Kultivating Kapwa

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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 Jan 02, 2022

Kultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.07

Sunday Jan 02, 2022

Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.07

"Stepping out of Lihim (Silence) - Getting Messy to Give Voice to the Heart"

In this episode, we are joined by Dennis Lozano. We discuss allowing himself to be a hot mess as he explores his inner self, the process of acknowledging silence within his family lineage, finding different ways to communicate with his two very different children, and more.

Dennis Francis Encarguez Lozano is a stay-at-home papa to Mateo (age 10) and Dante (age 7). Together with his partner Melissa, they reside on the unceded sacred land of the Tamien People (San Jose, CA). Born in Mandaluyong, Philippines, he immigrated to the Bay Area at 5 years old. He is Ilongo from Panay and Guimaras on his mother’s side and Kapampangan and Ilocano from Tarlac on his father’s side.

Deep in the work of reparenting, Dennis envisions a balance between accountability and self-compassion. He aims to move excess energy -- rooted in toxic masculinity -- towards the sacred. When the energy of the colonizer shows up in us, how do we create a container for safety and lambing?

*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.

Make sure to subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast! If you want to contact us, email kultivatingkapwa@gmail.com, or add us on Instagram at @kultivatingkapwa and send us a DM. If you would like to donate to help us continue this podcast, please do so here: donorbox.org/kultivating-kapwa-podcasts.

Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//
Produced by Olivia Sawi//
Co-Produced by Annie Aarons-Sawi//
Music by AstraLogik

Sunday Dec 26, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.06

Sunday Dec 26, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.06

"The Art of a Father - Being Led to Create by Life's Greatest Creations"

In this episode, we are joined by Kilusan Bautista. We discuss how he is learning to let his daughters lead the way, building community and finding support in parenting, searching for and creating culturally relevant material for the children, and more.

Kilusan Bautista is a playwright and interdisciplinary performing artist, originally from San Francisco, CA and presently based in the BronX, NY. Creator of two solo multimedia productions: Universal Filipino (2010) and Transcend (2016). Grant recipient from the Brooklyn Arts Council (2014), Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2016) and California Council for the Humanities (2005). Kilusan has worked with historically oppressed communities for over 20 years from California to New York City as a social justice arts educator and founder of the Universal Self Educational Program within the NYC Department of Education (2012). Current MFA candidate (2022) with CUNY – Brooklyn College – Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA), where Kilusan is developing a new immersive theater experience entitled, “PXSO: PhoeniX rising in ScorpiO” to raise awareness about Charge Syndrome and disability rights. Current 'Actionist Fellow' with Social Practice CUNY - a Mellon Foundation Initiative, where Kilusan is developing a Fathers with special needs children support group (co-sponsored by the New York Parent Association for Deafblind). Kilusan is married to Lia Bautista and they are proudly raising two beautiful daughters: Phoenix Augusta (5) & Zora Priscilla (2).

*Episode Notes: This episode contains brief instances of profanity. This episode also includes some brief internet connectivity issues.*

Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//
Produced by Olivia Sawi//
Co-Produced by Annie Aarons-Sawi//
Music by AstraLogik

Sunday Dec 19, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.05

Sunday Dec 19, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.05

"Spirit Centered Parenting and the Call of the Here and Now"

In this episode, we are joined by Daphnee Valdez. We discuss raising her child with a focus on spirituality, how she does this spiritual work while proudly co-parenting her child, co-creating with her child in spiritual places, moments of conflict, and more.

Daphnee and her soul child Teyo work earthside to unite and ignite the Divine and Earthly worlds. Daphnee, in service of love and Creator, practices her family’s gift of hilot. And as a level 2 reiki practitioner and student of Babaylan, she incorporates these healing gifts to channel loving spiritual messages for those who feel called to co-create with her. Siya is on a continuous journey of helping guide our humans, egos, and higher selves towards love and joy. Many of her most recent learnings have been in celestial-work with Teyo, that are centered on their hella hilarious, curious communications. They have a deep understanding that Spirit is serious and not so serious. Having grown up on occupied Me-Wuk (Bay Miwok) territory (Concord, CA), currently residing on Nisenan territory (Sacramento, CA), Daphnee is always present with her benevolent ancestors from Bicol, Quezon, and San Carlos, Pangasinan. Their soulwork is to co-lead, co-create and co-love! Hella healing!

