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Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.27Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.27
"Becoming a Mother - Becoming Your Truest Self"
In this episode, we are joined by Joanna La Torre. We discuss being a new parent as a queer, single, PhD student, how having a child during the Pandemic has shaped how she moves with her child in the world, how becoming a mother has helped her become her truest self, and more.
Joanna La Torre is a genderqueer, queer, multi-ethnic, community-embedded, Filipinx scholar-praxavist and settler from occupied Ohlone territory in California’s Bay Area. Jo is an indigenist researcher an...
2022-11-061h 41
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.26Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.26
"Raising the Family Lead by the Honoring of Our Emotions"
In this episode, we are joined by Jaisa Sulit. We discuss how an injury led her to a path of mindfulness and decolonizing how she has moved forward in work, how her own self care affects how she parents, the understanding that children are more intelligent than we personally observe or think, seeing her son as a co-creator, and more.
Jaisa Sulit (she/her/siya), her partner TJ Lim, and their son Jasper gratefully live together in Tkaronto...
2022-10-231h 10
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.25Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.25
"In Good Relation - Grounding Together in Rhythms and Rituals"
In this episode, we are joined by Jen Maramba and Alex Punzalan. We discuss their practices in finding ways to connect with their children, and also to cheer and champion them, building family rituals, their discussions around discipline, and more.
Jen Maramba (she/they) & Alex Punzalan (he/him) along with their ‘suns’ Kawayan & Kaleo form the Punzaramba Artist Family.
The Punzarambas currently reside on the treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit and ackno...
2022-10-091h 16
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.24Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.24
"The Returns of Parenthood: Returning Home, Returning to Each Other, Returning to Ourselves"
In this episode, we are joined by Kai Kai Mascareñas. We discuss raising a child in community, her process of learning how to claim her needs and boundaries surrounding her child, tending to her child while being chronically ill and disabled, and more.
Kai Kai Mascareñas (she/they) is a queer, chronically ill + disabled, organizer and educator, and most importantly, mother to Diwa Uju Kalayaan Mascareñas-Lee (28 months old). Born and raised on the...
2022-08-281h 43
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.23Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.23
"If You Trust the Children, They Will Be Trustworthy"
In this episode, we are joined by Chris Sabile Gunn. We discuss different ways of communicating to allow freedom, building trust and the complexities involved, modeling intergenerational boundaries, and more.
Chris Sabile Gunn is currently sheltering on the peninsula between the Nich'i M-Wána and Wallamt Rivers that is the land of the Kalipuya, Clackmas, Multnomah, and Chinook and many other peoples now known as Portland, Oregon. She was tubong (born in) Quezon City, Luzon, Philippines. Chris was moved f...
2022-06-121h 10
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.22Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.22
"Loosening and Tightening the Knots of Intergenerational Relation"
In this episode, we are joined by Karen Buenavista Hanna. We discuss various blessings and challenges of having grandparents involved in her child's life, wanting to become a mom to understand her own mom better, wanting positive rather than transactional relationships between her child and her parents, and more.
Hailing from a diverse and loving lineage of ancestors, including those of Hiligaynon, Masbateño, Pangasinense, and Teochew descent, @sophiethecat27 (she/they/siya) is the daughter of Ben and Marlo Hanna a...
2022-05-291h 05
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.21Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.21
"Raising my Children through the God in Me"
In this episode, we discuss the awareness of raising children as free, without the burden of the ancestors, the consciousness of reclaiming the strength and beauty of the ancestors, following the spirit of God within the self, and more.
Cisa Payuyo is the daughter of the late Vicente Andaya Payuyo from Isabela and the late Irenea Parong Duque from Nueva Ecija. Born in the Yangna Village of the Kizh Nation, Cisa grew up in Echo Park near Downtown Los Angeles...
2022-05-151h 14
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.20Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.20
"Moving Away from the ME, Understanding and Growing from the WE"
In this episode, we are joined by Jyn Rose Aguas Romualdez. We discuss her desire to be a grandmother while being a new mother, and her desire for reparenting in order to bring the knowledge back to her child, her journey with co-parenting, how she wants her child to experience the world, how she has changed most as a mother on her decolonial path, and more.
