Look around. What do you see? Look again. What stories are hidden in plain sight?

Join us as we surface the power at work around us and within us, all the time. As we learn to read its myths loud in our landscapes and in our language, we see our society and ourselves being made. Inside power’s own construction process, can we begin to see its undoing?

Walk with Philadelphian Gigi Guida on a noticing tour of Philadelphia’s iconic City Hall, where we look again and look within.

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Description

On this episode, the making invisible of a Quaker who stands atop Philadelphia. Join us as we notice the monuments that mold our consciousness.

• Part 1 - Everywhere but Nowhere
• Part 2 - Nowhere but Everywhere
• Part 3 - Fighting Quakers

Education Recommendations

Books

• How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith (2021)
• Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape by Lauret Savoy (2015)
• Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire (1955) Introduction by Robin D.G. Kelley (2000)

Organizations

• Indigenous People’s Day Philly
• 339 Manumissions and Beyond Project
• Monument Lab

Art & Artists

• Bob Haozous
  • Video: “Redefining Indigenous Perspectives Through Art and Dialogue with Bob Haozous”
• Titus Kaphar
• Nkwiluntàmën by Nathan Young, at Pennsbury Manor

Credits

Gigi Guida, host & producer

Stephanie Mach, interviewee

Dennis Gregg, interviewee

Gabrijela Skoko, voice actress

Maya Keren, musician

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Our public parks are made of money. But what if they weren’t? On this episode, the myth of public and lessons from the commons.

Part 1 - The Myth of Public

Part 2 - The Commons

Part 3 - Commoning in Public

Education Recommendations

Books

• Stop, Thief! The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance by Peter Linebaugh (2014)
• Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons by Silvia Federici (2018)

Organizations

• Sweet Water Foundation - Chicago, IL
• Freedom Dreams - Detroit, MI
• Cass Corridor Commons - Detroit, MI

Art

• Future Cache by Andrea Carlson

Credits

Gigi Guida, host & producer

Gabrijela Skoko, voice actress

Alana Burke, interviewee

Ben McIver-Jenkins, playmate

Jeremy Weber, playmate

Maya Keren, musician

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On this episode, three myths: ownership, safety, and emptiness, and how, if we’re not careful, our own stories feed capitalism and colonialism.

Part 1 - Ownership

Part 2 - Safety

Part 3 - Emptiness

Education Recommendations

Books:

- A People’s Atlas of Detroit (2019) Wayne State University Press

- Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire (1955). Introduction by Robin D.G. Kelley (2000)

- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (2013)

Watch & Listen:

- Detroit is Different hosted by Khary Frazier

- The Pacifist Who Toppled a Democracy: A History of Smedley Butler, Quaker Speak (2026) *Warning: frequent graphic depictions of colonial violence towards PoC*

Credits

Gigi Guida, host & producer

Khary Frazier, interviewee

Alana Burke, interviewee

Arcangelo Guida, interviewee

Sam Dickman, special guest

Gabrijela Skoko, voice actress

Maya Keren, musician

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Beneath City Hall, we find the hiding work of the highway. And little moments on public buses that, maybe, could transform the world as we know it. How does power hide in the ways we move, or can't move, around?

Part 1 - The Bus Problem and Possibility

Part 2 - The Car Problem and Possibility

Education Recommendations

• “Cell Therapy” by Goodie Mob, 1995
• Eminent domain explained: “The Legal Basis for Planning,” Chapter 5 of Contemporary Urban Planning, 11th Edition by John Levy (2016)
• Eminent domain abuse in 2000s Philly: All for the Taking: 21st Century Urban Renewal (2005, 1hr)
• Black Bottom Archives - Detroit, MI
• “With I-375 redesign, Detroiters could have a chance to right past community wrongs.” by Olivia Lewis for Bridge Detroit. (June 26, 2025)
• Philly's Black Bottom - Philadelphia, PA
• Sign the petition for Philly’s Black Bottom reparations
• “Philadelphia's Mason-Dixon Line: Urban Renewal and the Crosstown Expressway Battle,” a chapter in Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America, by Marcus Anthony Hunter (2013)

Credits

Gigi Guida, host & producer

Alana Burke, interviewee

Khary Frazier, interviewee

Gabrijela Skoko, voice actress

Maya Keren, musician

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