Bori-Qué

Caroline talks with Jenaro Abraham is a Diasporican academic, born in the American South and raised in Puerto Rico. In this episode, the conversation touches on Jenaro's political awakening going to protests with his father in Vieques during the Navy occupation, growing up in the US and then moving to Puerto Rico at age 15 and Jenaro's own academic research and his theory of "Fragmented Autonomy". Jenaro Abraham received his MA in Latin American History from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. He is currently pursuing his doctoral studies in Political Science at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he's currently writing his dissertation on the FARC's political trajectory. Jenaro currently tweets from @JenaroAbraham.

Caroline sits down with Christian Avilés to discuss feeling Puerto Rican in the mainland, growing up on the rural west coast of Puerto Rico in Aguada and Moca. The discuss how gentrification in Puerto Rico is measured by the arrival of Walgreens to your hometown and other coming of age narratives.

In this introduction to the series the host goes on a journey using the power of memories to explain how Bori-Qué was born. Caroline speaks of community building for Puerto Ricans all over the world and listening as a means of creating empathy. This episode calls upon the hosts memories of growing up in Moca, Puerto Rico and going to Catholic school in Aguadilla with no real ties to the church and the communities in that school. Caroline discusses growing up already feeling like the other, assimilation and watching American tv instead of local so she could better fit in at school. Get to know this passion project with the host. You may follow Bori-Qué at @boriquepod on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.