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Capitulo 007: Brown Girl Hour · Locatora Radio [A Radiophonic Novela]

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  Speaker 1: Radio radio Radio Commies of myth and bullshit Radio phonic
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  Speaker 1: novella local radio hosted by Malamnos and Hello and welcome
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  Speaker 1: back to look at a radio. We are your local tos.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Malamuns and I'm FM and we're tuning back into
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  Speaker 1: Brown Girl Our where we make space for the exploration
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  Speaker 1: and celebration of the experiences, brilliance, creativity and legacies of
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  Speaker 1: fans and women of color. So welcome back, Yeah, welcome back.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for tuning in. We hope you enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: our last copulo with Nalia Carmet Um. I hope to
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  Speaker 1: have her back in the future. UM. Today we're actually
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  Speaker 1: going to be talking about Brown Girl Our and what
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  Speaker 1: that means, why it's so important to us in this
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  Speaker 1: podcast us UM. But before we get to that, we
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  Speaker 1: actually want to talk about what a radiophonic novella is.
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  Speaker 1: That is what we consider this podcast to be as
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  Speaker 1: a radiophonic novella. UM beyond the past, because we are
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  Speaker 1: extra and we couldn't just do a podcast to read
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  Speaker 1: something more. Yes, when we were working on the promo
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  Speaker 1: of this like months before, like maybe a month or
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  Speaker 1: two before we even like launched our first episode, we
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  Speaker 1: were having photos shoots. Oh my god, we were buying
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  Speaker 1: outfits like at the Swamp meats at Slawson, so we
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  Speaker 1: could like really put something good together because that is
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  Speaker 1: how we are if you follow our personal instagrams, you know. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And we were joking about it. We were like before
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  Speaker 1: we could not put anything out until we had our logo,
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  Speaker 1: until we had our photos, and I was I was
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  Speaker 1: like Ariana, like, who does this for a podcast? Us?
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  Speaker 1: They are super super extra. But I'm assuming that that's
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  Speaker 1: why y'all are listening, because you enjoy the fem extra
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  Speaker 1: nests all its glory. Yes, So since we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: like what a novella is or for our communities, like
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  Speaker 1: did you watch Pavela's Growing Up? Mala? See? I did
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  Speaker 1: not grow up watching a lot of novellas, But what
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  Speaker 1: I did grow up watching a lot of Okay, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I watched a lot of still watched gast in my
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  Speaker 1: house and when it's time, it's time. Um, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: used to watch there was this one called like PRINCESSA,
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  Speaker 1: and then there was one called but I Love. I've
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  Speaker 1: heard of that one and my dad wouldn't let me
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  Speaker 1: watch it. Why not because it's like it was a
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  Speaker 1: lot of sex. Apparently, I don't know. I was really little.
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  Speaker 1: I was like probably six or seven, and this was
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  Speaker 1: probably back in the nineties, and but I would like
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  Speaker 1: pretend to be asleep and I would watch it, of course,
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  Speaker 1: because I needed to know what was gonna help curiosity. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I needed to know what's going to happen with the
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  Speaker 1: with the characters, you know. So I was sucked in
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  Speaker 1: um And this is kind of like our bi monthly
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  Speaker 1: novella but on the internet, you know, and like it's
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  Speaker 1: also our form of storytelling, yeah, without the whitewashing, like
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  Speaker 1: you had mentioned, Like novellas in Latin America are infamous for,
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  Speaker 1: like not notorious for having like the white Latinos straight hair,
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  Speaker 1: really skinny, blonde hair, blue eye. And it's a narrative
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  Speaker 1: of like maybe the more brown Latino Latino. It's like
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  Speaker 1: comes into money in some way, and then all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, she's like a higher class so she's worthy
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  Speaker 1: of like being with like the white Latino man, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and now they're approved, like now they can get married whatever.
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  Speaker 1: You know. That's like a very common tract to richest
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  Speaker 1: kind of thing. And so are our take on the novella.
