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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 Jul 19, 2020
Sunday Jul 19, 2020
Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community Episode 0
"Looking Back and Looking Forward"
This is our last transition episode into the next series of our podcast, Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community. Jana Lynne and Olivia reflect on their conversations with Auntie Leny through the first series of Kultivating Kapwa, check in on how decolonization work has been manifesting in their lives in this current moment, and reflect and brainstorm future sessions.
If you have suggestions for finding funding, themes for future episodes, or guests you would like to have us interview, please email us at kultivatingkapwa@gmail.com, or DM us on Instagram at @kultivatingkapwa.
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!
Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//
Produced by Olivia Sawi//
Co-Produced by Annie Aarons-Sawi//
Music by AstraLogik
Sunday Jul 12, 2020
Sunday Jul 12, 2020
Kultivating Kapwa: 30 for 30 Poetry Part 2
For the National Poetry Month Challenge in April, the Center for Babaylan Studies and Verma Zapanta of Hilot with Verma hosted 30 for 30, Decolonization through Poetry. Participants were invited to write on 30 prompts that invited them to re-member, heal, and vision radical change for 30 days.
This episode contains our 30 for 30 Decolonization through Poetry Release and Expression, Open Mic, and Kapwa Jam.
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 05, 2020
Sunday Jul 05, 2020
Kultivating Kapwa: 30 for 30 Poetry Part 1
For the National Poetry Month Challenge in April, the Center for Babaylan Studies and Verma Zapanta of Hilot with Verma hosted 30 for 30, Decolonization through Poetry. Participants were invited to write on 30 prompts that invited them to re-member, heal, and vision radical change for 30 days.
This episode contains submissions of a few participants performing their work. In a future episode, we will be featuring our 30 for 30 Decolonization through Poetry Release and Expression, Open Mic, and Kapwa Jam.
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 Jun 28, 2020
Sunday Jun 28, 2020
Kultivating Kapwa: CfBS Elder Circle
This is another special edition episode, and a transition into our next series Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community.
Throughout the whole the month of May, the Center for Babaylan Studies offered online webinars through our initiative Ginhawa: Elements of Care in a Decolonizing World. From Lyra Verzosa: The word “Ginhawa” is both a noun and a verb in Bisaya (Cebuano). It can refer to breath or the act of breathing. “Ginhawa” is a more powerful concept than “well-being” or “wellness” with its integration of the physical, social, emotional and spiritual. Disasters and catastrophes affect our ginhawa by reducing our hininga. Thus, our distress is described by words like “paghahabol-hininga” (literally a chasing after the breath), naghihingalo (panting for breath), buntong-hininga (sighing), kapos sa hininga (running out of breath), all possibly ending with huling hininga (last breath). Ginhawa can be defined as a breath of life, and can be used to remind people that there is life, even after the worst of disasters.”
Every week focused on a different element of care. Week 1 was Earth, where the webinars focused on Physical Health. Week 2 was Air, for Mental Health; Week 3 was Water, for Mental Health. Week 4 was Fire, for Relational Health. Our Culminating Event for Ginhawa: Elements of Care in a Decolonizing World was a session titled Intergenerational Liberation in the Time of Decolonization: A Diasporic Elders Circle. During this session, the current core members of the Center for Babaylan Studies: Aimee Gomez, Jana Lynne Umipig, Jen Maramba, Jo LaTorre, Orion Camero, Vanessa Ramalho, and myself honored several of our elders within the Center for Babaylan Studies: Leny Strobel, Omehra Siganhe, Leteicia Layson, S. Lily Mendoza, Lizae Reyes, Mila Anguluan, and Lane Wilcken.
After an introductory period of sharings and reflections, our elders offered their reflections on the following questions:
-What brings you joy about the ways you see your work reflected in the movement?
-What do you hope the younger generations will continue and expand upon to further your legacy?
This episode contains their reflections and teachings, with some additional offerings from the current Center for Babaylan Studies Core.
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 Jun 21, 2020
Sunday Jun 21, 2020
Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Leny Strobel, Episode 10
"Final Thoughts and Reflections for Now"
In our tenth episode, Auntie Leny turns the podcast around and asks Jana Lynne and me some questions, while also offering her own reflections.
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 Jun 14, 2020
Sunday Jun 14, 2020
Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Leny Strobel, Episode 9
"Poetry and Storytelling at the Feet of our Elder"
In our ninth episode, Auntie Leny reads from her new memoir, Glimpses: Through the MDR Generator. This work was inspired by Eileen Tabios's Murder Death Resurrection: A Poetry Generator. As an experiment, Jana Lynne and Olivia reflect on Auntie Leny's writings.
