Episode 132: Anti-Colonial Gestures with Analú Lopez

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Society & Culture, Visual Arts, Arts, History, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 4 July 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, LWL brings you an interview with Analú Lopez that is sure to wash away all those unwoke feelings of nationhood. Analú María López is a librarian, archivist, and photographer of Xi'úi (Pame) and Guachichil descent from Chichimec tribes of Mexico. Her job as a librarian in Chicago has allowed her to see how different forms of knowledge are shared amongst local indigenous communities and scholars alike. In this interview, Analú and Babelito talk about the difference between decolonizing the world and creating anti-colonial gestures. Also, Analú tells us about various ways in which indigenous knowledge available at her library can become a communal experience. Stay tuned till the end for Babelito's music recommendations and as always make sure to send your emails to AskLWLPod@gmail.com and we might read them on a future episode. #podsincolor #supportbrownpodcasts #supportlatinxpodcasts #supportlatinxbands #lwlpod

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0:00.0	And the Hello, hello, hello, how is everybody doing? Feli's 4tho de Culeo.
0:14.0	Just kidding. How is everybody doing? Felice 4tho de Julio.
0:24.0	Just kidding.
0:25.0	I don't, I don't know, like the only thing I like about
0:28.0	4tho de Julio.
0:29.0	I'm just gonna keep calling it 4tho de Julio.
0:32.0	The only thing that I really like about
0:33.6	Quattro de Julio is fireworks, but you know they keep you up all night so it's not that
0:37.8	exciting but I guess I'm in a new city so I gotta enjoy. I just I don't engage I don't engage with celebrations of the nations like that
0:48.0	Nien Mexico nia key so if you're celebrating God bless'm not. I'm just sitting in my home. I am
0:56.2	re-listening to this episode to this interview that you're about to listen. I am very
1:01.8	excited to bring this interview because I think it's very fitting. Here we are again
1:08.1	is Quattro de Julio and and we're celebrating certain myths about, not only about the place where we live,
1:18.0	where the place that we grow up, but also part of our identity because as as children of this nation we are
1:28.8	raised to believe that our identity has to be rooted on nationhood, on the felicity of Cé-Americano, you know, even though everybody
1:39.6	calls themselves here Americans, even though that's the whole continent.
1:45.0	U.S. citizens will be something more specific, but how can we go outside and celebrate
1:51.6	Quattro de Julio when there's a lot of shit happening.
1:55.0	There's a lot of shit happening throughout the whole entire country, ice raids everywhere.
2:01.0	You have a mess in the border that I'm not going to get into because I am not
2:06.0	going to engage on all the sentimentality you know what's happening you know what's going on
2:11.5	you know the urgency to help and try to make a change and we can all do our part
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