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  Speaker 1: On the radiophonic novella, it's just it's words and radio
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  Speaker 1: waves and reclaim aiming that sort of like that's sort
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  Speaker 1: of like cultural production where there's all this hype around
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  Speaker 1: it and there's a narrative and people tune in every
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  Speaker 1: week and it's a community event. Like we wanted to
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  Speaker 1: take that model and like switch it up and reclaim
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  Speaker 1: it and make it something that was focused on us. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: also novenas are extra as they're super dramatic, so you
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  Speaker 1: know that that could be where we get it from
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  Speaker 1: one of the places we get it from. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: all about storytelling. And I like to think of this
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  Speaker 1: as like the radiophonic novella, Like there's a narrative that occurs,
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  Speaker 1: Like we have a narrative, a narrative arc. It's not
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  Speaker 1: an obvious one, but our plows, like our ideas come
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  Speaker 1: up organically, like as we live life, as things happen
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  Speaker 1: in our lives. So in some ways, you guys are
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  Speaker 1: following along with like that, you know, the happenings of
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  Speaker 1: our lives without even really knowing it, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: if we come up with an idea for there's a reason.
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  Speaker 1: There's something that happens in life that we want put
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  Speaker 1: out this content now. Yeah, future episode we should do
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  Speaker 1: like a breakup one. You know, there's been a lot
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  Speaker 1: of action around that reason dumped them two case yes.
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  Speaker 1: Um so I also want to like shout out. We
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  Speaker 1: couldn't find the exact d M or the comments. Um
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  Speaker 1: so if you're listening, if you're the person that wrote this,
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  Speaker 1: like d M s because we want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: this again. But somebody commented or they tweeted in some capacity,
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  Speaker 1: um that they felt like Loca Tora was there like
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  Speaker 1: their novella, like what for their their mother like listening
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  Speaker 1: or watching waiting for her novella, Like that's what was
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  Speaker 1: for for them. They were waiting for the next coup
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  Speaker 1: people to be released. And that's exactly what we wanted,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we wanted to kind of build this, have
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  Speaker 1: it be a community event, like you said, Mala, like
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  Speaker 1: a space. Someone also said that they're trying to get
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  Speaker 1: their their family members to listen with them, which is
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  Speaker 1: so beautiful, especially because I know that my family doesn't
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  Speaker 1: listen to this, so I think that's really I really
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  Speaker 1: like that. You know, Yeah, we had another um listener
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  Speaker 1: who let us know that she actually works with youth,
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  Speaker 1: with young men, and she actually has UM the young
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  Speaker 1: men that she works with listen to the podcast because
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  Speaker 1: it's an example of women who are autonomous and empowered
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  Speaker 1: and who can cuss and say no and set boundaries
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  Speaker 1: and be strong and be rough around the edges, and
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  Speaker 1: that as young men, they need to be comfortable with that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and contend with that. UM. So I think
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  Speaker 1: that's really cool. Yeah, I agree. Also, someone commented on
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  Speaker 1: the podcast, I mean, I'm sorry on the iTunes podcast,
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  Speaker 1: and they left a review and their name they put
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  Speaker 1: basic white Girl. I love. And then I'm just going
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  Speaker 1: to read it because I think it's really great. UM
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  Speaker 1: strong fem centered intersectional analysis on current events, popular culture,
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  Speaker 1: and daily life. It's brown girl, our and white women
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  Speaker 1: need to listen in a great resource to learn from
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  Speaker 1: women of color without demanding unrequired emotional and intellectual labor. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I thank you for tuning in to the user that
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  Speaker 1: left that comment. I think that is also something you
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't think about. You know, we didn't think exactly,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't know exactly who we would be reaching, if
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  Speaker 1: we would even have listeners. You know, but we knew
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  Speaker 1: that there was a need for a FM centered something something,
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  Speaker 1: some type of media, some type of our some type
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  Speaker 1: of creation. And because I don't know, we just have
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  Speaker 1: so many experiences where were reminded why what we're doing
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  Speaker 1: is important. Can we talk about last night? We can? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we went to shout out to Final Club. They had
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  Speaker 1: an event at Lasita last night and we were with
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  Speaker 1: we we were there with the Mommy Collective. We're also
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  Speaker 1: on I G now, which is so extra, so extra.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, these these two men approached me Mala and
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  Speaker 1: got the apple bum gott and you know, just trying
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  Speaker 1: to talk, trying to holler, trying to see what's up,
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  Speaker 1: get to know us whatever, and of course none of
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  Speaker 1: us were interested. Um, so this person is a taxidermist. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he showed us photos of his taxidermy, like the animals
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  Speaker 1: that he has like stuffed and preserved. And then he proceeded.
