Ode to Sheep 2!

Part Two

Photo by Penelope Logue.

In this "sheep-adjacent" episode, we’re diving into the some of the ways in which we communicate with animals.  The ways they communicate with us.  And how that could inform how we communicate with each other.  

You’ll meet Pony Jacobson who is white, queer and trans and is a sheep-shearer living in the homelands of the Clatsop peoples, in the area surrounding Astoria, Oregon.  Pony talks about training a border collie puppy to herd sheep, and about how he navigates conservative rural places and careers as a trans person. We’ll also meet, Penelope Logue who’s white, queer and trans, and a rancher who raises  Alpaca and sheep on Apache, Cheyenne, and Ute lands in southern Colorado on a queer and trans land project she helped found called the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch. Penelope talks about the alpacas, but also about her relationship to her kiddo who is also trans. Both of these interviews were recorded by phone in the winter of 2020/2021.   

This is part two of three episodes dedicated to sheep and the queer and trans humans who love them! Find the folks you heard in this episode on our instagram page and at their websites: Pony Jacobson at www.sugarfieldfarm.com and Penelope Logue at www.tenaciousunicornranch.com 

In this episode, we're asking folks who have additional funds,  to please donate in support of Medicine Bowl - a land-based strategy for liberation based in the mountains of North Carolina. “Medicine Bowl’s mission is to transition back into right relationship with the universe, the planet, and one another. We believe that land-based strategies offer the most wholistic pathways towards the liberation of BIPOC folks in our lifetime."  Earlier this year they were able to secure 142 acres of land in western NC. Additional donations will support expanding housing, farming infrastructure, sacred spaces for spiritual work, and so much more. “  You can donate on their website at medicinebowl.org.

Host/Producer/Lead Editor: Rae Garringer. Assistant Editor/Composer-Performer of Acoustic and Electric Guitar Music: Tommie Anderson. Editorial Advisory Dream Team: Hermelinda Cortés, Lewis Raven Wallace, and Sharon P. Holland. Theme Song Composer/Banjo: Sam Gleaves. Theme Song Pedal Steel: Rebecca Branson Jones. Special thanks to Dan and his sheep on Moneton and Calicuas lands in Jacox, WV for ambient farm sounds he(a)rd throughout this episode. And to Kenny Bilbrey for editorial feedback!