On this episode, Yvette interviews Kat Jutras of the Arizona Advocacy Network about her work creating a holistic approach towards increasing voter enfranchisement for people who have lost the right to vote after a felony conviction. They discuss the gaps in the recent SCOTUS Brnovich decision, extralegal barriers marginalized people face to voting, and how restitution fees play a huge role in stopping people from exercising their right to vote.

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On this *UNLOCKED* #litreview from Season 3, Maria Jiménez-Zepeda, fellow first-gen Yale Latina alumna and Omega Phi Beta Sorority sister, comes back onto the podcast to discuss the second half of Nicaraguan revolutionary Gioconda Belli’s memoir “El Pais Bajo Mi Piel.” They discuss the series of macktivists* within the Sandinista/other Latin American lefitst movements encountered by Belli, analyzed US financial and military support of the Contras and the Somoza dictatorship versus US public-facing comments about the Sandinistas through a convergence theory lens, and applauded Belli for prioritizing her own creative endeavors while also organizing with the Sandinistas.

On this episode, Yvette interviews legal aid lawyer Matthew Garcia about the SCOTUS Brnovich decision. They discuss how the right to vote is under attack across the country and Arizona in particular, point out the lack of an explicit right to vote in the Constitution, and break down why Alito's opinion is bullshit.

Read more about the study Matt references here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3417476

On this *unlocked* Patreon episode, Yvette interviews Geoff Boyce, the academic director of the Earlham College Border Studies Program. They discuss Border Patrol's 100 mile jurisdiction, the intermeshing of local law enforcement and immigration enforcement in Detroit, Michigan and Buffalo, New York, and the bullshit behind the "reasonable suspicion" articulation that Border Patrol agents must make before making a stop.

Read more about the data Geoff collected with the ACLU of Michigan in a report here: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/new-aclu-michigan-report-border-patrol-operates-far-border-and-uses-racial-profiling 

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On this episode, Yvette interviews Central American journalist Daniel Alvarenga about the President of El Salvador's recent decision to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. They discuss the context of US intervention into the Salvadoran economy through USAID, how the women of the FMLN kicked Bukele out of their party, and how Bukele's cult of personality has become so successful.

Read Daniel's article here: https://elfaro.net/en/202106/columns/25579/USAID-Bitcoin-and-the-Long-Fight-over-El-Salvador%E2%80%99s-Sovereignty.htm

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On this *UNLOCKED LIT REVIEW* Yvette and her Omega Phi Beta at Yale sorority sister Maria Jiménez-Zepeda digest the first 150 pages of Gioconda Belli's memoir "El Pais Bajo Mi Piel". They discuss whether Belli is sufficiently honest about her class positionality and the privileges that brought her in the Nicaraguan Sandinista resistance, critique how the most prominent figures from Latin American literature and art tend to have some proximity to whiteness, and express appreciation for Belli's descriptions of divine femininity.

Buy the book here: https://www.palabrasbookstore.com/book/9781400034390

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On this episode, Yvette interviews University of New Mexico law professor Mark-Tizoc González to break down the real intellectual history of critical race theory, where CRT stands in law school curricula today, and the troubling recent anti-union decision from SCOTUS.

Read more about the SCOTUS decision here: https://newrepublic.com/article/162836/cedar-point-nursery-labor-farm-workers

To learn more about critical race theory and Lat Crit visit: https://latcrit.org/

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On this episode, Yvette interviews Jasmine Magaña, a Salvi femme PhD student at Duke University who studies the artistic interventions of Cracky Rodriguez and the Fire Theory collective of Salvadoran artists. Jasmine breaks down the zones of silence created from the trauma of the Salvadoran civil war, explains how Fire Theory uses collective corporeality to disrupt these zones of absence and gaps in knowledge, and talks through the framework of “Salvadoran ignorance” as a state-sanctioned policy of disinvestment.

Read more about Cracky Rodriguez here: https://terremoto.mx/revista/introduccion-a-la-ignorancia/?fbclid=IwAR2qEKOTAcUf1G1_TGypSHC7hjQjRBGPhs_pBMhtKMq3iR0J_yrV1_kZpOw

and Alberta Whittle here: http://amlatina.contemporaryand.com/es/editorial/alberta-whittle/

On this episode, Yvette interviews Pima County Recorder Gabriella Cázares-Kelly about recent Arizona GOP efforts to undermine the right to vote. Cázares-Kelly breaks down the systematic efforts of the Arizona GOP during this legislative session to undermine the right to vote after historic turnout during the 2020 election, clarifies the effect of SB 1485 on people who vote by mail in Arizona, and debunks the far-right myth that Arizona's electoral system is fraudulent and untrustworthy. 

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On this *UNLOCKED LIT REVIEW*, friend of the podcast Laura Barrera joins to chat about "The Yellow House," a memoir by Sarah Broom. We break down how Broom unveils New Orleans East and the ways in which it has been historically neglected as compared to the French Quarter and the slew of mayors who have tried to make the city better. We share how we relate to Broom's inter-generational story-telling and how our stories do not begin and end with us.

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