Jyn Rose (she/her/siya) was born in Makati, Philippines and...
2022-04-241h 35
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.19Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.19
"Tending to the Mental Health, Healing the Whole Child, Healing the Whole Family"
In this episode, we are joined by Jamie Pesquiza Cardenas. We discuss embracing the full spectrum of experiences, how many things have many truths, how making medicine for herself as an act of survival led to Magpie Alchemy, how not one thing fixes everything, especially with medicines, and more.
Jamie Pesquiza Cardenas is an interdisciplinary artist, herbalist, and cultural worker located on Unceded Nisenan Territory. She also is the heart and hands of Magpie Alchemy...
2022-04-171h 14
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.18Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.18
"The Will to Change: Becoming Your Self Again and Again in Motherhood"
In this episode, we are joined by Vanessa Ramalho. We reflect with Vanessa about what she has learned over this past year of her life in transition, how she has learned to prioritize her well-being and values, how she is manifesting her desire for her children to see her in her fullness, embodying unlimited possibility, and more.
Vanessa Tulop Ramalho is a settler on the lands of the Nanticoke Lenni Lenape, aka South Jersey. She is...
2022-04-031h 24
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.17Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.17
"A Mother's Raising of Suns and the Healing of Patriarchal Wounds"
In this episode, we are joined by Maria Rubio. We discuss how she teaches her children how to show up for themselves, the most difficult parts of raising two men of color, raising children communicative of their needs and wants, navigating the world of dating and romance, and more.
Maria Rubio is a born and raised New Yorker by way of the Philippines, and a writer of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and scripts for both stage and film...
2022-03-201h 10
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.16Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.16
"How Free Can Our Children Be?"
In this episode, we are joined by Lucha Mañalac Alforque. We discuss how she is teaching her children to recognize and acknowledge other people, staying connected and present ot the differences in her children, how she hopes that in the future her children will take of themsevles by witnessing herself practicing self care, and more.
Lucha Mañalac Alforque is a Pinay settler on Canarsie Lenape land, commonly known as Queens, NY. She lives with her husband Dave with whom she is...
2022-03-131h 11
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.15Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.15
"Feeling into Deep Ancestry: Holding my Child While the Earth is Holding Me"
In this episode, we are joined by Kimberly Tate. We discuss her understanding of the nervous system and remembering to re-access joy, raising a baby since the beginning of the pandemic, how this turned out to be the perfect time and how it allowed deep transformative work, the need for mothers and in turn Mother Earth to rest, and more.
Kimberly Tate (she/they/we) is a multidisciplinary embodied truth seeker, teacher, healing arts practitioner...
2022-03-061h 01
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.14Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.14
"Enriching a Life through Strengthened Channels of Relation"
In this episode, we are joined by Francis Estrada. We discuss how it takes a village to raise a person, his experiences raising an intercultural child, how he has integrated his experiences as a Guro in Pekiti Tirsia Kali as well as an educator into his parenting, and more.
Francis Estrada's family hails from Luzon– his mother from Pampanga and father from Pangasinan. He was born and raised in Metro Manila and currently resides in Lenapehoking or the "Land of the...
2022-02-271h 00
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.13Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.13
"Birthing Your Freedom"
In this episode, we are joined by France. We discuss how she navigated the system to help her community, all while parenting with her partner, how Pinayism shows up in her parenting, visioning possibliity, and more.
France was born in the Philippines and grew up in Tiohtià:ke, colonially known as Montreal, Quebec, Canada. As an uninvited settler immigrant on Turtle Island, she was raised in a community with limited resources. Despite this, France overcame the challenges that many immigrant and racialized families face. She p...
2022-02-201h 06
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.12Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.12
"Reflections on the Embodied Surrender of Parenthood"
In this episode, we are joined by Christine. We discuss partners being in transformation individually and in partnership, birthing experiences in a colonized existence, embodied surrender, and more.
Christine Mari Palma Start comes from a maternal line of Caviteños in Imus, Cavite and paternal line from Sta. Mesa & Sampaloc in Manila. She was born and raised on the lands of the Muwekma Ohlone people also known as Union City, California. She is a proud Pinay mama of 4 multi-ethnic children from n...