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 Jun 07, 2020
Sunday Jun 07, 2020
Kultivating Kapwa: Special Edition Episode
"A Black and Pilipin@/x Solidarity Conversation Led by Black and Pilipin@/x Voices"
This is a special edition episode, and as it turns out, a preview of our next series, Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community.
Historically, the Center for Babaylan Studies has prioritized indigenous voices, but in transparency has not created specific platforms for our Black/African American/Indigenous African/Diasporic African/Pan-African community. We are reflecting on this with an understanding that this is something we as an organization and community are working to be accountable for.
We acknowledge that there is a complexity of conversation around Anti-Blackness in even our Motherland amongst our Indigenous relatives (particularly with the Aeta, Ati, Agta peoples) and we are learning how this must be uplifted in our conversations and strengthened in relations to our decolonization work.
This conversation will be rooted in relation to the complexities of Black Identity in our diasporic communities and how our Black and Pilipin@/x Relatives are navigating this time, as our history long movements of liberations continue, ignited by seeking justice for the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Joao Pedro, and Ahmaud Arbery, that echo the countless Black lives lost before them.
Our special guests for this episode are Janet Stickmon, Carmen LoBue, and Sade Adona.
Janet Stickmon is the daughter of Lucrecia Mendoza, from the barangay of Labangon in Cebu, Philippines and Fermon Stickmon from Caddo Parish in Shreveport, Louisiana. She is a professor of Ethnic Studies and faculty director of the Cultural Center at Napa Valley College. She is the author of Crushing Soft Rubies—A Memoir, Midnight Peaches, Two O’Clock Patience: A Collection of Essays, Poems, and Short Stories on Womanhood and the Spirit, Male Strippers as Healers and their Emcee as Griotte: Why Magic Mike XXL is Deeper Than You Think, and her latest book To Black Parents Visiting Earth: Raising Black Children in the 21st Century. Stickmon’s essays have appeared in The Huffington Post, Mutha Magazine, and Read to Write Stories Stickmon is known for her essay “Blackapina” published in Positively Filipino and Red and Yellow, Black and Brown: Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies (Rutgers University Press, 2017). For over 20 years, Stickmon’s work as an educator, writer, and workshop facilitator has influenced thousands across the country.
Carmen LoBue is the daughter of Monica, who is the daughter of Carmen. Her people are from the Philippines, Nigeria, Cameroon & Southern Bantu Peoples. She now lives on
Lenape land. Carmen is an Afro Fil Am filmmaker. They have been featured in Paper Magazine’s PAPER Predictions: 100 People Taking Over 2019 and are a 2018 New Legacy Maker Honoree (in collaboration with the Disruptor Foundation) for their commitment to dismantling societal injustice, while inspiring community participation through creative platforms. LoBue was most recently named one of “Inc.’s next generation leaders in 2020.”
Carmen is on the Global Leadership board of Time’s Up and their justice work includes producing and advocacy for One Fair Wage, Words on White, and the Generator Collective, among others. They have also produced intersectional community building spaces with orgs Everytown for Gun Safety, Heal Me Too Festival, and 5050by2020.
Sade Ifasade Ifaloba Oyaniiyun Olatutu Qweenkobra Monique Adona was born on Ohlone territory and is presently living on Lenape territory.
Sade is the daughter of Felisha Adona who is of African decent and was born on Iroquois territory. She is the child of engineers, pastors, seamstresses, and share croppers. Her father, Marcelino Borja Adona who was born in Nueva Ecija and raised in Pamapanga, Phillipines. Her father, the son of Roman Adona, was a soldier, and grew up on a vegetable and mango farm.
Sade, an Iyanifa and Iyalorisa Oloya, Is a practitioner of African diaspora spirituality and culture. Sade is a polymath performance artist utilizing the mediums of dance and music to bring full sensory healing experience of “the urban indigenous intersection”. Her passions are telling the stories of the ancestors and the living, through the lens of ancient and contemporary culture.
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 May 31, 2020
Sunday May 31, 2020
Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Leny Strobel, Episode 8
"Retirement and Eldership"
In this episode, Auntie Leny speaks about retirement and eldership. We explore the concept of time, how no longer working does not mean that the work stops, lessons from her garden, how deepening awareness leads to deepening gratitude and joy, no longer fearing death, and more.
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 May 24, 2020
Sunday May 24, 2020
Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Leny Strobel, Episode 7
"Decolonizing Relationships"
In this episode we discuss decolonizing relationships. We talk about how healing shows up in relationships of all kinds, letting go of the fruits of our labor, places for being ungraceful, the need for and trials of self examination and self discovery, and more.
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 May 17, 2020
Sunday May 17, 2020
Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Leny Strobel, Episode 6
"Divisiveness in Decolonization Community and Movements"
In this episode we examine assumptions of the need to be united, challenge the notion of dichotomies in a movement, examine romancing the indigenous, releasing projections, spiritual capitalism, and more.
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