Fruta Fresca

Amigues! I’m sure you’ve been keeping up with the dumpster fire at city hall, so we shifted our plans to bring you this timely episode. This week, we’re joined by Ivette Alé-Ferlito, the co-founder of La Defensa - an organization focused on the intersectional feminist approach to dismantling of oppressive systems. They believe in the importance of investment in community power that thrives on promoting health, wellness, love of their communities, transformative justice, and community accountability. Ivette breaks down some of the work they’re doing and provides some resources for you going into this year’s midterm elections. We're also bringing you a little more context around the scandal surrounding LA's city council members.

 

To learn more about La Defensa, visit ladefensa.org

 

Follow @ladefensx to see their voter guide and get access to all of the recommendations you need to vote in this election in LA County!

 

Get involved! Canvas with The Defenders Of Justice by signing up online

 

Follow @TDOJ2022 on Instagram and Twitter for weekly text banks, fundraisers, and postcarding events until November 8th.

 

Lastly, If you can vote, vote on November 8th in LA County!

 

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Amigues! We're so excited to be closing out our Latine Heritage Month series with our most important episode yet. Today, we're joined by Roberta Braga and Maria Isabel Di Franco Quinonez of Equis - a research firm working to create a better understanding of Latino communities, invest in innovative approaches to reach and engage them, and uplift the Latinx leaders of tomorrow. Roberta and Maria Isabel give us a general look at the Latinx vote in 2020 and where it is today. We also discussed misinformation and how messaging is delivered to the Latinx community. Oséa, we’re bringing you chisme backed by real data to help you better understand the power of the Latinx vote.

For more information on Equis or to find resources, visit their website.  

Thanks so much for making this series a such a success and remember, Latine Heritage Month may be over, but we celebrate our culture year-round out here!

 

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Amigues! Hope you’re all having a lovely week. Just a quick note - this episode does feature some heavy discussions around self-harm so listener discretion is advised.

 

In this episode, we’re joined by Brandie Carlos, founder of Therapy For Latinx, a directory that provides resources and connects folks with mental health professionals in an effort to help the Latinx community heal, thrive and become advocates for their own mental health. Brandie opens up about the life-changing moment that inspired the project and reminds us that we don’t need to be going through difficult times in order to seek therapy.

For more information on Therapy for Latinx or to find resources, visit their website. 

 

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Amigues! Guess what! Today we are talking all about the media that raised us: TELENOVELAS! We’re talking to two special guests. Dr. Melixa Abad-Izquierdo takes us through the history of the Teleteatro (which we could call a predecessor to Novelas) and draws a direct line from Mexican media of the late 50s to the classics we know and love!

We’re also joined by Sergio Gonzalez (future Doctora) for a fun conversation on our favorite novelas, protagonists and villanas! What a rabbit hole of nostalgia this was!

Hope you enjoy!

 

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Amigues! On this second installment of our Latine Heritage Month program, we caught up with Karla Hernandez, a researcher at the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative. To our surprise, she's also from South Central (so you know the chisme was good!). We discuss the current state of Latinx representation in Hollywood and Spoiler Alert: There aren't enough of us! 

We do apologize - Amigues, I'm currently in NYC for work (you know - being an Urban Planner) and I had to record this episode in a closet (the irony). That being said, the audio is not the greatest but the conversation was juicy so bear with us!

To keep up with the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, visit: annenberg.usc.edu/research/aii

 

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Amigues! Welcome back to another episode of Fruta Fresca, and more importantly Bienvenides to our Latine Heritage Month celebration! For the next couple of episodes we will be exploring topics centering the experience of Latine peoples across the diaspora. This week we are joined by Wendy Ramirez and Jackie Rodriguez of Spanish Sin Pena and we dive deep into a conversation around Language, Culture, and Identity. This episode is dedicated to all of the folks that navigate between not feeling Latine enough due to their lack of Spanish and folks who not only speak Spanish but also dream in Spanish. To paraphrase our tia, Anzaldua: We strive to arrive at a place where our spanish doesn't have to be translated and our english doesn't have to be justified.

To learn more about Spanish Sin Pena and keep up with their programming, visit their website: www.spanishsinpena.com

 

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Amigues! Do y'all remember the viral Youtube video, "Sh*t Spanish Girls Say?" Girl, DIMELO! Definitely one of my favorite videos of all time. Today on the podcast, we’re joined by my sis and fellow creator Skittlez! We’re not lying when we say we had our Tia and Tamera moment. It's my NY sister! We talk about our journeys as artists and creators, the role of our queerness and non-binary identities in our art, and artist queer baiting. 

You can catch SkittleZ as the self-care loving panda, Debbie on Syfy's Wild Life and all over social media!

 

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Amigues! Como siempre ya llegó el podcast que tanto extrañaban. This episode gets good! We’re joined by writer, actor, author, and all around creative Christopher Rivas! We explore Brownness, creativity, and the magic of the stage. When a die-hard New Yorker and a die-hard Angeleno get together, you know it’s going to get real!

Listen to Rubirosa - a podcast about the story of Porfirio Rubirosa, the inspiration behind James Bond, available wherever you get your podcasts.

Also, pre-order Brown Enough, Chris’ upcoming book on the deconstruction, exploration, and search for belonging as a Brown body. 

 

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Amigues! ¿Que creen? Hoy si les trajimos chisme. This week, we dive a little deeper into the history behind the icon, Juan Gabriel, and his 1990 performance at the Palacio de Bellas Artes en la Cuidad de México. We’re joined by actor, writer, producer, journalist, and chismosa Jhovanni Raga! Also, we get some chisme surrounding La Mas Draga and Drag Race: Mexico.

 

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Amigues!!! This week we had a conversation with Dr. Irvin Manuel Gonzalez who shares his journey as a first-generation choreographer and dance scholar in a field saturated by whiteness.

He tells us all about how his career went from dancing with his aunt at a family party, to the Quebradita becoming the focus of his academic research. His dissertation, Dancing Quebradita: Transnational Belonging and Mexicanidades Across the U.S.-Mexico Border explores how the Mexican/Mexican-American social dance is tied to cultural identity. We also talk about his recent full-length piece "Nepantla" created by Primera Generacion Collective!

Read more about Primera Generacion, recently featured in the LA Times.

 

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