*Episode Notes: This episode contains brief instances of profanity.*

Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//
Produced by Olivia Sawi//
Co-Produced by Annie Aarons-Sawi//
Music by AstraLogik

Sunday Dec 12, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.04

Sunday Dec 12, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.04

"Native Sol Tribe - When Manifesting Vision Raises Up Family"

In this episode, we are joined by May Salem. We discuss how she has been raising her children aligned with her values while respecting the changing world they are living in, how Native Sol helped her actually have more time for and with her children, how she and her family have been and are challenging the system, and more.

May Salem was born in Malinao, Aklan, Panay, in the Philippines, raised in Nisenan/Maidu/Miwok Territory (Sacramento) and currently living in Tongva/Kizh Territory (Long Beach, CA).

May is a proud mama of 5 that were born at home (influenced by her family’s strong Hilot/Midwifery tradition). She is also the designer/creative director and co-owner of NATIVE SOL and EARTHING. She host workshops, special events, and gatherings at her brick and mortar shop in Long Beach, CA. Her lifestyle is reflected, integrated, and became the inspiration for Native Sol. The emphasis of sustainability, handmade, slow fashion, health, supporting local & Indigenous artisans are some of its foundations.

You can check out May’s creative work on IG: @nativesol @earthing.Earth @mamasoltribe (personal /homebirth )

*Episode Notes: This episode contains brief instances of profanity.*

Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//
Produced by Olivia Sawi//
Co-Produced by Annie Aarons-Sawi//
Music by AstraLogik

Tuesday Dec 07, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.03

Tuesday Dec 07, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.03

"Showing Up Stronger: The Raising of Partners in Parenthood"

In this episode, we are joined by Anna and AJ Calomay. We discuss their different roles as parents and how they make sure they see and support each other, making space for reflection, their journey to becoming parents, their vision of the future moving into the second year of their child's life, and more.

Annamarie (Anna) Villaluz Bautista Calomay (@halfthesun_annab) (she/her) and Arthur James (A.J.) Olmedo Calomay (@ajxy) (he/him) are coparenting on Tongva land (Los Angeles); Anna by way of Chesapeake Powhatan land (Virginia Beach) with ancestral lineage from Bicol and Cavite, Philippines; A.J. was born and raised in Los Angeles with ancestral lineage from Leyte and Iloilo, Philippines. After a 6 year healing journey with womb loss and infertility, their Scorpio rainbow child Raisa Mayari (she/they) was born November 2020.

Raisa Mayari’s name carries the lessons and energy of both the sun and moon. Raisa, as in sun rays, means that our little elder will “raise us up”. Mayari is the goddess of revolution, moon, and night in Philippine mythology, who lost one of her eyes in battle (monocular like Dada).

Anna and A.J. see their decolonization roles as Builder and Storyteller respectively. Builders are needed to practice creating the alternative, visionary, and abolitionist worlds that we deserve to meet our collective needs. Storytellers are needed to tell the many stories needed to shift to life-affirming worldviews.

Anna is a solar electrician and field trainer as the head of construction for GRID Alternatives, the nation’s largest solar nonprofit. Her political home is with Communities Organizing into Liberation (COiL), and her current projects center energy sovereignty (People Power Solar Cooperative), community safety (CAT911), and regenerative land tending.

A.J. is a film producer and IATSE union television editor. His independent projects include music videos for the Black Eyed Peas, Bambu, Native Guns, and Rocky Rivera. His latest action comedy film, "Lumpia with a Vengeance" is currently on the film fest circuit. A.J. found his passion for filmmaking and community at UCLA, while producing videos for Samahang Pilipino and serving as a peer counselor for Filipinx students. He continues similar work in supporting BIPOC folks navigating careers in film/tv.

