"We act in resistance through celebration": Irene Vasquez, Levi Romero, Natalia Toscano, & Nick Rivas on Refusing "the Vanishing" of Community Spaces

In Episode 3, professors and students from the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department at the University of New Mexico share with us how they used arts-based activism to save La Casita, a vital community gathering space, from demolition. Irene Vasquez, Levi Romero, Natalia Toscano, & Nick Rivas discuss the long history of resistance art in New Mexico, the struggle to maintain human connection in the midst of gentrification and repression, and the importance of acting in solidarity with other groups on the margins. For more information and a transcript of the episode, visit kalfou.ucsb.edu/kalfou/podcast. Follow us on Bluesky, X, and Instagram at UCSBKALFOU.