On this episode, Yvette and friend of the podcast Jehan Laner Romero discuss their reactions to the viral Law Twitter tweet advising students to "work every waking moment possible" to succeed in the profession. They shared how they avoided the toxic aspects of legal culture, how they became aware of the tricks students use to perform in class, and demystify law school pedagogy. Email radiocachimbona@gmail.com with any other law school/lawyering/legal journalism questions you want answered. Follo...
Feb 21, 2022•59 min•Season 5Ep. 9
On this episode, Yvette interviews Stephanie Brewer, Executive Director of the Newtown Development Corporation/ Community Land Trust. Stephanie explains the benefits of home ownership, breaks down how community land trusts can help marginalized people build equity, and laments the difficulties of obtaining community land trust properties in competition with large investment firms.
Feb 14, 2022•52 min•Season 5Ep. 8
Happy Black history month! On this episode, Yvette interviews Danielle Parada about Prudencia Ayala--an Afro-Salvadoran woman, and her historic Presidential run that she mounted before women were legally allowed to vote in El Salvador. They tie Ayala's actions to larger Black feminist movements, breakdown the direct outcome of Ayala's bid to to the Supreme Court and her larger impact on El Salvador, and Parada shares how folks can support her cantón: https://www.patreon.com/danielleparadaphd...
Feb 07, 2022•33 min•Season 5Ep. 7
On this episode, Yvette interviews Ana Castillo about her new book of poems "Book of the Dead." They discuss Castillo's process in selecting the poems for this anthology, discuss the term 'Xicanisma' and its context, and address the controversy around Hache Carrillo's Cuban ancestry. To support Radio Cachimbona. become a patron at: https://www.patreon.com/radiocachimbona?fan_landing=true Follow @radiocachimbona on instagram, twitter and facebook.
Jan 24, 2022•38 min
*PREVIEW OF PATREON BONUS EPISODE* On this episode, Yvette and friend of the podcast Jehan Laner Romero discuss their reactions to the viral Law Twitter tweet advising students to "work every waking moment possible" to succeed in the profession. They shared how they avoided the toxic aspects of legal culture, how they became aware of the tricks students use to perform in class, and demystify the law school pedagogy. To hear the rest of the interview, become a patron at: https://www.patreon.com/r...
Jan 03, 2022•7 min
On this episode, Yvette interviews Ronnie Wollenzier, founder of the Housing Initiative Project of Arizona, about the housing crisis in Arizona and how the eviction moratorium plays out on the ground. Ronnie shares her eviction story, breaks down what a tenant union and rent strikes are, and criticizes the complete lack of due process for Arizonans facing eviction.
Dec 27, 2021•49 min•Season 5Ep. 5
On this *LIT REVIEW PREVIEW* Yvette interviews Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez about her book "For Brown Girls With Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts". They discussed why respectability politics don't serve people of color, Prisca's journey through imposter syndrome to landing a major book deal, and why brown girls need each other. To hear the full interview and get access to more patron-exclusive content, become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/radiocachimbona?fan_landing=true
Dec 21, 2021•7 min
On this episode, Yvette interviews Yesenia Portillo of CISPES: the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, to critique Biden's plan for Central America. They break down how the private-public partnerships proposed in Biden's plan do not address the root causes of migration, emphasize the history of Salvadorans advocating for themselves and calling on international solidarity that resulted in the CISPES organization, and praise the "radical roots" delegations of CISPES that involv...
Dec 14, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 5Ep. 4
On this episode, Yvette interviews Eloísa López, Executive Director of Pro Choice Arizona about Governor Ducey joining an amicus brief asking SCOTUS to overturn Roe v. Wade and the sweeping anti-abortion bill passed by the Arizona legislature this spring. Eloísa breaks down the contradictions of the GOP anti-abortion agenda, criticizes the current barrier to abortion care in Arizona, and expresses worry over SCOTUS restricting reproductive autonomy. Donate to the Arizona Abortion Fund here: http...
Nov 22, 2021•56 min•Season 5Ep. 3
On this episode, Yvette interviews Roxy Valenzuela: community organizer and affordable housing advocate with the Casa Maria Catholic Worker Community. They discuss the mental health toll that the eviction threats take on tenants, the bureaucratic red tape that is causing backlogs for people seeking eviction relief from government agencies, and why community land trusts can be beneficial as a tool against gentrification and displacement. Here are a list of resources for those fighting eviction in...
Nov 08, 2021•44 min•Season 5Ep. 2
On this episode, Yvette interviews founder of "Hermanas in the Law" and visiting law professor Paulina Vera about the article "Silent Screams from Within the Academy: Let My People Grow" by Peter Alexander and her experiences as a Latina woman in academia. They discuss the soul-sucking aspect of abiding by respectability politics, how Paulina handles students who challenge her authority, and how few white academics have accepted the pervasive white supremacy across higher education. Read the art...
