Disquiet Voices
Radio Shows & Podcasts from the Left Coast
...this website is bare bones so... turn off your screen and open your ears...
Disquiet Voices is the project of Chad Swimmer.
This website is an archive of old shows, usually in original broadcast format.
Please email me at cswimmr@gmail.com for permission to use any content. Shukran!
All new shows (2024 and on...) are easily streamable as podcasts at Buzzsprout
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...for environmental education, queer & social justice, and forest restoration...
The Ecology Hour and Disquiet:
Episodes of Direct and Legal Activism to Save the Climate and the Recovering Forests of the West
The Ecology Hour for September 19, 2023: Pollinator conservation with Jessa Kay Cruz of Xerces Society and Jackson Forest Developments
The Ecology Hour for August 15, 2023: The USFS' giant R5 salvage timber sale with Matt Simmons of EPIC
The Ecology Hour for July 18, 2023: Alternative wood products with Nathan Anderson of Anderson's Alternatives
The Ecology Hour for June 29, 2023: The Jackson Advisory Group and the Public Process
The Ecology Hour for May 16, 2023: Sensitive ecological communities and the process of making a community drought resilient with ecologists Peter Baye and Teresa Sholars and Fort Bragg Mayor Bernie Norvell
The Ecology Hour for April 18, 2023: Intentional forests and Potential Elder Trees, with Professor Steven Sillett
The Ecology Hour for March 21, 2023: Caspar 500, with Kevin Conway, Kim Rodrigues PhD, Evan Mills, PhD, JP O'Brien, PhD, and more.
Forest Reciprocity and the Cloud Forest Institute with guest host Matilda Hernandez-Miyares
A Walk in the Rain to Enchanted Meadow with Coyote and Bill Heil
Change Our Name Fort Bragg and the Little-Known History of Mendocino County with Victoria Patterson PhD and Philip Zwerling PhD.
Energy Systems Analyst Evan Mills on the Carbon Footprint of Cannabis and on Green Remittances
Youth in the Canopy, with Sara, Walker, Ravel, Alicia Littletree, and more
With activists B, Slug, Olive, Michael Hunter, Jaime Boggs, and Silver Fox
Queer Voices, Music, Opinions, & Lives from Highway 101 to the World....
September 2023--La Morena del Chichamocha--a bilingual episode with Colombian musician Magdalena Moreno on Afro-Colombian music and the long history of Afro-transvestism
August 2023--Lest We Forget--the words of Calvin J McIntosh, queer WW2 veteran
July 2023--Gender and the Culture Wars with Gender Studies professor Matthew Franks
June 2023--Pride y Orgullo, Pride Month in two languages!
May 2023--The relentless attacks on transgender people
April 2023--Eating disorders, body image, and mental health in the LGBTQIA+ community and beyond
March 2023--A lifetime of legal and direct activism with Polly Girvin
February 2023--Introduction to Hurstory Part 1 with actress, comedienne, and activist extraordinaire Sherry Glaser
January 2023--JW, Roland, and Chad have a cozy cyber-round table talking about all the fab things that happened for queers worldwide in 2022
December 2022--Why you should have your teenager's back... and a wee little Thanksgiving Story
November 2022--Tatumn Wicahpi Wi and Tanda Blu Bear from Women With Bows, a queer, indigenous activist organization speaking on what it means to be two spirit... and more
October 2022--the Banned Books Episode with independent bookseller Christie Olson Day and readings from Diane Patterson, George Russell, Carrie Ann Becker-Fishman, Barbara Wechsler, Zee Barron, Ginny Rorby, and Chipmunk
September 2022--the September Medley: highlights and hot outtakes from the last nine months of Pride Nation 101...
August 2022--From China to Taiwan to Albion with Nancy Chao, Queer Prom with Adrian James, and Taking the Dick out of Dictionary with Sherry Glaser
July 2022--National Community Activism and the Art of Drag, with Jose Ignacio Gaona and Mizz Terracotta Clay
June 2022--Abortion Rights: A Queer Perspective
April 2022--Body Image and that Bad Old Positive
March 2022--The Warm & Fuzzy Family Values Episode
February 2022--A Portrait of Queer on the Mendocino Coast
The Trail Stewards Radio Hour--Ecology, Politics, and Policy of the Redwood Region
December 2022: The Ecosystem of the Soul, readings, ramblings, and musings from activists and our families about the fraught relationship of humans with the natural world.
November 2022: Save the Redwoods League Conservation and Science Director Joanna Nelson, PhD, and the Friends of Little Bear
October 2022: Thirty Years of Greenwashing, looking at the Forest Stewardship Council with Gary Hughes, and backwoods preparedness with Marc Jensen
September 2022: The Mushroom Economy with Eric Schramm, the JAG with Charlie Schneider, and the Coalition with Megan Wolf
August 2022: The Unforeseen Impacts of Trails and the History of Equestrian Use in JDSF with Chad Swimmer and Lari Shea
July 2022: Prescribed Fire with the Stewards of Emerald Earth Sanctuary and Kyle Farmer of UC Cooperative Extension in Hopland
June 2022: A Celebration of the Life of Bill Lemos
May 2022: Redwood forest ecology and recovery with Environmental Scientist Will Russell and Ecologist Teresa Sholars
April 2022: Forest carbon, carbon offsets, and exposing more hot air, with Gary Graham Hughes, Stephen Sillett, Evan Mills, Matt Simmons, Marc Jensen, Ravel Gauthier, and more.....
March 2022: The Pomo Rally in Ukiah
February 2022: A rebroadcast of the Gallery Bookshop/Book Arts Mendo Zoom event for the Mendocino Trail Stewards' Book
December 2021: Natural Building with Colin Gillespie and Direct Activism with Anna Marie Stenberg
November 2021: The Jackson Advisory Group and the Old Woodlands, with Chris Blencowe, Charlie Schneider, and Bill Lemos
October 2021: Tribal co-management with Polly Girvin, our allies Gransel and Hetel, Michelle McMillan, Sara Constance Rose, and Vince Taylor on the Mendocino Woodlands
September 2021: Forest Activism
July 2021: How to save a forest with Bill Lemos and Naomi Wagner
June 2021: Climate change and sustainable forestry, with JP O'Brien and Teresa Sholars