A Revolutionary Love Letter: To All Migrants, Past, Present, and Future is a podcast hosted by Keish and Angel about all the things we wished we had known growing up undocumented in the part of Turtle Island called the United States. We host conversations between writers, artists, organizers talking about migrant rights from a left perspective.
This podcast is a continuation of an essay that we co-wrote titled, “[A] Migrant Vernacular,” where we explore and redefine words that haunt im/migrant mind-bodies. Our podcast brings together art and culture to situate history and envision social transformation around issues of immigration, racism, sexism, ableism, border violence, gender violence, and environmentalism.
A Revolutionary Love Letter Podcast started in June 2021 to reflect on our time as community organizers fighting for access to higher education and to stop deportations in New York City and Georgia. By centering the conversation around words (i.e. “Fugitivity” or “Trains”), we make space to encapsulate the work of our guests and expand the conversation beyond individual experience to reflect on structures of inequalities across time. We center queer im/migrant artists, poets, organizers, and troublemakers who challenge normative and hegemonic understandings of what it means to be deemed an “alien body” by the U.S. government.
We dedicate our podcast to three specific groups: past migrants, including our past selves and people who were deported, or who have passed away; present migrants, including people who are undocumented but do not quality for any type of immigration relief; and future migrants, including people who are being displaced due to ongoing conflict and climate disaster.
Remembering what Kimberle Crenshaw has taught us about intersectionality, we aim to highlight the value of cross-coalition struggles throughout our podcast series. As hosts, we value the practice of careful listening and listening with/along each other. While we expect to hold space for potential difficult conversations, we also want to hold space for joy and laughter.
This podcast is a continuation of an essay that we co-wrote titled, “[A] Migrant Vernacular,” where we explore and redefine words that haunt im/migrant mind-bodies. Our podcast brings together art and culture to situate history and envision social transformation around issues of immigration, racism, sexism, ableism, border violence, gender violence, and environmentalism.
A Revolutionary Love Letter Podcast started in June 2021 to reflect on our time as community organizers fighting for access to higher education and to stop deportations in New York City and Georgia. By centering the conversation around words (i.e. “Fugitivity” or “Trains”), we make space to encapsulate the work of our guests and expand the conversation beyond individual experience to reflect on structures of inequalities across time. We center queer im/migrant artists, poets, organizers, and troublemakers who challenge normative and hegemonic understandings of what it means to be deemed an “alien body” by the U.S. government.
We dedicate our podcast to three specific groups: past migrants, including our past selves and people who were deported, or who have passed away; present migrants, including people who are undocumented but do not quality for any type of immigration relief; and future migrants, including people who are being displaced due to ongoing conflict and climate disaster.
Guiding Values
Grounded in women of color feminist ethos, our podcast compensates all guests of the show. As a feminist project, we do not want to create paywalls or rely on our listeners through Patreons.Remembering what Kimberle Crenshaw has taught us about intersectionality, we aim to highlight the value of cross-coalition struggles throughout our podcast series. As hosts, we value the practice of careful listening and listening with/along each other. While we expect to hold space for potential difficult conversations, we also want to hold space for joy and laughter.