Kultivating Kapwa: Decolonizing Parenthood Episode 3.27
"Becoming a Mother - Becoming Your Truest Self"
In this episode, we are joined by Joanna La Torre. We discuss being a new parent as a queer, single, PhD student, how having a child during the Pandemic has shaped how she moves with her child in the world, how becoming a mother has helped her become her truest self, and more.
Joanna La Torre is a genderqueer, queer, multi-ethnic, community-embedded, Filipinx scholar-praxavist and settler from occupied Ohlone territory in California’s Bay Area. Jo is an indigenist researcher and social work practitioner whose work seeks to uplift sovereignty of Indigenous peoples around the world. Joanna’s practice has focused on young people highly impacted by carceral logics and systems including those imprisoned and/or surveilled by criminal legal and child welfare systems.
Currently, Jo is a PhD student and Research Assistant at the University of Washington’s Indigenous Wellness Research Institute and is working on a study about the health and wellness of Native American youth at a residential boarding school.
@marunggay_medicine has been involved with the Center for Babaylan Studies for over ten years and has served with the leadership core since 2016. Joanna’s research is situated within the movements of decolonizing Filipinos and aims to bolster community-driven, culturally-grounded interventions addressing disproportionate mental health burdens of Filipinos in diaspora.
*Episode Notes: This episode contains brief instances of profanity.*
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Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//
Produced by Olivia Sawi//
Co-Produced by Annie Aarons-Sawi//
Music by AstraLogik
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