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  Speaker 1: He says, he says, he was asking us about our hobby. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he goes, so what do you what do you all do?
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  Speaker 1: And Mama looks at me and she goes, well, we
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  Speaker 1: have a podcast, and he goes, what do you talk
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  Speaker 1: about being Latina and pretty in l A and how
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  Speaker 1: hard it is, and he was like really condescending, super condescending.
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  Speaker 1: Probably all he looked older, so you know, so I
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  Speaker 1: just looked at her and I was like, yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what we talked about. Like it was just incredible
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  Speaker 1: to me because I'm looking at this guy and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, you came up to us, showed us
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  Speaker 1: photos of your taxidermied animals, and then insulted our podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I'm confused about the sequence of events here. Then always
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  Speaker 1: do that kind of ship, like we do that kind
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  Speaker 1: of ship. And I'm like, this dude, actually, like when
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  Speaker 1: you make a statement like that, oh being like pretty
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  Speaker 1: and you know, a woman in l A and how
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  Speaker 1: hard it is, I'm like the condescension just it reveals
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  Speaker 1: that you have no fucking idea what it's like to
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  Speaker 1: be a woman in this city, you know what I
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  Speaker 1: mean exactly, And like just his perception of us, like
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  Speaker 1: fem women, right, Lasita, you know, we were looking really cute,
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  Speaker 1: super cute, We looked really good looks, we all look
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  Speaker 1: really good. Um, yeah, that we must be frivolous. It
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  Speaker 1: must be frivolous. Femine frivolous, you know, but you know
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  Speaker 1: what it is frivolous, but it's frivolous as a politic.
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  Speaker 1: It's frivolous with intention. I could see that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and it's frivolous, but it's frivolous but like, yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: with intention. And but I think that's like I think
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  Speaker 1: that's what makes it not frivoloust because there's intention behind it.
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  Speaker 1: So it's extra about on purpose. But it's not for
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  Speaker 1: the list. It's necessary. It's necessary. Yeah, it's a politic.
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  Speaker 1: It's a self care polity, self care. It's a firm politic.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's also like novellas are, like it's
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  Speaker 1: so interesting because like Latin America is such like a
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  Speaker 1: much She's a much, He's best sort of place. But
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  Speaker 1: the drama like imbued in novellas, I think, is something
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  Speaker 1: that's considered to be very fem drama gossip. So it's
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  Speaker 1: interesting that this sort of like fem expression is so popular.
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  Speaker 1: You know that it's also targeted. I mean you I
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  Speaker 1: would assume that the target audiences women women that they're
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  Speaker 1: at home, maybe they're not working because they're taking care
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  Speaker 1: of their families, so they're not doing the conventional type
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  Speaker 1: of work. M hmm. Interesting. Yeah, so that was our
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  Speaker 1: experience and that's why this podcast is necessary. Yes, agreed, um.
