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The Nasiona Podcast
by Julián Esteban Torres López
The Nasiona Podcast amplifies the personal stories and concerns of survivors of oppressive systems and of those Otherized by dominant cultures. Hosted, edited, written, and produced by Julián Esteban Torres López.
Episodes
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Women of Color Writers' Authentic Voices: Natalie Obando, Part 2
We continue with the second part of my conversation with Natalie Obando, the current national president of the Women's National Book Associatio and first Latina to take the helm. They continue to discuss the Authentic Voices Fellowship Program, her experiences and thoughts about the White Gaze in...
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Women of Color Writers' Authentic Voices: Natalie Obando, Part 1
Today's 2-part conversation is the first of The Nasiona's new series showcasing the authentic voices of Women of Color writers. The Nasiona teamed up with the Women's National Book Association's Authentic Voices Fellowship Program and the Women of Color Writers organization to publish their...
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Relationship Between Psychological Trauma and Physical Illness
What is the relationship between psychological trauma and physical Illness? Co-producer Nicole Zelniker joins Julián Esteban Torres López on the podcast to interview Molly "Marco" Marcotte to answer this question. Molly "Marco" Marcotte (they/them) is program designer, evaluator, and consultant…
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Blue Blood: Challenging the Rhetoric that Trans People are 'Unnatural'
"I don't want to make sense anymore," Robin Gow wrote in Blue Blood, "I just want to exist." "These days we only seem to talk about trans people in the news when we talk about bathroom laws. Our bodies are made political. Somedays I just want to exist. I want to crawl into the corn fields before...
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Decolonizing & Indigenizing Storytelling, Part 2
In this episode, we share the second part of a virtual public event Julián Esteban Torres López gave on November 10th, hosted by the Department of Language, Literature, and Arts at Texas A&M University, San Antonio. Be sure to check out Part 1, where Julián gives a talk on what it means to...
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On Healing, Transformation, & Reclaiming Authority of Your Authenticity
What does it mean to show up as you beyond the you you were told to be? Christine Cariño joins Julián Esteban Torres López to discuss the philosophy of authenticity, how getting over trauma often means finding your way back to that person you were before the trauma, and the transformative process...
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Decolonizing & Indigenizing Storytelling, Part 1
Colonization has not ended. We are not in a post-colonial age in a similar way that we are not in a post-racial age. Colonization has simply become normalized, perpetuated by dominant culture narratives, and accepted by the majority as part of life. On this episode, we share a virtual public talk...
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Being Latina/e/o/x
On today's episode, we center, elevate, and amplify our stories from our own mouths. We take you on a tour of what it means to be Latina/e/o/x through the voices of previous The Nasiona Podcast guests. Our stories are complex, nuanced, and deserve to be heard. In the show notes, you can find…
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Growing up Black and Brown in a White Town
What's it like growing up Black and brown in a predominantly white town? Joe Sparkman and Julián Esteban Torres López share their experiences of growing up together in the 1990s as teenagers in Nashua, New Hampshire. If you are a fan of the show The Office, you may know that Nashua is the…
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The Nuyorican Hallway: Belonging & Living Between Worlds
My guest today is J.L. Torres (no relation), the author of Migrations, the inaugural winner of the Tomás Rivera Book Prize. His previous publications include another short story collection, The Family Terrorist and Other Stories; the poetry collection, Boricua Passport; and the novel, The...
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Taboos: Trauma, Resistance, & Healing
Angela Rideau and Julián Esteban Torres López explore taboos, their relationship to trauma, and how our taboo resistance is both a revolutionary act and a step toward healing. Angela Rideau is a London-based British-Indian Spoken Word Poet. She is the host of Poems From My Heart, a spoken word...
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Colorism in Latin American and South Asian Communities
During the last episode, my good friend Kanchan Gautam and I discussed our experiences as Third Culture Kids and cultural appropriation. Today, we explore the deep roots of colorism in our South Asian and Latin American communities, along with dating and making friends while brown in…
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Third Culture Kids, Cultural Appropriation, & Identity
Before the pandemic lockdown, my good friend Kanchan Gautam and I would meet at different San Francisco cafes and parks to discuss our experiences as brown immigrants in the United States. She's one of my favorite people to speak with, and today Kanchan and I allow you to listen in on a couple of...
