm and Cidery, Addieun Foundation, the Community Equity Initiative, as well as private in-kind and monetary donations. Thank you!In this episode with Velda Thomas sink into a relational field that includes ancestors, more-than-human-kin, and each other. She also reads a beautiful original poem inspired by her recent exploration of communal healing. Velda was born in England, UK with family ancestry sourced from Africa, the Caribbean and the America's. Love of creative expression has been a constant thread running through Velda’s life. Wether visual , written or performance she has dabbled in it all. Blending genres to expose distinct hybrid forms of personal expression. Current practices and interests include sound, somatic movement, clay, printmaking, poetry and personal narrative.

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