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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 06, 2022
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.27
"Becoming a Mother - Becoming Your Truest Self"
In this episode, we are joined by Joanna La Torre. We discuss being a new parent as a queer, single, PhD student, how having a child during the Pandemic has shaped how she moves with her child in the world, how becoming a mother has helped her become her truest self, and more.
Joanna La Torre is a genderqueer, queer, multi-ethnic, community-embedded, Filipinx scholar-praxavist and settler from occupied Ohlone territory in California’s Bay Area. Jo is an indigenist researcher and social work practitioner whose work seeks to uplift sovereignty of Indigenous peoples around the world. Joanna’s practice has focused on young people highly impacted by carceral logics and systems including those imprisoned and/or surveilled by criminal legal and child welfare systems.
Currently, Jo is a PhD student and Research Assistant at the University of Washington’s Indigenous Wellness Research Institute and is working on a study about the health and wellness of Native American youth at a residential boarding school.
@marunggay_medicine has been involved with the Center for Babaylan Studies for over ten years and has served with the leadership core since 2016. Joanna’s research is situated within the movements of decolonizing Filipinos and aims to bolster community-driven, culturally-grounded interventions addressing disproportionate mental health burdens of Filipinos in diaspora.
*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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