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Episode 12: Season 2 returns
Episode 13: Unsung America with Prerna Lal
Episode 14: Unsung America with Prerna Lal, Part 2
Episode 15: On Trains, Arriving, and Chosen Family: A conversation with poet danilo machado
Episode 16: On Trains, Arriving, and Chosen Family: A conversation with poet danilo machado, Part 2
Episode 17: On Migrant Palimpsest, with poet Wo Chan
Episode 18: On Migrant Palimpsest, with poet Wo Chan, Part 2
Episode 19: Interrogating Citizenship with Harsha Walia
Episode 20: Interrogating Citizenship with Harsha Walia, Part 2

Episode 12

Season 2 returns!

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Listeners, we are back! On today’s episode, Keish and Angel reflect back on the Radical Kindship series conversation with poet danilo machado and Dr. Alan Pelaez Lopez.

Episode 13

Unsung America with Prerna Lal

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On this week’s episode, we invited a very special guest, Prerna Lal. Prerna is an immigration lawyer, author of Unsung America: Immigrant Trailblazers and Our Fight for Freedom, and a pivotal leader of the undocumented immigrant youth movement.

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Prerna Lal’s Unsung America: Immigrant Trailblazers and our Fight for Freedom is available for purchase through Mango Publishing:
Buy at Mango Publishing ︎︎︎

UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender
2021--2022 Radical Kinship Series Website:
crg.berkeley.edu ︎︎︎

Soundcloud of the conversation “The Radical Capacities of Ghosts, Auto-Deportation, and Art”
Listen on Soundcloud ︎

An illustration of the earth's atmosphere through an airplane window

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Chronicles Podcast hosted by Luna & Yoce
Listen on Apple Podcasts ︎︎︎

Kim Lum, Graphic Designer
kimberlylum.com ︎︎︎

Intro/Outro: “Raindrop” by Human Behavior
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Episode 14

Unsung America with Prerna Lal, Part 2

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On this week’s episode, we continue our conversation with Prerna Lal, author of Unsung America: Immigrant Trailblazers and Our Fight for Freedom, and a pivotal leader of the undocumented immigrant youth movement. We reflect on how DACA was won through staunch activism by undocumented immigrants. Prerna reminds us that there are multiple tacticsthat makes up a movement, and most importantly, that the leaders of the movements must be those most impacted.

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Prerna Lal’s Unsung America: Immigrant Trailblazers and our Fight for Freedom is available for purchase through Mango Publishing:
Buy at Mango Publishing ︎︎︎

Katherine Sarwopeni Antarikso
chroniclingresistance.org ︎︎︎
︎ @indonesian_archives

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Episode 15

On Trains, Arriving, and Chosen Family: A conversation with poet danilo machado

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We invite poet danilo machado to talk about their upcoming poetry collection, This is your receipt and is not your ticket for travel, coming out soon with FaintLine Press. We have a history of weaving and suturing writing together. We talk about trains, on arriving (or not arriving), and on chosen families/calderas that hold.

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Purchase danilo machado’s book, This is a receipt and is not a ticket for travel at Faint Line Press
Buy at Faint Line Press ︎︎︎

Follow danilo’s work
queershoulders.com ︎︎︎
︎ @Queershoulders
︎ @Queershoulders

Mia Mingus’ blog Leaving Evidence on disability justice and transformative justice
leavingevidence.wordpress.com ︎︎︎

Purchase Alan Pelaez Lopez’s book, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien
Buy at The Operating System ︎︎︎

Jenna Hamed is an artist who contributed photographs to danilo’s collection and will be at the book launch for This is a receipt and is not a ticket for travel on April 14, 2023 at Polly’s Cafe in Brooklyn.
jennahamed.com ︎︎︎

Caelan Ernest is a poet and performer who will be reading at the book launch for This is a receipt and is not a ticket for travel on April 14, 2023 at Polly’s Cafe in Brooklyn.
transputation.com ︎︎︎

ARTIST ECHOLOCATION

jonathan a. molina-garcia

Follow jonathan’s work
jmolinagarcia.xyz ︎︎︎
︎ @jjj.molinagarcia

Eligible/Illegible exhibition catalogue
heyzine.com ︎︎︎

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Episode 16

On Trains, Arriving, and Chosen Family: A conversation with poet danilo machado, Part 2

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On this week’s episode, we continue our conversation with poet danilo machado to talk about their poetry collection, This is your receipt and is not your ticket for travel, with FaintLine Press. We have the immense pleasure of hearing danilo read their poem, “Walking poem for Bo and Claire.”