2022-02-131h 19
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.11Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.11
"Being the Bridge in the Shadows of Parenting- Re-membering Each Other, Re-membering Ourselves"
In this episode, we are joined by marlena. We discuss a spiritual toolkit for emotional regulation, especially for children, finding building, and connecting with community as a parent, dealing with big emotions in tiny bodies, and more.
a triple scorpio with a virgo moon, marlena is a bridge of re-membering and transmutation. she accepts the invitation as an intermediary for liminal spaces within the physical and spiritual worlds. as a cultural worker she could have...
2022-02-061h 10
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.10Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.10
"Hand Over Heart; Finding the Way Back to Seeing and Loving Our Children"
In this episode, we are joined by DJ Kuttin Kandi. We discuss decolonizing systems within relationships, the 3Gs of Growth, Goals, and Gratitude, the harm in seeing things in a dichotomy of good and bad, modeling how to say I'm sorry, and more.
Dr. (h.c.) DJ Kuttin Kandi, who was born and raised in Lenape territory, Queens, NY is internationally known and widely respected as a legendary "People's Hip Hop DJ Scholar." Kandi is a...
2022-01-301h 08
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Epsiode 3.09Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.09
"Teaching the Principles - Foundations of Education to Spiral Back Throughout Our Lives"
In this episode, we are joined by Bambu. We discuss what it means to be a martial family and the lessons that can be learned, being a community organizer and how it has changed over time, as well as how organizing and music is lived within his family, and more.
Bambu is a father, Emcee and community organizer. Raised all over the city of Los Angeles, as a young boy he experienced a life that...
2022-01-161h 07
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.08Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.08
"The Little Things Become the Big Lessons: Honoring the Child to Better Ourselves as Parents"
In this episode, we are joined by Steph Cariaga. We discuss working through perfectionism, non-violent parenting, parenting and having to stop teaching in classroom during the pandemic, learning about anger, and more.
Steph Cariaga comes from a lineage of fierce Ilocanos by way of Pangasinan and Baguio City. She was born in Harbor City and currently resides in Long Beach -- all land belonging to the Tongva people. Steph has served the wider...
2022-01-091h 01
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.07Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.07
"Stepping out of Lihim (Silence) - Getting Messy to Give Voice to the Heart"
In this episode, we are joined by Dennis Lozano. We discuss allowing himself to be a hot mess as he explores his inner self, the process of acknowledging silence within his family lineage, finding different ways to communicate with his two very different children, and more.
Dennis Francis Encarguez Lozano is a stay-at-home papa to Mateo (age 10) and Dante (age 7). Together with his partner Melissa, they reside on the unceded sacred land of the...
2022-01-021h 01
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.06Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.06
"The Art of a Father - Being Led to Create by Life's Greatest Creations"
In this episode, we are joined by Kilusan Bautista. We discuss how he is learning to let his daughters lead the way, building community and finding support in parenting, searching for and creating culturally relevant material for the children, and more.
Kilusan Bautista is a playwright and interdisciplinary performing artist, originally from San Francisco, CA and presently based in the BronX, NY. Creator of two solo multimedia productions: Universal Filipino (2010) and Transcend (2016). Grant recipient...
2021-12-261h 10
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.05Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.05
"Spirit Centered Parenting and the Call of the Here and Now"
In this episode, we are joined by Daphnee Valdez. We discuss raising her child with a focus on spirituality, how she does this spiritual work while proudly co-parenting her child, co-creating with her child in spiritual places, moments of conflict, and more.
Daphnee and her soul child Teyo work earthside to unite and ignite the Divine and Earthly worlds. Daphnee, in service of love and Creator, practices her family’s gift of hilot. And as a level 2 re...
2021-12-201h 10
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.04Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.04
"Native Sol Tribe - When Manifesting Vision Raises Up Family"
In this episode, we are joined by May Salem. We discuss how she has been raising her children aligned with her values while respecting the changing world they are living in, how Native Sol helped her actually have more time for and with her children, how she and her family have been and are challenging the system, and more.
