Episodes
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Latinx NYC: The Archives with Joseph Caceres
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Welcome to the finale of season 4! This week we speak with writer, scholar, and PhD candidate Joseph Caceres about his work with archives of the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe's last surviving founders, Lois Elaine Griffith. After our interview, stay tuned for a brief discussion about our own experiences with conducting archival research and recommendations for New York City archives and online digital archives.
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Hosts: Rojo Robles and Rebecca L. Salois
Logo Design: Marcos Toledo
Music: Shawn P. Russell
Sound Consultant and Mixing: Shawn P. Russell
Recording and Editing: Rebecca L. Salois
Wednesday May 03, 2023
Bonus: Entrevista con Helen Ceballos
Wednesday May 03, 2023
Wednesday May 03, 2023
**This episode is part of the Black and Latinx Studies Department 2022-2023 Afro-Latinidades Series sponsored by BRESI.**
Este episodio es completamente en español./This episode is completely in Spanish.
En este episodio hablamos con Helen Ceballos. Helen es una artista multi-trans-inter-disciplinaria nacida en la República Dominicana que estudió en la Universidad de Puerto Rico y la Universidad Nacional de las Artes en Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ella estableció “Mezcolanza” en 2013, una plataforma cultural para artistas estadounidenses, latinoamericanos y caribeños, y es la directora de Plataforma Eje, una organización que promueve proyectos culturales y comunitarios. Helen usa su propio cuerpo en sus obras para destacar la identidad caribeña y su experiencia con la diáspora y lo erótico. Ella también explora los efectos de la migración y los desastres naturales. Para ella, su arte es personal y su fotografía intenta mostrar el poder de la comunidad, especialmente en y junto a grupos racializados y marginalizados.
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Hosts: Rojo Robles and Rebecca L. Salois
Logo Design: Marcos Toledo
Music: Shawn P. Russell
Sound Consultant and Mixing: Shawn P. Russell
Recording and Editing: Rebecca L. Salois
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Latinx NYC: Theater by Dolores Prida
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
In this episode we discuss two plays written by Dolores Prida, Coser y Cantar and Botánica. We provide some background on the author and how her works embody many of the themes and concepts we see in other Latinx playwrights from New York City. Rojo looks at Coser y Cantar and the role of NYC as an interior scape and a bilingual city, as well as through the lens of media and culture. Then Rebecca considers the "transcultural pendulum" that the the main character Milagros experiences in Botánica along with the symbolism of the buffalos in this play. Finally, as usual, we wrap up with a couple of additional recommendations for Latinx theater by NY playwrights.
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Hosts: Rojo Robles and Rebecca L. Salois
Logo Design: Marcos Toledo
Music: Shawn P. Russell
Sound Consultant and Mixing: Shawn P. Russell
Recording and Editing: Rebecca L. Salois
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
Latinx NYC: Literature - Bodega Dreams
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
Welcome to episode two of our fourth seasons of Latinx Visions. In this episode we discuss the novel Bodega Dreams by Ernesto Quiñonez, which was published in 2000. Rojo proposes three entryways into Bodega Dreams, a novel that goes deep into the idea of Nuyorican empowerment highlighting the importance of personal determination, cultural pride, and political engagement in creating a just and equitable society. And Rebecca discusses neoliberalism and its effects on the character of Willie Bodega and on El Barrio as a whole. Finally, we wrap up our episode with a couple of recommendations for novels by Latinx authors that take place in New York City.
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Hosts: Rojo Robles and Rebecca L. Salois
Logo Design: Marcos Toledo
Music: Shawn P. Russell
Sound Consultant and Mixing: Shawn P. Russell
Recording and Editing: Rebecca L. Salois
Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
Latinx NYC: Television and Film - Ugly Betty and Raising Victor Vargas
Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
Bienvenidos, Bienvenidas, Bienvenides. Welcome to season 4 of Latinx Visions. This season we will be focusing on Latinx New York City. New York City has a significant Latinx population, with over 2.2 million people identifying as Hispanic or Latino in the city as of 2020. This diverse group is made up of migrants, immigrants, and descendants from a variety of countries, including the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Ecuador to name just the biggest groups in terms of population. The Latinx community in NYC is concentrated in boroughs like The Bronx and in neighborhoods, such as Washington Heights, El Barrio or East Harlem, and Los Sures or South Williamsburg.
In this episode, we discuss the ABC television series Ugly Betty, which starrs America Ferrera, and the film Raising Victor Vargas, a 2002 Latinx coming-of-age comedy film directed by Peter Sollett and co-written by him and Eva Vives.
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Hosts: Rojo Robles and Rebecca L. Salois
Logo Design: Marcos Toledo
Music: Shawn P. Russell
Sound Consultant and Mixing: Shawn P. Russell
Recording and Editing: Rebecca L. Salois
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Student Special #6
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
In this episode we feature projects by LTS 3059 student John Avila, LTS 1003 students Daisy Ho and Jaydin Mohan, and LTS 3012 student Kevin Calixto.
John’s research focuses on family building and economic stability for Latinx workers. He uses the novel Chingada by Rigoberto Gonzalez and Estamos Aqui: Poems by Migrant Farm Workers to guide his discussion.
