Unexamined Me

Welcome back to Unexamined Me. In this episode we talked about the trap that white supremacy sets — and that many of us, especially those who think we’re doing ‘the work,’ still fall into.

I call it The Learning Trap. It’s not ignorance that sustains white supremacy anymore. It’s the endless appetite for learning — reading, reflecting, attending workshops — that never ripens into collective disruption.

Learning has become a ritu...

Dr. Erica Srinivasan is an associate professor of Psychology and Director for the Center for Grief and Death Education at the University Wisconsin–La Crosse. She is also the lead instructor of the Grief Support Specialist Certificate and the Dementia Support Specialist Badge, offered through continuing education divisions in the UW System. Dr. Srinivasan specializes in grief and loss in her research. She has a passion for normalizi...

Today’s episode is about the condition that mortality places on unconditional love. But not death as an event — death as a presence. Not someone else’s dying — our own.

Because whether we face it or not, we live every day in relationship with our own ending. And that relationship says everything about how we love.

The question guiding us today is simple, but it’s everything: What will we do with the time we have left?

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 Welcome back to Unexamined Me. Today, we’re taking you on a journey through time — from the 1400s to today — to trace how power structures have delegitimized non-dominant spiritualities.

In this episode, we’re going to organize this timeline through four big themes:

1. Demonizing Other Religions
2. Creating Policy to Uphold Dominant Beliefs
3. S...

Welcome back to Unexamined Me, a space for remembering — remembering who we are beneath the systems that shaped us. In this episode, we’re diving deep into how settler colonialism built — and still sustains — the very foundations of academia. Our through line today is simple but powerful: settler colonialism must erase, gatekeep, and control education in order to survive. That’s why we need anti-colonial tools — ones that return us...

Welcome back to Unexamined Me. Today we’re joined by Dr. Mary Jo Klinker and diving into a conversation that sits at the heart of why so many of our communities struggle to thrive—colonization. We’re talking about how colonization, whiteness, and the carceral system aren’t just abstract concepts, but living tools that rip communities apart. And we’ll also talk about what it looks like to resist, to decolonize, and to return to a wa...

In this episode of Unexamined Me, Nicole walks us through uncertainty and the weight of not knowing, surviving the stretch of ‘unprecedented times,’ and the strange reality that despite history’s lessons, we are still here, questioning.  

But here’s the real conversation: this isn’t about forgetting history, it’s about feeling the shift. We aren’t uncertain because history hasn’t taught us—we’re uncertain because deep down, we kn...