189 episodes

Radio Cachimbona is an abolitionist podcast that audio-archives state repression and fierce migrant resistance in the Southern Arizona borderlands and breaks down case law and politics from a leftist perspective. As a first-generation professional whose parents are Salvadoran immigrants, Yvette prioritizes uplifting the voices and histories of Central Americans.

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Radio Cachimbona is an abolitionist podcast that audio-archives state repression and fierce migrant resistance in the Southern Arizona borderlands and breaks down case law and politics from a leftist perspective. As a first-generation professional whose parents are Salvadoran immigrants, Yvette prioritizes uplifting the voices and histories of Central Americans.

    *UNLOCKED LIT REVIEW* Theft Is Property!

    *UNLOCKED LIT REVIEW* Theft Is Property!

    Yvette Borja and guest Meghna Sridhar discuss Theft is Property! by Robert Nichols. They discuss how and why land can't be neatly divided as US property law suggests, the usefulness of understanding racism as long-standing patterns of group-differentiated vulnerability, and the links between the Black radical tradition and indigenous relationships with/stewardship of their lands.   
    Read Robert Nichols' article prelude to Theft is Property! here: https://criticaltheory.northwestern.edu/mellon-project/critical-theory-in-the-global-south/sub_projects/theft-is-property,-nichols.pdf 
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    • 56 min
    *UNLOCKED LIT REVIEW* Reveling in Marginality

    *UNLOCKED LIT REVIEW* Reveling in Marginality

    Yvette Borja discusses "Black and Blur" by Fred Moten with art history PhD student Jasmine Magaña. They break down Fred Moten's focus on Blackness as "fugitivity," track the humanities' shift from a postcolonial to a decolonial framework, and share the importance of sitting with the "not in between."
    Read "The Undercommons" by Fred Moten here: https://www.akpress.org/the-undercommons.html 
    Read "Stolen Life" by Fred Moten here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/stolen-life
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    • 57 min
    We Are Here Because You Were There

    We Are Here Because You Were There

    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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    • 54 min
    *Unlocked Lit Review* Abolishing The Family In Its Current Capitalist Formation

    *Unlocked Lit Review* Abolishing The Family In Its Current Capitalist Formation

    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. 
    Order Courtney Bryant's book "Erotic Defiance, Womanism, and Resistance" here: https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781506478692/Erotic-Defiance
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    • 58 min
    *UNLOCKED Lit Review* Holding War Criminals To Account

    *UNLOCKED Lit Review* Holding War Criminals To Account

    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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    • 53 min
    Prejuicios contra nacientes naciones

    Prejuicios contra nacientes naciones

    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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    • 44 min

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