Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Core, Episode 2.21A
"Generative Knowledge Building - The Evolution of Decolonial Work and the Complication and Expansion of Inclusiveness"
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 two members of Center for Babaylan Studies Core, Auntie S. Lily Mendoza and Joanna La Torre. We discuss their starting points for understanding decolonization and decolonial work and how their understanding has evolved, tangible ways the work has shown up in their lives, especially regarding climate justice, what they currently view to be the most challening conversations regarding decolonization and decolonial work, and more.
Dr. S. Lily Mendoza currently resides on the land of Waawiyatanong, the original home of the Anishinaabe, Wyandot-Huron, Fox, Miami & Saux, also known as Detroit. Her Philippine homeland is the province of Pampanga, home of the Ayta peoples. You can contact her at lily@babaylan.net.
Joanna La Torre is originally from Ohlone and Ramaytush land and is currently residing on Coast Salish and Duwammish land. Their ancestral lineages are from Nueva Ecija and Ilocos Sur, as well as Wales, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. You can contact them at jlatorre@babaylan.net
*Please note that this episode contains brief instances of profanity.*
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Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//
Produced by Olivia Sawi//
Co-Produced by Annie Aarons-Sawi//
Music by AstraLogik