*Episode Notes: This episode contains brief instances of profanity.*

Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//
Produced by Olivia Sawi//
Co-Produced by Annie Aarons-Sawi//
Music by AstraLogik

Sunday Nov 28, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.02

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.*

Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//
Produced by Olivia Sawi//
Co-Produced by Annie Aarons-Sawi//
Music by AstraLogik

Sunday Nov 21, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.01

Sunday Nov 21, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.01

"Get Organized - Aligning Rituals and Relations in Parenthood"

In this episode, we are joined by Jollene Levid. We discuss how she speaks to her son about relations with others, how she has integrated community organizing and parenting, challenges she has faced in her own relationships, how she creates boundaries, and more.

Jollene Levid is a mother to her rainbow child Marcelo, age 6. She is a Regional Organizer for United Teachers Los Angeles - the second largest teachers union in the US and was a coordinator for the 2019 UTLA strike. Jollene has been a union organizer, contract negotiator, and former union director for over 17 years in the US education and healthcare industries, and for two organizing campaigns in the Philippines. She is the Founding Chairperson of AF3IRM, an anti-imperialist/transnational feminist organization for women of color, and has been a part of the organization for 19 years, currently serving on AF3IRM's International Committee. She received her BA in Political Science and Asian American Studies at UC Irvine, and got her Masters in Social Work from USC. Jollene hails from Northeast Los Angeles, is a martial artist, and bookworm.

*Episode Notes: This episode contains brief instances of profanity.*

Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//
Produced by Olivia Sawi//
Co-Produced by Annie Aarons-Sawi//
Music by AstraLogik

Sunday Nov 07, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.0

Sunday Nov 07, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.0

"Reflecting and Visioning Kultivating Kapwa - Introducing Fall/Winter Decolonizing Parenthood Series"

In this episode, Jana Lynne and Olivia have a chance to catch up after their extended hiatus. Olivia gets to ask Jana Lynne questions about Jana Lynne's current journey into motherhood. This episode was recorded in early October, but it is offered to you now as Kultivating Kapwa transitions from the last season, Conversations with Community, to the upcoming season about Decolonizing Parenthood.

*Episode Notes: This episode contains brief instances of profanity.*

Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//
Produced by Olivia Sawi//
Co-Produced by Annie Aarons-Sawi//
Music by AstraLogik

Tuesday Jun 22, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.26

Tuesday Jun 22, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community Episode 2.26

"Reflecting and Visioning Kultivating Kapwa - Summer 2021"

In this episode, Jana Lynne and Olivia offer their recent reflections, give updates on what they have been up to since the last episode, offer their plans for future episodes of Kultivating Kapwa, and more.

*Episode Notes: This episode contains brief instances of profanity.*

Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//
Produced by Olivia Sawi//
Co-Produced by Annie Aarons-Sawi//
Music by AstraLogik

Sunday Apr 25, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.25

Sunday Apr 25, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community Episode 2.25

"Tending to Our Grief: Kultivating Kapwa in All Relations with the Medicine of Vulnerability"

In this episode, we are joined by Shane Bernardo. We discuss grief being his greatest teacher, cultivation of relation to self, others, and the land, how caregiving is a political and spiritual act, visionary organizing, and more.

Shane Bernardo is a co-founder of Food As Healing, a social movement based on ancestral, Earth-based traditions that are critical for maintaining our identities, sense of belonging, health, and wholeness. Shane is also a grower, anti-oppression facilitator, storyteller, and food justice organizer based in Detroit, Michigan that uses food and the stories embedded within them as mediums for healing and decolonizing.

*Episode Notes: This episode contains brief instances of profanity.*

Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//
Produced by Olivia Sawi//
Co-Produced by Annie Aarons-Sawi//
Music by AstraLogik