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  Speaker 1: So moving forward, we want to talk about people of
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  Speaker 1: colored time, queer time, cue pop time. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: people have a lot of different words for it. Like me,
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  Speaker 1: growing up, my dad would say Mexican time. We would
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  Speaker 1: say proving time. Up one on time, right, Mexican time,
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  Speaker 1: proving time, brown people time, CEP time, colored people time,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is that you call it. You all know
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  Speaker 1: what we're talking about. People that color are late a lot,
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  Speaker 1: super late, sickly. I know, like my family whenever we
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  Speaker 1: have get togethers, like if the invitation says four, nobody
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  Speaker 1: will get there till six, right, standard, right, this is
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  Speaker 1: just regular. So for me, like it's really hard for
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  Speaker 1: me to be on time because I'm doing so much
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  Speaker 1: prior to whatever it is that I need to get
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  Speaker 1: to do exactly. So we wanted to talk about sort
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  Speaker 1: of because we talk about keeping brown girl time and
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  Speaker 1: brown girl our on this podcast. We wanted to break
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  Speaker 1: down on this idea of like an hour for a
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  Speaker 1: brown girl and brown girl time and what that really
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  Speaker 1: means and like when we're late. I think lateness and
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  Speaker 1: people of color are often perceived as lazy or unorganized
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  Speaker 1: and unable to keep it together. But but we with
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  Speaker 1: this couple, we wanted to talk about no like brown
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  Speaker 1: girl our as like time for us to regroup and focus,
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  Speaker 1: but then also like the queer POC time that we
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  Speaker 1: may or may not be on as coming from like
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  Speaker 1: a specific historical place right exactly. Um yeah, And like
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  Speaker 1: we know time is a social construct and it's like
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  Speaker 1: reinforced by capitalism, Like you need to be on time
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  Speaker 1: because you need to clock in. Time is money. Time
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  Speaker 1: is money. You need to like take your dirty minute break,
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  Speaker 1: clock out, clock back in. You know that kind of
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  Speaker 1: like conveyor belty type of job, type of life. Um.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I think that that is something that um,
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  Speaker 1: we're like challenging it by being laid in away, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean, Because it's like we're doing unapologetic
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  Speaker 1: unapologetic in my lateness. Yes, like multitasking like not only
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  Speaker 1: like as films, like all the labor that goes into
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  Speaker 1: like getting ready. Oh yeah, because we want to because
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  Speaker 1: we like to, because we want to because we like
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  Speaker 1: to because it's important to us. We were talking with
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  Speaker 1: Noel from Shop Mavia, and she was talking about how
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  Speaker 1: you can't do it all, you can't do everything, um
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  Speaker 1: and so like how it's important to recognize like your
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  Speaker 1: individual strengths and how you can contribute to resistance and
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  Speaker 1: to the movement because what we end up seeing is like,
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  Speaker 1: especially women women of color, end up doing so much
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  Speaker 1: doing everything. Like my favorite example of the multitasker is Cattle,
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, because she's like she's on her bike,
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  Speaker 1: like across the county, like twice over, multiple marching. Is
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  Speaker 1: she's going to go to grad school, she's gonna meet
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  Speaker 1: up with friends, she's gonna go to phills like all
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  Speaker 1: in one day on her bike, you know, like public transportation, transportation.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like, you know, we're busy. We might be
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  Speaker 1: late because we're doing a whole lot of ship. We
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  Speaker 1: might be late because you know, we have to take
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  Speaker 1: the metro, because we have to take buses, because we
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  Speaker 1: have to ride our bikes. Because sometimes the places where
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  Speaker 1: we live, the potholes in the street are so horrible
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  Speaker 1: and severe. You know, it takes ten minutes to get
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  Speaker 1: out of your neighborhood. Like sometimes we're late. Yes, life happens.
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  Speaker 1: Life gets in the way right right down. Mhm. I
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  Speaker 1: think like kind of like like we have we have
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  Speaker 1: to learn that we can't do I like, I like
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  Speaker 1: how you said that, like we really just can't do
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  Speaker 1: it all and we can't. And then I think that
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  Speaker 1: that's also why that's also why we're so exhausted all
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  Speaker 1: the time we're trying to do everything. I know. That's
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  Speaker 1: how I feel like for my personal like my my
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  Speaker 1: day job, I feel like I'm always doing so much.
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  Speaker 1: I'm literally like I'm a community organizer, but I'm a
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  Speaker 1: social worker, I'm a therapist, I'm a taxi driver, right,
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  Speaker 1: nonprofit lingle, It's like where wears a lot of hats?
