Xicana Tiahui Podcast

In this episode, the compas of Xicana Tiahui foster a space of reflection to discuss our personal growths and understandings of Chicanx World-Making. Engaging in a cyclical discussion, the crew checks in and offers their takes on the possibilities of meaning infused in world-making and the ways a Chicanx world-making can take place in our everyday life.

In this episode, the Xicana Tiahui crew hangs out with Profe Roberto D. Hernandez from the Department of Chicana/o Studies at San Diego State University. Roberto delves into his intellectual origins and inspirations that grew from his experiences along the U.S./Mexico border in San Ysidro. Discussing his current work and projects, Roberto highlights the Zapatista engagement of the civilization of...

The Xicana Tiahui crew members converse with the Mapping Against Power Systems (MAPS) crew, Maritza (they/them), Kim (they/them) and Jaz (she/hers). As a womxn and gender non-binary centered collective, MAPS set out to create a knowledge sharing and co-creating space that disrupts colonial understandings of land and space. In this episode, we learn about why MAPS emerges and how the collective bui...

In this episode, the Xicana Tiahui crew linked up with special guests Bre and Carlos from student struggle COLA4ALL at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In this conversation, we learned about the experiences and motivations of graduate students who were unsatisfied with the limited reach of COLA, cost-of-living-adjustment. Graduate students like Bre and Carlos, amongst many, pushed the bou...

In this episode, the Xicana Tiahui crew takes a moment to have an organic conversation about the educational responses to the pandemic and how educators are expected to navigate it alongside the students they teach or facilitate discussions with. We are graduate students learning and sharing the virtual realm, a phenomenon that we think through together as we try to understand our experiences.

In this episode, we discuss the lived experiences and political praxis of Ymoat, a Xicana transborder organizer influenced by Zapatismo who participates in many spaces of rebellion such as El Central Cultural de La Raza, Detention Resistance, and Hormigas Autonómas y Rebeldes. Ymoat is also part of an emerging podcast called Voices of Transborder Resistance. As a guiding question, we asked ourselv...

Here is a podcast episode that took place in the late summer of 2019. This episode dialogues on the emergence and struggle of the Congreso Nacional Indígena and the Concejo Indígena de Gobierno. We want to thank QuiQui for sitting down and speaking with us as a collective to talk about the Indigenous struggles in México. Music credit goes to Subsistencia, a punk band from Los Angeles. Songs are "X...