The Reality Dysfunction - Unscripted/Unsilenced

Ernesto Todd Mireles, Ph.D.
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The Reality Dysfunction Platform is the latest in unapologetic, thought-provoking discourse on Xicano identity, resistance, and liberation. Through podcasts, essays, and dialogue, we challenge conventional narratives, confront colonial legacies, and amplify voices committed to social transformation. Whether exploring cultural politics, insurgent theory, or grassroots organizing, The Reality Dysfunction Platform is where radical thought meets real-world action. #Control the Narrative. #Resist the Dysfunction.

  1. JUN 18

    #123 - Reclaiming The Past Through Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer

    In this episode of The Reality Dysfunction, Dr. Ernesto Mireles is joined by Scott Russell Duncan, Colton Campbell and Alex Garcia fellow thinkers and insurgent storytellers to dive deep into Alex Rivera’s prophetic 2008 film Sleep Dealer. What begins as a conversation about drones, borders, and labor quickly becomes a powerful indictment of settler colonialism, digital commodification, and the war on memory. We explore the film’s dystopian vision of disconnected laborers—plugged into machines across borders—as a mirror of today’s racialized gig economy. Through Xicanx Gothic, racialized horror, and speculative fiction, the panel traces how Sleep Dealer flips the narrative from assimilation to ancestral return. From the sacred milpa to neural implants, from water theft to resistance, this episode asks: What happens when we name the machine—and choose to plant instead of plug in? If you’ve ever questioned the cost of survival in a system built to erase you, or wondered what decolonial science fiction might sound like in Spanglish, this one’s for you.

    56 min

  2. MAR 19

    #122 - Adan and Pauline interview two first gen NAU professors

    🎙️ First Gen Podcast | Adan & Pauline sit down with Drs. Manny Preciado & Ernesto Mireles to talk academia, hustle, and what brought them to NAU. Plus, their top advice for first-gen students — and the real secret to success. Don’t miss it!

    49 min

  3. MAR 17

    #121 - First Gen reveals all

    Adan and Pauline open up about their first year and talk about how things have developed from the first semester to the second semester.  Email Adan and Pauline directly at dysfunctionalfirstgen@gmail.com.

    28 min

  4. JAN 26

    #120 - "I'm proud to be fucking Mexican, and that's on period."

    POWER HOUSE EPISODE! First Gen Podcasters Pauline and Adan talk politics and belonging in their most recent podcast. Their take on the impending (threatened) ICE raids and deportations. This one is a banger. Share far and wide.

    26 min

  5. JAN 21

    #119 - First Gen: We're Back!

    In this episode Adan and Pauline discuss their first winter break, returning to campus and the existential dread of switching majors.

    27 min

  6. 12/06/2024

    #118 - Perspectiva Chicana

    Join Ernesto Ayala is the Vice Chair for the Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida. Join him as he checks in weekly to talk about the Partido, organizing, activism and growing up in the Movement.

    19 min

  7. 12/06/2024

    #117 - Anonymously Famous: You'll never see us coming

    Soe and Owahee join The Reality Dysfunction Podcast as regulars with the Anonymously Famous series. Powerful stories to be told.

    36 min

  8. 11/26/2024

    #116 - First Gen: Pride with no remorse

    In this episode Pauline and Adan talk about their backgrounds and the support of their families as the began their journey through higher education.    Producer: Ernesto Mireles

    25 min
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The Reality Dysfunction Platform is the latest in unapologetic, thought-provoking discourse on Xicano identity, resistance, and liberation. Through podcasts, essays, and dialogue, we challenge conventional narratives, confront colonial legacies, and amplify voices committed to social transformation. Whether exploring cultural politics, insurgent theory, or grassroots organizing, The Reality Dysfunction Platform is where radical thought meets real-world action. #Control the Narrative. #Resist the Dysfunction.

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