On this #litreview, Yvette interviews reproductive justice and immigrants' rights organizer Ale Pablos about the first few chapters of Beth Caldwell's book Deported Americans. They discuss the differences between legal definitions of citizenship and undocumented people's lived experiences in the US, critique the ways that the US legal system robs migrants of the due process that citizens expect, and express gratitude for a text that uncovers the aspect of migrant life that is often under-discuss...
Sep 09, 2024•52 min•Season 6Ep. 9
Yvette Borja interviews Maria Hinojosa, award-winning journalist, about her keynote address at the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, a rarity for her as a journalist, and her trajectory in media. Maria shared that philanthropic funds need to support independent BIPOC-led media, broke down why Futuro Media covered the death of Jose De Jesus in the Eloy Detention Center, and emphasized the need for increased nuanced reporting on deaths in ICE custody. Learn more about the Futuro Media Group...
Aug 08, 2024•42 min•Season 6Ep. 8
On this #litreview, Yvette Borja and Denise Rebeil discuss "My Grandmother's Hands" by Resmaa Menakem. They breakdown Menakem's contention that white supremacy lives mostly in our nervous systems, what role our lizard brain plays in how we interact with the world, and why collective healing from trauma is necessary to avoid generational "traumatic retention." The #litreview is a book club for Cachimbonas. To hear more, become a patron for $3, $5, or $10 a month at: https://patreon.com/radiocachi...
Jul 30, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 6Ep. 7
Yvette Borja entrevista a Pacheco, un organizador y educador popular Salvadoreño que ha dedicado su vida al trabajo de justicia social en El Salvador y los Estados Unidos. Hablaron sobre la importancia de la formación de comités de base/barrio/colonia y su historia en El Salvador durante la guerra civil, como el y la organización NDLON transmitieron el modelo organizativo de comité en Arizona durante la epoca de Joe Arpaio, y la necesidad de sostener grupos organizativos a largo plazo. Para apoy...
Jul 22, 2024•24 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Yvette Borja interviews Mala and Diosa of Locatora Radio about their experiences at NDLON's 9th asamblea popular: Sómos Más in Union, New Jersey. They discuss the importance of Latinx and migrant-led independent media, the necessity of including sex workers in day laborers' rights conversations, and the beauty of putting art at the forefront of social change. Learn more about NDLON here: https://ndlon.org/ Listen to Locatora Radio here: https://locatoraradio.com/ Listen to Radio Jornalera here: ...
Jul 08, 2024•28 min•Season 6Ep. 5
Yvette Borja entrevista a Nicole Ramos, directora del proyecto de derechos fronterizos para la organización sin fines de lucro Al Otro Lado, sobre la situación actual en la frontera entre EEUU y Mexico en San Diego/Tijuana, como los migrantes extranjeros buscando asilo y esperando en México sufren por falta de cuidado de salud, y como el crimen organizado toma ventaja de las políticas anti-migrantes de EEUU. Para apoyar al podcast, subscribate al Patreon: https://patreon.com/radiocachimbona?utm_...
Jul 01, 2024•32 min•Season 6Ep. 4
Yvette Borja interviews reproductive justice and abolitionist organizer Ale Pablos about the ongoing genocide in Palestine, the call from Democratic Senators for Biden to phase out private detention centers and close four of the most problematic ones, and Biden's recent proposed rules that would make it harder for asylum seekers to gain protection. Support the podcast by joining the patreon and get first access to all episodes: https://patreon.com/radiocachimbona?utm_medium=unknown&utm_sourc...
Jun 13, 2024•1 hr•Season 6Ep. 3
On this #litreview, Yvette Borja and Ronnie, a Tucson mutual aid organizer, discuss "La Calle: Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City" by Lydia Otero. They discuss how urban renewal is a euphemism for gentrification, break down how Tucson elites attempted to whiten the city's history, and emphasize the deep history of racial segregation of the city. To support the podcast and get access to all of the #litreviews, become a patron at: https://patreon.com/radiocachimbona?utm_medium...
Jun 04, 2024•47 min•Season 6Ep. 2
Yvette Borja and guest Meghna Sridhar discuss Theft is Property! by Robert Nichols. They discuss how and why land can't be neatly divided as US property law suggests, the usefulness of understanding racism as long-standing patterns of group-differentiated vulnerability, and the links between the Black radical tradition and indigenous relationships with/stewardship of their lands. Read Robert Nichols' article prelude to Theft is Property! here: https://criticaltheory.northwestern.edu/mellon-proje...
May 27, 2024•56 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Yvette Borja discusses "Black and Blur" by Fred Moten with art history PhD student Jasmine Magaña. They break down Fred Moten's focus on Blackness as "fugitivity," track the humanities' shift from a postcolonial to a decolonial framework, and share the importance of sitting with the "not in between." Read "The Undercommons" by Fred Moten here: https://www.akpress.org/the-undercommons.html Read "Stolen Life" by Fred Moten here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/stolen-life Follow @radiocachimbona on Ins...
