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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 Nov 28, 2021
Sunday Nov 28, 2021
Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.02
"Let the Mothers be Held - Trading the Hustle for Wholeness"
In this episode, we are joined by Theresa Navarro. We discuss raising children that were assigned female at birth, reclamation of body and labor, giving birth during the pandemic and surrounding events, being a part of a strong matriarchal line, trading the hustle for wholeness, and more.
Theresa Navarro (she/they/siya) is a Pinay working mama and cultural worker, who is currently based in California raising her young daughters with intergenerational support. She has roots in Ibalon, known today as the Bikol peninsula, and descends from the Waray people through her mother's line. In the 1980s, her parents settled on land recognized as Ohlone Muwekma, the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo speaking People, where she was born and raised. Theresa is a Libra who finds joy in dancing and singing karaoke, and peace through her meditation and journaling practice. She holds undergraduate degrees from the University of California at Riverside and completed her graduate work at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.
Over the past two decades, Theresa has led projects and public program initiatives for arts and educational organizations across the country. Her recent producing credits include public media series AMERICA REFRAMED, 9-MAN (DOCNYC ’14), ADVANTAGEOUS (Sundance ’15) and FROM HERE (HRWFF ’20). She supports her family by working full-time with a national nonprofit that presents documentary programming on PBS. In addition to her career in film and media, Theresa contributes to public discourse on identity and power by, for and about marginalized folx through teaching, writing and performing. She belongs to BIPOC-led communities of practice and storytelling collectives including A-Doc, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, and the upcoming docuseries Kapwa Stories. She has participated on panels, juries and workshops at Allied Media Conference, Australian International Documentary Conference, and SXSW, among other industry and community-based events around the U.S.
*Episode Notes: 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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