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  Speaker 1: You love to say that that that but we wear
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  Speaker 1: a lot of hats. But that's such like a passive
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  Speaker 1: sort of phrase like no, like I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: else to say it, but I have I have lots
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  Speaker 1: of legs, maybe like I don't know, I have lots
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  Speaker 1: of arms. Where's a lot of hats? It's they like
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  Speaker 1: to nonprofit like they like to talk about all the
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  Speaker 1: work that they have us doing as like oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: you guys are like building your skill set and your
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  Speaker 1: building experiences, which on the one hand is true, but
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, I'm like, I feel like you're
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  Speaker 1: religious taking advantage of me and my labor. That's like
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  Speaker 1: also like learn like saying no is a part of
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  Speaker 1: self care. I think that you have to learn to
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  Speaker 1: say no even in the job. It's like, no, I
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  Speaker 1: cannot do that today. Yes, and maybe we also if
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  Speaker 1: we if we want to try and be on time
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  Speaker 1: to things, maybe we have to say no. Right yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I double book myself all the time. I'm constantly
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  Speaker 1: double booking myself. Shout out to all my friends that
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  Speaker 1: deal with my ships. I'm always fucking double booked. It's
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  Speaker 1: really bad. That is actually my So last year my
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  Speaker 1: goal was to not be a flake, which worked. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I'm a less flake, which worked. I am
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  Speaker 1: a less lacky personnel the things if I say, I will,
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  Speaker 1: But it also has enabled me to double book myself.
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  Speaker 1: So goal is to not double book, which also means
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  Speaker 1: saying no to things. Right. No, I would love to go,
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  Speaker 1: but I cannot. Yeah yeah, yeah, Like let me think
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  Speaker 1: about it, but I shall be back to it. It
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  Speaker 1: would be better for me. Not like last night, Like
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  Speaker 1: let me say, like we all went out and I
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  Speaker 1: probably should not have gone, but I didn't have fun
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  Speaker 1: and it's good and I was like my like distress
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  Speaker 1: like time with my home girls. So I feel good
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  Speaker 1: for like the week. Yeah. Yeah, it's a balance, I think. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: even it's balance, but even like even getting to things
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  Speaker 1: like I live the furthest out of everybody, and I
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  Speaker 1: will get there first, and I'm like, it's actually so funny.
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  Speaker 1: Am I the first one here? When I'm all the
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  Speaker 1: way in Southeastly? It's true, y'all are sucking in downtown
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  Speaker 1: pastorally and I'm always there first. It's true. No, yes,
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  Speaker 1: Like for example, yesterday, um, we were both we were
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  Speaker 1: both supposed to go to Shop Me Viva shoutout Shot
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  Speaker 1: Me Viva in Highland Park. We were both supposed to go,
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  Speaker 1: and I live closer, way closer to shot me Vida
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  Speaker 1: than Ariana does. So I'm on my way over there
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  Speaker 1: and I actually get a call from Ariana and she's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna be a few minutes late, like
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  Speaker 1: just get there and you know, let her know and
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  Speaker 1: everything is fine. Well, she still ended up getting there
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  Speaker 1: before me. Yeah, even though she called to tell me
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  Speaker 1: she would be late and could I please make sure
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  Speaker 1: that everything that started on time, I still got there
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  Speaker 1: after her look at all cute, cute Like I'll be late,
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  Speaker 1: but I'll be cute. I feel like when I'm running late,
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  Speaker 1: I'll like, I always tend to like do a winged
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  Speaker 1: eyeliner even though I'm running late, and I know that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna that's gonna take me some extra time. You have
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  Speaker 1: to give yourself wings, you know, to get there. Girl.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's hilarious. But maybe we should get into a
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  Speaker 1: songbreak absolutely or any all happen and m m it
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  Speaker 1: and welcome back to look at the radio. This is
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Mala Munos. Now we want to come back to our
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  Speaker 1: discussion of brown Girl our and you know q POC time,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: and we wanted to tie all of this in with
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  Speaker 1: self care. And of course, one of the most important
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: prolific thinkers on the concept of self care is the
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  Speaker 1: one and only Audrey Lord. Yes, um, she has this
