Earlier this year, Jesse hosted a Writing Contest at UCR This week on SUBJECTIVITY, we have Jesse Altamirano join us for some good coffee and conversation. Jesse is a UCR graduate, C/O 2016. (Congrats, grad!) Join us as Jesse and I engage in sporadic conversation about the chaos of the universe, being true to the self, poetry, writing contests, and…

My Colored Girls, This One’s For You! Aspiring actress and current undergrad student at Emerson College, Mona Moriya discusses the difficulties she’s overcome and the successes she has celebrated in her time immersed in academia and acting. We discuss some of the issues women of color face in the acting industry, microagressions, and the need to ad…

On this weeks episode: My Colored Girls, This One’s for You, join us as we invite my longtime friend Mona Moriya. Mona studies at Emerson College, where she is working towards obtaining her B.F.A. in acting. She strives to find and create a space where women of color can thrive and be in the spotlight. Here’s a monologue recited by Mona, from Ntoza…

**This photo was taken for the ASUCR elections back in April. #feelthechurro #Arturo4Prez This week on SUBJECTIVITY, we have undergraduate student Arturo Gomez talk about his political involvement on campus and back in his home town. He gives us an inside look at the ASUCR elections and some of the challenges he overcame. Arturo is a third year und…

UCR M.F.A. grad student Derrick Ortega, joins us to share a bit about himself and discuss his experience as a writer. Derrick is currently working on a collection of poems that deal with returning to normalcy after experiencing trauma. Join us as we discuss the creative writing process, the kinaesthetics of lock-picking, avoiding overly-sentimental…

This week, UCR grad student Derrick Ortega joins us to discuss his experience as a writer and he also shares some of his poetry. Full Episode will be posted Friday, May 20! In the meantime, here’s a little preview of some of his work: https://subjectivitypodcast.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/ep-2-preview.mp3…

In this episode – The Shirt, I introduce SUBJECTIVITY and what you can expect from the podcast! I also talk a little bit about myself, and a specific experience I had with a shirt when I was a little girl. This shirt had quite an impact on me. Check it out and listen!!!! Stay creative friends!!! P.S. This shirt was made by yours truly! https://subj…