The Alchemist Manifesto

Alchemist Manifesto
The Alchemist Manifesto

“The Alchemist Manifesto: A Podcast with Mario Obando and Daniel Topete” is dedicated to two friends holding space and making time to have holistic and humanizing pláticas and charlas with the aim of alchemizing our individual experiences into shared healing and wisdom. The amistad that produces this podcast emerges from our shared commitment to social justice, as teachers and scholars in the fields of critical and relational ethnic studies, and of course, our creative and everyday efforts to imagine better worlds with our loved ones, communities and spirits.

  1. Luz

    12/05/2022

    Luz

    This episode brings together the work of Gloria Anzaldúa and Raoul Peck  to contemplate our luz (light) in collective witnessing and healing.  Episode concludes our effort in season 3 to define the holistic  possibility of public pedagogies in ethnic studies.

    1h 17m
  2. Amor

    12/05/2022

    Amor

    In this episode, we contemplate amor as a form of decolonial study and  witnessing that works against the capitalist and often genocidal norms  of western culture.

    1 hr
  3. Confidence

    12/05/2022

    Confidence

    In this episode we contemplate witnessing and imagining colonial history  by challenging the what Raoul Peck calls “confidence of ignorance” and  build collective and relational histories and ties between racialized  communities

    1h 3m
  4. Preservation

    12/05/2022

    Preservation

    Episode 6 contemplates the ways racialized communities are scripted  against one another and as such, preserve their dignity and integrity in  finding dissent together

    1h 5m
  5. Space

    12/05/2022

    Space

    Episode 5 contemplates the spatial politics of Jim Crow on Black women’s  bodies and also in the labor of Black and Indigenous Central Americans

    1h 3m
  6. Entanglement

    12/05/2022

    Entanglement

    Episode 4 contemplates the historic entanglements of power in the  hemisphere and the interoceanic diasporas that are forged within, beyond  and against power

    1h 10m
  7. Fantasy

    12/05/2022

    Fantasy

    Episode contemplates neocolonial and transtemporal fantasies of  Mesoamerican and Central American culture and arrives at the beauty of  decolonial storytelling to imagine wondrous and generative futures and  conceptualizations of racialized and Indigenous life.

    1h 9m
  8. Sacredness

    12/05/2022

    Sacredness

    Episode contemplates the erotic and gendered histories that we can decolonialize colonial domination, morality and erasure that allow us to  arrive at the sacred cosmologies of pre-Columbian life.

    52 min
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“The Alchemist Manifesto: A Podcast with Mario Obando and Daniel Topete” is dedicated to two friends holding space and making time to have holistic and humanizing pláticas and charlas with the aim of alchemizing our individual experiences into shared healing and wisdom. The amistad that produces this podcast emerges from our shared commitment to social justice, as teachers and scholars in the fields of critical and relational ethnic studies, and of course, our creative and everyday efforts to imagine better worlds with our loved ones, communities and spirits.

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  • Creator
    Alchemist Manifesto
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2022
  • Episodes
    22
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Alchemist Manifesto
  • Show Website
    The Alchemist Manifesto

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