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.

Episodes

Monday Apr 12, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.24

Monday Apr 12, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community Episode 2.24

"The Path of a Decolonial Doula: The Sacred Work of Honoring Birth"

In this episode, we are joined by Kei Karayan. We discuss what called her to doula work and how the work has changed since she began, how she is striving to re-member ancestral practices of birthwork, her reasons of sharing birthwork practices to those of the same lineage, a brief overview of what doulas actually do and how things have changed during the pandemic, and more.

Kei Karayan (she/her/siya) is a queer Pilipina/Ilokana/Ybanag/Itawis birth worker of color, doula, community organizer, artist, and chef serving communites on Tongva Land—Long Beach, California— and surrounding areas. Her ancestral roots are from Northern Luzon in Cagayan Valley with her maternal lineage from Gattaran and her paternal lineage from Tuguegarao. Kei's collection of work, Kasama Culture, is an extension of her ancestors' strength, love, and resilience. Kasama Culture unapologetically centers and affirms LGBTQ+, BIPOC, low-income, and marginalized communities. Kei's work is guided by the Bayanihan spirit, resilience of her ancestors, and Earth’s muse. Kasama Culture values building and uplifting the community through reclaiming, remembering, and honoring our Pilipinx identities through activism, birth work, and the arts.

*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 Mar 28, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.23

Sunday Mar 28, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community Episode 2.23

"Navigating Multiplicity and Mixed Identity in Pilipinx Diaspora"

In this episode, we are joined by Jillian Purugganan Werhowatz. We discuss how Jillian has learned to hold the complexity of having a mixed identity, the hardest things she has had to be in confrontation with, finding her place in community, her personal embodiment practices, and more.

Jillian Purugganan Werhowatz is the daughter of Yolanda Purugganan Werhowatz and Andrew Werhowatz III. Her mother is from Quezon City by way of Illocos Sur in the Philippines and her father is American, from Gary, Indiana. She currently resides on Monacan Territory, also known as Fredericksburg, Virginia, by way of Lenape Territory - New York City and Ojibwe Territory -Detroit.

*Episode Notes: This episode contains brief instances of profanity. Also, at some points during the episode, the wrong microphone was active on Olivia's device, hence the muffled sound.*

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

Sunday Mar 14, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.22

Sunday Mar 14, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community Episode 2.22

"Laying the Groundwork for the Seeds of Decolonization to Grow and Thrive"

In this episode, we are joined by Grace Villarin Dueñas. We discuss how her decolonization journey began long before she was forced to immigrate to the United States, how she found her way through organizing, her queerness, the arts, and plant medicine among other things, lessons she brings home to the Philippines and the lessons she returns with to the United States, and more.

Grace is a student of ancient wisdom, a cultural organizer, and public health practitioner. Grace strongly believes that our indigenous core cultural value of “pakikipagkapwa” is a protective factor for our health and well-being.

She’s been a volunteer with CfBS after helping to co-organize the Babaylan Queer and Allies Circle during the 2010 Babaylan conference; she met Olivia and The Rainbow House family during the 2011 Symposium. Grace is part of Kalingafornia Laga, and is one of the weaving apprentices of Kalinga back-strap master weaver Jenny Bawer Young. Grace is passionate for fresh holistic adventures in the healing arts including photography, ceramics, weaving, seafaring and woodcarving, plant medicine, and permaculture design.

Rooted in the intersectionality of her Southern Tagalog and Western Visayas lineage and queer baklang-tibo sensibilities, she’s learning to live sustainably and regeneratively between re-settling in Kumeyaay land and re-matriating to Panay to re-learn the traditional ways of her Lola Encar’s peoples.

Guided by her Mga Lola Council, she started 2020 by resigning from her work-work of 15 years in order to be able to go home to Pilipinas for six months, and then spent the rest of 2020 building a reciprocal caregiving relationship with herself, her ancestral homeland, and her Teachers who are both seen and unseen.

