Anzaldúing It

In this episode, we tackle the latest astrology that is making us feel a little hot-headed: Mars in Retrograde.

We also discuss the fires burning all along the West Coast of the U.S. and how gender reveal parties and heteropatriarchy, in general, need to stop.

There's some stamp hoes in this house!

In this episode we discuss the cultural reset that is Cardi B and Meg thee Stallion's WAP- truly an anthem of our time.

We also talk about the Post office and why it's under attack by 45, as well as how you can help. We also take time to talk about the Biden/Kamala ticket and our lack of faith in the electoral system.

Finally, the Walter Mercado corner is back! we're tackling the Mars retrograde of course!

Happy Cancer season!

For this episode's water sign feast, we celebrate Angélica's birthday with a review of Netflix's new doc on Walter Mercado "Con Mucho Mucho Amor"

Y'all, this time two of our good friends join the Zoom. In this special episode, we collaborated with Seb and Yaz of our sibling podcast Café con Chisme to tackle an intra-community conversation: how non-Black Latinxs, like us benefit from white privilege and how we can begin to unpack it. This is Part 1 of 2, (you can find the second part over at @cafeconchisme)

In part 1 we tackle 2 main questions:

Why are we addressing our own white-passing non-Black Latinx community?

How do we benefit from whiteness, both in our lived experiences and systemically?

This conversation captures the consciousness we are at now, and it has been a process. We hope that if we need to be corrected, we can be called in with compassion and restorative justice.

The book Jack mentioned is “Me & White Supremacy” by Layla Saad and is a great resource to keep the conversation going, wyourself and other non-Black Latinxs.

In this episode, we discuss the reason we have Pride, and why it’s important that our work is intersectional. We need to show up for Black Lives, on the streets, in our communities, in our families. This is a conversation about the ways we can tackle anti-blackness in the Latinx community but also how to start doing the inner and outer work for justice.

Below are two national directories to Bail funds across the country, and local orgs doing work on the ground:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CjZMORRVuv-I-qo4B0YfmOTqIOa3GUS207t5iuLZmyA/mobilebasic

https://www.papermag.com/where-to-donate-protests-minneapolis-2646128317.html?rebelltitem=6#rebelltitem6

Also in the Bay Area, The Black Earth Farms Collective is an agroecological lighthouse organization composed of skilled Pan-African and Pan-Indigenous farmers, builders, and educators who spread ancestral knowledge and train community members to build collectivized, autonomous, and chemical-free food systems. They are providing food for those affected by the recent protests, Venmo: @blackearthfarms

We referenced this article in Teen Vogue by Angie Jaime

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-latinx-people-can-fight-anti-black-racism-in-our-own-culture

Recommended Reading “So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo”:

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/articles/so-you-want-to-talk-about-race-by-ijeoma-oluo/'

Our title references a famous poster made in 1987, by Avram Finkelstein, Brian Howard, Oliver Johnston, Charles Kreloff, Chris Lione, and Jorge Socarrás who founded the SILENCE=DEATH Project to support one another during the AIDS crisis. Inspired by the posters of the Art Workers Coalition and the Guerrilla Girls (both of whose work is on view nearby), they mobilized to spread the word about the epidemic and created the now-iconic Silence=Death poster featuring the pink triangle as a reference to Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people in the 1930s and 1940s. It became the central visual symbol of AIDS activism after it was adopted by the direct-action advocacy group AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP).

In this episode, we check in about how we’ve been coping while in quarantine, we talk about what habits we’re keeping and the simple joys we're learning we really need to stay sane. We also dedicate some time to shout out some of the beautiful things community members have been doing out here, like:

@peopleforpeoplelosangeles, a mutual aid fund delivering groceries to Black and brown community here in LA, if you have the capacity, please support them by volunteering, donating, posting, or all of the above!

Our Buddhist organization has a podcast for those wanting a Buddhist perspective in these challenging circumstances, we recommend their podcast “Buddhist Solutions for Life’s Problems” https://buddhistsolutions.transistor.fm/subscribe

A friend of the podcast Jocelyn Ramirez of @todoverde (www.todoverde.org) has a new cookbook full of plant-based Mexican recipes that you need in your quarantine life right now.

And finally, if you live in LA county, you can get a free Headspace membership, this is a great meditation and mindfulness app and should be part of your toolkit now and beyond. Visit https://work.headspace.com/lacdmhresidents/member-enroll to find out more.

In this episode, we talk about how to keep connection alive when our new reality means we can't be close by. We speak on how you don’t need to be in physical proximity to show you care, zoom tips and why no is a full sentence.

In this episode, we unpack how the Coronavirus and quarantine has shifted our mental and physical routines. We talk about what is helping us (therapy, the Peloton app), and how to take care of each other.

Also, to access free meditations free from the Calm app follow this link:

https://bit.ly/2UzhwgZ

WE'RE BACK BACK BACK AGAIN

After our long hiatus, it is only fair that we do one of our infamous long check-ins. We discuss all the wild things happening rn, like Coronavirus, the presidential election, and why cruises are just not it for us.

In this episode, we talk about what happens when we feel down and out and need to get up and try again. A constant struggle, we discuss how we deal with feelings of rejection and self-slander.

This one is dedicated to those of you going through a rough time. We hope you continue to try, and remember the bad bitch you have been!