ahlay blakely - You're Not Crazy

About this episode

Ned Buskirk interviews ahlay blakely about her work in community grief and participatory song.

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'santhems for an apocalypse: https://www.healingattheroots.com/anthemsforanapocalypsewails album: http://www.healingattheroots.com/wailshomeMonthly Newsletter: https://www.healingattheroots.com/Reciprocity: https://www.healingattheroots.com/reciprocityPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/alexandrablakelyBandcamp: https://ahlayblakely.bandcamp.com/album/spells-from-the-unknownWebsite: 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…

People in this episode

Host: Ned Buskirk

Guest: ahlay blakely

Topics covered

• grief
• community
• music
• ecology
• trauma
• ritual

Keywords

• grief
• community singing
• ecological rupture
• ancestral memory
• collective lament

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: WAILS: Songs for Grief, Anthems for an Apocalypse, Singing Resistance, Patreon, Bandcamp, Instagram, Youtube

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