The Re/al/ign, episode 05: With Alley Valkyrie
Rhyd Wildermuth spoke to Alley Valkyrie about land loss and re-connection
In this fifth episode of The Re/al/ign, Rhyd Wildermuth spoke with Alley Valkyrie on land loss and reconnection. In addition to being a brilliant artist, writer, animist, and cultural observer, Alley has devoted staggering amounts of time and thought into the subject of land relations. Her knowledge of the history of the commons and the increasing enclosures — from the land seizures in Spain which funded colonialism to the current acceleration of this process now — is particularly astounding.
Alley Valkyrie also teaches a course on this subject. The next iteration of it begins 25 March, 2023, and enrollment is sliding scale.
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About The Re/al/ign
The Re/al/ign is a podcast hosted by
through his substack, . You can watch or listen to previous episodes of The Re/al/ign here.About Alley’s course, Land: Loss & Reconnection
25 March, 2023 to 5 May, 2023
A six week course developed and instructed
by Alley Valkyrie
“The Witch has been created by the land to act for it.”
--Peter Grey, Rewilding Witchcraft
Land is how we live. We live on the land, we live because of land, and when we die we go back into the land.
Yet land, in our modern capitalist dystopia, is often the farthest things from our mind. Few of us even have access to land—everywhere it is fenced off, paved over, gated, polluted, and destroyed.
How did it come to this? How did the notion of private property come about? Why were so many people displaced from the land through enclosures, the transatlantic slave trade, and brutal colonization?
And what has this done to us?
In this six week online course, writer, artist, and Gods&Radicals co-founder Alley Valkyrie will lead you through the history and meaning of land, illuminate the processes and politics that caused our separation from land, and guide you to spiritual reconnection and political reclamation of the land beneath our feet.
Alley Valkyrie’s course will cover the following topics:
Week One: The Importance of Land
Week Two: Lost Land—Enclosures & Property
Week Three: Lost Land—Displacement and Colonialism
Week Four: Land—Its spirits and Peoples
Week Five: Spiritual Reconnection to Land
Week Six: Political Reclamation of Land
General Information
Course Length and Schedule: The course lasts for six weeks, from 25 March, 2023 to 5 May, 2023
Time Commitment: Participants will be expected to devote a minimum of two hours each week (12 hours total over 6 weeks) to the course. This expectation includes time devoted to reading recommended texts, viewing video lectures, and engaging in conversation with other participants.
Cost: Sliding Scale $60-$100. Pay what you are capable of.
Monthly and Permanent Supporters may opt to take this course for free.
Maximum participants: 30
Course Requirements: Participants need have no prior knowledge of the course subject nor experience in academic settings. Physical requirements include internet access, a computer or smartphone capable of accessing recommended readings and live video chat discussions, and each participant will need to create a login (free of cost) for Discord.
Venue: Weekly course conversations will occur via Zoom meeting with follow up discussions on a dedicated Discord server.
Course structure: Each week, the instructor will post a video lecture for participants and assign optional readings. Participants will then discuss with each other and the instructor throughout the week by chat server (Discord).
One live video chat discussion (date and time to be announced) will occur at a time optimized for as many participants to join as possible.
Cancellation/Refund policy: Full refunds of payment are possible up until the end of the first day of the course.
Other policies: In the very unlikely event that a participant creates a hostile environment for other participants or the instructor, and if attempts to address the behavior do not correct the problem, the instructor reserves the right to end a participant’s participation.
Enrollment process: To enroll, see this link.