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Midwest Latinxs Maria Isa & Jessica Lopez Lyman cover everything from current events, race, and gender to edutainment, chisme y musica, all in one Spanglish podcast. @LatinaTheory @jlopezlyman @MariaIsa
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We're back (again). We took a long break during the pandemic to have more babies, recenter our work, and envision the next chapter in our lives. While we are still in the thick of C-19, we decided to come back to the podcast. Latina Theory is a labor of love for us as a self-care and community care space. In this episode we discuss María Isa runnin…
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Black Queer Feminist cultural/memory worker, curator, and organizer of 30 plus years, Cara Page, join us to talk cultural memory and healing justice. Cara is one of the architects of the healing justice political strategy, envisioned by many in the US South and deeply rooted in Black Feminist traditions and Southern Black Radical Traditions of the …
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Jahsun Fakolade Edmonds joins us to share about the spiritual roots of Capoeira and the martial art's connection to Black rebellion and liberation. Fakokade is a Capoeira practitioner of 20 years. He is also a Professor of Africana Studies at California State University Dominguez Hills and a Babalawo, IFA Priest. You can learn more about Fakolade o…
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Rocio Navarro joins us for a beautiful conversation about the power of water as an element and tool for healing and rebirthing ourselves. Rocio is a healing artist that works intimately and creatively, with water. She is Vaginal Steam Hydrotherapist, Ceremonialist, Spiritual Counselor, Energy and Sound Healer with a Sociology degree/background. You…
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Para nuestro segundo episodio de la temporada en español, nos acompaña Luis Colunga, persona no binaria, antirracista, terapeuta psicocorporal, psicólogo y sexólogo educador. Nos ilumina sobre como la sanación somática y emocional combinado con una perspectiva antirracista y social puede crear espacios de contención y acompañamiento, espacios para …
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Episodio en español Julia Laporte, practicante del Reiki por mas de 25 anos nos acompaña para iluminarnos sobre las raíces, filosofía y practica de esta modalidad de sanación que hoy es tan popular y muchas veces explotada. Puedes seguir a Julia en las redes sociales bajo Julie Laporte. La Cura Podcast is a project of Mijente. Please SUBSCRIBE and …
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Kiani Conley-Wilson, is a grower, activist, and organizer based in Troy, NY. and Assistant Program Manager of the Soul Fire Farm join us. Soul Fire Farm is an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm committed to uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system. They raise and distribute life-giving food as a means to end food apartheid. …
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Speaker, teacher trainer, Yoga culture advocate, and best-selling author Susanna Barkataki shares the roots of yoga and its tradition of social justice and liberation. In the West, Yoga has been commodified, exploited and stripped from its earth based framework and practice. Susanna grounds us in the Yoga earth based philosophical essence and remin…
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Gloria Lucas, Founder of Nalgona Positivity Pride joins us to talk about how the power of healing disorders can be found in deepening our understanding of the intersections of history, capitalism, oppression and trauma. Her work has been featured in NPR, Teen Vogue, MTV, Huffpost, Los Angeles Times, and Bitch Magazine. You can learn more about Glor…
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Dr. Neelam Pathikonda joins us to talk about the Covid19 Vaccine: the concerns, the questions and the myths. Dr. Pathikonda is a family medicine osteopathic physician with a public health background working in South Los Angeles and was a community organizer for over a decade before medical school. Please RATE us and SUBSCRIBE. Share this episode wi…
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Mark-Anthony Johnson Kicks off Season 3 of La Cura Podcast! As a licensed acupuncturist and experienced organizer, Mark-Anthony joins us to discuss what is health and who benefits from us being well enough. He invites us to look through a liberatory lens of wellness and names key elements in building a society that truly centers wellbeing. Mark-Ant…
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We kick off our 2021 winter season with a reflection on the presidential election, inauguration, and Latina/o/x political power. We talk with Latina Theory co-founder, Arianna Genis, about her recent accomplishments as well as celebrate Latina Theory's birthday (5 years!). Arianna Genis is a xicana organizer, political campaigner, digital strategis…
