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Comadre Sandy sets the table for this conversation with Indigenous theologian and Guna leader, Jocabed Solano. Jocabed challenges the Western understanding of the body and offers the Guna understanding of the body as connected to the land and the rest of creation. Join comadres, Sandy and Karen as they learn from the amazing

Jocabed Solano is the Executive Director of Memoria Indígena, an organization that is remembering the Indigenous and Christian wisdom in Abya Yala and creating spaces for dialogue between Indigenous Christian communities, Indigenous spiritualities, and the global church. Jocabed is a sought after climate defender and speaker.

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Disability invites us into a greater humanity by reminding us all of our need to belong, to be understood, and simply to be. Join comadres Sandy and Jennifer as they chat with Dr. Amy Kenny, author of the book My Body is Not a Prayer Request.

Dr. Amy Kenny invites us to expand our understanding of God and heaven through a disability lens. Tune in for an amazing conversation!

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This week, Comadres Karen and Jennifer continue the conversation on bodies with special guest Irene Cho. The conversations centers Asian bodies and the way they have been simultaneously fetishized and rejected in American society.

Our guest comadre, Irene Cho, shares her experiences as a Korean-American woman who had to wrestle with her identity and resist the tremendous pressure to assimilate and distance herself from her own culture.

Aging bodies are inevitable, but resistance to aging is not. The comadres had a rich conversation on what it means to accept the gifts of aging–not that we don’t need to grieve lost youth, but that every stage of life has gifts if we are open to growing and learning.

Comadre Sandy sets up the mesa this week with guests Davíd Elí Patiño and Austen Hartke. Trans people have fiercely fought to create the person they want to be. They lead the way in defying the expectations of a confining and often suffocating society. They model liberation. Join the comadres for a refreshing conversation on trans bodies. 

David Elí Patiño is a Latinx, queer and genderqueer immigrant hailing from Medellin, Colombia. He completed his M.A. in Religion from Union Theological Seminary. 

Austen Hartke is  the founder and director of Transmission Ministry Collective, an online community dedicated to the spiritual care, faith formation, and leadership potential of transgender and gender-expansive Christians.

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Comadre Jennifer sets up the conversation this week. The beauty of comadrazgo is that it invites us to have deeper conversations. We could not talk about embodiment without acknowledging what Dr. Crenshaw coined as “intersectionality”. First and foremost, to describe the lived experiences of Black women in the United States in a legal/judicial system, today, that term has evolved and has been a gift for so many of us. Join la mesa with two special comadres. One whom you already know, Karen Gonzalez and one that is joining us in this podcast for the first time Dr. Tamisha Tyler. Dr. Tyler is an artist, a theologian, a singer, a dancer, a foodie, a lover of all things science-fiction and cartoons and particularly future pessimism. Her dissertation focused on the writings of Octavia Butler.

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We continue our conversation on bodies with comadre Karen leading us as we talk about bodies in movement.

Comadre Jennifer sets up la conversación this week talking about body positivity. How did this term originate? How has it impacted our lives and its limitations?

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Ni putas, ni santas! Comadre Sandy host the mesa today for an intimate conversation with comadre Karen. Join them as they offer alternatives on how to navigate the fullness of the expression of our sexualities. 

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