Latinx Intelligentsia

Episode 34

The term "Part-time doctoral student" is a misnomer. Our gente who navigate full-time work, while also engaging in coursework and life outside of campus are full-time, full-time. There's really no part-time to it!

La Profesora talks with future Dr. Bri Serrano about their journey to entering the program at Colorado State University, while also working full-time at Cal Poly-Pomona. Bri notes the critical questions that you have to ask of the program, of your work colleagues, and of yourself as you make the decision to enroll. They also remind us that the core motivation to earning this degree can't just be about a credential. There has to be something far deeper to carry you through.

Our Poet-in-Residence and in Resistencia, Sarah Gonzales, curates poetry from Staceyann Chin "For You".

Episode 33

Why They Hate Us: How Racist Rhetoric Impacts Education (Teachers College Press) is a powerful compilation that bridges K-12 and higher education teachers, scholars, and practitioners in uncovering how racist rhetoric affects student pathways and experiences.

La Profesora talks with Dra. Lindsay Perez Huber y Dra. Susana Muñoz about their journey as co-editors and their determination to tell the story of racism in U.S. educational systems.

Our Academic Hype Man, Dr. Nolan Cabrera showcases the efforts of Dra. Anita Fernandez.

Muñoz, S. M. (2015). Identity, social activism, and the pursuit of higher education. Peter Lang https://www.peterlang.com/abstract/title/22569?rskey=PDe8TQ&result=1

Solórzano, D. G., &  Pérez Huber, L. (2020). Racial microaggressions using critical race theory to respond to everyday racism. Teachers College Press.

https://www.tcpress.com/racial-microaggressions-in-education-9780807764381

Photographer Steve Pavey www.stevepavey.com

Dra. Anita Fernandez 

Chief Diversity Officer page: https://www.prescott.edu/faculty-staff-directory/anita-fernandez

Xito: https://www.xicanxinstitute.org 

Decolonizing Professional Development: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10665684.2019.1649610?casa_token=nbLToA4VM1EAAAAA:wpFm3xfBhjuXJKBixQcsJRq2mZ_5eGN5r1o8oHLnjboge_W5uRXPtyRn8l_qejxLe3ZFFatyD8un1Q 

*Episode 32*

La Profesora talks with future Dr. Yolanda Cataño about how she has drawn upon queer chisme to cultivate comunidad within Latinx/a/o queer communities. Our conversation journeys through her relationship with her #ScholarHomies, her commitment to serving Latinx/a/o queer communities in her area, and addressing what "servingness" means when addressing the needs of Latinx/a/o queer students in community colleges designated as Hispanic-Serving Institutions.

Our Poet-in-Residence & in Resistencia, Sarah Gonzales, shares poetry from Ari Tison. 

Side Notes:

Yosso, T. J. (2005). “Whose culture has capital? A CRT discussion of community cultural wealth.” Race, Ethnicity, and Education 8(1): 69–91.

The Alliance for Hispanic Serving Institution Educators: https://ahsie.org/

Please cite this episode as follows:

Cataño, Y. (Guest). (2021, April 19). Cultivating comunidad through queer chisme. (No. 32) [Audio podcast episode]. In M. Espino Lira (Host), Latinx intelligentsia. https://latinxintelligentsia.libsyn.com/

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*Episode 31*

La Profesora talks with future Dr. Sergio Gonzalez y future Dr. Ángel Gonzalez about ethical chisme as a practice of queer radical love and as methodology. We delve into Jotería Scholarship and discuss why the field of higher education has yet to uplift this research. AND we talk about the many ways that academia does not serve us pero we are still here, still engaging in radical love with ethical chisme!

For our Believe the Hype segment, our Academic Hype Man, Dr. Nolan Cabrera hypes of sistah-scholar Dra. Susana Muñoz who has a new book out with Dra. Lindsay Pérez Huber: Why They Hate Us: How Racist Rhetoric Impacts Education [Link to Teachers College Press below].

Sidenotes:

https://cscconline.education.illinois.edu/

https://www.centerforcommunitycolleges.org/ 

https://amaejournal.utsa.edu/index.php/AMAE/article/view/360/331

José Manuel Santillana & Anita Revilla. "Jotería Identity and Consciousness." Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 39(1) (2014): 167-180.

For Susana's first book, Identity, Social Activism, and the Pursuit of Higher Education: The Journey Stories of Undocumented and Unafraid Community Activists, go to Peter Lang Publishing. 

For Susana and Lindsay's book, go to Teachers College Press.

