"I am the mother of two beautiful mixed heritage boys. I am a farmers wife. I am
a physician who works in adult medicine, witnessing societys ills manifest in my
patients bodies, a doctor who sees racism and state violence as urgent public
health issues. I am a touring musician who has played in 29 different countries
singing in 5 different languages with my band Rupa & the April Fishes. And
to use a phrase taught to me by Miwok Elder Wounded Knee, I am an Earth
Person."
Rupa Marya speaks to the need to uproot and compost structures built on racism
and violence, and the need to "heal wounds and build anew," in this transcript
of a 2018 keynote speech at Bioneers.