SHOW NOTES

Monday, April 17, 2023 at 7pm EST
Virtual Launch with Derrick Austin, Marwa Helal, Jasmine Gibson, and viento izquierdo ugaz.
on Zoom ︎

Friday, April 21, 2023 at 7pm EST
imago of a queer artist* @ Artist Alliance with Jennif(f)er Tamayo.
artsallianceinc.org ︎︎︎

Marwa Helal, author of Ante body (Nightboat Books, 2022) and Invasive species (Nightboat Books, 2019).
Artist bio at nighboat.org ︎︎︎

Kyle Carrero Lopez, author of Muscle Memory, the chapbook winner of the 2020 [PANK] Books Contest. kylecarrerolopez.com ︎︎︎

Tourmaline on Twitter and the tweet:

“When we say abolish police. We also mean the cop in your head and in your heart.”

︎@tourmaliiine

“Do subway riders really think they are ‘suckers’ for paying the fare? We asked” by Stephen Nessen for The Gothamist, May 24, 2022.
gothamist.com ︎︎︎

Levani
Artist bio on socratessculpturepark.org ︎︎︎
levanm.com ︎︎︎

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Yehimi Cambrón
︎ @ycambron

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Episode 17

On Migrant Palimpsest with poet Wo Chan

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On this week’s episode, we speak with poet and draf performer, Wo Chan (aka The Illustrious Pearl) about their book of poetry titled, Togetherness published by Nightboat Books. Togetherness is the winner of the 2023 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature. In our episode, Wo Chan shares their approach to the title and the cover of the book.

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Wo Chan is a poet and a drag performer. ︎ @theillustriouspearl
View upcoming shows on linktr.ee ︎︎︎

Purchase Wo Chan’s book Togetherness Buy at nightboat.org ︎︎︎

Palimpsests by Angel
There is a thin line of green and blue across the page with layers of printed and written inscriptions. This image is a composite of ten documents, some submerged. Documents include: an expired passport, an expired DACA letter, a I-94 Departure Record, and journal entries.

There is a thin line of green and blue across the page with layers of printed and written inscriptions. This image is a composite of ten documents, some submerged. Documents include: an expired passport, an expired DACA letter, a I-94 Departure Record, and journal entries.

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Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University

Kim Lum, Graphic Designer
kimberlylum.com ︎︎︎

Intro/Outro: “Raindrop” by Human Behavior
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Episode 18

On Migrant Palimpsest with poet Wo Chan, Part 2

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We continue our conversation on migrant palimpsest with poet and drag performer, Wo Chan (aka The Illustrious Pearl). Wo shares with us what it was like to write through a deportation process and what drag means to them. You can purchase Wo’s book, Togetherness, published by Night Boat books here.

SHOW NOTES

Wo Chan is a poet and a drag performer.
︎ @theillustriouspearl
︎ @illustriouspear
View upcoming shows on linktr.ee ︎︎︎

Purchase Wo Chan’s book Togetherness Buy at nightboat.org ︎︎︎

ARTIST ECHOLOCATION

Beyond Status Film Selection
beyondstatus.us ︎︎︎
Refugio by Dorian Gomez Pertaña
Searching... by Alejandra Quiroz
I Wanna Become The Sky by Jess X Snow
Mejor Allá by Danyeli Rodriguez Del Orbe
Hola, Santiago by Armando Ibañez

Cultural Power
culturalpower.org ︎︎︎

UndocuFilmmakers Collective
︎ @undocufc

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Episode 19

Interrogating Citizenship with Harsha Walia

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We speak with Harsha Walia, author of Border and Rule (2021) and Undoing Border Imperialism (2013). Trained in the law, Harsha Walia is a community organizer and campaigner in migrant justice, anti-capitalist feminist, and anti-imperialist movements including No One Is Illegal and Women’s Memorial March Committee. Harsha is here to chat with us about citizenship.

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ARTIST ECHOLOCATION

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Episode 20

Interrogating Citizenship with Harsha Walia, Part 2

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We continue our conversation with Harsha Walia, author of Border and Rule (2021) and Undoing Border Imperialism (2013). We discuss the importance of understanding borders through an internationalist perspective, and how all organizing is care work. Trained in the law, Harsha Walia is a community organizer and campaigner in migrant justice, anti-capitalist feminist, and anti-imperialist movements including No One Is Illegal and Women’s Memorial March Committee.