This episode brings together the work of Gloria Anzaldúa and Raoul Peck  to contemplate our luz (light) in collective witnessing and healing.  Episode concludes our effort in season 3 to define the holistic  possibility of public pedagogies in ethnic studies.

In this episode, we contemplate amor as a form of decolonial study and  witnessing that works against the capitalist and often genocidal norms  of western culture.

In this episode we contemplate witnessing and imagining colonial history  by challenging the what Raoul Peck calls “confidence of ignorance” and  build collective and relational histories and ties between racialized  communities

Episode 6 contemplates the ways racialized communities are scripted  against one another and as such, preserve their dignity and integrity in  finding dissent together

Episode 5 contemplates the spatial politics of Jim Crow on Black women’s  bodies and also in the labor of Black and Indigenous Central Americans

Episode 4 contemplates the historic entanglements of power in the  hemisphere and the interoceanic diasporas that are forged within, beyond  and against power

Episode contemplates neocolonial and transtemporal fantasies of  Mesoamerican and Central American culture and arrives at the beauty of  decolonial storytelling to imagine wondrous and generative futures and  conceptualizations of racialized and Indigenous life.

Episode contemplates the erotic and gendered histories that we can decolonialize colonial domination, morality and erasure that allow us to  arrive at the sacred cosmologies of pre-Columbian life.

Episode contemplates a post-9/11 historical framework to studying the  legacies of 1492 in the Americas and Indigenous decolonial thought and  interfaces that unsettle the destruction of racialized and Indigenous  communities as a result of genocide, ethnocide, colonialism and slavery.

We invite you to listen to our newest episode where we sit down with one of the editors of the new book, Transmovimientos: Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies and Spaces, Dr. Eddy Alvarez Jr. and contributors Bamby Salcedo, José Manuel Santillana and Dr. Katherine Steelman. Our conversation centers on the significance of healing as an in-roads into the process of editing and writing such a critical intervention into the fields of Chicanx and Latinx Studies. Sending peace and love your way. Episode is now streaming.