On Belonging

Ancestors of Place — with Dani Burlison

“I want to know the songs and foods and plants from the past. I want to know where I come from, the mythology of those places, to make sense of why I am who I am, and how that informs my place in community.”

Ancestors of Place is Dani’s beautiful and ghostly pilgrimage across lands and water, weaving together an intricate tapestry of what it means to explore ancestry and belonging amidst fractured histories, colonialisms, patriarchy, and capitalism — while searching for a deeper sense of home.

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Music composed for this episode by ZF Bergman
Dani’s website: daniburlison.com
Dani’s IG

On Belonging show music is by AwareNess

Show Art by Julie Flett

Keep Walking; Keep Listening

Guest Bio

DAni burlison Dani Burlison (she/her) is a writer, teacher, and social justice activist with nearly thirty years as a practicing witch. She is the author/editor of “All of Me: Love, Anger and the Female Body” (PM Press), “Some Places Worth Leaving” (Tolsun Books), and multiple zines, articles, essays and more. She is currently finishing her memoir in essays about trauma, poverty, and mythology, and is collaborating on an anthology about fires and mutual aid in Northern California. She is a recent recipient of a Creative Sonoma arts grant, through which she developed a writing workshop series and an interview project about relationship to land, ancestors, and community called “Ancestors of Place.” A single parent with two grown children, she comes from a rural working poor background with ancestral roots primarily in Northern Europe. Dani has an MA from New College of California’s School of Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community, a BA in Activism & Social Change, and is trained as a trauma informed yoga instructor. She is currently finishing certification requirements as an Ancestral Lineage Healing Practitioner through Ancestral Medicine, and is a student of herbal medicine at Heartwood Education in Bedfordshire, UK. She lives with her two cats, surrounded by redwood trees on unceded Southern Pomo and Coast Miwok land in Northern California. www.daniburlison.com

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About the Show

On Belonging: an audio series to connect us, part conversation and part storytelling, hosts carla joy bergman and Jamie-Leigh Gonzales ask their guests to explore why so many of us are feeling called to find a deeper sense of belonging, whether with our ancestors or to the land where we live, and beyond. In the many landscapes across the world, each of us walk pathways that take us to the edges of possibility, finding belonging and collective thriving along the way.

On Belonging show music is by AwareNess

Show Art by Julie Flett