Xicana Tiahui Podcast

[Wellness Segment] Allowing Our Seeds to Root: Honoring a Personal Practice for Self-Determination

In this episode, Gina Hong (she/her), community rights lawyer, discusses her personal practice with permaculture, intergenerational connection through seedlings, and call to action in regenerating the land.

[Roundtable] Insurgent Knowledge Productions of the Chicanx World-Making & Futurities Project

In this episode, we share an audio recording of a roundtable presentation that the co-hosts of Xicana Tiahui gave at the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies 2022 conference that was held virtually. This roundtable was a collective reflection of the last five years of Xicana Tiahui's existence and the speculative power of thinking with each other about the future of the Chicanx World-Making & Futurities Project. We invite listeners to reflect on the questions we pose as we think through our own collective process in creating projects that invite, agitate, and imagine new worlds.

[Entre Nos] Spring Check-In 2022

In this episode, the Xicada Tiahui compas check in with each other and share exciting updates about our upcoming personal/collective projects!

[Wellness Segment] ”Respawn” with Maritza Torres

In this first episode of the Wellness segment, Kim checks in with artist Maritza Torres about her upcoming sola art show, Respawn. They both discuss Maritza's process and inspiration behind her new work with natural earth materials, working through imposter syndrome, and planting seeds. Follow Maritza on IG: @maritzatorresart

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Travesía por la Vida: U.S. from Below & to the Left Encounters Tierra Insumisa

On April 30th, las Zapatistas boarded La Montaña, a boat headed towards Europe to commence their planetary tour, La Gira Por La Vida: European Chapter. As is their custom, the delegation received the mandate to carry Zapatista thought far and wide. Most importantly the Zapatistas' journey to Europe aimed to embrace La Otra Europa and those in struggle and rebellion; to learn from the histories, geographies, and ways of being. With this act, the Zapatistas crossed planetary bridges and opened doors for others to follow their path to listen and learn from those geographies closed off to us by the hydra’s desire to divide, isolate, and conquer. Heeding the call of the Zapatistas, Xicana Tiahui alongside our honorary member Quiqui crossed mundos and traveled to Madrid, Spain to accompany the Zapatistas and the compas of La Otra Europa to declare that we, indeed, have not been conquistados. We share memories, reflections, and musings of our journey as witnesses to the Zapatistas' call to listen, learn, and grow.

Chicana Por Mi Raza: Archives, Memory, and Community

Check out our new episode with Dra’s Maria E. Cotera and Linda Garcia Merchant. They share with us their collaborative archival, memory and community work being done for Chicana For Mi Raza. Summer of 2021, Natalia Toscano and Gustavo Garcia were part of a UNM Chicana/o Studies field school in Taos, New Mexico with Dr. Theresa J. Cordova. As part of the class, they learned about archival practices and digitized the lifelong work of Enriqueta Vasquez. In this episode, Dr. Cotera and Garcia Merchant talk about the power of community archiving and the importance of sharing strategies for community documentation.

Europe from Below: The Zapatistas Travel to the 5 Continents

In this *special* episode, we talk with Linda Quiquivix, a political educator and organizer from Oxnard, California, to discuss the recent arrival of the 421 Escuadrón, a contingent of seven Zapatistas from autonomous territories of Chiapas, México, to the geographies of Spain to encounter those from below. In our dialogue, we discuss the nuances of the misconceptions of the Zapatistas, the reasons for traveling the five continents of planeta tierra, how we understand Europe, and the ways this world-historical engagement will challenge us to rethink organizing from below and to the left. You can follow Linda Quiquivix's popular education work, translations, academic work, and blog of her travel to accompany the Zapatistas in Europe at https://quiqui.org/

La Lucha Por La Vida: Megaproyectos en México

Acompañados con las compas Inés y Rocío, dos defensoras de la vida en la lucha contra los megaproyectos in Mexico, exploramos los movimientos de los pueblos indígenas que siguen luchando contra el estado colonial de México y contra las empresas extractivas. Rocío, concejala para el Concejo Indígena de Gobierno (CIG) de la comunidad de Mezcala, Jalisco, nos platíca de los esfuerzos del pueblo Coca para ser reconocidos como comunidad Indígena. También nos cuenta sobre los proyectos comunitarios desarrollados para mantener la identidad Coca y renacer el idioma y costumbres del pueblo Coca. Adicionalmente, Inés y Rocío platican de las varias luchas de los pueblos esforzándose para mantener sus territorios y prevenir la destrucción de la madre tierra. 

Agua Querencia: New Mexico Acequias and the Struggle for Environmental Life

As the environmental crisis continues, struggles for resources and life continue to persist.  In this episode, we are joined by Alejandria Lyons, a Nueva Mexicana water activist and the coordinator for environmental justice at the Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP) in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  Alejandria shares with us the historical struggle for water rights in New Mexico, commencing with acequias, a traditional water system used to maintain community throughout the state. To the struggle against major development aiming to acquire water rights for the construction of housing development and corporate headquarters. The struggle for water stretches across the world and the battle for water in New Mexico offers insight into the urgency to continue to momentum to protect and preserve environmental life. 

Xicanista Radicalisms: Bridging Together Multiple Worlds

In this special episode, the Tierra y Libertad Press zine collective discusses the inspiration for the recently published zine "Xicanista Radicalisms: Bridging Together Multiple Worlds" that was released in April 2021. Tierra y Libertad Press is an autonomous, self-managed, and member-organized zine press that publishes zines connected to Chicanx/Xican@, Latinx/Latin American, Black/Afro-descent, mixed-race, and Native/Indigenous people from Las Américas. We aim to collaborate, design, create, publish, and disseminate zines that draw from various mediums of creative and analytical expressions. We create zines to spark revolutionary imaginations and possibilities in the spirit of do-it-yourself (DIY), rasquachismo, and Punk sensibilities. We desire to create a radical community of creative, cultural, and artistic practitioners and zinesters. In this episode, we invited poets Alé and Mariah on this episode to share the poems that they contributed to the zine. With this reading, the zine collective offers a response and analysis to the poetry that invites all those who encounter this work to feel deeply about the powerful words Alé, Mariah, and others who contributed to this zine shared with courage in our times.