Decolonization Part 2
We center our work ever more on relationships, community empowerment, grassroots fundraising, and decolonization.
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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
- Feb 22, 2021
- 4 min
Conservación Transformadora para Poner Fin a la Muerte Trágica
¡Estoy cansada de la muerte!Quiero trabajar por la vida, arriesgando todo lo que pueda por la transformación de las prácticas de la sociedad
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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
- May 20, 2020
- 4 min
Transformative Conservation
TC in the context of climate change depends on such “outer” (societal) and “inner” (personal) transformations supporting and reinforcing one
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by Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
- Jul 30, 2019
- 3 min
Parrots are People Too
Life is an interconnected whole, and if we help relieve oppression or injustice in one location by getting at the root causes of domination,
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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
- Apr 17, 2019
- 3 min
Merchants and Parrots: Selling Parrots is Selling Our Souls, Freeing Parrots is Freeing Ourselves
Only by diminishing our ego's need to dominate, can we live truly free. Love dissolves the bars of perceived separation. We live joined
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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
- Mar 19, 2019
- 4 min
Parrot Conservation is a Team Sport
I wish you deep meaning in your love for parrots, and to all of us that have relationships to them, and I also know that we must face the ha
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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
- Feb 20, 2019
- 2 min
How To Keep Parrots Flying Free
In every country I work, I hear one story after another about how international buyers come to an area to buy adult birds, chicks and/or egg
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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
- Dec 18, 2018
- 2 min
Dreaming Big
I dream that for every homed bird in the world, which number, 249,651,000, the owners contribute $1.00 for conservation. That comes to near
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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
- Nov 27, 2018
- 3 min
Give of Yourself on Giving Tuesday: Decolonizing Fundraising
Anthropologists, economists, and philosophers have argued that nonprofits continue the colonization process by benefiting from a system that
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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
- Aug 2, 2018
- 3 min
Mourning as Co-liberation
Freeing ourselves and all life begins with mourning as a necessary action step. We do not mourn to feel better, but with the aim to liberate
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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
- Jun 13, 2018
- 7 min
Mourning Over Puerto Rico
Conservation then begins with mourning because the past is riddled with human domination and violence. We have to hold that in our hearts wh
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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
- Apr 10, 2018
- 5 min
Child Protection Services for Parrots
There is also a strong relationship between parents and offspring, and it begins in the egg. One recent study showed that some bird chicks
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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner with Gail Koelln
- Mar 13, 2018
- 7 min
Understanding Intersectionality for the Freedom of All
Though we all are oppressors and oppressed, we are not bound by these cultural constraints. We need resilience because we tread a fragile pa
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Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
- Jan 17, 2018
- 4 min
Parrot Welfare Brigades - Flying Towards Freedom
Hondurans are undergoing civil unrest after a suspicious electoral process for President in late 2017 that is widely seen as fraudulent. Th
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Dr. Eric A. Kreuter
- Jan 2, 2018
- 4 min
The Freedom Project - None Are Free Until All Are Free
Housing one bred bird, as lovingly as possible, may stimulate conscious thought to the concept of relative freedom and what our responsibili
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