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  Speaker 1: really brilliant, brilliant quote about self care. Um, caring for
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  Speaker 1: myself is not self indulgence. It is self preservation. And
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: that is an act of political warfare. Right, So, as
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  Speaker 1: people of color, we need to, like we really we
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  Speaker 1: need to advocate for ourselves and for our wellness and
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  Speaker 1: for like our justified self care time are justified. Self
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  Speaker 1: care time are justified. Down time are justified like relaxation,
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  Speaker 1: luxuriating time. Yes, yeah, I mean we I think I
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  Speaker 1: want to say, we've talked about this before, but we
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  Speaker 1: always talk about like some of our self care is
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: like doing really like basic things like our laundry, like laundry, lautry, shopping. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, I think we need to learn to say
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  Speaker 1: no and like that is our like also like our
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: self preservation, like our self care. Yeah. And I really
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  Speaker 1: appreciate how Audrey lord Um talked about you know, what
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing and taking care of myself, it's not self indulgent,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Like always, I feel like always, when when when,
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  Speaker 1: especially when fans, when women where when women of color
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  Speaker 1: are doing things that are for ourselves or that are
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: things that we like to do, it's considered like indulgent excessive, right,
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  Speaker 1: But I like that Audrey lord like understands that, and
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  Speaker 1: I felt it felt that it was important to break
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  Speaker 1: that down right, break down the way that when we're
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: considered frivolous, it's not frivolous, it's actually very political. What
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  Speaker 1: we're doing, you know, whether we even recognize it or not. Yeah, exactly. Um.
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  Speaker 1: I also I was going to say, hold on, I'm
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: gonna say, we're both a little hungover. We're both a
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: little bit hungover. So yeah, this is this is this
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: is a little bit um more of a relaxed than
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: our other ones. That's going to be a little bit shorter.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: But you know, we had to give you guys something.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that's so funny. I did not know
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  Speaker 1: what I was gonna say. That's okay, I'm sorry. You'll
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: come back to me at some point. Yeah. Yeah. So anyways, Um,
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  Speaker 1: I just want everybody to be secure in their in
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  Speaker 1: their nests, you know, like secure in your brownness and
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: your blackness and your feminists and all that that entails,
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  Speaker 1: you know, even the messy parts, even the parts that
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: when we get looked down on or when we're coded
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  Speaker 1: as lazy when really well actually, like I have a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot of ship going on. Yeah, I have a
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: whole lot of ship going on. I'm tired. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're humans. We have to you know, so we have
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  Speaker 1: to have it has to be leeway, there has to
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: be space for mistakes and and all of that good
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: stuff and we deserve that, yeah, exactly. Mm hmm. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't know, give us your guys thoughts on
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: your experiences with this idea brown girl, our Mexican time,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Latino time, proving in time, Cubepoc time. Yeah. I always
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: say that's why I'm extra late, because not only time
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: that I got the queer time, you know. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: fem time. How long does it take to get your
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: nails done? Yesterday I sat in the chair for like
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: an hour and fifteen minutes. It can become it can
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: turn into like a full afternoon. Yeah, it really can.
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  Speaker 1: You could be there for three or four hours easily,
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  Speaker 1: easily easily, And that's like some people get their like
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: brows done, like nail salants to or they get like
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: some form of like hair removal treatment, facial something. So
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: it could really be a full experience. It could be
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: a full experience. How long does it take to get
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: those eyelash extensions? Four hours? It's a long problem into it,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: It's a long process. Yah, you have to lay there
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: for like three to four hours, you know. So, like
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: the things that we do to express our feminists take time. Yeah, absolutely,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: So don't rush me, do not rush me. That's if
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: there's one thing that I really cannot stand is being rushed.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Same and I hate being rushed by men. I can't
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: stand it. Yeah, it grinds my gears. Yeah, I can't
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  Speaker 1: do it. No whenever like men have an opinion about something.
