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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
Sunday Sep 27, 2020
Sunday Sep 27, 2020
Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 8
"Releasing Artistry as Ceremony and Honoring the Role of a Creator"
In this episode, we are joined by Kimmortal, or Kimberly Bince Villagante. We discuss how their life as an artist has transformed since the pandemic, what it means for art to be ceremony, how musicians are integral to the movement, how their activism is reshaping itself, and more. Kimmortal resides on the Unceded Coast Salish territory of the Skohomish, Musqueum, and Tsleiwaututh. Their ancestry is from Negros Occidental and Pangasinan.
**Please note that this episode contains a few 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.
Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//
Produced by Olivia Sawi//
Co-Produced by Annie Aarons-Sawi//
Music by AstraLogik
Sunday Sep 20, 2020
Sunday Sep 20, 2020
Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 7
"Balik Banayihan - Tending to, Growing, and Sustaining with Roots of Relation and Home"
In this episode, we are joined by Maria Marasigan. We explore lessons from plants, complicate the ideas of home, community, and allyship, discuss her experiences in the Peace Corps, Standing Rock, and the islands known as the Philippines, reflect on finding herself back in Rockland County, and more. Maria is currently on Ramapough Lenape land, in Rockland County, New York. She was born in Malate, both parents from Cuenca, Batangas near Mount Maculot and the Taal Lake and Volcano.
**Please note that this episode contains a few 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.
Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//
Produced by Olivia Sawi//
Co-Produced by Annie Aarons-Sawi//
Music by AstraLogik
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 6
"The Pilipinx Radical Imagination in Activism, Academia, Education, and Life"
In this episode, we are joined by Professor Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano. We discuss the origins of The Pilipinx Radical Imagination Reader, what a Pilipino/a/x radical imagination can look like today, how her experiences help inform how she walks in her everyday life in academia, activism, and parenting, and more. Melissa currently resides on the ancestral lands of the Tamyen tribe of the Muwekma Ohlone people. Her paternal lineage is Cordilleran, culturally Kalinga, and her maternal lineage is Waray.
You can get more information about The Pilipinx Radical Imagination Reader and purchase your own copy here.
**Please note that this episode contains a few instances of profanity.**
You can listen to this podcast on the Center for Babaylan Studies website, Spotify, PodBean, 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.
Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//
Produced by Olivia Sawi//
Co-Produced by Annie Aarons-Sawi//
Music by AstraLogik
Sunday Sep 06, 2020
Sunday Sep 06, 2020
Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 5
"A Legacy of Nurturing Imagination for the Movement"
In this episode, we are joined by Frances Lucerna. We discuss her childhood experiences with liberation theology, how she came to embrace her artistic soul, how this led to her calling in education, exploring the question "For the sake of WHAT," and much much more. This is an important episode for everyone to listen to, especially if you want to hear about an alternative framework for education. Frances resides in Brooklyn, New York, and is of Filipina and Puerto Rican descent.
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**Please note that we experienced instances of internet connection difficulties during this episode.**
You can listen to this podcast on the Center for Babaylan Studies website, Spotify, PodBean, 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.
Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//
Produced by Olivia Sawi//
Co-Produced by Annie Aarons-Sawi//
Music by AstraLogik
Sunday Aug 30, 2020
Sunday Aug 30, 2020
Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 4
"Decolonizing Relations with Cross Cultural Solidarity"
In this Episode, we are joined by Sobey Wing. We discuss solidarity, solidarity economics, destruction, accountability partners, rites of passage, and more. Sobey resides on the Ancestral Unceded Coast Salish Territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tselil-waututh peoples currently known as Vancouver BC. He is of Cebuano lineage from his mother’s side and his father is mixed Asian, mixed South Asian, mixed Central American and mixed European.
Here are some resources that Sobey speaks about in this episode:
Youth Passageways
Accomplices Not Allies - Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex
Men's Work - an Initiative of the World Ancestor Concert Team
You can listen to this podcast on the Center for Babaylan Studies website, Spotify, PodBean, 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.
Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//
Produced by Olivia Sawi//
Co-Produced by Annie Aarons-Sawi//
Music by AstraLogik
Sunday Aug 23, 2020
Sunday Aug 23, 2020
Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Overview Episode
"An Overview to Highlight Previous Episodes"
Jana Lynne and Olivia have taken the week off, so listen to this episode to hear about episodes you need to catch up on! Olivia also gives a brief eulogy for her grandfather, Epifanio Mateo Sawi.
You can listen to this podcast on the Center for Babaylan Studies website, Spotify, PodBean, 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.
Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//
Produced by Olivia Sawi//
Co-Produced by Annie Aarons-Sawi//
Music by AstraLogik
Sunday Aug 16, 2020
Sunday Aug 16, 2020
Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Special Episode
"College of Peers Book Club Discussion with Auntie Leny"
Olivia recently joined a book club which named itself the "College of Peers," where the first book they read was Auntie Leny Strobel's Coming Full Circle, The Process of Decolonization Among Post-1965 Filipino Americans. This episode is a Question and Answer session between the book club and Auntie Leny.
You can listen to this podcast on the Center for Babaylan Studies website, Spotify, PodBean, 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.
Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//
Produced by Olivia Sawi//
Co-Produced by Annie Aarons-Sawi//
Music by AstraLogik
Sunday Aug 09, 2020
Sunday Aug 09, 2020
Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 3
"Expressing and Embodying the Decolonizing Self through Art"
In this episode, we are joined by SAMMAY, Samantha Peñaflor Dizon. We discuss her deeper understanding of the term "practice," movement performance as ritual, certifications for validation, how she is learning to accept, love, and honor her destiny, and much more. SAMMAY is currently a settler on Unceded Ramaytush Ohlone Territory and is of Bikol, Kapampangan, and Ilokano descent.
**Please note that this episode contains a few instances of profanity.**
You can listen to this podcast on the Center for Babaylan Studies website, Spotify, PodBean, 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.
Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//
Produced by Olivia Sawi//
Co-Produced by Annie Aarons-Sawi//
Music by AstraLogik
Sunday Aug 02, 2020
Sunday Aug 02, 2020
Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 2
"Re-membering Ancestral Practices and the Spiritual Self"
In this episode, we are joined by Verma Zapanta, of Hilot with Verma. She explores how her career in education led to her path of healing her self and learning to truly listen, and how these lessons led to helping others on their own healing journeys. Verma resides on Yelamu, Occupied Ramaytush Ohlone Territory and is the Daughter of Teresa Soria Abillano, Granddaughter of Luisa Conui Cacal, and Great Granddaughter of Transfiguracion Capuyan Enriquez and Josefa Silaw. Her Visayan roots span the islands of Leyte and Bohol.
**Please note that this episode contains a few instances of profanity.**
You can listen to this podcast on the Center for Babaylan Studies website, Spotify, PodBean, 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.
Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//
Produced by Olivia Sawi//
Co-Produced by Annie Aarons-Sawi//
Music by AstraLogik
Sunday Jul 26, 2020
Sunday Jul 26, 2020
Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 1
"Decolonizing Parenting"
In this episode, we are joined by three other core members of the Center for Babaylan Studies: Aimee Gomez, Jennifer Maramba, and Vanessa Ramalho. Our topic is decolonizing parenting, and our discussion includes how our individual upbringings, family structures, and decolonizing paths are informing and inspiring how we raise our children in community.
Jennifer Maramba and Aimee Gomez both reside on the ancestral lands of the Anishinabewaki ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee, Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. They both continue to learn and embody the teachings and sacred contracts of the One Dish with One Spoon Treaty and the two row wampum treaty.
Jennifer honours her ancestral lineage of Pangasinan and Panay Island, from the islands commonly known through the colonial name of the Philippines. You can contact her by emailing jmaramba@babaylan.net.
Aimee's maternal ancestral origins are from MacArthur, Leyte, and her paternal ancestral origins are from Tagbilaran, Bohol. You can contact her by emailing aimee@babaylan.net.
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.
You can listen to this podcast on the Center for Babaylan Studies website, Spotify, PodBean, 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.
Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//
Produced by Olivia Sawi//
Co-Produced by Annie Aarons-Sawi//
Music by AstraLogik