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Blended Future Project
According to the Blended Future Project, even though multiracial and multiethnic identity can absolutely be a fluid and difficult road to understand, Blended Future Project would like to create a platform to initiate that understanding. To start this process, the Blended Future Project is…
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Deconstructing & Rebuilding Our Education System, Part 2
How can we reimagine school systems to fit the concerns of students in the 21st century? On our last episode, I spoke with Dr. Kimberly Douglass and Dr. Robin Harwick to identify the pain points of our education system, and to explore how we can deconstruct and rebuild it anew. They are the...
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Deconstructing & Rebuilding Our Education System, Part 1
On today's episode, I speak with Dr. Kimberly Douglass and Dr. Robin Harwick to identify the pain points of our education system, and to explore how we can deconstruct and rebuild it anew. They are the co-authors of the book YOU are the Revolution! Education that Empowers your Black Child and...
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Inside the Afro-Latino Actors Studio, Part 2
On today's episode, we re-enter the Afro-Latino Actors Studio with Carlos Carrasco: actor, filmmaker, and director of the Panamanian International Film Festival. Last week, in part 1 of our conversation, Mr. Carrasco took the lead on stage, then gave us the VIP tour backstage, behind the…
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Colombia * Anti-Uribista: Plan Colombia and Uribe's Democratic Security and Defense Policy
Last week, I published an episode entitled "Colombia's Historical Lack of Hegemony and Institutionalized Violence," where I provided a thorough historical recap so you can better grasp the current Great Colombian Uprising and the predictable violent government response to it. (Listen to the…
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Inside the Afro-Latino Actors Studio, Part 1
Today we take you inside the Afro-Latino Actors Studio with Carlos Carrasco: actor, filmmaker, and director of the Panamanian International Film Festival in Los Angeles. Mr. Carrasco will take the lead on stage, then give us the VIP tour backstage, behind the curtains, where we glimpse into what…
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Colombia's Historical Lack of Hegemony and Institutionalized Violence
Colombia's history is marked with many of its people treated merely as a mean to an end. Laura Yusem and Herbert Braun, respectively, were right in recognizing that "In Latin America, we learn early that our lives are worth little" and that "[i]n the struggle for land, human life in Colombia has...
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BIPOC Musical Artists Showcase
Today we play for you the entirety of our first musical compilation album, entitled Volume 1: Petrichor, from our BIPOC Music Series. The collection encapsulates all the glorious highs and the searing lows of navigating the world as an empathetic, curious individual. The works contained in this...
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The Nasiona's Earth Day Manifesto
Julián Esteban Torres López lays out The Nasiona's Earth Day Manifesto: "We are standing on a fault line. We're at what can become a historic crossroad and turning point, or simply a return to the status quo … a status quo that will only continue to degrade our planet and the vast majority of its...
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'You Look Like a Terrorist' & Other Racial Traumas, Part 2 (Deconstructing Dominant Cultures)
During last week's episode, I spoke with Dr. Parisa Mehran, founder of Women of Color in English Language Teaching (also known as WOC in ELT), to explore how white supremacy is at the heart of ELT and how the industry functions as a racist propaganda machine. We finished the first part of our...
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Racism and Racial Trauma in English Language Teaching, Part 1 (Deconstructing Dominant Cultures Series)
Today we discuss the intricate relationship between racism and English Language Teaching (ELT). We explore how white supremacy is at the heart of ELT and how the industry functions as a racist propaganda machine. We discuss how native-speakerism and passport privilege can be forms of racism. We...
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Design Thinking & Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Part 2 (Deconstructing Dominant Cultures Series)
In our previous episode, I spoke with Vanessa Weathers, Founder and Principal Consultant at Conscious Employee Experiences, to explore design thinking and its relationship to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Today, she joins me again. This time we talk about how people best positioned for...
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Design Thinking & Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Part 1 (Deconstructing Dominant Cultures Series)
Most environments are not designed to include and value everyone, and as a result such designs fail to center the concerns of those in the bottom rungs of our class and caste systems. So, if we really want to value and include everyone in our teams, in our communities, in our societies, in our...
