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This Sunday I come to recommend another podcast.
This time it's a recommendation of a recommendation: a friend gave me the tip that it existed and I jumped headfirst to listen to it.
The perspective of black and Afro-descendant women is the starting point for
La Güira
, a podcast created by Georgina Marcelino, PhD in Advertising and Public Relations, and Yania Concepción, psychologist, therapist and sex educator.
The podcast is focused on these women.
For me, which I am not, it supposes a continuous learning of something that is far from my personal experience.
The idea “was around a year before we started up”, Georgina Marcelino tells me, but “the confinement helped us to materialize it”.
“When we were doing this podcast we also thought that we were filling a need, even a need that we had ourselves.
To have a meeting space, for learning, designed for us and that there are practically none, or there are very few.
And, when there are, they are in other languages, such as French or English.
We really wanted to do the podcast that we wanted to hear, ”she adds.
As I mentioned above, it is a space made by and for black and Afro-descendant women, but in
La Güira
(they chose this name, that of a Dominican musical instrument, as a vindication of the party and of joy in homage to their Caribbean roots ) the fan opens in its specials.
In them, along with other guests, they talk about Islamic feminism, gypsy or LGTBIQ + struggle.
Regarding these specials, Marcelino explains: “It is a section where we are talking with other women from other communities, with other different feelings.
Some coincide with us, because a good part of the guests are black women of African descent, but each one with a very particular theme on which we do not necessarily agree.
We wanted to explore the vision of different women, mostly racialized or in direct contact with antifascism as in the case of the [feminist] allies "
In fact, one of those specials is one of the two creators' favorite episodes: “The interview with Aída Bueno Sarduy was fantastic and is a good starting point for other black women to be motivated to also do their own creative projects, communication , of cinema, as she does ”, explains Marcelino.
Another of his favorite episodes is that of black couples: “Here we are talking about that union between black people who are so special, that it goes beyond all that imposed desire and all this mechanics that we always value white more. We try to focus on many forms of love, we explore many forms of love that occur between black people. "
Another of the episodes that both stand out is the first, about Afrofeminisms.
The podcast is a project that takes place in the free time of the two authors.
“We record twice a month.
We are both freelancers, it is not so easy to find time.
We usually organize well in advance.
For example, the special
Feminisms
we record mostly on weekends for the same reason, because the guests are also very busy people ”, Marcelino tells me.
After the episodes with guests, they plan to return to the usual theme of
La Güira
: “We want to go back to the essence, to talk about black women and our situations, our experiences.
In the end it is what makes it a podcast different from other feminist podcasts or different from other podcasts that are focused on social struggles, personal lives… ”, comments Marcelino.
"It is the feminist conviction but focused on the life of black women."
WE HAVE BEEN WORKING IN ...
Estonia is the only country with a president and prime minister: this is the map of countries ruled by women
.
Estonia has not only a prime minister, but also a head of state.
Of 193 countries, only 11 have a woman as president and 13 have a woman as prime minister or head of government.
(The figure includes only elected officials and not monarchs.)
What is it like to grow up with siblings you have been with for many years
.
"In a healthy relationship between siblings, this age difference translates into older siblings showing more" attitudes of care, protection and support for the child, "says psychologist Lourdes Merino.
The straws, the challenge of making a millenary product sustainable
.
Among the grave goods of Queen Puabi, in the Sumerian city of Ur, there was a silver cannula covered with stripes of gold and lapis lazuli.
A drinking tube from 2600 BC The grandmother of all straws On July 3, 2021 the use of single-use plastic straws, cutlery and plates will be prohibited.
Monitor sleep, but without obsessing over it
.
We have asked various experts what they think of sleep apps.
In his opinion, they can cause anxiety and impair rest.
... AND WE LIKED TO READ
1. A new Me Too breaks in France the taboo of sexual abuse in the family
(
El País, Radio France International
).
With the publication of the book
La familia grande
, by Camille Kouchner, in France the melon of a great taboo was opened through the hashtag
#
MeTooInceste: the sexual abuse of minors within the family.
"According to a survey carried out in December, 6.7 million French people, 10% of the population, say they have suffered sexual abuse by a relative."
It is a brutal figure.
The complaints in France regarding the abuse of minors already had a recent precedent also as a result of another book,
The consent
, by Vanessa Springora.
Macron has announced new initiatives to combat and punish sexual abuse of minors.
In addition, days after this #MeTooInceste, a new wave of complaints emerged: the #MeTooGay, where gay and bisexual men have reported abuse, both in adulthood and as minors.
2. Is the nose poking out of the mask the new manspreading?
(
The New York Times
, in English).
We all know that the mask should cover our mouth and nose.
It has been repeated to us by active and passive.
But it is not at all strange to go down the street and see that there are many people who do not raise their mask beyond their upper lip.
And, as science journalist James Gorman, who signs the article, says, it tends to be somewhat more common in men than women.
“Could it be that male noses are so big that masks don't fit?
Do you remember the diverse and dubious anatomical explanations of manspreading? ”He says humorously, and concludes after a couple more failed hypotheses:“ It is a fact that men have no greater need for a seat on the subway, or for a nose than breathe freely, than women or children.
Finally, there is the possibility that men are simply drones. "
3. The Most Common Mistakes When Exercising at Home and You Can Injury Yourself
(
CNN
).
From this pandemic, I get the habit of exercising frequently at home.
But there is always one thing that scares me: injuring myself because I am doing something wrong and there is no one waiting for me to correct me and reposition me, like when I used to go to Pilates.
That's why this guide can help us a bit to avoid very common exercise injuries in any home workout routine we follow.
4. Four years on the front line
(
Elle
, in English).
Now that Trump's term is over, 23 political journalists from the United States tell what it was like to be at the foot of the canyon during that legislature, in some of the highlights of those four years and in which, inadvertently, sometimes they made news themselves.
LA GÜIRA
RECOMMENDS YOU
If after listening to all the podcast episodes you feel like more, Georgina Marcelino and Yania Concepción bring you more recommendations:
Those of Georgina Marcelino:
-
So you want to talk about race?
by Ijeoma Oluo.
- The texts (books, press and academic articles) of the guests of
La Güira
: Míriam Hatibi, Jeannette Durán Tineo, Desirée Bela-Lobedde, Ochy Curiel, Pastora Filigrana, Ninari Chimba, Aída Bueno Sarduy, Iki Yos Piña, Pamela Palenciano and Gloria Fortún.
Those of Yania Concepción:
-
The body is not an apology
, by Sonia Renee Taylor.
-
There is no sex without racialization
, of the Ayllu Collective.
-
Give us back the gold
, from the Ayllu Collective.
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