We are always looking for guests from across higher education and higher ed adjacent spaces! Nominate great gente here!

Episode 30

Although we all want to shake our fist at Reviewer #2, we don't usually have a chance to go behind-the-scenes of an academic journal. In this episode, La Profesora talks with Dra. Cindy Cruz, who recently stepped down from her role as associate editor for the Frontiers Journal, which is connected to the National Women's Studies Association.

Dra. Cruz offers an inside perspective on what it takes to make a journal viable--from finding an academic home for the journal to recruiting great authors to finding even better reviewers. It is certainly a labor of deep care for putting forth important scholarship, especially when it involves women of color feminists and womanists. 

Our Poet-in-Residence and in Resistencia, Sarah Gonzales curates poetry from Wanda Coleman.

A few sidenotes....

Check out Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social at www.malcs.org

Check out the National Women's Studies Association at www.nwsa.org

In Episode 29, La Profesora talks with Ricardo Nazario y Colón about the importance of senior leadership in higher education setting a vision for diversity and inclusion. Senior Diversity Officers cannot be effective if a vision is not in place! We also talk about what it means to do DEI work as an office of one, serving the needs of faculty, administrators, and students.

You can find Ricardo on LinkedIn at Ricardo Nazario-Colon

We also launch our new segment: BELIEVE THE HYPE! with our Academic Hype Man, Nolan Cabrera! Dr. C takes you back to where it all began: selling his book, White Guys on Campus: Racism, White Immunity, and the Myth of "Post-Racial" Higher Education from his roller bag! 

Check out the side note: 

North Carolina Senate Bill 257 Diversity and Inclusion Study

We're back with Season 4!

For our first episode of the season, La Profesora talks with Dra. Constanza Cabello at Framingham State University about what it's like to be the inaugural Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Community Engagement. We talk about moving from personal growth in DEI work to structural change and how to stay in the field where the work is never done.

Our Poet-in-Residence and in Resistencia, Sarah Gonzales curates poetry from Adrienne Rich.

For the last episode of the season, La Profesora is revisiting the Writing Series we are doing all year. This time, she talks with Dr. Davíd Martínez about writing beyond publications and metrics for tenure and promotion. Writing should be about community, about action, and about praxis. 

Our Poet-in-Residence and in Resistencia, Sarah Gonzales, shares poetry from Paola Valenzuela.

As you wait for Season 4, please nominate gente to share their stories on the podcast, listen to previous episodes, and follow the amazing scholars and practitioners who are doing the work! See you in 2021!

Even before the protests and outrage that stemmed from the murders of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd, there have been discussions about anti-Blackness in Latinx/a/o communities. This episode focuses on addressing anti-Blackness by centering Blackness in our comunidad through the tenets of Black-imiento created by Amalia Dache, Jasmine Marie Haywood, y Cristina Mislán in 2019.

La Profesora talks with Dra. Amalia Dache about applying the tenets of Black-imiento to the study of higher education, as well as the application of Black-imiento in student success work with Dr. Jason Arrington-Rivera.

Our Poet-in-Residence and in Resistencia, Sarah Gonzales curates poetry from Diannely Antigua.

We’re doing a different take on what you have probably been hearing and reading as folx push through the final campaigns for Election Day 2020. Not to say that our current political climate is beautiful, but that our engagement in our local communities, of fighting for justice for our communities is beautiful in its effort.

We are focusing on local perspectives—what happens when one of us within higher education runs for elected office? We showcase Dr. Raul Fernandez, who is the first Latino member of the Select Board in Brookline, Massachusetts, which borders Boston University.

I also had the opportunity to talk with Dra. Tiffany Gonzalez, who is uncovering stories of mujeres engaged in political activism and resistance, who are still doing the work and not always getting the credit or the acknowledge that their efforts are creating change.

Our Poet-in-Residence and in Resistencia, Sarah Gonzales, curates poetry by Richard Blanco entitled "Election Day".

We kick off our Writing Series with a focus on writing academic books!

La Profesora talks with Dra. Lorgia Garcia-Peña about her journey in writing her first award-winning book, The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nations and Archives of Contradictions (Duke University Press, 2016) and how she carried the idea for her second book, Translating Blackness: Migrations and Detours of Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspectives from the beginning of her graduate studies. 

Our Poet-In-Residence and in Resistencia, Sarah Gonzales, shares poetry from Aracelis Girmay.

