Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Core, Episode 2.15A
"Complicating Kapwa - Visioning Solidarity Between Indigenous, Diasporic, and Migrant Peoples Divided by Colonization"
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 three members of Center for Babaylan Studies Core, Jen Maramba, Aimee Gomez, and Orion Camero. We discuss, complicate, and challenge the concept and understandings of Kapwa, explore various personal steps to reconciling and healing, discuss these core members' visions and what is seeding their work, and more.
Jennifer Maramba and Aimee Gomez both reside on the ancestral lands of the Anishinabewaki ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee, and 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.
Orion is currently on Ramaytush Ohlone land, and is Pangasinense, Cebuano, Spanish, and Chinese. You can contact them at orion@babaylan.net.
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.
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Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//
Produced by Olivia Sawi//
Co-Produced by Annie Aarons-Sawi//
Music by AstraLogik
