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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 Apr 17, 2022
Sunday Apr 17, 2022
Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.19
"Tending to the Mental Health, Healing the Whole Child, Healing the Whole Family"
In this episode, we are joined by Jamie Pesquiza Cardenas. We discuss embracing the full spectrum of experiences, how many things have many truths, how making medicine for herself as an act of survival led to Magpie Alchemy, how not one thing fixes everything, especially with medicines, and more.
Jamie Pesquiza Cardenas is an interdisciplinary artist, herbalist, and cultural worker located on Unceded Nisenan Territory. She also is the heart and hands of Magpie Alchemy - an apothecary located in Sacramento, CA/Nisenan land. She is a first generation Filipinx-American and Ilokana. Jamie is a proud mama to Margaret Aminah Cardenas Ives, distiller, natural plant dyer, weaver, potions maker, and film photographer. She is the daughter of Jaime Galinato Cardenas and Angelita Pesquiza Cardenas. Both sides of their family comes from Santa, Ilocos Sur, Philippines. She comes from a line of stewards of the land, of healers, weavers of Abel Iloko, and storytellers. She shares her gift of fiber arts, plant medicine and healing from her Grandmother's ancestral knowledge in hopes of supporting her community with healing, fortifying and celebrating their skin, and helping them stay in touch with their body, lineage and senses with the magic of plants.
Jamie’s love of fiber arts and plants comes from a deep longing for connection to one's self and others. She loves exploring textures and colors, especially the color blue. She sees it as both the color and the feeling. It elicits a very emotional response in humans, much like the pull to look at the deep blue ocean, or up at the beautiful sky. There’s a connection. Jamie sees weaving and natural plant dyes, especially Indigo, as a bridge between her ancestors and those in the diaspora longing to connect to their heritage. And in their studies as a weaver, she has discovered that the symbols and colors used in the art all have specific meanings. Through the learnings of these symbols and motifs, Jamie has come to realize how connected we all are, not just in the archipelago or diaspora, but everywhere. Jamie especially honors her grandmothers, Maria Asuncion Galinato Cardenas and Victorina Borje Pesquiza, who were the very best of friends, and weavers in Santa. Their love prevails even in this realm. Jamie recently learned that their middle name means research and last name means blue. This is no coincidence.
At the core of all of their work is a reminder and remembering, much like in whole plant medicine, we must embrace the full spectrum of being. We are complex, and so are our emotions and experiences. To share our love of community care, she launched The Ayat Project, a sharing of research and musings of plant magic, radical love, art and an affirmation that healing really does happen in community. With The Ayat Project, our goal is to share the science and stories behind what it really looks like to heal in community through tending to our nervous systems and co-regulation. On a biological level, we need each other to not only survive, but thrive.
When she's not in circle with her weaving sisters and community, making plant medicine or in front of her big Mama Indigo Vat, you will find her remembering to find space for joy in the form of cooking for her loved ones, foraging for fungi with Maggie, dancing and singing with her family to Soulection, or roller skating.
*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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