Larger, Freer, More Loving

by Matt LaVine & Dwight K. Lewis Jr.

We hope to aid ourselves and others in a journey towards living a “larger, freer, and more loving” life through critically engaging the popular culture that we live in, particularly with a focus on justice, care, the Arts, and community. 

Podcast episodes

  • Season 2

  • S02 E03 - Black Planetary Ecology: Diamonds in the Cave

    S02 E03 - Black Planetary Ecology: Diamonds in the Cave

    Today, we were lucky enough to have a conversation with a scholar, public intellectual, and activist who happens to be one of our favorite human beings on the planet – Dr. Claudia Ford. We began by asking Claudia to explain the r...

    01:08:01
  • S02 E02 - Rage & Social Justice: a new beginning

    S02 E02 - Rage & Social Justice: a new beginning

    Welcome back for our second episode of season 2 which, as we said last time, is going to forefront things like the role of emotion in racial justice and social justice work more broadly, concepts of transformation and revolution, ...

    01:05:24
  • S02 E01 - Returning to a “Larger, Freer, More Loving” Life

    S02 E01 - Returning to a “Larger, Freer, More Loving” Life

    Alright, welcome folks. We are back at it again with SEASON 2. We are extremely excited about this season and what we have in store for you all. In this episode, we talk about transitions we’ve both been going through since Seaso...

    01:07:59
  • Season 1

  • S01 E10 - First Thoughts on Trump's Executive Order Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping

    S01 E10 - First Thoughts on Trump's Executive Order Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping

    In this episode, we began thinking through Trump's Executive Order Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping. It is a little raw.... which we took to be a good thing. We hope that this raises awareness!

    33:53
  • S01 E09 - A Counter Narrative using Non-western, Anti-western, and Other-western Philosophers and Philosophies

    S01 E09 - A Counter Narrative using Non-western, Anti-western, and Other-western Philosophers and Philosophies

    Today, we had three scholars that do fantastic research on counter narratives and counter histories in philosophy, John Harfouch, Meena Krishnamurthy, and Peter K.J. Park. We begin by defining counter narratives or histories in ph...

    01:28:16