Daisy takes a different approach to her project and considers the implementation of the carbon tax in Chile. She discusses the effects of climate change in Latin America and the response to Chile being the first country in Latin America to enforce a carbon tax on corporations.
Jaydin dives into Latine stereotypes found in pop-culture. She speaks to the importance of breaking racial and ethnic stereotypes and dives into the history of Latinx representation throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century.
And to wrap up this week’s podcast episode, Kevin considers the influence of Latinas in film and the importance of diverse representation. In particular he considers the lack of Afro-Latina representation in the media and how that affects the ways in which audiences perceive latinidad.
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Hosts: Rojo Robles and Rebecca L. Salois
Logo Design: Marcos Toledo
Music: Shawn P. Russell
Sound Consultant and Mixing: Shawn P. Russell
Recording and Editing: Rebecca L. Salois
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Student Special #5
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
In this episode we feature projects by LTS 3012 students Edith Valerio, Roxanna Escamilla, and Nina Rodas and LTS 1003 student Michelle Kozinets.
First we will hear from Edith who speaks about the struggles of being both a full time student and a full time worker. Edith herself identifies as both of these things and wanted to explore the effects of doing both on the mental, emotional, and physical health of students who are also full time employees.
This will be followed by Michelle’s exploration of mental health awareness and treatment for women in Latin America. She considers how physical issues such as gender-based violence and varying degrees of abortion access can lead to mental health issues.
The third segment features Roxanna Escamilla who discusses issues related to Latina body image. She investigates the struggles and pressure that Latinas face to live up to certain body image standards and the effects of the family and media on those insecurities.
We will wrap up this episode with Nina’s exploration of Latinas who do not speak Spanish. She argues that just because someone does not speak Spanish, it doesn’t make them any less Latina. She elaborates on some of the other ways in which people can participate in culture beyond language.
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Twitter and Instagram: @LatinxVisions
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Hosts: Rojo Robles and Rebecca L. Salois
Logo Design: Marcos Toledo
Music: Shawn P. Russell
Sound Consultant and Mixing: Shawn P. Russell
Recording and Editing: Rebecca L. Salois
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Queer Latinidades, Theater, and Community - Interview with two Latinx Playwrights
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
In this episode we introduce you to two fantastic New York-based Puerto Rican playwrights who are at different stages of their careers: Javier Antonio González and Daniela Gonzalez y Perez. We were able to sit down with them and discuss their experiences as queer Boricua-Latinx creators and will be sharing our full conversation with them in this episode. After the conversation concludes, we will come back and provide you with a couple of queer Latinx plays or playwrights that you might wish to check out after you have looked into Javier and Daniela’s works.
Follow the podcast:
Twitter and Instagram: @LatinxVisions
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Hosts: Rojo Robles and Rebecca L. Salois
Logo Design: Marcos Toledo
Music: Shawn P. Russell
Sound Consultant and Mixing: Shawn P. Russell
Recording and Editing: Rebecca L. Salois
Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
Queer Latinidades and Literature - Interview with Carmen Maria Machado
Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
On Thursday October 20th, the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program held a reading and conversation with best-selling and award winning author Carmen Maria Machado and invited us to interview her as part of that event.
This episode includes a brief background Machado, the author of In the Dream House, The Low, Low Woods, and Her Body and Other Stories along with numerous essays and short stories. Then we include an abridged version of the reading that Machado shared that evening called “The Tour.” This was recently published in McSweeney’s Magazine and will be included in Machado’s upcoming book project.
This is followed by our interview with Machado in which we discuss Machado’s writing style, the appeal of the horror genre, collaborating with others, and writing queerness into her works. After our interview, there was a brief Q&A with audience members which we will include in the episode as well.
Finally, at the end of the episode we wrap up with a couple of recommendations for other LGBTQIA+ Latinx books we think are worth checking out.
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Hosts: Rojo Robles and Rebecca L. Salois
Logo Design: Marcos Toledo
Music: Shawn P. Russell
Sound Consultant and Mixing: Shawn P. Russell
Recording and Editing: Rebecca L. Salois
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Queer Latinidades in Art - Jean-Michel Basquiat
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
In this episode, featuring Dr. Keisha Allan, we discuss Jean-Michel Baquiat, a Black American artist of Haitian and Puerto Rican ancestry who grew up in New York. We provide background on the artist and discuss a current (as of 2022) exhibition of his art, King Pleasure. Then we look at some of the connections he had with other artists and some of the theories related to his art. Most importantly, to the theme of our season on queer latinidades, we consider Basquiat through a queer lens. Finally we wrap up with some recommendations of other LGBTQIA+ Latinx artists.
Dr. Keisha Allan recently joined the Black and Latinx Studies faculty with us at Baruch and we were thrilled to have her on the podcast. She is co-host of the podcast Conversations in Atlantic Theory which can be found wherever you get your podcasts.
Spotify Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ZeVJKEE5aq4A6kJvb0A52
Apple Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conversations-in-atlantic-theory/id1611898947
Follow the podcast:
Twitter and Instagram: @LatinxVisions
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Hosts: Rojo Robles and Rebecca L. Salois
Logo Design: Marcos Toledo
Music: Shawn P. Russell
Sound Consultant and Mixing: Shawn P. Russell
Recording and Editing: Rebecca L. Salois