Kultivating Kapwa

Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Leny Strobel, Episode 5

"Intergenerational Decolonization Movements" with Special Guest Joanna La Torre

Our fifth episode of Kultivating Kapwa is longer than most. Join us as we talk with Auntie Leny about how she views her role as elder and mentor, the biggest challenges she has seen and experienced working within an intergenerational framework, what she feels can be the next step for those who sense an absence of elders, and more.

You can listen to this podcast on the Center for Babaylan Studies website, Spotify, PodBean, or Stitcher. Make sure to subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast! If you want to contact us, email [email protected], or add us on Instagram at @kultivatingkapwa and send us a DM.

Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//

Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Leny Strobel, Episode 4

"Co-creating a Movement to Remember the Babaylan: 10 years of the Center for Babaylan Studies"

In our fourth episode, Auntie Leny tells the Center for Babaylan Studies origin story, the importance of invitations to dialogue, and what she sees as the future for doing decolonization and reindigenization work, especially for the younger generations.

You can listen to this podcast on the Center for Babaylan Studies website, Spotify, PodBean, or Stitcher. Make sure to subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast! If you want to contact us, email [email protected], or add us on Instagram at @kultivatingkapwa and send us a DM.

Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//

Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Leny Strobel, Bonus Live Recorded Episode

"Why Is Decolonization Work Important in the Time of COVID-19?"

In a special episode of Kultivating Kapwa, we will share the space with a community circle of activists and community organizers, who have been and continue in this time of Pandemic to serve our diasporic communities and the Motherland. They all will engage in the question “Why is Decolonization Work Important in the Time of Covid-19?" and we will interrogate mindset, practice, and way of being through the Radical work of Decolonization. Please join us for this impactful conversation. 

You can listen to this podcast on the Center for Babaylan Studies website, Spotify, PodBean, or Stitcher. Make sure to subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast! If you want to contact us, email [email protected], or add us on Instagram at @kultivatingkapwa and send us a DM.

Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//

Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Leny Strobel, Episode 3

"Teaching and Learning through Ethnoautobiography"

In our third episode, we discuss Ethnoautobiography, why when Auntie Leny taught Ethnoautobiography it was known as “the weird class,” the importance of doing ethnoautobiography work for decolonization, and the importance of telling our own stories.

You can listen to this podcast on the Center for Babaylan Studies website, Spotify, PodBean, or Stitcher. Make sure to subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast! If you want to contact us, email [email protected], or add us on Instagram at @kultivatingkapwa and send us a DM.

Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//

Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Leny Strobel, Episode 2

"Reflections of a Colonized Childhood on Motherland and a Decolonial Adulthood on Homeland"

In our second episode, we discuss Auntie Leny’s experiences growing up in a Methodist household in the Philippines, relationships with her homeland, family, and nature, how she learned how to dwell in a place, and more.

You can listen to this podcast on the Center for Babaylan Studies website, Spotify, PodBean, or Stitcher. Make sure to subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast! If you want to contact us, email [email protected], or add us on Instagram at @kultivatingkapwa and send us a DM.

Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//

Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Leny Strobel, Episode 1

"Spiritual Academics - Decolonization Experiences in Academic Institutions"

In our first episode, we discuss Auntie Leny's decolonization work, her influences, her life in academia, and advice for beginning and continuing our own decolonization work.

You can listen to this podcast on the Center for Babaylan Studies website, Spotify, PodBean, or Stitcher. Make sure to subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast! If you want to contact us, email [email protected], or add us on Instagram at @kultivatingkapwa and send us a DM.

Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//

Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Leny Strobel, Episode 0

"An Introduction to Decolonization and Leny Strobel"

In this special episode, we give an introduction to Decolonization and Leny Strobel. This is a great starting point for gaining background knowledge of the topics we will be covering in the podcast. 

You can listen to this podcast on the Center for Babaylan Studies website, Spotify, PodBean, or Stitcher. Make sure to subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast! If you want to contact us, email [email protected], or add us on Instagram at @kultivatingkapwa and send us a DM.

Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//