Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 1

"Decolonizing Parenting"

In this episode, we are joined by three other core members of the Center for Babaylan Studies: Aimee Gomez, Jennifer Maramba, and Vanessa Ramalho. Our topic is decolonizing parenting, and our discussion includes how our individual upbringings, family structures, and decolonizing paths are informing and inspiring how we raise our children in community.

Jennifer Maramba and Aimee Gomez both reside on the ancestral lands of the Anishinabewaki ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee, Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. They both continue to learn and embody the teachings and sacred contracts of the One Dish with One Spoon Treaty and the two row wampum treaty.

Jennifer honours her ancestral lineage of Pangasinan and Panay Island, from the islands commonly known through the colonial name of the Philippines. You can contact her by emailing [email protected].

Aimee's maternal ancestral origins are from MacArthur, Leyte, and her paternal ancestral origins are from Tagbilaran, Bohol. You can contact her by emailing [email protected].

Vanessa Ramalho currently resides on the land of the Nanticoke Lenni Lenape, also known as South New Jersey. Her ancestral lineage on her mother's side is from Samar, Bisayas, in the Philippines, and her father's side is from Sao Nicolau, Cabo Verde. You can contact her by emailing [email protected]. 

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