May Salem was born in Malinao, Aklan, Panay, in the Philippines, raised in Nisenan/Maidu/Miwok Territory (Sacramento) and...
2021-12-121h 05
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.03Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.03
"Showing Up Stronger: The Raising of Partners in Parenthood"
In this episode, we are joined by Anna and AJ Calomay. We discuss their different roles as parents and how they make sure they see and support each other, making space for reflection, their journey to becoming parents, their vision of the future moving into the second year of their child's life, and more.
Annamarie (Anna) Villaluz Bautista Calomay (@halfthesun_annab) (she/her) and Arthur James (A.J.) Olmedo Calomay (@ajxy) (he/him) are coparenting on Tongva land (Los...
2021-12-071h 11
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.02Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.02
"Let the Mothers be Held - Trading the Hustle for Wholeness"
In this episode, we are joined by Theresa Navarro. We discuss raising children that were assigned female at birth, reclamation of body and labor, giving birth during the pandemic and surrounding events, being a part of a strong matriarchal line, trading the hustle for wholeness, and more.
Theresa Navarro (she/they/siya) is a Pinay working mama and cultural worker, who is currently based in California raising her young daughters with intergenerational support. She has roots in...
2021-11-281h 08
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.01Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.01
"Get Organized - Aligning Rituals and Relations in Parenthood"
In this episode, we are joined by Jollene Levid. We discuss how she speaks to her son about relations with others, how she has integrated community organizing and parenting, challenges she has faced in her own relationships, how she creates boundaries, and more.
Jollene Levid is a mother to her rainbow child Marcelo, age 6. She is a Regional Organizer for United Teachers Los Angeles - the second largest teachers union in the US and was a coordinator for the 2019...
2021-11-211h 07
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3.0Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.0
"Reflecting and Visioning Kultivating Kapwa - Introducing Fall/Winter Decolonizing Parenthood Series"
In this episode, Jana Lynne and Olivia have a chance to catch up after their extended hiatus. Olivia gets to ask Jana Lynne questions about Jana Lynne's current journey into motherhood. This episode was recorded in early October, but it is offered to you now as Kultivating Kapwa transitions from the last season, Conversations with Community, to the upcoming season about Decolonizing Parenthood.
*Episode Notes: This episode contains brief instances of profanity.*
You can...
2021-11-071h 18
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.26Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community Episode 2.26
"Reflecting and Visioning Kultivating Kapwa - Summer 2021"
In this episode, Jana Lynne and Olivia offer their recent reflections, give updates on what they have been up to since the last episode, offer their plans for future episodes of Kultivating Kapwa, and more.
*Episode Notes: This episode contains brief instances of profanity.*
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.
Make sure to s...
2021-06-221h 15
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.25Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community Episode 2.25
"Tending to Our Grief: Kultivating Kapwa in All Relations with the Medicine of Vulnerability"
In this episode, we are joined by Shane Bernardo. We discuss grief being his greatest teacher, cultivation of relation to self, others, and the land, how caregiving is a political and spiritual act, visionary organizing, and more.
Shane Bernardo is a co-founder of Food As Healing, a social movement based on ancestral, Earth-based traditions that are critical for maintaining our identities, sense of belonging, health, and wholeness. Shane is also a grower, anti-oppression...
2021-04-251h 40
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.24Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community Episode 2.24
"The Path of a Decolonial Doula: The Sacred Work of Honoring Birth"
In this episode, we are joined by Kei Karayan. We discuss what called her to doula work and how the work has changed since she began, how she is striving to re-member ancestral practices of birthwork, her reasons of sharing birthwork practices to those of the same lineage, a brief overview of what doulas actually do and how things have changed during the pandemic, and more.
Kei Karayan (she/her/siya) is a queer Pilipina...
2021-04-121h 22
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.23Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community Episode 2.23
"Navigating Multiplicity and Mixed Identity in Pilipinx Diaspora"
In this episode, we are joined by Jillian Purugganan Werhowatz. We discuss how Jillian has learned to hold the complexity of having a mixed identity, the hardest things she has had to be in confrontation with, finding her place in community, her personal embodiment practices, and more.
