Radio Caña Negra

Platforms of solidarity built on antiblackness, flimsy "people of color" terminologies, all at the expense of Black people. Nury Martinez, Kevin de Leon, Gil Cedillo and Rob Herrera said nothing new, it was just recorded this time. We share our takes on taking actual material responsibility and accountability. Stay tuned for part two, next week. 

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We discuss the societal climates of non-masked Northerners versus the masked norm elsewhere, in Panama specifically, hygiene and cleaning habits and Janvieve's experiences traveling on the continent of Africa and "tamales of dirt."

We chat about May being "mes de la Etnia Negra" in Panama (and also in Colombia and Venezuela). We know, we know... Black is not an ethnicity, yet the month has been misnomered and we can hold multiple truths at once... the importance of these months AND the fact that nonBlack folks in Latin America WILL show up in Blackface during these "celebratory" Black history and futures months. We share our real-life, fear-inducing antiblack experiences in Guatemala, Panama and others. 

We talk about communal economic structures, hoe sh*t as praxis as Evelyn describes her mother being a seamstress and her most loyal and easy to work with customer base being sex workers. Dash is left gagged and speechless as Janvieve and Evelyn describe the changes their bodies went through before and after pregnancy and birthing. And we all agree, at no point would we ever miss a meal. Anxiety, depression or not. 

When you're going through shit, it's legit! Ev reminds us while also inviting us to plant yourself and swim because you already have what you need to build the life that you want. And don't ever forget to celebrate your wins and victories! 

"Geriatric" pregnancies, starving alone, "grandkids money" and mastering life's stages. Join the macheteras as we discuss intentional family planning, birthing over age 35, powerfully parenting and our relationships with aging. Enjoy an excerpt from AfroColombian poet, Mary Grueso, "Negra Soy" (I am Black) at the end of this episode. Second part of this episode coming next week! 

We chat about the women we lift up everyday, how our grandmothers set up the path that we currently walk on, and some bad-ass women centering Black Latin Americans. TUNE IN TODAY 1pm EST for AfroResistance´s panel: Our Realities: Black Women Speak from Their Territories with Mirtes Renata (Brazil) and Sara Quiñones (Colombia). Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/our-realities-black-women-speak-from-their-territories-tickets-144042078735

Follow Gloria Malone on Instagram (@gloriamalone) and TikTok (gm4xx) for her content centering Black Latin Americans. 

It's been a long time and we are back with a long, juicy episode talking about folks with all the pretty words with little skill to back it up, the cult of celebrity among Black liberation, entitlement, gratitude, reciprocity, focusing on outcomes not processes, and sitting your rass home and not traveling to Tulum.

Our next training: Radio Caña Negra AntiBlackness in the Latine Community - November 7th 10am-2pm EST: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/radio-cana-negra-presents-antiblackness-in-the-latine-community-part-2-tickets-126898066533

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There's a difference between "tiene de Negro" (having African/Black ancestry) vs. actually BEING NEGRO (being Black). The entry into Blackness is porous while whiteness guards with an iron fist. We undress the Black women cosplayers, have specific questions for white women "of color"???? call in enabling white-centering academia and establishments, identify Mrs. Clause's long lost twin, and how we will now be checking white on all  of our documents and forms. Tune in for the deets! 

  "My identity is tied into my racial component significantly more than my ethnic one like I feel more detached from my ethnic self than I do from my racial self. " - Evelyn Alvarez

In this episode, Evelyn and Dash chat about how we ground ourselves in our Blackness more than anything else. That Blackness is diasporic, it is global and it is real. We are Black despite Latinidad, which we all agree, is and continues to be a hegemonic white-centering subordination and assimilation project hellbent on a flat beige identity. And we've made it very clear, we are not beige, nor morena...somos NEGRAS.