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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 Feb 20, 2022
Sunday Feb 20, 2022
Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.13
"Birthing Your Freedom"
In this episode, we are joined by France. We discuss how she navigated the system to help her community, all while parenting with her partner, how Pinayism shows up in her parenting, visioning possibliity, and more.
France was born in the Philippines and grew up in Tiohtià:ke, colonially known as Montreal, Quebec, Canada. As an uninvited settler immigrant on Turtle Island, she was raised in a community with limited resources. Despite this, France overcame the challenges that many immigrant and racialized families face. She pursued a Master's degree in Counselling, Psychotherapy, and Spirituality from the universities of Ottawa and Saint-Paul, to serve the needs of immigrant communities. With her grassroots activism background close to her heart, France now works as a mental health counsellor. She is a former political candidate, and continues to champion for equality and justice as a long-time community organizer, and a decolonizing mama to Kalayaan. She strives to nurture a culture of politics that is more attentive, accessible, and exemplary of the multifaceted communities she serves.
*Episode Notes: This episode contains brief instances of profanity.*
You can listen to this podcast on the Center for Babaylan Studies website (centerforbabaylanstudies.org/podcast), Spotify (https://tinyurl.com/KultivatingKapwaSpotify), PodBean (centerforbabaylanstudies.podbean.com), Google Podcasts, or Stitcher.
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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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