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reimagining worlds without whiteness podcast
20+ MULTIRACIAL VOICES, A 5-STEP PATH, AND THE COURAGE TO PLANT NEW WORLDS.
New worlds aren’t only possible—they’re already taking root.
About the podcast:
Feeling stuck or unsure what comes next on your anti-racist journey? stories from 20+ multiracial coresearchers trace an emerging 5-step path to uproot whiteness as a harmful social construct, reckon with its harms, begin to heal, and plant new worlds.
Whiteness is like an invasive weed. In this study, whiteness is not defined as white people, but as a social construct invented to uphold power through racialized division and the justification of violence—producing harms that affect us all, regardless of race and how we have been racialized.
Planted less than 600 years ago as an idea by European slave traders, whiteness has since spread across the globe alongside European empires, entangled with capitalism, racism, the modern gender system, and patriarchal systems that sustain inequality across societies. Whiteness fuels coloniality—the lingering structures of power and violence that extend from colonization into the present—by taking root inside many of us as thoughts and behaviors. Through us, it roots into relational patterns, community structures, institutions, and systems—but it’s not inevitable. It can be uprooted.
Reimagining Worlds Without Whiteness is a podcast about how we move from worlds where whiteness is deeply rooted to glimmers of more liberatory worlds without it. Born from a two-year qualitative study with 26 multiracial co-researchers across the U.S. and Europe (representing diverse identities including race, ethnicity, gender, biological sex, sexual orientation, disability, religion, parenting status, and professional sectors), this series weaves personal stories, cultural analysis, and collective dreaming into an emerging five-step path to uproot whiteness as a harmful social construct, reckon with its harms, begin to heal, and plant new worlds.
Episodes feature powerful stories, collective insight, and radically honest emotion that may arise in this work—grief, rage, shame, hope, and possibility. Some center intimate interviews; others weave together voices around shared themes. If you’ve felt the weight of whiteness or are wondering what’s next in your anti-racist journey, this podcast offers space to reckon, reflect, and reimagine. Because new worlds aren’t only possible—they’re already taking root.
about the host
I’m your host, Hana Truscott. Some call me Hana T. (Хана Т.).
I am a storyteller, descended from generations of storytellers before me, and an educator committed to social change. My work focuses on supporting adults to develop the skills and awareness needed for a pluriverse—what the Zapatistas described as “a world in which many worlds fit.” Just as ecological ecosystems depend on biodiversity to remain healthy, social ecosystems also flourish through biodiversity. Yet colonization and globalization have attempted to enforce a single dominant way of being, knowing, and doing—a universal “one-world world”—eroding both ecological and cultural biodiversity in the process.
I situate myself as a white U.S. American woman with European immigrant ancestry, embedded within histories and structures of whiteness and settler colonialism. I approach my work with a commitment to ongoing self-reflection, accountability, and responsibility for past and present harms. I have witnessed how the “one-world” worldview harms everyone, though in profoundly unequal ways—impacting people racialized as Black, Indigenous, and other people of color differently than those racialized as white.
To counter this legacy, my work centers on unlearning this conditioning and making room for multiple ways of knowing, being, and relating to re-emerge. For more than twenty years, I have engaged in this process personally, and for the past twelve years I have supported multiracial groups of adults in similar work. My approach draws on adult-centered learning that honors lived and embodied experience, cultural humility, critical intercultural practices, and the belief that discomfort can be a powerful teacher. At its heart, my work serves the collective imagining and co-creation of more just, decolonial futures. Within the broader social change ecosystem, I move as a storyteller, visionary, and disrupter—challenging dominant narratives while amplifying ancestral, land-connected, and spirit-aligned wisdoms. I believe in the power of collective consciousness shifts and ground my work in daily spiritual and contemplative practices that root me in my values and remind me of my responsibility to more-than-human kin (ancestors, Mama Nature). These rituals sustain me as I navigate life with chronic illness, which has become a teacher in how to honor the body as a site of knowledge.
This podcast emerged from a Reimagining Whiteness community study that I conducted in summer 2023 as part of my graduate program in Depth Psychology, with a specialization in community, liberation, Indigenous, and eco-psychologies. For the purpose of this study, I convened 26 co-researchers through a focus group and interviews. They are people I met throughout 40 years of life, work, (un)learning, and service. This podcast is an invitation into those shared conversations and stories.
About the Co-Researchers
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Atiq Shomar
You can hear from Atiq in the episodes Born into Whiteness, Sparking Conversations, Naming Whiteness Part 1, Seeing Whiteness Part 1, and Reimagining Therapy.
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Carla Dvoracek
You can hear from Carla in the episode Reimagining Through Ancestral Pilgrimage in Turkey.
