VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast

VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episode 22: “The Future is Fluid!” In this episode, I continue the audiobook-style series on the VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast by reading aloud two of my blog posts: Addressing Trans* Allyship: For Pride Month y Pa’siempre! and Exploring Gender Fluidity: Indigeneity en el Caribe y Latinoamerica. Created for Pride Month, this episode brings together two conversations that...

VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episode 21: “Reading My Blog Post: Demanding Respect Through Violence: The Fractured ‘Macho Mind’” In this episode, I continue the audiobook-style series on the VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast by reading aloud another one of my blog posts: Demanding Respect Through Violence: The Fractured “Macho Mind.” As we move through the month of mothers and reflect on Mother’s Day, thi...

VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episode 20: “Reading My Blog Post: The Ugly, Scary, Lonely Truth About Trans* Mental Health” In this episode, I continue the audiobook-style series on the VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast by reading aloud another one of my blog posts: The Ugly, Scary, Lonely Truth About Trans* Mental Health: Utilizing an “Afro-Jotx Consciousness.” This episode holds space for one of the most...

VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episode 19: “Reading My First Afro-Jotería Studies Blog Post” In this episode, I return to the roots of VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS by reading my first-ever blog post on Afro-Jotería Studies in an audiobook-style format. This is a special episode because Afro-Jotería has been part of this podcast since the very beginning, and now, nearly two years later, I wanted to dedicate an...

VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episode 18: “A Deep Dive into My Full Discography: The Sound of Afro-Jotería” In this episode, I’m doing a deep dive into my full music discography—paying ode to the discipline, imagination, and self-determination it took to release more than 35 songs across all streaming platforms completely by myself, from concept to execution. I move through each era of my work to re...

VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episode 17: “A Look into THE REDPRINT: LA PREMIÈRE RÉVOLUTION” In this episode, I’m taking you inside my album THE REDPRINT: LA PREMIÈRE RÉVOLUTION—not just how it sounds, but how it became. I go song by song and tell the origin story of each track: what sparked it, what I was living through when it formed, what each title really means to me, and how the sound choices b...

VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episode 16: “Dear Future Me…” In this episode, I share a deeply personal tradition I’ve kept since 2017: recording an annual audio letter to my future self. What began as a quiet act of reflection has now reached its 10th anniversary, and I’m still sitting with how surreal that feels. Every year, before recording the new message, I listen back to all the previous audios...

VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episode 15: “One Year on Estrogen & 26 Years of Becoming” In this November episode, I take a deep breath and reflect on a full year on estrogen—what shifted in my body, what shifted in my spirit, and what I didn’t expect to feel along the way. Since it’s also my birthday month, I zoom out even wider: 26 years of gender + sexuality—of searching, masking, surviving, e...

VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episode 14: "Wisdom Sharing and Becoming with Amaïs Alexander Perez" In this October episode, I sit down with Amaïs Alexander Perez for a genuine, grounded conversation about identity, liberation, and what happens when a movement goes mainstream. Amaïs introduces herself through the fullness of her lived experience—Afro-Indigenous, Asian, and Trans—and I ask her about t...

VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episode 13: “Kika.” In this new chapter of VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS, I step into September 2025—a month of firsts, transitions, and embodied healing. Episode 13: “Kika” chronicles my first full month as a film student in Kiskeya, balancing academic discipline with spiritual grounding while navigating the chaos of migration and rebuilding. Throughout the month, I moved throug...

VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episode 12: “Boy, Why You So Speechless?” In this deeply reflective Episode 12 of VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS, I return to my August 2025 archives—thirty-seven handwritten journal pages, photos, and songs that document a season of rebuilding, release, and radical self-parenting. After the stillness of July, August erupted into motion: I entered film school, relocated across mul...

VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episode 11: “555: You Are Destined for Greatness!” After three months of silence, I return with Episode 11 of VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS: “555: You Are Destined for Greatness.” This episode was born out of ceremony—of stillness, faith, and transformation. Recorded in Kiskeya, it marks both a spiritual and artistic rebirth. Where Episode 10 closed a cycle of grief and loss, Epi...

Episode Title: VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episode 10: “Pride 2025 Reflections: Offering a Ritual of Remembrance and Reclamation” In this unflinching Episode 10 of VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS, I ground my Chiron in Sagittarius in the 11th-House reading in the brutal reality of this Pride Month—eviction, unemployment, and the relentless fight to survive. This is not an academic chat; it’s a moment of pause...

Episode Title: VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episode 9: “Re-Imagining and Challenging The ‘Self’ Via Music w/ LA REINA TAÍNA” In Episode 9 of VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS, LA REINA TAÍNA (she/they) guides you through a transformative soundscape rooted in her life motto—“to re-imagine and challenge the ‘self’ via art.” This deep dive explores five potent tracks that serve as portals to ancestral wisdom, polit...

Episode Title: VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episode 8: “Re-Imagining and Challenging the ‘Self’ via Poetry w/ LA REINA TAÍNA”   Episode Description: In Episode 8 of VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS, host LA REINA TAÍNA embarks on an intimate poetic journey, exploring the complexities of identity, trauma, resistance, and healing through her deeply personal poetry. Rooted in her guiding motto—"to re-imagine and c...

Episode Title: VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episode 7: “Reina’s Unpopular Opinions About The Creative Economy: Listen Up!”   Episode Description: In this raw and unfiltered episode of VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS, host LA REINA TAÍNA challenges the very structure of the Creative Economy. With a unique blend of decolonial, post-structuralist, and transfemme perspectives, Reina digs deep into how American Cap...

Episode Title: VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episodio 6: "Reimaginando La Identidad Dominicana: Un Mensaje Para Mi Pueblo Dominicano"   Episode Description: In this powerful and thought-provoking episode of VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS, host LA REINA TAÍNA dedicates the conversation to reimagining the Dominican identity, a journey that stretches across history and deeply resonates in the hearts of the Domini...

VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episode 5: “From Trauma to Triumph: A Personal Story of Liberation" In "From Trauma to Triumph: A Personal Story of Liberation," I’m sharing a deeply personal journey of survival, healing, and accountability. This episode dives into my lived experiences of trauma within a systemically violent household, which became the breeding ground for exploring decolonial theory an...

VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episode 4: “Breaking Cycles: Understanding the Impact of Emotionally Immature Parents on Adult Development w/ Ajay Ravi Kamal”   In Episode #4 of the VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast, host LA REINA TAÍNA sits down with Ajay Ravi Kamal, an ENBY/TransMasculine mental health advocate, to dive into the concept of "Emotionally Immature Parents" (EIP). Based on the work of Kai Tai...

VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episode 3: "Navigating the Margins: Agatha Brooks' Journey as a Black Trans Woman in the Caribbean"   In this compelling third episode of VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS, host LA REINA TAÍNA sits down with Agatha Jamine Brooks, a Black Trans woman, poet, and activist, for an intimate discussion on the intersectional challenges she faces in her daily life. As an undocumented immigra...

VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episode 2: "La Modernidad de Latinoamerica: Los Tres Blanquis"   In this episode, join LA REINA TAÍNA as she explores the concepts of blanquitud, blanquedad, and blanqueamiento, collectively referred to as "Los Tres Blanquis," a term she coined to describe how white supremacy influences the history and present of Latin America and the Caribbean. The discussion begins by...

VAMOS HABLAR INGLÉS Podcast Episode 1: "An Introduction to Afro-Jotería Studies" Join LA REINA TAÍNA as they dive deep into the origins of Afro-Jotería Studies, an academic field celebrating the lived experiences of Queer and Trans Afro-Latinx, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-Indigenous people. This episode explores their personal journey, the impact of colonialism and racial policies like "blanqueamient...