Radio Cachimbona

On this episode, Yvette interviews her former Stanford Law professor, Jim Cavallaro, who now runs the University Human Rights Network, about his 2010 report on the Salvadoran response to gangs and organized crime “No Place to Hide.” They discuss the thread of US imperialism that connects 1980’s Northern Triangle civil wars, 1996 expansion of crimes that make individuals deportable, and early 2000’s “Mano Dura” policy that wreaked havoc on the lives of youth gang members.

On this *UNLOCKED* #LitReview from Season 1, Yvette discusses the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston with deportation defense attorney Laura. They reflect on how notions of “womanhood” are imposed on young girls of color, praise the lineage of black scholars who re-elevated Hurston’s work after her death, and discuss why women of color need to create their own intellectual spaces.

This special episode is a recording of the #AZFreeThemAll virtual teach-in hosted by the #Arizona3 coalition and Gloria Negrete-Lopez. Yvette, Ale Pablos and Tiera Rainey joined for a roundtable discussion featuring some of the most vibrant abolitionist organizing in Arizona--work that challenges the hegemonic narrative of Arizona as solely a red, conservative state. Importantly centering the voices and leadership of those directly impacted, the roundtable discussion highlighted the efforts of local groups such as the Tucson Second Chance Bail Fund, #KeepAleFree Deportation Defense Campaign and the #AZFreeThemAll action coalition against cages. Tiera, Ale, and Yvette spoke to their community-based defense strategies, including political storytelling surrounding the oppressions faced by Ale Pablos and all others trapped in the crimmigration and prison industrial complex.

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*PATRON-ONLY LIT REVIEW PREVIEW* On this episode, Yvette interviews UCLA Professor of Chicano/a Studies Leisy Abrego to discuss her book “Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders," where she unpacks emotional and economic inequalities between transnational families. As a Salvadoreña herself, Leisy shares how focusing on Salvadoran migration disrupts the narrative of single men cyclically migrating for seasonal work as Salvadoran women have historically migrated in equal numbers to men; how children experience parental separation on a specific visceral emotional level; and how the precarity and failures of Temporary Protected Status affected transnational parent/child relationships.

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On this episode, Yvette interviews Anna and Gisela-- two Central American #lawtina family law attorneys who discuss their journeys to the law and the uptick in domestic violence amidst the covid-19 pandemic and economic crisis. 

They share the benefits of working at a firm with all women partners, tips for standing up to judges as a young woman of color attorney, and the advice they would give their pre-law selves.

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On this *UNLOCKED* lit review, Yvette discusses the literary non-fiction book "Evicted" by Matthew Desmond with her dear friend Yaneli. They share their own family's experiences with eviction, the importance of Desmond's work showcasing that poverty is a relationship between the wealthy and the poor, and criticize sociology for not centering exploitation and extraction as a discipline.

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On this public #litreview, Yvette and fellow first-generation Salvi Yale alumna Jencey Paz discuss Rigoberta Menchú's memoir. They discussed the oppressive relationship between ladinos and indigenous communities in Guatemala, critiqued the US imperialist interests that collaborated with the genocidal Guatemalan government during the 36 year Civil War, and emphasized the importance of white and light-skinned Latinos checking themselves when it comes to claiming rights to indigenous art and culture. 

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*PATREON-ONLY EPISODE PREVIEW* On this 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.

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IT’S HERE! The live show recording where Yvette interviewed Kala and Vane about intersectional feminism, matriarchy, and unlearning white supremacist beauty standards to love themselves as women of color. They analyzed “Pussy Kills” and “Brown Babies” by rapper Rocky Rivera and discussed the importance of the reproductive justice framework, how radical and revolutionary it is for women of color to birth babies, and how to balance recognizing that pussy kills and that genitalia does not define womanhood.

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