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Episode 1: The Death Rattle of Empire with meital yaniv

In today’s episode, Hannah Smith interviews ex-Israeli soldier, author, and death laborer meital yaniv on grief, healing, ancestors, and the death rattle of empire. 

meital yaniv (b. 1984, Tel-Aviv, occupied Palestine) is learning how to be in a human form. they do things with words, with moving and still images, with threads, with bodies in front of bodies, with the Earth. they are a death laborer tending to a prayer for the liberation of the land of Palestine and the lands of our bodies. they keep Fires and submerge themselves in Ocean and Sea Water often. yaniv is learning to listen to the Waters, birdsongs, caretakers, and ancestors as they walk as a guest on the home and gathering place of the Cahuilla-ʔívil̃uwenetem Meytémak, Tongva-Kizh Nation, Luiseño-Payómkawichum, and Serrano-Yuhaaviatam/Maarenga'yam. yaniv is the author of bloodlines. They make offerings through true name collective.

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meital would like us to note that the phrase “assigned soldier at birth” was given to them by Shayna Keyles. 

This episode was edited and produced by Hannah Smith.