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In this episode we talk with Dr. Ramos who has been on the frontlines working against COIVD-19 in New York City. Dr. Ramos is a bilingual invasive cardiologist and assistant professor at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center with an interest and emphasis on preventive cardiology. Dr. Ramos is both a cardiologist and a nutritionist and has also been …
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This episode we had the pleasure of interviewing Niki López creator and co-executive producer of Nickelodeon’s new animated preschool series, Santiago of the Seas. Infused with a Spanish-language and Latino-Caribbean culture curriculum, the action-adventure series follows 8-year-old Santiago Montes, a brave and kind-hearted pirate, as he embarks on…
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In this episode we kick off our 2020 fall series on cultural appropriation. We focus this conversation on culinary appropriation in the Twin Cities. We talk with Milissa Diaz Silva (Co-owner/CEO of El Burrito Mercado), Julia Diaz (Milissa's daughter and University of Minnesota student), and Dulce Monterrubio (former owner of Dulceria Bakery). #nomá…
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Listen to our final episode of our Ofrendas series for Season two with these beautiful freedom fighter, healers, historians. They bring us a full episode of medicine through poetry, reflection and traditional remedios for our physical and spiritual nourishment. Jesus Villa is a Phoenix based curandero and activist. Dulce Juarez is a Phoenix based y…
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Beautiful conversation with, long time bodyworker, healing justice practitioner, activist Susan Raffo on collective care, tending to ourselves and meaning making in this global pandemic moment. Based in Minnesota, Susan works towards ending the medical industrial complex and lifts up practices and traditions that have been co-opted or forced into d…
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Mariella Saba shares a breathing practice to release the fear and anxiety energy stored in our bodies and attract the vibrations of joy, love, aliveness and liberation. Mariella who has her roots from Palestine to Mexico currently resides in Los Angeles where she founded and currently helps lead Stop LAPD Spying Coalition and Familia: Trans Queer L…
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In this Episode of La Cura, long time friends Marisa Franco, Director of Mijente and Francisca Porchas Coronado La Cura Podcast host and producer have a spiritual and political conversation about the impact of colonization, the role of shame, how pride plays out from a non-Black Latinx perspective, empathy as an antidote, and where to begin in buil…
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Bianca Gragg, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, community member and revolutionary mother shares with us a reflection and short contemplative practice for parents and all those who are currently taking care of children during this time of quarantine. Whether you are a parent or know parents or caretakers who need support share this beautiful offerin…
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Healing By Choice! Joins us from Detroit, Michigan and they bring all the wisdom and nourishment you didn't know you needed. Adela Nieves Martinez, Marcia Lee and Amanda Hill, all members and healing arts practitioners share their story and their spiritual perspective on this moment, their take on collective care and what this pandemic moment is as…
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On this episode of Latina Theory we talk with several artists/organizers who have been organizing in the Twin Cities and Chicago for decades. We kick off the podcast with Asha Long, artist, organizer and founder of Dirty Soles, an environmental justice organization. Next we talk with Tish Jones, Spoken Word Artist Founder & Executive Director of Tr…
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Adilia Torres, shares with permission a sacred song that came to a fellow healer through prayer. Listen, sign it as a healing balm for yourself and sign it in community for others to receive its powerful nourishment. This medicine song is a healing balm shared to you with love and for the healing of our communities. Adilia Torres is a queer Chicana…
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Erica Woodland talks to us about his pioneering and breakthrough Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network committed to transforming mental health for queer and trans people of color. Erica's work specifically acknowledges the harm and violence perpetuated by the medical-industrial complex and actively works to both intervene directly on this sys…