Oct 26, 2021•51 min•Season 5Ep. 1
On this episode, Yvette and fellow Salvi lawtina Yessenia Medrano discuss Farabundo Martí's biography "Farabundo Martí : Rebelión En El Patio Trasero." They discuss the devolution of the FMLN from guerilla resistance group to corrupt political party, celebrate the revitalization of government obscured Salvadoran history and note the larger failings of the Central American left in incorporating indigenous issues into their platforms and goals. To support Radio Cachimbona, become a patron: https:/...
Oct 12, 2021•1 hr 36 min•Season 4Ep. 12
*PREVIEW* On this #litreview, Yvette interviews deportation defense attorney Sophia Gurúle about Harsha Walia's new book "Border and Rule." They discuss the intertwined histories of indigenous land theft and anti-Black slavery, applaud Walia's clear-eyed analysis about the difference between honoring the right to move and gentrification, and explain why "no borders" is preferable to "open borders." Become a patron and listen to the rest of the episode here: https://www.patreon.com/radiocachimbon...
Oct 05, 2021•8 min
On this episode, Yvette and Meg pick up their #litreview conversation about David Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs" and give an update on vaccine distribution in India. They discuss the gendered dimension of the bullshitization of jobs, share which aspects of lawyering are bullshit, and shine a light on those profiteering from COVID-19. To hear the rest of the #litreview conversation, become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/radiocachimbona?fan_landing=true Follow @radiocachimbona on Instagram, Twitter ...
Sep 28, 2021•1 hr 38 min•Season 4Ep. 11
On this *UNLOCKED* patreon episode, Yvette interviews UCLA Professor of Chicano/a Studies Leisy Abrego to discuss her book “Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders," where she unpacks emotional and economic inequalities between transnational families. As a Salvadoreña herself, Leisy shares how focusing on Salvadoran migration disrupts the narrative of single men cyclically migrating for seasonal work as Salvadoran women have historically migrated in equal numbers to...
Sep 20, 2021•44 min
On this episode, Yvette interviews Hollie Webb, supervising attorney for Al Otro Lado's Border Rights project about Title 42 and its effect on asylum seekers. They discuss the long-standing barriers to asylum prior to the enactment of Title 42, point out the disingenuousness of the law's alleged purpose of preventing spread of COVID-19, and criticize Biden for being nearly as bad as Trump on immigration. To support Radio Cachimbona, become a patron at: https://www.patreon.com/radiocachimbona?fan...
Sep 14, 2021•44 min•Season 4Ep. 10
On this episode, Yvette interviews Kat Jutras of the Arizona Advocacy Network about her work creating a holistic approach towards increasing voter enfranchisement for people who have lost the right to vote after a felony conviction. They discuss the gaps in the recent SCOTUS Brnovich decision, extralegal barriers marginalized people face to voting, and how restitution fees play a huge role in stopping people from exercising their right to vote. Follow @radiocachimbona on Instagram, Twitter and F...
Aug 23, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 9
On this *UNLOCKED* #litreview from Season 3, Maria Jiménez-Zepeda, fellow first-gen Yale Latina alumna and Omega Phi Beta Sorority sister, comes back onto the podcast to discuss the second half of Nicaraguan revolutionary Gioconda Belli’s memoir “El Pais Bajo Mi Piel.” They discuss the series of macktivists* within the Sandinista/other Latin American lefitst movements encountered by Belli, analyzed US financial and military support of the Contras and the Somoza dictatorship versus US public-faci...
Aug 17, 2021•1 hr 36 min
On this episode, Yvette interviews legal aid lawyer Matthew Garcia about the SCOTUS Brnovich decision. They discuss how the right to vote is under attack across the country and Arizona in particular, point out the lack of an explicit right to vote in the Constitution, and break down why Alito's opinion is bullshit. Read more about the study Matt references here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3417476...
Aug 10, 2021•52 min•Season 4Ep. 8
On this *unlocked* Patreon episode, Yvette interviews Geoff Boyce, the academic director of the Earlham College Border Studies Program. They discuss Border Patrol's 100 mile jurisdiction, the intermeshing of local law enforcement and immigration enforcement in Detroit, Michigan and Buffalo, New York, and the bullshit behind the "reasonable suspicion" articulation that Border Patrol agents must make before making a stop. Read more about the data Geoff collected with the ACLU of Michigan in a repo...
