ALYNDA MARIPOSA SEGARRA on Life on Earth /321

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🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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How do we sustain nourishing roots in a time of displacement? This week, guest Alynda Mariposa Segarra invites listeners to examine their relationship to place, comfort, and survival as they discuss their newest album LIFE ON EARTH. Through the art form of music, Alynda holds together the complexities that come with wanting and needing to run away from oppressive systems while simultaneously having to confront what is happening right in front of us. Tapping into these themes, Alynda discusses...

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0:52.8	Hello, and welcome to For the Wild Podcast. I'm Ayanna Young.
0:58.9	Today, I'm speaking with Alinda Mariposa-Sagara.
1:02.7	That's what gets me out. It's like it's that little kid who was into Riot Girl.
1:09.9	It's like that's the person that's like we have to get out of this hole,
1:14.9	and we have to keep making what we made.
1:18.1	Alinda Mariposa-Sagara is a songwriter storyteller who performs under the name
1:23.2	hooray for the riffraff. They are a Nyora Kinqueer artist born and raised in the Bronx,
1:28.5	who got much of their musical political education from the anarcho-squatter punk scene of NYC.
1:35.2	Alinda spent years as a freight train writer and eventually learned to make music on the street
1:40.7	in New Orleans. Alinda has used the craft of songwriting as a tool for communication and protest.
1:47.2	They have released eight albums of music, most recently the critically acclaimed
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