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RIP GEORGE FLOYD DEAR COPS STOP KILLING BLACK PEOPLE POWER TO THE PEOPLE PROTECT OUR CHILDREN PROTECT OUR GENTE, OUR BARRIOS AND UNIFY Interviews with: Charlie Thayer (American Indian Movement, Water Protector, Warrior) Sen. Patricia Torres-Ray (MN-District 63) Maya Washington (Filmmaker & Creative Director of Running Water Entertainment) Alicia St…
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Veralucia Mendoza, Mijente member, Queer Afro-Indigenous migrant from the deserts of Peru and one of the main organizers and founders of the amazing Mutual Aid efforts in Toledo, Ohio. She joins us to talk about the history of mutual aid, its current invaluable practice during Covid times and centers a decolonizing frame and practice of it. Veraluc…
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BONUS Episode for Mother's Day. Friends Carla Gonzales and Francisca Porchas Coronado engage in a funny, introspective and insightful conversation about being mothered by Latinx migrant mamas and how that translates into who they are today, especially as mamas themselves, the highs, the lows, and the funny moments. Happy Mother's Day 2020! PLEASE R…
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Aida Manduley shares their wisdom as a therapist and educator on the nuances of anxiety, depression, and grief normalizing our feelings and encouraging our curiosity about them. Listen for the simple and valuable tools that they share on how best to tend to ourselves now and beyond this pandemic moment. Aida Manduley, Licensed Clinical Social Worke…
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Luana Morales shares a grounding mediation and reflection practice with us this week! Luana is a Birth and Bereavement Doula, Death Midwife, Circle keeper, Officiant, Reiki Master Teacher, and Herbal Apprentice devoted to reclaiming our birth, death, and Afro-Indigenous healing practices. She is one of the founders of Seeds of Our Ancestors, a mobi…
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Listen to this special episode on the Mijente and Labor Council for Latin American Advancement's new report "The Impact of Covid-19 On Latinos in the U.S.". We’re dying disproportionately and bearing the brunt of this crisis. It is critical we tell our stories! Listen to how we are organizing for the SOLUTIONS that we need. Sign up here to see the …
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Latina Theory Episode 35 Hosts Maria Isa and Jessica Lopez Lyman interview Cecilia Muñoz, a political advisor who served eight years on President Obama's senior staff, first as Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, then as director of the Domestic Policy Council. She is currently the Vice President for Public Interest Technology and Local Initiati…
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Dr. Monika L. Son gifts us a courage and compassion meditation for this week's Ofrenda. A native New York Afro-Dominicana born to immigrant parents, educator/scholar/healer/activist, Monika actively integrates healing into teaching and learning spaces in higher education, particularly for BIPOC communities. Her passion lies in building and growing …
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Listen to the Resilient Strategies team--Mark-Anthony Jonhnson, Prentis Hemphill and Francisca Porchas Coronado, host of La Cura Podcast on Politicized Healing and what it can offer us in this moment of Covid19 and beyond to heal and build power in the way that we need to. Resilient Strategies is healing justice project transforming the impact of s…
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Latina Theory hosts Maria Isa and Jessica Lopez Lyman record their first podcast episode during the COVID-pandemic. Jessica shares her experience preparing to deliver a baby girl during these times. Maria highlights virtual concerts and birthday parties. The two discuss Bad Bunny's latest video for "Yo Perreo Sola" and jumping into curandera remedi…
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Muertero Yamil is a Pennsylvania based health worker on the frontlines of the Covid19 pandemic. He shares with us his grounding spiritual practice of the past 27 years and especially now as he navigates care giving for so many battling illness daily. Please share this practice with others! This offering is part of La Cura's Community Care Series wh…
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Dr. Diana Quinn Inla'kech shares holistic and traditional recipes and the healing power of plants for immune and spiritual support generously shared to her by two Curadera friends especially for this offering on La Cura. This offering is part of La Cura's Community Care Series which will include community organizers, artists, healers and leaders sh…