Aug 02, 2021•26 min
On this episode, Yvette interviews Central American journalist Daniel Alvarenga about the President of El Salvador's recent decision to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. They discuss the context of US intervention into the Salvadoran economy through USAID, how the women of the FMLN kicked Bukele out of their party, and how Bukele's cult of personality has become so successful. Read Daniel's article here: https://elfaro.net/en/202106/columns/25579/USAID-Bitcoin-and-the-Long-Fight-over-El-Salvador%E2...
Jul 27, 2021•46 min•Season 4Ep. 7
On this *UNLOCKED LIT REVIEW* Yvette and her Omega Phi Beta at Yale sorority sister Maria Jiménez-Zepeda digest the first 150 pages of Gioconda Belli's memoir "El Pais Bajo Mi Piel". They discuss whether Belli is sufficiently honest about her class positionality and the privileges that brought her in the Nicaraguan Sandinista resistance, critique how the most prominent figures from Latin American literature and art tend to have some proximity to whiteness, and express appreciation for Belli's de...
Jul 20, 2021•1 hr 23 min
On this episode, Yvette interviews University of New Mexico law professor Mark-Tizoc González to break down the real intellectual history of critical race theory, where CRT stands in law school curricula today, and the troubling recent anti-union decision from SCOTUS. Read more about the SCOTUS decision here: https://newrepublic.com/article/162836/cedar-point-nursery-labor-farm-workers To learn more about critical race theory and Lat Crit visit: https://latcrit.org/ To support Radio Cachimbona, ...
Jul 13, 2021•51 min•Season 4Ep. 6
On this episode, Yvette interviews Jasmine Magaña, a Salvi femme PhD student at Duke University who studies the artistic interventions of Cracky Rodriguez and the Fire Theory collective of Salvadoran artists. Jasmine breaks down the zones of silence created from the trauma of the Salvadoran civil war, explains how Fire Theory uses collective corporeality to disrupt these zones of absence and gaps in knowledge, and talks through the framework of “Salvadoran ignorance” as a state-sanctioned policy...
Jul 06, 2021•1 hr
On this episode, Yvette interviews Pima County Recorder Gabriella Cázares-Kelly about recent Arizona GOP efforts to undermine the right to vote. Cázares-Kelly breaks down the systematic efforts of the Arizona GOP during this legislative session to undermine the right to vote after historic turnout during the 2020 election, clarifies the effect of SB 1485 on people who vote by mail in Arizona, and debunks the far-right myth that Arizona's electoral system is fraudulent and untrustworthy. To suppo...
Jun 29, 2021•49 min•Season 4Ep. 5
On this *UNLOCKED LIT REVIEW*, friend of the podcast Laura Barrera joins to chat about "The Yellow House," a memoir by Sarah Broom. We break down how Broom unveils New Orleans East and the ways in which it has been historically neglected as compared to the French Quarter and the slew of mayors who have tried to make the city better. We share how we relate to Broom's inter-generational story-telling and how our stories do not begin and end with us. To support Radio Cachimbona go here: https://www...
Jun 22, 2021•47 min
Yvette interviews lawtinas Sophia Gurulé, Stacy Villalobos and Cynthia Amezcua to discuss the racism and sexism they experience as lawyers, emphasize the importance of unionizing, and share how they survive in a profession designed to exclude them. Support Radio Cachimbona here: https://www.patreon.com/radiocachimbona?fan_landing=true Follow @radiocachimbona on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook
Jun 15, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 4Ep. 4
On this *UNLOCKED LIT REVIEW* from Season 1 of Radio Cachimbona #litreview, Yvette interviews friend of the podcast Tina from T.O. Young Voices to discuss Part 2 of Agustin De Rojas' "A Legend of the Future." They debate the limits and boundaries between humans and machines, discuss the implications around consent re: the characters who agreed to emotional rewiring, and share whether we would join a space expedition to a moon of Saturn. To become a patron and here more episodes like these: https...
Jun 07, 2021•37 min
On this episode, Yvette interviews professor, author and criminal defense lawyer Dean Strang about his book "Keep the Wretches in Order: America's Biggest Mass Trial, the Rise of the Justice Department, and the Fall of the IWW." They discuss the connection between the federal government's dismantling of the IWW union and the growth of the Department of Justice, the Bisbee deportations of 1917, and unpack contemporary anti-union sentiment. Support Radio Cachimbona here: https://www.patreon.com/ra...
Jun 01, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 4Ep. 3
On this #litreview, Yvette and reproductive and immigrants' rights organizer Ale Pablos discuss Undoing Border Imperialism by Harsha Walia. They consider the relationship between decoloniality and migrant justice, tear apart the tiered meaning of “citizenship,” and expound upon the links between the right to move and the right to stay. Become a patron here: https://www.patreon.com/radiocachimbona?fan_landing=true Follow @radiocachimbona on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram...
May 24, 2021•52 min