May 13, 2024•57 min•Season 5Ep. 60
Yvette Borja interviews Tucson mutual aid organizer Ronnie about Laura Gomez's book Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism. They discuss the malleability of Latinx identity and the privileges that has afforded them in the U.S., share what the Latinx community can learn about the limitations of citizenship from the Black community, and break down the myth of mestizaje. Support the podcast by becoming a monthly subscriber for as little as $3 a month and get access to more #litreviews li...
Apr 23, 2024•54 min•Season 5Ep. 59
Yvette Borja discusses "Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care" by M.E. O'Brien author, scholar, and preacher Dr. Courtney Bryant. They work through the connections between prison and police abolition and the capitalist nuclear family unit, note how communities of color have always operated outside of this nuclear family unit ideal, and imagine how familial and loving relationships would look different without coercion embedded within them. Order Courtney Bryant's book "Erotic ...
Apr 16, 2024•59 min•Season 5Ep. 58
Yvette Borja and Adriana Obols, PhD student of modern art in Latin America, discuss the book "Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship" by Kirsten Weld. They discuss how archival practices were central to post-war Guatemalan civil society's attempts to hold war criminals to account while also being indispensable to the nation-state's targeting and surveillance of leftists in the capital. To hear more #LitReview episodes, become a monthly patreon subscriber for $3 a month: https://patreon.com...
Apr 08, 2024•54 min•Season 5Ep. 57
Yvette Borja entrevista al profesor Miguel Angel Diaz Perera sobre la historia de Máximo y Bartola, dos niños Centroamericanos quienes fueron traficados para participar en las exhibiciones de "freak show de Barnum and Bailey" en el siglo 19. Discutan cómo el racismo científico contribuyó a la opresión de Máximo y Bartola, como las percepciones de las nacientes naciones de Mexico y Centroamerica en ese tiempo siguien relevante hoy, y el fenomeno del "espectaculo" y el show de circo también creo e...
Feb 28, 2024•45 min•Season 5Ep. 56
Yvette Borja interviews professor and author Laurence Ralph about his upcoming book "Sito: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him." They discuss how the juvenile justice system traumatizes youth, lament the criminal legal system's failure to provide healing for victim's family members, and envision accountability without punishment. To support the podcast, become a monthly subscriber on Patreon for as little as $3 a month: https://patreon.com/radiocachimbona?utm_medium=unknown&utm...
Feb 20, 2024•30 min•Season 5Ep. 55
Yvette Borja interviews Belén Sisa, creator and host of the Pretty Serious Podcast and former National Latino Press Secretary for Senator Sanders' presidential campaign. They discuss the history of the DACA movement and Belén's participation in it, the importance of voting in local elections, and why it's important to vote Kyrsten Sinema out of office in 2024. To support the podcast, become a monthly patreon subscriber at: https://patreon.com/radiocachimbona?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_sou...
Feb 12, 2024•58 min•Season 5Ep. 54
Yvette Borja interviews professor and author Cesar Cuauhtémoc García Hernández about his upcoming book Welcome The Wretched: In Defense of the Criminal Alien. They discuss how migration is an example of decolonial resistance, the importance of celebrating the "ordinariness" of migrants, and why Hernandéz wants the privileges that a US passport brings for a much wider group of people. To support the podcast, become a monthly patreon subscriber for as little as $3 a month: https://patreon.com/radi...
Feb 09, 2024•51 min•Season 5Ep. 53
On this #litreview, Yvette Borja brings back Salvi lawyer Yessenia Medrano to discuss Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis. They share what leftist movements can use the hopeful spark that Davis inspires, why global solidarity is necessary for liberation, and why freeing Palestine needs to be on every United Statesian leftist's agenda. To get access to more #litreviews, become a monthly Patreon supporter for as little as $3 a month: https://patreon.com/radiocachimbona?utm_medium=clipbo...
Jan 29, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 5Ep. 52
On this *UNLOCKED* #litreview, Yvette and friend of the podcast Yessenia Medrano discuss the first three chapters of To Rise in Darkness: Revolution, Repression, and Memory 1920-1932. They discussed the Salvadoran elite’s complete disconnect from the material realities of the majority of the working class at the turn of the 20th century, the government’s fear-mongering over Communism as justification for indigenous ethnocide in Western El Salvador, and how the mestizaje discourse was employed by...
Jan 23, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 5Ep. 51
On this *unlocked* Patreon episode, Yvette Borja interviews deportation defense lawyer and friend of the podcast Jehan Laner Romero to discuss the SCOTUS ruling in Sineneng v. Smith. They disagree with SCOTUS' characterization of 9th circuit "out-of-bounds" behavior, express gratitude that SCOTUS punted on the First Amendment analysis, and criticize the majority opinion's addendum as highlighting the very behavior SCOTUS was criticizing the 9th circuit for engaging in. *Yvette misspoke when stat...