*Please note that 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 Feb 28, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Core, Episode 2.21A

Sunday Feb 28, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Core, Episode 2.21A

"Generative Knowledge Building - The Evolution of Decolonial Work and the Complication and Expansion of Inclusiveness"

During the next few episodes, we will be focusing our conversations with the Core of the Center for Babaylan Studies. We will be bringing our community in to our intimate conversations around our shared and complex perspectives on the issues being faced in the communities we serve and are working in tandem with, adjacent to, or are challenged by.

This is a moment for our community at large to be in deeper understanding about the power of being in complication and expansion as we seek similar visions of justice and liberation. And, for us as a core to share with you all our processes of understanding what movement can look like, even when not everything feels aligned in our communal pursuit. We hope that you will tune in and be in relation to the sacred work and service to our collective community that we are committed to.

In this episode, we are joined by two members of Center for Babaylan Studies Core, Auntie S. Lily Mendoza and Joanna La Torre. We discuss their starting points for understanding decolonization and decolonial work and how their understanding has evolved, tangible ways the work has shown up in their lives, especially regarding climate justice, what they currently view to be the most challening conversations regarding decolonization and decolonial work, and more.

Dr. S. Lily Mendoza currently resides on the land of Waawiyatanong, the original home of the Anishinaabe, Wyandot-Huron, Fox, Miami & Saux, also known as Detroit. Her Philippine homeland is the province of Pampanga, home of the Ayta peoples. You can contact her at lily@babaylan.net.

Joanna La Torre is originally from Ohlone and Ramaytush land and is currently residing on Coast Salish and Duwammish land. Their ancestral lineages are from Nueva Ecija and Ilocos Sur, as well as Wales, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. You can contact them at jlatorre@babaylan.net

*Please note that 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 Feb 21, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.21

Sunday Feb 21, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 2.21

"Mothering Self, Family, and Future through Decolonial Work"

In this week's episode, we are joined by Marybelle Mallari Bustos. We discuss Marybelle's remembering and practice regarding her Kapampangan lineage, explore her upbringing and her own journey into motherhood, what is nurturing her now, and more.

Marybelle Mallari Bustos, also known as MB, was born and raised on the ancestral lands of the Tataviam in the San Fernando valley and currently resides on Tongva land, also known as Los Angeles, California. Her maternal lineage are the Sunga and Mallari's and her paternal lineage are the Dizon and Bustos of Santa Lucia, Masantol, Pampanga. Growing up in a large Kapampangan family, she's been able to maintain and appreciate her "amanung sisuan" or mother language. Marybelle’s reclamation of ancestral roots and re-indigenizing journey is expressed through her art and collaborations, through ceremony and motherhood.

*Please note that 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 Feb 14, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.20

Sunday Feb 14, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 2.20

"Re-membering Warrior is from the Heart"

In this episode, we are joined by Crystle Diño and JB Ramos. We discuss what brought them to their warrior path and culture, what the warrior arts means to them, how their various histories, backgrounds, and teachers inform how their art manifests in their lives today, and more.

Crystle LiWayway Diño acknowledges that she resides and settles upon the traditional homelands of many Indigenous nations, such as the the Council of the Three Fires - comprised of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations - as well as the Miami, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac, Fox, Kickapoo, and Illinois Nations. She recognizes and is grateful for the original Peoples who laid the foundation for the city of Chicago, and for the diverse Indigenous nations that reside in Chicago today.

She was born and raised in Chicago with deep roots in Balayan, Batangas on her father Benjamin Diño's side, and Poctoy Torrijos, Marinduque on her mother Elisa Diño's side.

To find out more about her work and practice, visit her website at FMA Freedom. Movemeant. Alignment..

JB Ramos lives in gratitude in Tkaronto on Turtle Island on the traditional territory of many First Nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Haudenosaunee, the Chippewa, the Huron-Wendat, and home to many diverse First Nations, the Mètis, and the Inuit peoples.

They honor and pay respect to the resilience and strength of Indigenous Ancestors and Elders past, present, and future from all over the world whose journey is to continue sharing their sacred warrior traditions.