The term "Latinx" is still in the process of becoming. La Profesora talks with Dr. Cristobal Salinas, who has studied the evolution of the term within higher education contexts and introduces additional terms that may (better) address the experiences of gente within the Latinx/a/o diaspora.

And she talks with Dra. Sara Mata y Dr. Joel Perez, who were the co-chairs for the NASPA Latinx/a/o Knowledge Community when they changed the name to include the term Latinx. 

Remember, mi gente, terminology is the first step--there still so much more work to do to truly embrace gender non-conforming, transgender, and gender queer gente and addressing anti-Blackness within our communities.

Our Poet-in-Residence and in Resistencia, Sarah Gonzales, curates poetry by Nikki Giovanni.

Mentoring: an elusive concept that can be difficult to define and, at times, difficult to engage with someone. There are times when we do not know how to approach someone for mentorship/femtorship/guidance, and then there are times we do not even realize we are being mentored!

La Profesora talks with Dr. David Perez II and future Dra. Juana Osorio about how they define mentorship/femtorship/guidance, the challenges they have experienced as gente who are mentored and who mentor, and how we can think differently about this concept by focusing on cariño, reciprocity, communication, and investment.

Our Poet-in-Residence and Resistencia, Sarah Gonzales curates poetry from Elizabeth Acevedo.

La Profesora talks with Dra. Yolanda Valencia and future Dr. Christian Bello Escobar about their journeys to the U.S. and their early years working in a slaughterhouse and in janitorial services, respectively. Both experiences have informed their research and practice in extraordinary ways, one as a feminist human geographer and for another the assistant director for the College Assistance Migrant Program in northwest Georgia. Their stories should inspire all of us to fight for the rights of all (im)migrants, especially farmworkers and the children and families suffering in detention camps. 

Our Poet-in-Residence and in Resistencia, Sarah Gonzales showcases the poetry of Alexia Gonzales. [Trigger warning: This poem contains language that may not be suitable for all audiences].

La Profesora kicks off Season 3 with conversations about finding love in a place like academia and what it means to navigate higher education as dual career couples.

Guests Fabiola Mora and Dora Frias talk about being models of possibility, especially for queer Latinx communities. They also share important advice about setting boundaries regarding work so they can be present at home.

Guests Dra. Susana Hernandez and Dr. Ignacio Hernandez share their journeys to becoming faculty and leaders both in their department and in the field of higher education. They offer important recommendations for departments working with dual career couples and the importance of valuing their individual contributions to scholarship, teaching, and service.

Our Poet-in-Residence and in Resistencia, Sarah Gonzales, curates poetry by Julia Alvarez entitled "Locusts".

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While La Profesora works on Season 3, here's a sneak peak into an exciting collaboration between the national organization, Excelencia in Education and Dra. Michelle Espino Lira, associate professor at the University of Maryland, College Park!

Cultivating Excelencia is a limited series podcast showcasing the colleges, universities, and community organizations that are accelerating Latinx/a/o student success in higher education.

Starting September 2nd, we will feature the 2019 Examples of Excelencia leading to the 2020 Celebración de Excelencia on October 1st. 

The following categories will be featured:

The Example of Excelencia at the Associate Level

The Center for Community College Partnerships

University of California, Los Angeles

The Example of Excelencia at the Baccalaureate Level

Attract, Inspire, Mentor, and Support Students—The AIMS² Program

California State University, Northridge

The Example of Excelencia at the Graduate Level

Cal-Bridge Program

California Polytechnic State University, Pomona

The Example of Excelencia at the Community-Based Organization Level

Latino Achievers

YMCA of Middle Tennessee (Nashville)

For our final episode of Season 2, we offer this cross-over with the NASPA Latinx/a/o Knowledge Community, showcasing La Profesora y Dras. Judy Marquez Kiyama y Susana Muñoz. Nestor Melendez moderates. Poet Juan Felipe Herrera is featured.

La Profesora talks with Dr. Victor Saenz about turning his passion project into award-winning scholarship & practice focusing on educational achievement for boys and men of color, especially Latinos. Poet Kay Ulanday Barrett is featured.

La Profesora talks with Dallas ISD Principal of the Year, Dra. Nancy Bernardino about the founding of Solar Preparatory School for Girls and her advocacy for African American and Latinx/a/o children. This is Part II in a series on gender. Poet MS McDonough is featured.

La Profesora talks with Dr. Francisco Galarte about the embodiment of gender in transgender and Chicanx/Latinx studies. This is the first part of a 3-part series on gender in Latinx/a/o communities. Poet Joshua Jennifer Espinosa is featured.