A Revolutionary Love Letter

On this week's episode, we speak with Harsha Walia, author of Border and Rule (2021) and Undoing Border Imperialism (2013). Trained in the law, Harsha Walia is a community organizer and campaigner in migrant justice, anti-capitalist feminist, and anti-imperialist movements including No One Is Illegal and Women's Memorial March Committee. Harsha is here to chat with us about citizenship.

For Show Notes & Transcript -- https://bit.ly/S2E8_shownotes-transcript

A Revolutionary Love Letter: To All Migrants, Past, Present, and Future is a podcast hosted by Keish and Angel about all things we wished we had known growing up undocumented in the part of Turtle Island called the United States. We host conversations between writers, artists, and organizers talking about migrant rights from a left perspective.

On this week's episode, we continue our conversation on migrant palimpsest with poet and drag performer, Wo Chan (aka The Illustrious Pearl). Wo shares with us what it was like to write through a deportation process and what drag means to them. You can purchase Wo's book, Togetherness, published by Night Boat books here: https://nightboat.org/book/togetherness/

For Show Notes & Transcript -- bit.ly/S2E7_shownotes-transcript

A Revolutionary Love Letter: To All Migrants, Past, Present, and Future is a podcast hosted by Keish and Angel about all things we wished we had known growing up undocumented in the part of Turtle Island called the United States. We host conversations between writers, artists, and organizers talking about migrant rights from a left perspective.

On this week's episode, we speak with poet and draf performer, Wo Chan (aka The Illustrious Pearl) about their book of poetry titled, Togetherness published by Nightboat Books. Togetherness is the winner of the 2023 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature. In our episode, Wo Chan shares their approach to the title and the cover of the book.

For Show Notes & Transcript -- https://bit.ly/S2E6_shownotes-transcript

A Revolutionary Love Letter: To All Migrants, Past, Present, and Future is a podcast hosted by Keish and Angel about all things we wished we had known growing up undocumented in the part of Turtle Island called the United States. We host conversations between writers, artists, and organizers talking about migrant rights from a left perspective.

On this week's episode, we continue our conversation with poet danilo machado to talk about their poetry collection, This is your receipt and is not your ticket for travel, with FaintLine Press. We have the immense pleasure of hearing danilo read their poem, "Walking poem for Bo and Claire."

For Show Notes & Transcript -- https://bit.ly/S2Ep5_shownotes-transcript

A Revolutionary Love Letter: To All Migrants, Past, Present, and Future is a podcast hosted by Keish and Angel about all things we wished we had known growing up undocumented in the part of Turtle Island called the United States. We host conversations between writers, artists, and organizers talking about migrant rights from a left perspective.

On this week's episode, we invited poet danilo machado to talk about their upcoming poetry collection, This is your receipt and is not your ticket for travel, coming out soon with FaintLine Press. We have a history of weaving and suturing writing together. We talk about trains, on arriving (or not arriving), and on chosen families/calderas that hold.

For Show Notes & Transcript -- https://bit.ly/S2Ep4_shownotes-transcript-revised

A Revolutionary Love Letter: To All Migrants, Past, Present, and Future is a podcast hosted by Keish and Angel about all things we wished we had known growing up undocumented in the part of Turtle Island called the United States. We host conversations between writers, artists, and organizers talking about migrant rights from a left perspective.

On this week's episode, we continue our conversation with Prerna Lal, author of Unsung America: Immigrant Trailblazers and Our Fight for Freedom, and a pivotal leader of the undocumented immigrant youth movement. We reflect on how DACA was won through staunch activism by undocumented immigrants. Prerna reminds us that there are multiple tacticsthat makes up a movement, and most importantly, that the leaders of the movements must be those most impacted.

For Show Notes & Transcript -- https://bit.ly/S2Ep3_shownotes-transcript

A Revolutionary Love Letter: To All Migrants, Past, Present, and Future is a podcast hosted by Keish and Angel about all things we wished we had known growing up undocumented in the part of Turtle Island called the United States. We host conversations between writers, artists, and organizers talking about migrant rights from a left perspective.

On this week's episode, we invited a very special guest, Prerna Lal. Prerna is an immigration lawyer, author of Unsung America: Immigrant Trailblazers and Our Fight for Freedom, and a pivotal leader of the undocumented immigrant youth movement.

For Show Notes & Transcript --

https://files.cargocollective.com/c1845354/Prerna-Part-1-Transcript.docx.pdf

A Revolutionary Love Letter: To All Migrants, Past, Present, and Future is a podcast hosted by Keish and Angel about all things we wished we had known growing up undocumented in the part of Turtle Island called the United States. We host conversations between writers, artists, and organizers talking about migrant rights from a left perspective.

Listeners, we are back! On today's episode, Keish and Angel reflect back on the Radical Kindship series conversation with poet danilo machado and Dr. Alan Pelaez Lopez.

For Show Notes & Transcript -- https://bit.ly/RLLPseasontwo

A Revolutionary Love Letter: To All Migrants, Past, Present, and Future is a podcast hosted by Keish and Angel about all things we wished we had known growing up undocumented in the part of Turtle Island called the United States. We host conversations between writers, artists, and organizers talking about migrant rights from a left perspective.

This is a bonus episode, originally recorded on February 10, 2022 as part of the Radical Kinship Series, organized by Dr. Alan Pelaez Lopez. The talks highlighted undocumented and formerly undocumented scholars and artists who write about citizenship and illegality, undocumented and unauthorized migration, settler colonialism, and or the global circuit of forced migration.

Keish and I decided that we wanted to talk about the word trains to think about the history of labor, dispossession, displacement, and fugitivity.

The Radical Kinship Series co-sponsored by the On the Same Page Program, the Multicultural Community Center, the Undocumented Student Program, and the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative at UC Berkeley.

For Show Notes & Transcript -- https://files.cargocollective.com/c1845354/Ep11_On-Trains_-RadicalKinshipSeries.pdf

A Revolutionary Love Letter: To All Migrants, Past, Present, and Future is a podcast hosted by Keish and Angel about all things we wished we had known growing up undocumented in the part of Turtle Island called the United States. We host conversations between writers, artists, and organizers talking about migrant rights from a left perspective.

On this week's episode, we continue our conversation with documentary filmmaker Luna X Moya on their film vignette, What the Pier Gave Us, which was recently screened at BAMCinemaFest and Un Colectivo Recuerda

For Show Notes & Transcript -- https://files.cargocollective.com/c1845354/Ep10_shownotes_transcript.pdf

A Revolutionary Love Letter: To All Migrants, Past, Present, and Future is a podcast hosted by Keish and Angel about all things we wished we had known growing up undocumented in the part of Turtle Island called the United States. We host conversations between writers, artists, and organizers talking about migrant rights from a left perspective.