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This is Kultivating Kapwa, hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig and Olivia Sawi. In our FIRST series, we sit down and ask Auntie Leny questions about her life, her work, decolonization, academia, ethnoautobiography, her relationship to nature, the land, and all living beings, and her views of the future. In our SECOND series, we have conversations with members of the community and explore how decolonization has manifested itself in their work, and how they cultivate kapwa in their own lives. In our THIRD series, we discuss decolonizing parenthood. We explore how decolonization shows up at home and in family, relational to our collective children. We delve into the intergenerational healing that exists in parenting the next generation, that ripples into our relationships to our elders and ancestors, our community, and all parts of our lives.
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Sunday Mar 14, 2021
Sunday Mar 14, 2021
Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community Episode 2.22
"Laying the Groundwork for the Seeds of Decolonization to Grow and Thrive"
In this episode, we are joined by Grace Villarin Dueñas. We discuss how her decolonization journey began long before she was forced to immigrate to the United States, how she found her way through organizing, her queerness, the arts, and plant medicine among other things, lessons she brings home to the Philippines and the lessons she returns with to the United States, and more.
Grace is a student of ancient wisdom, a cultural organizer, and public health practitioner. Grace strongly believes that our indigenous core cultural value of “pakikipagkapwa” is a protective factor for our health and well-being.
She’s been a volunteer with CfBS after helping to co-organize the Babaylan Queer and Allies Circle during the 2010 Babaylan conference; she met Olivia and The Rainbow House family during the 2011 Symposium. Grace is part of Kalingafornia Laga, and is one of the weaving apprentices of Kalinga back-strap master weaver Jenny Bawer Young. Grace is passionate for fresh holistic adventures in the healing arts including photography, ceramics, weaving, seafaring and woodcarving, plant medicine, and permaculture design.
Rooted in the intersectionality of her Southern Tagalog and Western Visayas lineage and queer baklang-tibo sensibilities, she’s learning to live sustainably and regeneratively between re-settling in Kumeyaay land and re-matriating to Panay to re-learn the traditional ways of her Lola Encar’s peoples.
Guided by her Mga Lola Council, she started 2020 by resigning from her work-work of 15 years in order to be able to go home to Pilipinas for six months, and then spent the rest of 2020 building a reciprocal caregiving relationship with herself, her ancestral homeland, and her Teachers who are both seen and unseen.
*Please note that this episode contains brief instances of profanity.*
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Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//
Produced by Olivia Sawi//
Co-Produced by Annie Aarons-Sawi//
Music by AstraLogik
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