Host Ned Buskirk speaks with ahlay blakely, a Seattle-based singer-songwriter and community grief practitioner whose work explores more-than-human kinship, ancestral memory, and collective lament through participatory song and ritual. Rooted in Ashkenazi, Scandinavian, and British folk lineages, her practice brings together decolonial inquiry, depth psychology, and ecological devotion to address the entanglements of trauma, extraction, and ecological rupture, expressed through community singing projects including WAILS: Songs for Grief and Anthems for an Apocalypse.

ahlay blakely's
anthems for an apocalypse: https://www.healingattheroots.com/anthemsforanapocalypse
wails album: http://www.healingattheroots.com/wailshome
Monthly Newsletter: https://www.healingattheroots.com/
Reciprocity: https://www.healingattheroots.com/reciprocity
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/alexandrablakely
Bandcamp: https://ahlayblakely.bandcamp.com/album/spells-from-the-unknown
Website: https://www.healingattheroots.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexandra_blakely/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@alexandrablakely3152/videos

Learn more about Singing Resistance - a movement of singers across the US singing in grief, power, and solidarity that Jordan and Ned reference at the end of the episode - here: https://www.instagram.com/singingresistance/

Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina
"Initiations" song & lyrics by ahlay blakely

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