Jillian Purugganan Werhowatz is the daughter of Yolanda Purugganan Werhowatz and Andrew Werhowatz III. Her mother is from Quezon City by way of Illocos Sur in the Philippines and her father is A...
2021-03-281h 09
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.22Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community Episode 2.22
"Laying the Groundwork for the Seeds of Decolonization to Grow and Thrive"
In this episode, we are joined by Grace Villarin Dueñas. We discuss how her decolonization journey began long before she was forced to immigrate to the United States, how she found her way through organizing, her queerness, the arts, and plant medicine among other things, lessons she brings home to the Philippines and the lessons she returns with to the United States, and more.
Grace is a student of ancient wisdom, a cultural organizer, a...
2021-03-141h 23
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Core, Episode 2.21AKultivating 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 i...
2021-02-281h 17
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.21Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 2.21
"Mothering Self, Family, and Future through Decolonial Work"
In this week's episode, we are joined by Marybelle Mallari Bustos. We discuss Marybelle's remembering and practice regarding her Kapampangan lineage, explore her upbringing and her own journey into motherhood, what is nurturing her now, and more.
Marybelle Mallari Bustos, also known as MB, was born and raised on the ancestral lands of the Tataviam in the San Fernando valley and currently resides on Tongva land, also known as Los Angeles, California. Her maternal lineage are the Sunga and...
2021-02-211h 36
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.20Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 2.20
"Re-membering Warrior is from the Heart"
In this episode, we are joined by Crystle Diño and JB Ramos. We discuss what brought them to their warrior path and culture, what the warrior arts means to them, how their various histories, backgrounds, and teachers inform how their art manifests in their lives today, and more.
Crystle LiWayway Diño acknowledges that she resides and settles upon the traditional homelands of many Indigenous nations, such as the the Council of the Three Fires - comprised of the Ojibwe, Od...
2021-02-141h 45
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.19Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 2.19
"Re-membering the Path of Creation, Rooted in Relation"
In this episode, we are joined by Diyan Valencia and Nicanor Evans. We discuss how their relationships to and presence within community has shifted since the pandemic, what they are creating now, how their paths have changed since they began, and more.
Diyan "BukoBomba" Valencia is tawo of Bikolano ancestry, and was born and raised on Tongva territory from the hood of Historic Filipinotown, L.A. As a d.i.y. multi-media artist, crystal ball solar pyromaniac, musician to...
2021-01-311h 16
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Core Episode 2.18AKultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Core, Episode 2.18A
"Diasporic, Migrant Descendants' Response-abilities and the Struggle to Trace Lineage Back to Indigeneity"
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 a...
2021-01-111h 47
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.18Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 18
"Education for Decolonization Starts at Home"
In this episode, we are joined by Liza, Reina, and Luna Quiñonez. We discuss what it is like to be the daughters of a decolonizing mother, how their upbringings differed, the experiences of involving their entire family in their art and business, their thoughts on education versus experience, and more.
Liza was born in Quezon City, Manila. Her paternal line is from Ilocos Sur and her maternal line is from Luzon. Reina was born in Los Angeles, and Luna was b...
2020-12-131h 09
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.17Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 17
"Synergetic Creation of Music, Magic, and Love"
In this episode, we are joined by Chen and Charito of AstraLogik. We discuss their creative synergy, what they have learned through their music, how their intention with music sets them apart, their journeys to becoming the people they are individually and how that translated into their relationship, what they are creating now, and more.
Rowenalyn Badiango Conlu, also known as Chen, is the daughter of Luna Perigrino Badiango Conlu and Rhodante Moreno Conlu. They are the granddaughter of Lourdes...
2020-12-061h 13
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Core Episode 2.16AKultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Core, Episode 2.16A
"Confronting Appropriation of Indigenous Culture- from Capitalist Consumption to Sacred Exchange"
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 p...
2020-11-291h 40
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.16Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 16
"Sacred Shapeshifting - Body, Mind, and Spirit Transformation of Self for Honorable Relation"
This is a special holiday release episode of Kultivating Kapwa, and we are joined by Lukayo Diwata Bitoon. We explore the concepts of love and justice, discuss where their work is landing, examine the rights and responsibilities of being a guest, the continuum of responsibility and wilderness, and more.