You can visit their school online at Combat Science: Warrior Arts of Asia.

*Please note that 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 Jan 31, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.19

Sunday Jan 31, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 2.19

"Re-membering the Path of Creation, Rooted in Relation"

In this episode, we are joined by Diyan Valencia and Nicanor Evans. We discuss how their relationships to and presence within community has shifted since the pandemic, what they are creating now, how their paths have changed since they began, and more.

Diyan "BukoBomba" Valencia is tawo of Bikolano ancestry, and was born and raised on Tongva territory from the hood of Historic Filipinotown, L.A. As a d.i.y. multi-media artist, crystal ball solar pyromaniac, musician to community organizer, their work uses creativity as a way of finding freedom from inner pains and colonial traumas. Their creations are intended to empower, activate, inspire, heal and connect us to our roots, our ancestors, and one another as kapwa.

Nicanor Evans is Tagalog na Bulakenyong Ilonggo, and is a descendant of Evangelista Angeles Estudillo Sarmiento Doma Obispo. He is an aspiring multi-media artist who receives his inspiration by learning about his ancestral roots and their sacred arts and practices. He creates visual arts, music, and film to express his connection with the divine.

*Please note that 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

Monday Jan 11, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Core Episode 2.18A

Monday Jan 11, 2021

Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Core, Episode 2.18A

"Diasporic, Migrant Descendants' Response-abilities and the Struggle to Trace Lineage Back to Indigeneity"

In this episode, we are joined by two members of Center for Babaylan Studies Core, Vanessa Ramalho, and Orion Camero. We reflect on the events of the first week of 2021, explore the reasons behind our land acknowledgements, examine our understandings of our ancestries, complicate what it can mean to connect to indigeneity, and more.

Vanessa Ramalho currently resides on the land of the Nanticoke Lenni Lenape, also known as South New Jersey. Her ancestral lineage on her mother's side is from Samar, Bisayas, in the Philippines, and her father's side is from Sao Nicolau, Cabo Verde. You can contact her by emailing vanessa@babaylan.net.

Orion is currently on Yokuts territory and is Pangasinense, Cebuano, Spanish, and Chinese. You can contact them at orion@babaylan.net.

*Please note that 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 13, 2020

Kultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.18

Sunday Dec 13, 2020

Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 18

"Education for Decolonization Starts at Home"

In this episode, we are joined by Liza, Reina, and Luna Quiñonez. We discuss what it is like to be the daughters of a decolonizing mother, how their upbringings differed, the experiences of involving their entire family in their art and business, their thoughts on education versus experience, and more.

Liza was born in Quezon City, Manila. Her paternal line is from Ilocos Sur and her maternal line is from Luzon. Reina was born in Los Angeles, and Luna was born in New York. They are both Filipina and Mexican. They are all currently residing on Lenape Territory.

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

Sunday Dec 06, 2020

Kultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.17

Sunday Dec 06, 2020

Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 17

"Synergetic Creation of Music, Magic, and Love"

In this episode, we are joined by Chen and Charito of AstraLogik. We discuss their creative synergy, what they have learned through their music, how their intention with music sets them apart, their journeys to becoming the people they are individually and how that translated into their relationship, what they are creating now, and more.

Rowenalyn Badiango Conlu, also known as Chen, is the daughter of Luna Perigrino Badiango Conlu and Rhodante Moreno Conlu. They are the granddaughter of Lourdes Perigrino and Baldomero Badiango, and Antonio and Angelo Moreno Conlu. Their maternal lineage is from Cebu, Borneo, Culasi, and Ajuy, Iloilo. Their paternal lineage is from Binalbagan, Negros Occidental.

Charito Verango Soriano is the daughter of Nenita Verango Soriano and Salvador Ballesteros Soriano. She is the granddaughter of Flaviano and Leonilynn Verango, and Domingo and Camila Soriano.

Chen grew up on Guahan, also known as Guam, and Charito grew up in Hayward, California. They are both currently residing in Ohlone-Chochenyo territory.

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