SANTES - a podcast for future trans and queer ancestors.

Welcome to episode 7 of the SANTES Podcast! In this episode, we talk with Talia Estrada Holguin about the mystery in their family history, the importance of indigenous plants, and the native way of raising children. (It's also their birthday today, so join us in wishing them a happy birthday!!) Talia Estrada Holguin comes from a family of Tongva and Mexican medicine women, artists, inventors, and...

Welcome to episode 6 of the SANTES Podcast! We are excited to share our conversation with Lazarus Letcher where they discuss the current erasure of trans history, how house decor turned out to be protective wards, and an ancestor story involving a horseback break for freedom.  Lazarus Nance Letcher is an artist and writer from the Midwest, now living on the ancestral and unceded Tiwa land in New M...

Cheers to episode 5 of the SANTES Podcast! In this episode, we talk with Tina Valentin Aguirre about queer history in San Francisco in the Mission and Castro districts, as well as their deep love and adoration for Teresita La Campesina. Tina Valentin Aguirre is a pillar in the San Francisco Bay Area arts community. They moved to the Bay Area for college in 1986 where they found a vibrant queer Lat...

We hope you're ready for episode 4 of the SANTES Podcast! In this episode, we talk with Gerard Miller about recovering lineages of ancestry, when to call upon ancestors, and how to reconnect for folks who have had their ancestors taken from them. Gerard Miller is a Black, non-binary, queer community educator & aspiring Ancestor, as well as a co-founder and member of the Seattle Hoodoo Society. The...

Welcome to episode 3 of the SANTES Podcast! In this episode, we talk with Joss Barton about her ancestor Patrick Haggerty of Lavender Country, the divine dance floor, and how to invoke her when she becomes a future ancestor. *We recorded this episode in October of 2025. Joss Barton is a writer, journalist, and spoken word performance artist exploring and documenting queer and trans* life, love, an...

In our second SANTES episode, we have a lively conversation with filmmaker Roberto Fatal talking about honoring our indigenous roots, reclaiming memory, and the power of dreaming and creativity. Roberto Fatal is a Meztize Chicana filmmaker and storyteller. Their Queer, gender fluid, Mestize/Mixed identity informs the sci-fi films they make and their work centers on humans who sit at the intersecti...

In this episode, we talk with KB Boyce about the team of ancestors who have been guiding and protecting KB and how this beautiful elder continues to pay it forward. KB Boyce is the Co-Founder, Co- Director of Queer Rebel Productions.   Transcript available at https://www.santesproject.com/podcast   Closed Captioned version available at https://www.youtube.com/@santesproject  

Hosts Luna Merbruja and StormMiguel Florez canonize and chat with trans and queer BIPOC artists and activists about ancestor work, and how the living may conjure us when we become ancestors.