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Carrie Thomas
You can hear from Carrie in the episodes Naming Whiteness Part 1, Seeing Whiteness Parts 1 & 2, Reimagining with Witch Ancestors, and Reimagining the U.S. Political Mind.
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David Dean
You can hear from David in the episodes Born into Whiteness, Naming Whiteness Parts 1 & 2, Seeing Whiteness Part 2, Reimagining Through Roots Deeper Than Whiteness, and Reimagining the U.S. Political Mind.
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Desirée Gonzalez
You can hear from Desirée in the episodes Born into Whiteness, Sparking Conversations, Naming Whiteness Part 1, Seeing Whiteness Parts 1 & 2, and Reimagining Through Puerto Rican Roots.
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Emily Wilcox
You can hear from Emily in the episodes Born into Whiteness, Naming Whiteness Part 1, Seeing Whiteness Parts 1 & 2, Reimagining with Witch Ancestors, and Reimagining the U.S. Political Mind.
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Elena Degel
You can hear from Elena in the episodes Born into Whiteness, Sparking Conversations, Naming Whiteness Part 1, Seeing Whiteness Parts 1 & 2, Reimagining Western Medicine, and Reimagining the U.S. Political Mind.
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Gemma Goodman
You can hear from Gemma in the episodes Born into Whiteness, Sparking Conversations, Seeing Whiteness Part 1, Reimagining with Cousins Parts 1 & 2, and Reimagining Western Medicine.
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Gilbert Salazar
You can hear from Gilbert in the episodes Born into Whiteness, Naming Whiteness Part 1, Seeing Whiteness Parts 1 & 2, and Reimagining Through Art.
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JJ
You can hear from JJ in the episodes Naming Whiteness Part 2, Composting Whiteness Part 1, and Reimagining Through Roots Deeper Than Whiteness.
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Jen Luecht
You can hear from Jen in the episodes Born into Whiteness, Naming Whiteness Part 1, Reimagining with Plantcestors, and Reimagining the U.S. Political Mind.
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Joel Gongora
You can hear from Joel in the episodes Sparking Conversations, Naming Whiteness Part 1, and Seeing Whiteness Part 1.
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J.T. Tran
You can hear from J.T. in the episodes Sparking Conversations, Naming Whiteness Part 1, and Seeing Whiteness Part 1.
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K. Fearsithe
You can hear from K. Fearsithe in the episodes Sparking Conversations, Naming Whiteness Part 2, Seeing Whiteness Parts 1 & 2, and Reimagining with Sisters.
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Lenéa Sims
You can hear from Lenéa in the episodes Naming Whiteness Part 1, Seeing Whiteness Part 1, and Reimagining Through Biracial Roots.
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L.C.
You can hear from L.C. in the episodes Sparking Conversations, Seeing Whiteness Part 1, and Reimagining the U.S. Political Mind.
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Michele Chang
You can hear from Michele in the episodes Born into Whiteness, Naming Whiteness Part 1, Seeing Whiteness Part 1, and Seeing Whiteness Part 2.
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M.S.
You can hear from M.S. in the episodes Born into Whiteness, Sparking Conversations, and Seeing Whiteness Part 1.
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OhnSoon Kim
You can hear from OhnSoon in the episodes Born into Whiteness, Naming Whiteness Parts 1 & 2, Seeing Whiteness Part 1, Uprooting Whiteness, and Reimagining Learning Spaces Parts 1 & 2.
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Pece Krstevski
You can hear from Pece in the episodes Reimagining Through Ancestral Pilgrimage in Macedonia Parts 1 & 2.
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Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen
You can hear from Rune in the episodes Born into Whiteness, Seeing Whiteness Part 2, and Reimagining Through Animist Roots.
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Sarah Kay Peters
You can hear from Sarah in the episodes Born into Whiteness, Sparking Conversations, Naming Whiteness Part 1, Seeing Whiteness Parts 1 & 2, and Reimagining with Witch Ancestors.
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Stevie
You can hear from Stevie in the episodes Born into Whiteness, Naming Whiteness Parts 1 & 2, Seeing Whiteness Parts 1 & 2, Reimagining Community Connections, and Reimagining the U.S. Political Mind.
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T. Fearsithe
You can hear from T. Fearsithe in the episodes Sparking Conversations, Naming Whiteness Parts 1 & 2, Seeing Whiteness Parts 1 & 2, Reimagining with Sisters, and Reimagining the U.S. Political Mind.
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TBD
You can hear from TBD in the episodes Sparking Conversations, Uprooting Whiteness, and Reimagining the U.S. Political Mind.
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Veselka Matichevska
You can hear from Veselka in the episode Reimagining Through Ancestral Pilgrimage in Macedonia Part 1.
“This is pluriversal possibility in action.”
-Desirée Gonzalez, co-researcher
