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Yvette Borja interviews Tucson mutual aid organizer Ronnie about Laura Gomez's book Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism. They discuss the malleability of Latinx identity and the privileges that has afforded them in the U.S., share what the Latinx community can learn about the limitations of citizenship from the Black community, and break down the myth of mestizaje.
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Yvette Borja discusses "Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care" by M.E. O'Brien author, scholar, and preacher Dr. Courtney Bryant. They work through the connections between prison and police abolition and the capitalist nuclear family unit, note how communities of color have always operated outside of this nuclear family unit ideal, and imagine how familial and loving relationships would look different without coercion embedded within them. 
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Yvette Borja and Adriana Obols, PhD student of modern art in Latin America, discuss the book "Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship" by Kirsten Weld. They discuss how archival practices were central to post-war Guatemalan civil society's attempts to hold war criminals to account while also being indispensable to the nation-state's targeting and surveillance of leftists in the capital. 
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Yvette Borja entrevista al profesor Miguel Angel Diaz Perera sobre la historia de Máximo y Bartola, dos niños Centroamericanos quienes fueron traficados para participar en las exhibiciones de "freak show de Barnum and Bailey" en el siglo 19. Discutan cómo el racismo científico contribuyó a la opresión de Máximo y Bartola, como las percepciones de las nacientes naciones de Mexico y Centroamerica en ese tiempo siguien relevante hoy,  y  el fenomeno del "espectaculo" y el show de circo también creo estructura para la victimización de Máximo y Bartola. 
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Yvette Borja interviews professor and author Laurence Ralph about his upcoming book "Sito: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him."  They discuss how the juvenile justice system traumatizes youth, lament the criminal legal system's failure to provide healing for victim's family members, and envision accountability without punishment.
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Yvette Borja interviews Belén Sisa, creator and host of the Pretty Serious Podcast and former National Latino Press Secretary for Senator Sanders' presidential campaign. They discuss the history of the DACA movement and Belén's participation in it, the importance of voting in local elections, and why it's important to vote Kyrsten Sinema out of office in 2024. 
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