*TW discussion of incarceration and sexual assault beginning around timestamp 5:50*

On this episode, Yvette interviews Jorge Renaud, the National Criminal Justice Director for LatinoJustice. He shares about his experiences living in Brownsville Texas and facing criminalization as a Chicano man, the trauma of incarceration and his resilience within that, and the importance of poetry. 

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On this episode, Yvette interviews Kat Jutras of Death Penalty Alternatives for Arizona about the organization's advocacy efforts to end the death penalty in Arizona, the case of Clarence Dixon, who Arizona executed last month, and the faith-based groups who are calling for an end to the death penalty. 

Read more about Clarence Dixon's case here: https://ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/clarence-dixon-supreme-court-death-penalty-cruel-joke/

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On this episode, Yvette interviews Doralina Luna, a Tucson-based lawtina who owns her own law firm and practices immigration law. Doralina shares what made her decide to venture into solo legal practice, what inspired her to hire people directly impacted by the immigration system, and gives tips for lawyers thinking about opening up a private practice. 

On this episode, Yvette interviews Xenia Orona Co-Executive Director of Fuerte Arts Movement to discuss the various bills that the AZ GOP has passed to disenfranchise marginalized voters.

Yvette also interviews Julie Neusner of Human Rights First to discuss Title 42's deployment at the Tijuana/San Ysidro border. Julie shares the differential treatment given to Ukranian refugees and breaks down the violence that migrants are vulnerable to when forced to return to the Mexican side of the border.

On this episode, Yvette interviews Brea Baker, the Senior Vice President of Politics and Programming at Inspire Justice and the new host of Disney + Show "Bridging the Gap."  They discuss why representation in art matters, the role that culture shifting plays in social movements, and emphasize the importance of centering reproductive justice in the conversation around Roe v. Wade. 

Read Brea's piece on reproductive justice in Elle magazine here: https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a37663086/abortion-access-texas-reproductive-justice-leaders-roundtable/

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On this episode, Yvette interviews Irma Garcia, the client services manager who leads abortion access work at Jane's Due Process-- a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring Texas teens have access to abortion care.  Irma explains the lengths people living in Texas must go to obtain abortion care in light of SB 8, criticizes the twisted lack of logic around the restrictions to abortion directed at minors, and breaks down how these obstacles affect poor women in rural areas the most. 

On this episode, Yvette brings back friend of the podcast Eloísa Lopez, the executive director of Pro-Choice Arizona to discuss Mississippi's approach to oral arguments in Dobbs and what it signals about the future of abortion rights, the extremity of Amy Coney Barrett's views on abortion care, and the physical and mental trauma of pregnancy and childbirth, particularly in places like Mississippi that has the country's highest maternal mortality rate. 

On this episode, Yvette interviews Bianca Tylek, the founder and executive director of Worth Rises, a nonprofit aimed at dismantling the prison industry by exposing who grossly profits from incarceration. They discussed how people power will always be the engine of abolition, the relationship between an access to phones campaign and the larger goal of abolition, and encourage people to check out the Worth Rises 101 curriculum on the prison industry and profits. 

https://worthrises.org/thecurriculum 

On this episode, Yvette interviews Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez about her book "For Brown Girls With Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts". They discuss why respectability politics don't serve people of color, Prisca's journey through imposter syndrome to landing a major book deal, and why brown girls need each other. 

On this episode, Yvette interviews Pedro Velasco the Director of Education and Advocacy at the Kino Border Initiative about the state of the border under the ongoing horrific deployment of Title 42. They discuss the uncertainties that asylum seekers face under the Title 42 policy, call out the differential treatment given to US citizens allowed to freely travel, and break down how Title 42 violates international and US asylum law.