Jan 16, 2024•36 min•Season 5Ep. 50
Yvette Borja interviews Jasmine Rangel, policy expert, about how and why housing security is important, how the undocumented community is often overlooked in housing policy, and the results of a case study analyzing Boston and Houston-area eviction rates in immigrant-heavy neighborhoods. Support the Radio Cachimbona podcast by becoming a patreon monthly subscriber: https://patreon.com/radiocachimbona?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_...
Jan 08, 2024•39 min•Season 5Ep. 49
Yvette Borja interviews Carlos Sauceda about his campaign to return home, the deplorable conditions in ICE detention centers that cause people to self deport, and how the deportation of one person affects families and communities. The discussion is grounded in the #litreview pick Deported Americans by Beth Caldwell. To support the podcast, get early access to episodes like these, and get exclusive access to the #litreview book club chats for as little as $3 a month, become a patron at: https://p...
Dec 21, 2023•51 min•Season 5Ep. 48
Yvette Borja interviews Enrique Alan Olivares-Pelayo about how his lived experience of incarceration informs his graduate research on the production and maintenance carceral landscapes of Arizona. They discuss the pandemic of deaths in the Pima County jail and Enrique shares how he became involved in the campaign to stop the creation of a new and expanded Pima County jail. Support the podcast by becoming a monthly patreon subscriber: https://patreon.com/radiocachimbona?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&...
Dec 12, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 5Ep. 47
Yvette Borja interviews Gloria of Nalgona Positivity Pride. They discuss why Gloria has taken a harm reduction approach to eating disorder recovery, how traditional treatment options have failed many, and why "healing isn't a requirement" for Gloria's recovery approach. Follow @radiocachimbona on Instagram, X, and Facebook. Follow @nalgonapositivitypride on Instagram and Facebook and @nalgonapride on X. To support the podcast and get access to exclusive Cachimbona-bonus content become a patron a...
Dec 04, 2023•45 min•Season 5Ep. 46
Yvette Borja interviews Xavi and V of the mutual aid project Community on Wheels. They discuss the fallacies of carceral humanism, what social services could be funded with the $400 million currently proposed for a new jail, and why it's important for everyone to be trained in how to use naloxone. To support the podcast, become a patron: https://patreon.com/radiocachimbona?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Follow @ra...
Nov 20, 2023•41 min•Season 5Ep. 45
Yvette Borja interviews LA-based Salvi poet Yesika Salgado. They discuss how Yesika is writing into the silences of Salvadoran diaspora culture and history; Yesika shares her journey to becoming a published poet and the tensions around writing about a motherland steeped with historical trauma. To support the podcast, get first access to episodes like these, and exclusive access to the #litreview Cachimbona book club where I discuss timely texts with other women of color, become a patron monthly ...
Nov 06, 2023•40 min•Season 5Ep. 44
Yvette Borja interviews Professors Gloria Negrete-Lopez and Brooke Lober about their contributions to the anthology Abolition Feminisms. They discuss why we need abolition feminisms in this moment, how aesthetics are inherently political, and how the stereotypical anarchist all-black garb erases femme abolitionist aesthetics. Buy Abolition Feminisms here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1881-abolition-feminisms-vol-1 To support the podcast, become a patreon subscriber and get access to excl...
Oct 19, 2023•52 min•Season 5Ep. 43
Yvette Borja and Jehan Laner Romero discuss an ABA report looking at attrition rates for women of color lawyers in corporate firms over time, consider how nonprofits can better support, train, and mentor women of color lawyers, and share their current roles as lawyers and what drew them to these jobs. To support the podcast, become a patron: https://patreon.com/radiocachimbona Follow @radiocachimbona on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook Read the ABA report discussed here: https://www.americanbar....
Sep 11, 2023•44 min•Season 5Ep. 42
Yvette Borja interviews Javier Zamora, author of "Solito." They discuss how Javier found the strength as a shy person to write a memoir about one of the hardest times of his life, his journey to becoming "ultra Salvi," and the power of seeing Salvadoran Spanish in a published book. To support the podcast, become a patron at: https://patreon.com/radiocachimbona Follow @radiocachimbona on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook
Aug 21, 2023•37 min•Season 5Ep. 41
Yvette Borja interviews University of Arizona Law School Professor Shefali Milczarek-Desai to discuss two of her recent/upcoming papers about the intersection of immigrants' rights and workers' rights. They discuss the ineffectiveness of Arizona's 2017 paid sick leave law, especially amongst im/migrant workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, the tension between immigration enforcement and workers' rights that the US legal system creates, and how community, instead of individual, well-being can lea...
Aug 14, 2023•41 min•Season 5Ep. 40