Lukayo Diwata Bitoon, or Lukayo Faye Estrella, is of the Bikol people from Mount Mayon in Albay. They were raised in Tkaronto/Toronto, of the...
2020-11-251h 23
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Core Episode 2.15AKultivating 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 u...
2020-11-221h 37
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.15Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 15
"Surfacing Spirit-Sacred Creations of Self, Community, and Land"
In this episode, Julz and Julay recount how their journeys with ink ceremony began and what sustains their offerings, reflect on the discussions of appropriation, discuss the tools that have bound them to their spiritual work, and more.
Julz Bolinayen's (they/them) ancestry hails from the Ilokano people, the volcanos, and the ocean. Julz is a visitor and settler on the island of O’ahu on the illegally occupied Kingdom of Hawai’i.
Julay resides on the Unce...
2020-11-151h 29
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Special Series - Roots of our Sacred WorkKultivating Kapwa: Special Series - Roots of our Sacred Work
"Introductions to the Workings of Core"
We are transitioning to our mini-series, Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Core. 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 a...
2020-11-0835 min
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.13Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 13
"Honoring and Tending to Our Ancestral Relations to Plants, Lands, and the Planet"
In this episode, we are joined by Angela Angel. We discuss re-membering the earth, plants, elements, and all non-human beings as Kapwa, the moments she realized she was called to her path, her most recent lessons from the earth and land, and much more.
Angela is currently residing in Ohlone Territory, specifically the Sogoretea Land Trust. She is Igorota, Bontoc and Ibaloi, Pangasinense and Ilokana. She comes from the rice terraces of the Cordillera Re...
2020-11-011h 06
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.12Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 12
"Teaching Through Creative Justice and the Role of Arts Education in Liberation"
In this episode, we are joined by Renee Floresca. We discuss the use of theatre as an examination of life and inquiry of self, how she turned to books and plays when in search of a mentor, being a veteran teacher and the changes in her approach over the years, being an accidental student with multiple degrees, and more.
She was Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area — namely Hercules, on Ohlone land. Sh...
2020-10-251h 17
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.11Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 11
"Sacred Relations: Building Generative Cross Cultural Relationships"
In this episode, we are joined by Harvey Lozada. We discuss the importance of starting with self, his feeling of responsibility to protect, preserve, and hold ground in San Francisco, being someone who holds space for many of all cultures and ages, and more.
A fourth generation FRISCOPINO, Harvey is an educator, social worker, healer, art curator, and community photographer. He is a son of Filipino immigrants from the regions of Luzon and Mindanao, tracing his familial roots in Ramaytush Oh...
2020-10-181h 15
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.10Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 10
"Sex Liberation Education and the Decolonization of Pleasure"
In this episode, we are joined by Justine Ang Fonte. We discuss the concepts of safety, fulfillment, and pleasure, the platinum rule, body agency, using W.A.P. as a litmus test, and more. Justine is the daughter of Glorietta Zapata Ang from Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya and Samuel Fonte from Romblon, Romblon in the Philippines. She was born on Ohlone Territory, lives on Lenape Territory, and is learning how to indigenize the lands she is on.
**Please note that...
2020-10-111h 18
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.9Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 9
"Reflections on Filipino American History Month"
In this episode, Jana Lynne and Olivia take a moment to discuss their experiences with Filipino American History Month, what it means to be Filipino, American, and Filipino American, their personal and family histories, and more. In addition, we include a brief message from Orion Camero, a Core Member of the Center for Babaylan Studies.
From the Filipino American National Historical Society national website: "The late Dr. Fred Cordova, along with his wife, FANHS founder Dr. Dorothy Laigo Cordova, first introduced...
2020-10-0453 min
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.8Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 8
"Releasing Artistry as Ceremony and Honoring the Role of a Creator"
In this episode, we are joined by Kimmortal, or Kimberly Bince Villagante. We discuss how their life as an artist has transformed since the pandemic, what it means for art to be ceremony, how musicians are integral to the movement, how their activism is reshaping itself, and more. Kimmortal resides on the Unceded Coast Salish territory of the Skohomish, Musqueum, and Tsleiwaututh. Their ancestry is from Negros Occidental and Pangasinan.
