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Yvette Borja interviews Stephanie Canizales, professor and Faculty Director of the UC Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, about her new book Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States. They discuss who is left out of the DACA/Dreamer narrative and the socioeconomic obstacles this population faces; Canizales breaks down the limits of integration sociological frameworks for understanding unaccompanied migrant youth and explains how migrant youth reject the limited narratives of marginalization and criminalization that are foisted onto them.

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Yvette Borja and Jorge Cuéllar discuss their experience as international observers for the Santa Marta 5 trial. They break down the audacity and offensive nature of a unit dedicated to prosecuting war crimes bringing the Santa Marta case forward as its inaugural effort, share their impressions of the deep power of the organized pueblo in Santa Marta, and explain the stark differences between the Attorney General's narrative of the alleged crime and what the Santa Marta community believes is the real driver of this case: mining profits.

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Yvette Borja interviews Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin, authors of Private Violence: Latin American Women And The Struggle for Asylum. They explain why calling the gender-based violence that Mexican and Central American women are fleeing "private" is inaccurate, break down how navigating the asylum system is hardest for poor migrants, and emphasize the U.S. role in destabilizing the governments and societies that these women are running from.

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Yvette Borja interviews Chelsea Guevara, the first Salvadoran Womxn of the World Poetry Slam Champion. They discussed how Chelsea got started with Slam Poetry, the connections between her scholarly research and her poetry, and her upcoming chapbook Cipota.

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Yvette Borja interviews Silky Shah, Executive Director of Detention Watch Network. They discuss why the immigrant justice movement needs abolition, the importance of transforming the economic infrastructures of local governments dependent on carceral systems, and how the growth of immigration detention and deportation was and is a critical part of the mass incarceration crisis.

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Yvette Borja and Ronnie Wollenzier discuss Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez's second book "Tias and Primas: On Knowing and Loving the Women Who Raise Us." They praise how the book feels like a hug for their inner child, celebrate how Prisca's works widen the reach of academic literature, and share which tia and prima archetypes they identify with.

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Yvette Borja interviews Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez's second book “Tias and Primas: On Knowing and Loving the Women Who Raise Us.” They discuss why Prisca prioritizes democratizing critical theory in her writings, she breaks down why she chose to focus on Tias and Primas but not mothers, and which archetypes she decided to leave out of the book and why.

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On this #litreview, Yvette interviews reproductive justice and immigrants' rights organizer Ale Pablos about the first few chapters of Beth Caldwell's book Deported Americans. They discuss the differences between legal definitions of citizenship and undocumented people's lived experiences in the US, critique the ways that the US legal system robs migrants of the due process that citizens expect, and express gratitude for a text that uncovers the aspect of migrant life that is often under-discussed--- life after deportation. 

Victor is free! But he still needs financial support moving on with his life after criminalization and ICE's violence. Donate here: https://itsgoingdown.org/victor-is-free-support-still-needed/

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Yvette Borja interviews Maria Hinojosa, award-winning journalist, about her keynote address at the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, a rarity for her as a journalist, and her trajectory in media. Maria shared that philanthropic funds need to support independent BIPOC-led media, broke down why Futuro Media covered the death of Jose De Jesus in the Eloy Detention Center, and emphasized the need for increased nuanced reporting on deaths in ICE custody.

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On this #litreview, Yvette Borja and Denise Rebeil discuss "My Grandmother's Hands" by Resmaa Menakem. They breakdown Menakem's contention that white supremacy lives mostly in our nervous systems, what role our lizard brain plays in how we interact with the world, and why collective healing from trauma is necessary to avoid generational "traumatic retention." 

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