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Catatonia
by Huascar Robles
Unscrewing ourselves out of post-hurricane trauma
Episodes
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Puerto Rico para Cristo
In 1899 ambassadors from protestant churches knelt over the map of Puerto Rico, divided the territory among them and prayed that locals met their influence without hostility. This vignette from Donald T Moore’s book Puerto Rico for Christ and pulled apart by Puerto Rican sociologist Emilio…
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The Puerto Rican SIlence
In her description of a hate crime, a transgender woman recalls how her audition sharpened while she fended off what seemed like certain death. She could hear the nightscape, the coquies and radio sounds of the nearby homes. Puerto Rican journalist dubbed this “The Puerto Rican Silence,” the...
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Statehood in Anecdotes
The funeral of a military man. A young man escapes homophobia. We all recall memories associated with our contentious relationship with our political identity. What is your anecdote of the concept of Puerto Rico Statehood?
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The Death Discourse: Poetry in Numbers
4,645 people died after Hurricane María ---- 4 6 4 5 ----- The number? A report by The New England Journal o Medicine. The conclusion? Lack of transparency. This episode explores the poetry behind the discourse given to a nation in a state of shock.
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Silences: A Funeral and a National Strike
I went to Puerto Rico to bury my grandmother. There I found the national strike. This episode is about pausing, thinking and the silences we face during trauma. It also about images and surveillance, and how social and traditional media might evolve to become Puerto Rico's next "carpeteo" or...
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PR Artists Disrupt NYC: A Bilingual Episode
Bubu Negrón y Luis Agosto Leduc visited NY's NADA Art fair to raise funds for the Puerta de Tierra Brigade, an arts initiative to lift San Juan's Puerta de Tierra neighborhood into visibility. This is a bilingual episode.
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Did Someone say Culture? Nope.
Puerto Rico goes into overdrive. Privatized PREPA. Ed system is overhauled. And bitcoin zillionaires move to PR. But where are culture and arts mentioned in our recovery? Also, the second half of photog Joseph Rodríguez's interview.
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Photog. Joe Rodriguez in the House
Legedary photographer Joseph Rodríguez (Nat Geo, NY Times) talks life and death in Puerto Rico. Women take the streets of NY and my mom leaves for Puerto Rico.
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Puerto Rico's After Party
My mom adopts a pigeon. The New York Times reports on the sole suicide center on the island. The First Lady thinks parks are pretty.
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The Mother Storm
My mom relocated to New York after Hurricane María, a category 4 storm, eroded Puerto Rico's electric grid and killed close to one thousand U.S. citizens. In this podcast, I talk about moving her to New York, a metropolis unlike here small town in Caguas and the anxieties of living with an…
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Unscrewing ourselves out of post-hurricane trauma
HOSTED BY
Huascar Robles
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Unscrewing ourselves out of post-hurricane trauma
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