**Please note that this episode contains...
2020-09-271h 18
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.7Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 7
"Balik Banayihan - Tending to, Growing, and Sustaining with Roots of Relation and Home"
In this episode, we are joined by Maria Marasigan. We explore lessons from plants, complicate the ideas of home, community, and allyship, discuss her experiences in the Peace Corps, Standing Rock, and the islands known as the Philippines, reflect on finding herself back in Rockland County, and more. Maria is currently on Ramapough Lenape land, in Rockland County, New York. She was born in Malate, both parents from Cuenca, Batangas near Mount Maculot and the...
2020-09-201h 40
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.6Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 6
"The Pilipinx Radical Imagination in Activism, Academia, Education, and Life"
In this episode, we are joined by Professor Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano. We discuss the origins of The Pilipinx Radical Imagination Reader, what a Pilipino/a/x radical imagination can look like today, how her experiences help inform how she walks in her everyday life in academia, activism, and parenting, and more. Melissa currently resides on the ancestral lands of the Tamyen tribe of the Muwekma Ohlone people. Her paternal lineage is Cordilleran, culturally Kalinga, and her maternal lineage is Waray.
2020-09-131h 01
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.5Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 5
"A Legacy of Nurturing Imagination for the Movement"
In this episode, we are joined by Frances Lucerna. We discuss her childhood experiences with liberation theology, how she came to embrace her artistic soul, how this led to her calling in education, exploring the question "For the sake of WHAT," and much much more. This is an important episode for everyone to listen to, especially if you want to hear about an alternative framework for education. Frances resides in Brooklyn, New York, and is of Filipina and Puerto Rican descent.
2020-09-061h 21
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.4Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 4
"Decolonizing Relations with Cross Cultural Solidarity"
In this Episode, we are joined by Sobey Wing. We discuss solidarity, solidarity economics, destruction, accountability partners, rites of passage, and more. Sobey resides on the Ancestral Unceded Coast Salish Territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tselil-waututh peoples currently known as Vancouver BC. He is of Cebuano lineage from his mother’s side and his father is mixed Asian, mixed South Asian, mixed Central American and mixed European.
Here are some resources that Sobey speaks about in this episode:
Youth Pas...
2020-08-301h 37
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Overview EpisodeKultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Overview Episode
"An Overview to Highlight Previous Episodes"
Jana Lynne and Olivia have taken the week off, so listen to this episode to hear about episodes you need to catch up on! Olivia also gives a brief eulogy for her grandfather, Epifanio Mateo Sawi.
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...
2020-08-2309 min
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Special EpisodeKultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Special Episode
"College of Peers Book Club Discussion with Auntie Leny"
Olivia recently joined a book club which named itself the "College of Peers," where the first book they read was Auntie Leny Strobel's Coming Full Circle, The Process of Decolonization Among Post-1965 Filipino Americans. This episode is a Question and Answer session between the book club and Auntie Leny.
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...
2020-08-161h 11
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.3Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 3
"Expressing and Embodying the Decolonizing Self through Art"
In this episode, we are joined by SAMMAY, Samantha Peñaflor Dizon. We discuss her deeper understanding of the term "practice," movement performance as ritual, certifications for validation, how she is learning to accept, love, and honor her destiny, and much more. SAMMAY is currently a settler on Unceded Ramaytush Ohlone Territory and is of Bikol, Kapampangan, and Ilokano descent.
**Please note that this episode contains a few instances of profanity.**
You can listen to this podcast on...
2020-08-091h 29
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.2Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 2
"Re-membering Ancestral Practices and the Spiritual Self"
In this episode, we are joined by Verma Zapanta, of Hilot with Verma. She explores how her career in education led to her path of healing her self and learning to truly listen, and how these lessons led to helping others on their own healing journeys. Verma resides on Yelamu, Occupied Ramaytush Ohlone Territory and is the Daughter of Teresa Soria Abillano, Granddaughter of Luisa Conui Cacal, and Great Granddaughter of Transfiguracion Capuyan Enriquez and Josefa Silaw. Her Visayan roots span the...