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  Speaker 1: Today today my dad he was telling me. He was
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: asking me about my nails, and he asked me, like,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: how fast second type? And I was like quick enough,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: set my ship done. And he goes, because you know
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: you're not gonna listen to me, but I really don't
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: like the length of your nails. And he goes, but
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: but and I was like, thank you for the compliment,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: thank you, that's what I was going forward. And then
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: he walked away because he left to work. And I
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: was like, I didn't ask you. We weren't even talking
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: what you know what I mean absolutely so stop telling
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: us what to do. Stop telling us what to do,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: because I don't go up to you all and tell
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: you that I hate your haircut, that you look horrible,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: should that you need like some beard maintenance. I don't
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: come up to you guys because I don't care. But
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I could if I felt like it, right, But I
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: wanted to be that that bitch I could you really
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: could and might be and I have been. I'm known
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: to be. That's hilarious. But anyways, so yeah, I mean
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: should we um we finished? Let's finish with our We
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: have events coming up, Yes, we have events. We have
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: a calendar really soon in like two weeks we are
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: having We are femcyeing at Shopmvia in Highland Park on
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  Speaker 1: Avenue fifty two in York. Um Artistasistas. So there will
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: be four local artists, women of color, young women of color,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: and then Donna will actually be saying performing. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and we're gonna we're gonna put something really really great together.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Mama and I were, um, I think thankful to know
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: that she gave us like kind of the freedom to
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: really do whatever we want as femci. So that's you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm really fitted and this is the first event and
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: we're cold staying in a way, and I'm really excited.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun. Yeah, it's it's from seven to
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: ten right yeah, in the evening. Yeah. So there will
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: be a flyer. We will post that eventually whenever it's ready.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Adriana does it their flyers, so you know it's going
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: to be cute. Um, and then what else do we
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: have going on? Girl? Wow? We have On March three,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Dona also known as Dona Music on Instagram, she is
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: having an EP release party at the Boil Heights Arts Conservatory,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: So we're also going to be femcs at that event
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: as well. Should be really fun. Donna is so talented.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: She just finished a music video for this EP and
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: it's so good. It's so good, So check her out.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Check her out because she's really incredible. Yeah, I'm really excited.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: We have not met yet. Oh yeah, she's so weird
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: because I feel like we like I know her, but
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: I do not write and we both work for meb
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: that from time to time. That's true. And we have
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: you in common, that's true. What the hell is Dona?
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: If you're listening, you know, we need to get this together, Okay.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: And then March fourth, we will be doing a fem
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: defense work shop at you see Santa Barbara the Multicultural
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Centers having a social justice conference. So if you're in
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Santa Barbara, I just learned that it's actually for students only.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: An alum so if you're a student, you see Santa
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Barbara come say hi to us, attend the workshop if
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: you like, we want to host like something afterwards, like
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: a like a happy hour or like a lunch or something.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: So we guys, yeah, well we'll talk about that later.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about it. Keep your eyes peeled for that
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: for that. Also, like if you're in Santa Barbara, would
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: you would you come to something? Like would you like? Yeah?
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Like like if we when I went to Santa Barbara,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: my favorite spot was in Golita and it was called Baloma,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: and me and my friends we would get so drunk there.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: The happy hour was really good. I'm thinking that that
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: is where we should because I used to be my
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: favorite spot. So I think we should repsit um. And
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: then finally we have an events. Yeah. Yeah, So there's
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: an event, a big like art exhibition conference. It's this
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: big event called Viva la Moe and it's it's it's
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: like an effort put out by Less vul Those Project
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: UM to benefit Less vult Those Project to showcase the
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: work of the young women who participate in that program
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: and other um Latino artists. So we are going to
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: be participating in some capacity. We haven't really ironed out
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: all the details yet, but that's going to be March eleventh,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: and you can go online and look up um and
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: get tickets for the Viva La event. Right. We will
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: also be doing a take giveaway in near future, so
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: so also keep your eye out on that. Let us
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: know what you think about Brown Girl our Thank you
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: for tuning in, Thank you for keeping time with us.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: As always, I hope you're listening to this, Like while
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: you're running late, you probably are probably running late. Um,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: it'll be fine, you'll get there, You'll be cute, no worries, Yeah,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: it'll be fine. You can only be late once. Isn't
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: that a meme? And I just saw this meme the
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: other day where it's like, don't worry about getting their late,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: you can only be late once. Like it's kind of true.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: You know that's hilarious. Yes, So thanks for tuning in.
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  Speaker 1: We will catch you next time.