It's our final episode of the year! WOW, you guys have been with us for our first ten episodes and we can't thank YOU enough! Thank you for your support, feedback, and love this year. It's been a year like no other, that's for sure, and let's hope it stays that way. We have to keep looking forward and hope that in some way we've been able to make some of these months bearable! Today we're coming at you with our perspective of the stars. We talk about the mood roulette that comes with Gemini and the emotionless cold heart of Aquarius. We know you'll like this one!

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Thank you to those who have been patiently waiting, we're back with kind of a controversial one (we think). Along with being a bit of a catch up.. we're exploring and sort of glossing over the topic of Feminism, what it means to us, and how the definition has evolved over time. We'd like to point out these are our personal experiences and our personal point of views! Listen and enjoy :)

As always, please please feel free to provide us with some feedback! We love to hear from you guys. Please go give us some love on our IG page @ispeakspanglishyque and don't forget to subscribe and review!

References

 https://www.bustle.com/articles/129886-what-does-feminism-mean-a-brief-history-of-the-word-from-its-beginnings-all-the-way

Has everyone listening today voted?! If not, pause this episode and go vote! OR make a plan to go vote on November 3rd. Today's episode is all about, you guessed it, voting! We talk about where our Latinx community falls politically, voter suppression, and fake news. We hope to highlight the importance of voting and how you can make a direct impact on this years election. This year has probably been the hardest for a lot of us, but let's push through these remaining months by casting our vote. It will literally change our landscape come 2021! 

References:

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/resources-voter-fraud-claims

https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/essay/an-early-look-at-the-2020-electorate/

https://www.pri.org/stories/2020-06-10/latino-groups-fight-voter-suppression-efforts-us-election-nears

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/poll-prri-voter-suppression/565355/

Hola amigos! We're running a little late on this one today, but better late than never right?! Today we're talking about DATING (ououuoo spooky I know). We thought it would be a good idea to get into a "debate" on dating and the works. We go through a list of questions both general and some more specific to the Latinx culture. We share some chisme about our dating lives and hope that by giving you a few perspectives we'll help you either keep or end that "situation-ship" you got going on. You know which one we're talking about!

As always, please please feel free to provide us with some feedback! We love to hear from you guys. Please go give us some love on our IG page @ispeakspanglishyque and don't forget to subscribe and review!

Welcome back guys! In today's episode we're talking about parties, celebrations, and what really goes down in our cousin's backyard arrachera. This week we thought it would be nice to keep it lighthearted and to be honest heavily opinionated. We talk about quinces, weddings, and party traditions in general. We dig into the "why" behind some of these traditions and add some of our own experiences around these celebrations. 

As always, please feel free to share your opinions with us just like we have today. We'd love to hear your feedback! Please subscribe and leave us a review. Also, follow us on Instagram @ispeakspanglishyque for more content.

https://slate.com/culture/2007/08/julia-alvarez-s-once-upon-a-quinceanera.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/05/nyregion/the-quinceanera-a-rite-of-passage-in-transition.html

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/news/a33770/16-ways-you-know-latino-household/

Welcome back! We're coming at you a little late this time around guys because we were practicing what we preach! In today's episode we're talking all about mental health. It's obviously hard to wrap it all up in a little package considering the topic is so broad, but we focus on mental health stigmas in the Latinx Community, in our families, with relationships, and we skim by postpartum depression (though it really deserves its own episode). Both Karina and I really enjoyed recording this episode as it was a bit more personal. We talk lots of feelings guys. 

We list the resources that helped us create our episode and if you're looking to do some more research on this topic see the list below! As always please make sure to follow us on Instagram @ispeakspaglishyque where we post more content. Also, please make sure to subscribe to out podcast and leave us a review we really do appreciate the feedback!

Resources:

https://www.mhanational.org/issues/latinxhispanic-communities-and-mental-health

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2947026/ 

https://apps.lib.umich.edu/blogs/pipeline/its-familismo-cultural-tensions-career-development-academia https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mdesmond/files/sp5602_05.pdf

https://www.mhanational.org/issues/latinxhispanic-communities-and-mental-health

https://www.nami.org/Your-Journey/Identity-and-Cultural-Dimensions/Latinx=-Hispanic

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4054671/

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/latinas-at-higher-risk-of-postpartum-depression_n_2315969

https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2020/04/03/latina-postpartum-depression-risk/

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm%3A978-1-4614-8045-7%2F1.pdf

https://www.everydayhealth.com/emotional-health/do-you-have-a-codependent-personality.aspx

https://apps.lib.umich.edu/blogs/pipeline/its-familismo-cultural-tensions-career-development-academia

Amigos, welcome back! On today's episode we're talking about Machismo. Karina and I learn more about each other on every episode, but this one was very insightful and more difficult to talk about than what we thought it would be. Unfortunately, the Latinx community accepts machismo as a "norm" in our culture and we are here to tell you that we can no longer condone those values. We are the generation that has to do better than our parents did. It is going to take a lot of unlearning, but a start is a start. Join us as we explore the several definitions of machismo, some examples, and the harms of it. 

As always, please rate and review our podcast and follow us on Instagram for more content at @ispeakspanglishyque!

Resources:

"The Mask of Masculinity" by Lewis Howes 

https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/what-we-mean-when-we-say-toxic-masculinity

https://www.britannica.com/topic/machismo

https://qz.com/1866266/how-men-in-latin-america-are-unlearning-machismo/

https://www.aurorand.org.uk/news/top-10-toxic-masculinity-behaviours

Today we're talking about a more serious topic...racism. Yes, we went from zero to one-hundred quickly, but we believe it is absolutely necessary to address what's going on in the world around us. Of course, being Latinas ourselves, we focused this conversation around racism within our Latinx culture and ways in which we can help elevate Black lives. We cover why talking about racism is hard within the Latinx community, internalized racism, and ways we can start those hard conversations with family, close friends, and your community. We hope you love it! As always please subscribe to our podcast, we want to hear from you! Leaving a review will really help us spread the word and support this podcast.

Resources:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a36vDwHEWr9qYnEUAVvbz6gAAl7UoI_MxLiDnPYOKpo/edit?fbclid=IwAR1-s-FJeVbiWI3iD4tqoSr3jz7SbOJTsZ-B9V08CTYuDqoQZVbTPOpZseM

https://www.ballotready.org

One of the most important things that happens in a book is the introduction of  its characters, right?! It's one of the ways they establish credibility which is also important to us. This is our first episode and that's exactly what we wanted to do. So welcome to I Speak Spanglish, y que! 

In this episode we thought about you all and the questions that would naturally surge when two people start a podcast like: Why a podcast? What does the podcast title mean? What are we going to be talking about? What gives us the right? and What do we hope to achieve? We hope you learn a little bit more about us on a personal level! 

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