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The Philosopher of Authenticity: Fernando González (Deconstructing Dominant Cultures)
Given the centering of Euro and Anglo authors, thinkers, artists, etc., and the deliberate attempt to conceal unpleasant and incriminating facts about history and other content taught K-12 and beyond, our education systems in the United States and Canada are still forms of forced colonial...
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Intersecting Oppressions of Race, Disability, and Mental Health During COVID-19 (Disability & Mental Health Series)
Today, I introduce you to one of my oldest friends, Joe Sparkman, one half of The Nasiona Podcast's music production team, The Heavyweights. We've got Joe and Marcus Allen to thank for our new musical vibe. Later in February, Aïcha Martine Thiam and I are going live with our new The Nasiona music...
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Mobs, Insurrections, & the Radicalized (Deconstructing Dominant Cultures Series)
In the United States, we've been radicalized to assume ourselves as great, at the detriment of ourselves, our country, and the world. Our collective arrogance, self-absorption, and superiority complex will be our downfall if we do not course-correct immediately. A turbulent future is here and on...
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Kwatsáan: Ancestral Land, Myths, & Reparations (Deconstructing Dominant Cultures Series)
A citizen of the Quechan (Yuma Indian) Nation, Deborah Taffa's writing can be found at dozens of outlets including PBS, Salon, The Huff Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Brevity, A Public Space, The Boston Review, and the Best American Nonrequired Reading. Her memoir manuscript won the Santa Fe...
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In Between: Races, Languages, & Religions (Being Mixed-Race Series)
"When you're mixed-race, someone's always telling you who you're not." That's the first line from Tamara Jong's personal essay, "In Between," which succinctly captures the essence of what it means to be mixed-race. After experiencing the essay—and I did experience it because I could relate to it...
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The Sisterhood of Teatro Luna, Part 1 (Being Latina/o/x Series)
When speaking about the series of original short stories from Latinas across the states, entitled Talking While Female and Other Dangerous Acts, co-producer of the Audible original book, Alexandra Meda, says: "They are all little jewels, little lessons on how to live bravely, how to get up after…
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Isolation, Grief, and Sisterhood While Incarcerated, Part 2 (Womanhood & Trauma Series)
On episode 34, Ra Avis joined me to discuss incarceration and prison abolition. We unpacked how prisons create many social problems, what some of the biggest barriers to prison abolition are, and what people should know about the prison system that most do not. On today's episode, Ra Avis joins…
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Incarceration and Prison Abolition, Part 1 (Deconstructing Dominant Cultures Series)
Do prisons get rid of social problems, or do they create a lot of them? Should we abolish the prison system? What are the biggest barriers to prison abolition? What should people know about the prison system that most do not know? This is part 1 of a 2-part interview where I speak with Ra Avis to...
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Journeys: Inbound, Outbound (Inside Look Series)
In case you didn't know, before there was The Nasiona Podcast there was (and still is) The Nasiona Magazine. On August 29th, we celebrated the magazine's 2-year anniversary. We continued the celebration this week with our previous episode highlighting one of our authors, Carl Boon, and his...
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Imaginative Biography: PLACES & NAMES (Diaspora & Immigration Series)
The poems in Carl Boon's debut collection, PLACES & NAMES, coalesce two kinds of history—the factual and the imagined—to produce a kind of intimacy that is greater than either fact or imagination. It is this sense of intimacy that brings the poems to life. We encounter real places…
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Global International African Arts Movement, Part 2 (Deconstructing Dominant Cultures Series)
In the second episode of our 2-part conversation, Tori Reid and Patrick A. Howell of storytelling company Victory & Noble continue to unpack what it means to be a prophet in the Global International African Arts Movement, as well as what it means to be an evangelist, a seer, and a manifestor…
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Global International African Arts Movement, Part 1 (Deconstructing Dominant Cultures Series)
It was a pleasure to speak with the two complementing spirits behind Victory & Noble, a storytelling company. In this 2-part conversation for our Deconstructing Dominant Cultures Series, Tori Reid and Patrick A. Howell — children of cultural and intellectual icons — reveal their own legacy…
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Protesting the Publishing Industry's White Gaze (Deconstructing Dominant Cultures Series)
In the previous episode, Lisa D. Gray, the founder and curator of Our Voices Our Stories SF, joined me to interrogate the publishing industry's white gaze. In today's episode, we discuss how we can protest the industry, and other institutions, and how we can gain power and find power in our...
