Pinays Without A Pause

4: Dr. Leny Strobel: Co-Founder, Writer, and Former Professor


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It's our season finale!! Rae and Bee chat with Dr. Leny Strobel on Babaylan Studies, community, and our ancestors.


About Dr. Leny Strobel: Leny Mendoza Strobel is one of the founding mothers/signatories of the Center for Babaylan Studies (as a nonprofit).  The Center has been engaged in visioning and organizing the International Babaylan Conferences, workshops, retreats, symposia, and other events that seeded and tended to a flowering of practices of decolonization and re-indigenization among Filipinos in the diaspora. Her publications - Coming Full Circle: The Process of Decolonization Among Post-1965 Filipino Americans; Babaylan: Filipinos and the Call of the Indigenous; Back from the Crocodile's Belly: Philippine Babaylan Studies and the Struggle for Indigenous Memory (with Lily S. Mendoza) -- continue to circulate along with podcasts, journal articles, essays on medium.com. Ate Leny  is Professor Emeritus in American Multicultural Studies at Sonoma State University (SSU).  SSU was the institutional home of the Center for Babaylan Studies until her retirement in 2018.  Catch up with Ate Leny at: lenystrobel


Books Mentioned by Dr Leny:

Alicia Magos, The Enduring Ma-Aram Tradition

Katrin de Guia, Kapwa: The Self in the Other

Albert Alejo, Loob: Isang Landas ng Pagunawa;  Also Generating Energies on Mt Apo


Decolonizing the Diaspora Through the Center for Babaylan Studies


Website: https://www.lenystrobel.com/

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