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Kicking off our Community Care Series with Dr. Diana Quinn Inlak'ech who educates and grounds us on a holistic view of how to take care of our system and each other. Diana Inlak'ech, ND is a licensed naturopathic doctor at the intersection of social justice, spirituality and healing. Specializing in somatic bodywork, integrative mental health, and …
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Award winning HIV activist and artist, Louie A. Ortiz-Fonseca joins us to share about the creation of The Gran Varones Project, which uses storytelling to elevate the stories of Latinx & Afro-Latinx Gay, Queer, Trans, Bisexual Men & Bois and his hit Youtube show Kikis with Louie! Check out @GranVarones on Instagram and Tumbler and Kikis with Louie …
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Belia Mayeno Saavedra returns for the second part of our conversation on Conflict and Transformation. She takes us deeper into the intersection between conflict, vulnerability, shame and accountability. She answers questions by Mijente members on setting boundaries with family, moving past toxic chapters in our lives and building self-awareness. Pl…
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A politicized somatics and restorative justice practitioner, a tarot reader of 25 years and an initiate into the Orisha Oshun, Belia Saavedra Mayeno brings us her deep wisdom on what conflict is and how we relate to it making connections to shame, belonging, safety and dignity. Belia references Generative Somatics in this episode. You can learn mor…
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Season 1: Lourdes Hernandez Rivera nos cuenta sobre los esfuerzos de sanación a través de su proyecto Caminando La Utopía y muchos más por toda la Isla de Puerto Rico dado la devastación de los terremotos recientes y el huracán Maria de hace dos años. Con miles de personas desposeídas por la Isla, ella es una lider y sanadora entre muchos mas, crea…
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Season 1: Esta es la Segunda Parte de la conversación con Mimi Salvador sobre la política de su territorio en la Amazonía Ecuatoriana, la cosmovisión de su gente y la medicina. En este capítulo Mimi nos comparte su pensamiento sobre el Ayahuasca que viene de la cosmología de su gente y el hecho de que ahora esta siendo usado por estadounidenses y e…
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Season 1: La Cura's FIRST episode in Spanish! Este es el primer episodio de La Cura en español! Esta es la primera parte de una conversación de dos partes con Mimi Salvador Lucero, joven Kichwa de la área de la Amazonia Ecuatoriana. Mimi nos comparte sobre su comunidad de su pueblo originario indígena, Kichwa, su Cosmovisión, la lucha política y es…
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In conversation with Boston based Boricua and Death Midwife, Luana Morales we explore our relationship to death spiritually and emotionally, the influence of the medical industrial complex on our self-determination after death, and that of our beloveds, and the funeral industry's elitist history. Luana will tell us what her powerful work of death m…
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Boss Mamá Maria Isa returns to Latina Theory while on maternity leave and welcomes Analita Silva to the show as special guest for this episode discussing "Being A Boss Mom." Analita Silva is an Afro-LatinX co-business owner of El Burrito Mercado, the state of Minnesota's 1st Latino Mercado celebrating 40 years in Saint Paul's barrio of the Westside…
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Ancestors are complicated. Some of them we knew, loved immensely, and miss daily. Others we knew and their memory causes pain, and we hope to never repeat their mistakes again in the world. Either way, they inevitably live in us and in our families' costumbres, personalities and behaviors. Should we honor and elevate them all irregardless of their …
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The world might disagree on a lot. One thing is for sure--we all love food! From filling up our bellies with our delicious traditional dishes to treating our corazoncitos, physical pains, and illnesses with our ancestral ingredients, food is central to who we are and what we do. In this episode we are in conversation about the energetic and nourshi…
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We use the essences of flowers in many forms as a people, from our abuelita's manzanilla teas to the curadera's esencias floridas also known as tinctures, flowers have served our bodies and hearts for generations. In this episode we converse with Flower Doctor, Organizer and Masters In Family Therapy, Guadalupe Rocio Chavez about her path as a Flow…
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