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reimagining worlds without whiteness podcast
20+ MULTIRACIAL VOICES, A 5-STEP PATH, AND THE COURAGE TO PLANT NEW WORLDS.
New worlds aren’t only possible—they’re already taking root.
About the podcast:
Feeling stuck or unsure what comes next on your anti-racist journey? stories from 20+ multiracial coresearchers trace an emerging 5-step path to uproot whiteness as a harmful social construct, reckon with its harms, begin to heal, and plant new worlds.
Whiteness is like an invasive weed. Planted less than 600 years ago by European slave traders, it has since spread across the globe. It grows inside many of us and in our relationships and communities. It distorts how we see ourselves and each other, harming us—whether we are white or people of color.
When we say “whiteness,” we don’t mean white people. We mean a social construct designed to uphold power by dividing us and justifying violence. The roots of whiteness are bound up with racism, colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy—but it’s not inevitable. It can be uprooted.
Reimagining Worlds Without Whiteness is a podcast about how we move from worlds where whiteness is deeply rooted to glimmers of more liberatory worlds without it. Born from a two-year qualitative study with 26 multiracial co-researchers (ages 21 to 70+, across the U.S. and Europe), this series weaves personal stories, cultural analysis, and collective dreaming into an emerging five-step path to uproot whiteness as a harmful social construct, reckon with its harms, begin to heal, and plant new worlds.
Episodes feature powerful stories, collective insight, and radically honest emotion that may arise in this work—grief, rage, shame, hope, and possibility. Some center intimate interviews; others weave together voices around shared themes. If you’ve felt the weight of whiteness or are wondering what’s next in your anti-racist journey, this podcast offers space to reckon, reflect, and reimagine. Because new worlds aren’t only possible—they’re already taking root.
about the host
I’m your host, Hana T.
I’m a storyteller, researcher, and podcaster. I’m also a PhD candidate in Depth Psychology with a specialization in Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Ecological Psychologies at Pacifica Graduate Institute. This podcast emerged from a Reimagining Whiteness community study that I conducted in summer 2023 as part of my M.A./Ph.D. program. The study reflected the curiosities of where I was at on my 20+ year anti-racism journey at the time as a white, U.S. American woman working at the intersection of the intercultural competence and diversity, equity, and inclusion fields and seeking decolonial next steps. What is being planted and growing and emerging in those small clearings of land within our heads, hearts, bodies, souls, relationships, and systems where whiteness is being uprooted and composted? What is being planted and growing in the place of whiteness? What are the pluriversal actualities already taking root?
For the purpose of this study, I convened 26 co-researchers through a focus group and interviews. They are people I met throughout 40 years of life, work, school, and service and with whom I wanted to learn. Now, we share our conversations and stories with you through this podcast.
About the Co-Researchers
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Atiq Shomar
You can hear from Atiq in the episode Reimagining Therapy.
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Carla Dvoracek
You can hear from Carla in the episode Reimagining Through Ancestral Pilgrimage.
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Carrie Thomas
You can hear from Carrie in the episode Reimagining with the Witch Hunts.
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David Dean
You can hear from David in the episode Reimagining Through Roots Deeper Than Whiteness.
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Desirée Gonzalez
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Emily Wilcox
You can hear from Emily in the episode Reimagining with the Witch Hunts.
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Elena Degel
You can hear from Elena in the episode Reimagining Through Chronic Illness.
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Gemma Goodman
You can hear from Gemma in the episode Reimagining Through Chronic Illness.
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Gilbert Salazar
You can hear from Gilbert in the episode Reimagining Through Art.
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JJ Fiore
You can hear from JJ in the episode Composting Whiteness and the episode Reimagining Through Roots Deeper Than Whiteness.
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Jen Luecht
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Joel Gongora
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J.T.T.
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K. Fearsithe
You can hear from K. Fearsithe in the episode Reimagining with Sisters.
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Lenéa Sims
You can hear from Lenéa in the episode Reimagining Through Biracial Roots as Thirdness Consciousness.
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Luis Carabantes
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M.C.
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M.S.
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OhnSoon Kim
You can hear from OhnSoon in the episode Uprooting Whiteness.
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Pece Krstevski
You can hear from Pece in the episode Reimagining Through Ancestral Pilgrimage.
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Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen
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Sarah Kay Peters
You can hear from Sarah in the episode Reimagining with the Witch Hunts.
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Stevie
You can hear from Stevie in the episode Reimagining Community Connections.
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T. Fearsithe
You can hear from T. Fearsithe in the episode Reimagining with Sisters.
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TBD
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Veselka Matichevska
You can hear from Veselka in the episode Reimagining Through Ancestral Pilgrimage.