When voices resonate together, it’s not just to make music. That resonance can shake loose our bodies, our emotions, our relationships, and our power. Lee Hoffman is a professor of vocal music, choir director, and singer whose compassion, humility, and insight create spaces safe enough for everyone to use their voice.

CW: Mentions of CSA, genocide, feminicide, anti-LGBTQ hate crimes

Episode artwork "Medicine Series" by Kill Joy from the Justseeds graphics collection.

Time stamps

3:24 Choir culture, safety and sound

14:14 Lee’s childhood in high control Christian churches

17:50 – 19:10 discussion of child sexual assault and religion

19:11 Homophobia, bullying and love as survival

26:54 Teaching voice and anti-racism

44:23 Singing as the doorway

49:09 Cathy Roma

52:19 Non-coercive leadership

1:02:58 Voice as anti-fascism

1:12:17 Silence as being with

Links

Lee Hoffman

All Voices Choral Project

Peace and Justice Choir

Peace for Gaza by Katie Ailes

Joan Baez “I am Noise”

“Watch and Pray” sung by Tamara-Lynn Richards

Cathy Roma

Parker J Palmer A Hidden Wholeness

Unschooling

“All of Us” from Considering Matthew Shepard, Craig Hella Johnson

AVCP Listen to Herstory: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Khadijah Britton Search group

Lila Downs “Cariñito”

Canción sin miedo

Poor People’s Campaign

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Supriya Narang is a play practitioner, witch, neurodivergent unschooling mom, soap artist, and community organizer. Supriya shares how the expectations and humiliations of motherhood changed her personally and professionally. She offers practical tips about community building, a feminist manifesto on neurodivergent motherhood, and a guiding principle of trusting—and seeing—the most marginalized people in our communities.

https://www.instagram.com/thismum.life/

wellbeingwithsupriya at gmail.com

Time stamps:

1:16 Neurodivergent community building

14:24 Play therapy

24:06 From corporate a**hole to feminist humility

41:02 Conflict and inclusion

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Rayne shares a story about inner conflict, growing up autistic and surrounded by both disability rights advocacy and evangelical Christianity. They decided early on to “just take the demerit”: discovering that although it may sting, liberation is possible when—in an oppressive system of high control religion, ableism, and patriarchy—you decide to just get on with what you believe is right, regardless of all the ways the people in charge tell you that you’re wrong. Rayne is an ASL interpreter, consultant, and parenting coach, whose work is continuously informed by the Disability Justice principles and in particular disabled Black, indigenous, and people of color’s perspectives.

“We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.” -- Robert Jones Jr.

2:19 Learning ASL

23:04 Leaving Evangelical Christianity

34:34 Identifying as disabled and autistic

41:57 Learning disability justice

58:54 Practicing disability justice principles

Rayne Depukat: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rayne-depukat/

Disability Justice Principles: https://sinsinvalid.org/10-principles-of-disability-justice/

Heather Watkins: https://slowwalkersseemore.com/https://slowwalkersseemore.com/

Robert Jones at Son of Baldwin: https://sonofbaldwin.com/https://sonofbaldwin.com/

Robert Jones' substack, "Witness": https://robertjonesjr.substack.com/

New Hampshire-Manchester ASL Interpreting Program: https://manchester.unh.edu/program/bs/aslenglish-interpreting-major

More on disability justice: https://stimpunks.org/glossary/disability-justice/

Review of research on fathers of children: https://academic.oup.com/jdsde/article/26/2/187/6102075

Research on hearing parents learning ASL: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10785677/

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