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Interrogating the Publishing Industry's White Gaze (Deconstructing Dominant Cultures Series)
Beware of the white gaze. In this episode, Lisa D. Gray, founder of Our Voices Our Stories SF, joins me to stare down this omnipresent white gaze, which is prevalent in every space, in every industry, in every community of this white supremacist country. In particular, we place the publishing...
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To the Border Crossers (Being Latina/o/x Series)
On 8 March 2019, The Nasiona's co-Founder, Julián Esteban Torres López, was the keynote speaker at "Cruzando Fronteras"—an event on immigration and border crossing, hosted by Central Americans for Empowerment (CAFÉ) at California State University, Chico. Julián's speech tackled the role of...
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'Where Are You From?': The Wrong Passport (Diaspora & Immigration Series)
In this in-depth interview with Yaldaz Sadakova—creator of Foreignish.net and author of The Wrong Passport: Memoir Stories About Immigration—we unpack the dreaded question "Where are you from?", its limitations, how it's a micro-aggression, and a better question to ask; Yaldaz speaks to how she...
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Round-Table Discussion on Race (Being Mixed-Race Series)
Nasiona podcast producers and editors Aïcha Martine Thiam, Nicole Zelniker, and Julián Esteban Torres López explore why it's so difficult to discuss race, how race differs in different countries, race in publishing, share personal anecdotes, and give our take on Jordan Peele's "documentary" Get...
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Tono Latino (Being Latina/o/x Series)
My guest today is the founder of Tono Latino, Sylvia Salazar. Sylvia is a Colombian immigrant and a computer engineer turned political activist. Her passion is helping other people understand what is going on in the world of politics and to encourage them to become more politically involved and...
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Traces of Home (Diaspora and Immigration Series)
Chicago-based filmmaker Colette Ghunim's passion lies at the cross-section of social impact and visual storytelling. Her first documentary, The People's Girls, received worldwide attention for its bold spotlight on Egypt's issue of sexual harassment. With recognition by major international…
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Why Would I Mispronounce My Own Name? (Being Latina/o/x Series)
When Irma Herrera gives her name its correct Spanish pronunciation, some people assume she's not a real American. Her play, Why Would I Mispronounce My Own Name?, is one woman's journey from a small segregated South Texas town to California's multicultural mecca. In this wide-ranging interview we...
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Education and Race (Being Mixed-Race Series)
Most people know about Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 landmark case that integrated US schools for the first time. What many people don't realize—especially if they've been brought up in very white communities—is that race is still a contentious topic in education. In fact, we're more...
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Brown White Black Family (Being Mixed-Race Series)
Most TV and movies portray adoption as a white parent adopting a child. This is true in such mainstream shows as Friends, Glee, 90210, Modern Family, Sex and The City, Grey's Anatomy, and Parenthood. This representation is often how people think of adoption, something that can get frustrating for...
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Minimalism and the 6-Month-to-Live List (Inside Look Series)
Minimalism is intentionally living with only the things you really need. Minimalists maintain that there are benefits to minimalist living, like reduced anxiety, lower expenses, increased productivity, and living a more fulfilling life. But not all minimalists go so far as to reduce their...
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Parenting a Mixed-Race Child (Being Mixed-Race Series)
In addition to being multiracial, many mixed-race Americans are also multicultural. For example, in The Nasiona's book Mixed, Nicole Zelniker wrote about Kazu and Lynda Gomi. Kazu is Japanese, from Japan, and Lynda is a white US American. Naomi Raquel Enright is one such person, and she writes...
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The Nasiona Podcast amplifies the personal stories and concerns of survivors of oppressive systems and of those Otherized by dominant cultures. Hosted, edited, written, and produced by Julián Esteban Torres López.
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