S.O.U.L. (Shared Opportunity Used Local) Space/ Free Store celebrates one-year anniversary and the grand opening of Paonia Makers… Listen to Cara and Wild’s interview on KVNF Radio about the S.O.U.L. Store and Radical Art in Action/ Paonia Makers.
Micaela, Zazu, and I were fascinated and stunned as we listened to David Levine’s AI production–a word-for-word, but radically reorganized overview of Zazu Dreams. Both tantalized and totally disoriented, we are including this AI-generated conversation to publicize our book that amidst…
in Body and Religion Interdisciplinary Journal Editors Dr. Wesley N. Barker and Dr. Emily Holmes Summary: My essay and presentation focus on my Irigarayan-inspired performative photographs that reimagine body-spirit relations. I frame the creative exploration of my Sephardic Jewish identity as an…
I have changed the names of our hosts at the Vodun Palace. ACT I Failure at its finest: “Human salvation lies in the hands of the creative maladjusted.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. For about a year, I have been…
by Cara Judea Alhadeff, PhD Dear Saan, Jumping right into Seoul—I want you to know your ancestral home…. The City: It’s funny to think back on the night I landed in Seoul. Having just returned from my solo photography exhibition…
December 2023 Thirteen Surrealist Provocations: Embodied Sacred Activism (We Shall Overcome) The thirteen surrealist provocations explored in this essay guide citizen activists to embody the sacred in their everyday lives. Each provocation (strategy, principle, and technique) targets a hegemonic force…
Please join us online for the book launch of our new book with Palgrave MacMillan! Philosophy as Practice in the Ecological Emergency: An Exploration of Urgent Matters My essay is called: “Equality: Industrial Capitalism’s Trojan Horse—Environmental Racism, Green…
The first of my three presentations with Báyò Akómoláfé’s We Will Dance With Mountains. A Zoom meeting with between 800-1000 attendees. Báyò was absent during that particular session due to severe illness. The chat became a roiling tsunami of…
I will be teaching three sessions with Báyò Akómoláfé’s We Will Dance With Mountains,11am ET ACT I, September 17 ACT II, October 1 ACT III, October 15 We Will Dance With Mountains, 2023 Dr. Cara Judea Alhadeff: Apocalypse of the…
I will be teaching three sessions with Báyò Akómoláfé’s We Will Dance With Mountains,11am ET ACT I, September 17 ACT II, October 1 ACT III, October 15 We Will Dance With Mountains, 2023 Dr. Cara Judea Alhadeff: Apocalypse of the…
I will be teaching three sessions with Báyò Akómoláfé’s We Will Dance With Mountains,11am ET ACT I, September 17 ACT II, October 1 ACT III, October 15 We Will Dance With Mountains, 2023 Dr. Cara Judea Alhadeff: Apocalypse of the…
Unveiling Progress as Parasite: We Must Replace “Renewable” Energies with Ecological Ethics • From The Paris Institute for Critical Thinking dePICTions volume 3 (2023): Critical Ecologies. Summary: My essay examines the insidious manifestations of greenwashing and environmental racism in the context of humanitarian imperialism—the…
Over two years have passed since I began writing articles for Mother Pelican . I embarked on this personal-political narrative of globalization and bioregionalism at EcoVillage Ithaca, New York, continued through Sage Co-Housing in Boulder, Colorado (both communities, predominately white and upper-middle class) to Pontiac,…
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 11:30 am-1:00pm ET| 10:30 am-12:00pmCT| 8:30 am-10:00am PT When we live in a practice of gratitude, when we do not take things or people for granted, we truly embody hospitality. This practice unravels the interdependent relationships…
Howard Zinn distinguishes between a totalitarian state and democracy: “To go along with whatever your government does is not a characteristic of democracy.” The colossal scale of industrial technologies (Big Data, Big Telecom), fifth generation of wireless networks (5G), digital…
Cultural Biomimicry: An Evolutionary Guide to the Ecozoic through Epigenetics In Silent Spring, Rachel Carson shares: “There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.” These cycles are not about eventually doing more through increased efficiency, but about equilibrium and relationship. This sense…
Monthly Essay Series Mother Pelican ~ A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability Love & Waste: Igniting A Permaculture Paradigm Shift~ A Personal Story, Part I Love & Waste: Igniting A Permaculture Paradigm Shift~ A Personal Story, Part II Love…
April 28 and 29, 2018 From Article in Boulder Daily Camera/ Denver Post > Even though everybody poops, it’s still gross — generally speaking. Not for dung beetles, though. Those bugs are sustained by poop. They ball-up animal…
Building our biocentric eco-art home has inspired the perfect homeschool opportunity for Zazu. It spurred an amazing hands-on opportunity to teach him about co-responsibility and living wisdom. We called the learning opportunity “Adventures in Ideas; Adventures in Action.” The word…
Published in: Tikkun, Journal of Radical Empathy, 2022 Summary: In the framework of our current Shmita Year, “Sacred Attunement: Shmita as Cultural Biomimicry” explores the Hebrew concepts of selah (pause, including a practice of decolonizing our relationship to homogenizing…
Mother Pelican ~ A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability, January-April 2021
“The Spectacle of the Invisible: Sephardic Jewish Identity in Multicultural Education” Explorations in Ethnic Studies Vo1.l 18, No. 1 (January 1995) : 109-124.