2020-08-021h 28
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.1Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 1
"Decolonizing Parenting"
In this episode, we are joined by three other core members of the Center for Babaylan Studies: Aimee Gomez, Jennifer Maramba, and Vanessa Ramalho. Our topic is decolonizing parenting, and our discussion includes how our individual upbringings, family structures, and decolonizing paths are informing and inspiring how we raise our children in community.
Jennifer Maramba and Aimee Gomez both reside on the ancestral lands of the Anishinabewaki ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee, Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. They both continue to learn and embody the teachings and sacred contrac...
2020-07-261h 45
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 2.0Kultivating 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...
2020-07-1953 min
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: 30 for 30 Poetry Part 2Kultivating 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 p...
2020-07-122h 11
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: 30 for 30 Poetry Part 1Kultivating 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 B...
2020-07-0532 min
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: CfBS Elder CircleKultivating 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. D...
2020-06-282h 22
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 10Kultivating 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//
2020-06-211h 06
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 9Kultivating 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...
2020-06-151h 11
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Special Edition EpisodeKultivating 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...
2020-06-071h 19
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 8Kultivating 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...
2020-05-311h 08
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 7Kultivating 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...
2020-05-241h 12
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 6Kultivating 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.
2020-05-171h 05
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 5Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Leny Strobel, Episode 5
"Intergenerational Decolonization Movements" with Special Guest Joanna La Torre
Our fifth episode of Kultivating Kapwa is longer than most. Join us as we talk with Auntie Leny about how she views her role as elder and mentor, the biggest challenges she has seen and experienced working within an intergenerational framework, what she feels can be the next step for those who sense an absence of elders, and more.
You can listen to this podcast on the Center for Babaylan Studies website, Spotify, PodBean, or Stitcher. Make...
2020-05-101h 27
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 4Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Leny Strobel, Episode 4
"Co-creating a Movement to Remember the Babaylan: 10 years of the Center for Babaylan Studies"
In our fourth episode, Auntie Leny tells the Center for Babaylan Studies origin story, the importance of invitations to dialogue, and what she sees as the future for doing decolonization and reindigenization work, especially for the younger generations.
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...
2020-05-0349 min
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Bonus EpisodeKultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Leny Strobel, Bonus Live Recorded Episode
"Why Is Decolonization Work Important in the Time of COVID-19?"
with special guests Penny Baldado, Sockie Laya Smith, Riya Ortiz, and Kalaya'an Mendoza
In a special episode of Kultivating Kapwa, we will share the space with a community circle of activists and community organizers, who have been and continue in this time of Pandemic to serve our diasporic communities and the Motherland. They all will engage in the question “Why is Decolonization Work Important in the Time of Covid-19?" and we will interrogate mindset, pr...
2020-04-261h 28
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 3Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Leny Strobel, Episode 3
"Teaching and Learning through Ethnoautobiography"
In our third episode, we discuss Ethnoautobiography, why when Auntie Leny taught Ethnoautobiography it was known as “the weird class,” the importance of doing ethnoautobiography work for decolonization, and the importance of telling our own stories.
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...
2020-04-1944 min
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 2Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Leny Strobel, Episode 2
"Reflections of a Colonized Childhood on Motherland and a Decolonial Adulthood on Homeland"
In our second episode, we discuss Auntie Leny’s experiences growing up in a Methodist household in the Philippines, relationships with her homeland, family, and nature, how she learned how to dwell in a place, 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.co...
2020-04-1248 min
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 1Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Leny Strobel, Episode 1
"Spiritual Academics - Decolonization Experiences in Academic Institutions"
In our first episode, we discuss Auntie Leny's decolonization work, her influences, her life in academia, and advice for beginning and continuing our own decolonization work.
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.
...
2020-04-0540 min
Kultivating KapwaKultivating Kapwa: Episode 0Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Leny Strobel, Episode 0
"An Introduction to Decolonization and Leny Strobel"
In this special episode, we give an introduction to Decolonization and Leny Strobel. This is a great starting point for gaining background knowledge of the topics we will be covering in the podcast.
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 u...
2020-03-2928 min