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Melina Roise

Melina Roise

Program Coordinator for Palestine Heirloom Seed Library and Rethinking Place at Bard College; environmental educator, seed activist, and artist working in Palestinian seed heritage and Indigenous agricultural practices.

Jun 26, 2026

31:07
You know?
31:07
I know, but the thing is, is like, I didn't try to do it.
31:10
It just happened upon me.
31:12
So I don't see myself as someone who like, has and I and I do I do claim it now because it's been a couple of years and it has shaped the way I view the world in a lot of ways and my relationships and everything but I think that like I I see the work I'm doing not as like oh I I I developed this political ideology and then, like, sought labor within that system was not what happened to me.
31:45
Like, I think my sort of...
31:49
I very much had the feeling after college that... which I think a lot of people feel is there's not a lot of ethical ways to make money and it feels gross to have money and what are you gonna do and like me and a lot of a lot of my community and a lot of my friends all just started farming which is a way that you make shit money but you don't have to And it's not necessarily good for the environment.
32:14
Like people say this, but it's a bit icky.

27 MINS LATER

58:57
But I do

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