Bridging The Gap # 57: between Sondra Segundo, Haida, and Esther Belin, Navajo...

Sondra Segundo is a multidisciplinary artist and Haida language activist. She is a regalia maker, traditional and contemporary artist, author and illustrator of children's books, singer-songwriter, and keeper of ancestral songs. Sondra is the lead female vocalist of the Seattle-based tribal funk band, Khu’éex’, and sings/tells stories in the Tlingit and Haida languages. She also produces music with her husband, Eroc, and has released two albums, Díi Gudangáay uu Síigaay (I Can Feel the Ocean) and Sáandlaanaay (The First Light). ••• https://www.sondrasegundo.com/ ••• Esther Belin is the author of two poetry books and coeditor of ‘The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature’. Belin’s visual art combines a variety of disciplines and works to reframe the mythical primitivism often associated with indigenous cultures. She is a citizen of the Navajo Nation and a member of ‘Saad Bee Hózhǫ́’, a Diné Writers’ Collective. She teaches in the Native American and Indigenous studies department at Fort Lewis College. In 2025, she was invited by the Poetry Foundation in Chicago to be the guest editor of its March issue dedicated to Diné poetry. ••• https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/issue/1651121/march-2025 https://estherbelin.com/ https://poets.org/poet/esther-belin#tabbed-content https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Belin https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/esther-belin https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/esther-belin#tab-poems ••• Interviews conducted by Marco Rixecker https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker ••• Radio Aula Mundi, March 2026 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e7pEH8ldsVqlM272Ly4wwBQ&si=Db9cnIDPtz9uNC8O ••• In this series, Radio Aula Mundi tries to build bridges between people by having them ask questions for anyone, anytime, anywhere in the world… https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e6_Q2wdtTrDQ1w2Ehh-vzvK ••• At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken… It’s a multilingual mix of music, poetry, lectures, languages, interviews, documentaries, recipes, and a lot more, co-produced with the students of the ‘Aula Mundi International Cultural Center’… ••• Radio Aula Mundi Centro Cultural & Turistico Aula Mundi Aula Mundi Cultural Travel Center https://linktr.ee/radioaulamundi •••