Dear Sugars Presents: Anything For Selena
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Listen to the trailer for "Anything For Selena," a new podcast from WBUR and Futuro Studios coming in January 2021. Subscribe now so you don't miss it!
About The Show:
On March 31, 1995, nine-year-old Maria Garcia came home to find her mother glued to the TV, tears rolling down her rosy cheeks. The phone kept ringing. Relatives in Mexico and the States wanted to know if Maria’s family was watching, too. American networks and Mexican programming aired the same top story. Selena Quintanilla, the Grammy-winning ascending Mexican American popstar had been killed — swiftly, violently — by the president of her fan club.
The story shook the country and changed Maria’s life.
In "Anything For Selena," host Maria Garcia goes on an intimate, revelatory quest to understand how Selena has become a potent symbol for tensions around race, class and body politics in the United States.
The series weaves Maria’s personal story as a queer, first-generation Mexican immigrant with cultural analysis, history and politics to explore how, 25 years after her death, Selena remains an unparalleled vessel for understanding Latino identity and American belonging.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Slack. With Slack, you can bring all your people and |
| 0:05.9 | tools together in one place. It's your digital HQ where you can increase productivity, |
| 0:11.1 | enable flexibility and automate workflows. Plus, Slack is full of game-changing features, |
| 0:16.9 | like huddles for quick check-ins, or Slack Connect, which helps you connect with partners |
| 0:20.9 | inside and outside of your company. Slack, where the future works. Get started at |
| 0:26.9 | Slack.com slash DHQ. Happy 2021, sugar fans. This is Amory Sievertson, producer |
| 0:34.3 | emeritus of the show. And I have a sweet treat for you. So as a dear sugar listener, you know |
| 0:40.6 | how we explore things like identity and belonging and trying to make sense of things like love |
| 0:46.4 | and loss, triumph and tribulation. And now our home station, WBUR, has partnered with |
| 0:52.7 | Futuro Studios on a brand new podcast that does just that. It's called Anything for Salina. |
| 0:59.7 | Host Maria Garcia takes listeners on a deeply personal journey into the life and legacy |
| 1:04.8 | of the Mexican-American pop star, Salina Quintanilla. She shares how Salina's music and unapologetic |
| 1:11.1 | sense of identity helped her find her own place in the world. And it explores how Salina's |
| 1:16.6 | legacy continues to spark important conversations around things like race, class and body politics. |
| 1:23.8 | Today, we present to you the very first episode of Anything for Salina. And let me just say, |
| 1:29.6 | I am so excited for you. So here it is. Enjoy. |
| 1:35.6 | It's produced by the island at WBUR Boston. |
| 1:47.6 | If I was somehow asked to say only one thing about the place I'm from, it would be that |
| 2:03.6 | it has this unforgettable smell when it rains. It's slightly floral, but mostly it's this |
| 2:12.6 | very specific, cool, earthy desert aroma. And there's usually a calm, clear breeze, which |
| 2:20.6 | carries these concentrated little pockets of fragrance. |
| 2:27.6 | This smell comes from the Creosow bush, a resilient plant that thrives only in this particularly |
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