GETTING CURIOUS | What’s The Meaning Of “Raizado”? with Mónica Ramírez

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

There are more than 62 million Latine people living in the United States. Some are US-born, others are recent immigrants, and still more have had family members here for centuries—living on land that was once part of Mexico. This week, Mónica Ramírez returns to Getting Curious to discuss how the Latine community is “deeply rooted” in the US, what it looks like to protect the humanity and dignity of these 62 million people, and why advocates like Mónica aren’t simply showing up at spaces of consequence to address systemic issues—they’re creating spaces of consequence. CW: This episode discusses bodily harm and hateful rhetoric. Mónica Ramírez is an attorney, author, and activist fighting for the rights of farmworkers, migrant women workers, and the Latine(x) community. She is the founder of Justice for Migrant Women and co-founder of Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, The Latinx House, and Poderistas. Mónica has received numerous awards, including Harvard Kennedy School’s first Gender Equity Changemaker Award, Feminist Majority’s Global Women’s Rights Award, the Smithsonian’s 2018 Ingenuity Award and the Hispanic Heritage Award. She was named to Forbes Mexico’s 100 Most Powerful Women’s 2018 list and TIME Magazine included her in its 2021 TIME100 Next list. Mónica is also an inaugural member of the Ford Global Fellowship. She serves on the Board of Directors of the National Women’s Law Center, Friends of the Latino Museum and she is a member of The Little Market’s Activists Committee. Mónica lives in Ohio with her husband and son. Follow Monica on Instagram @activistmonicaramirez and Twitter @MonicaRamirezOH. The Latinx House is on Instagram and Twitter @thelatinxhouse, and at www.thelatinxhouse.org. For more on Raizado, The Latinx House Festival, head to www.raizadofest.org. For more resources mentioned in this episode, check out: Coalition of Immokalee Workers United Farm Workers Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO Nalleli Cobo - Goldman Environmental Prize Join the conversation, and find out what former guests are up to, by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Love listening to Getting Curious? Now, you can also watch Getting Curious—on Netflix! Head to netflix.com/gettingcurious to dive in. Our executive producer is Erica Getto. Our associate producer is Zahra Crim. Our editor is Andrew Carson. Our theme music is “Freak” by QUIÑ; for more, head to TheQuinCat.com. Getting Curious merch is available on PodSwag.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to getting curious. I'm Jonathan Banes and every week I sit down for a gorgeous conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that you guessed it makes me curious. On today's episode, I'm joined by returning guest
0:14.6	Monica Ramirez, where I ask her,
0:17.1	what's happening today and the Latinay community?
0:25.0	Well, welcome to getting curious. This is Jonathan Van Ness. We have one of our favorite people.
0:28.0	Put your hands together for Monika Ramirez, who, if you don't remember remember is an attorney, an author, an activist.
0:35.0	And then also since we talked, you won a James Beard Award.
0:39.0	You were named one of People in Espignol's Most Powerful Women, get out of here with that title and you're launching a festival celebrating Latin X politics, art, and culture.
0:49.0	I'm excited to catch up, I miss you to pieces, and also, you know, because this's like a podcast and people don't necessarily see you
0:54.4	you got really cute reading glasses too. Oh thank you I'm so happy to see you and you know what you've been on fire
0:59.8	you give me such joy you know I follow along with what you're doing and just so grateful for you and also grateful for the fact that they have many cute reading glasses out there, so that's also a good thing.
1:11.6	You're such a dang solid person.
1:14.0	You better work.
1:15.0	Okay, but wait.
1:16.0	So first off, I think listeners will be familiar with terms like Latin X,
1:20.0	but I wonder whether you could share what they mean to you to start.
1:24.0	Yeah, so I think a lot of people are confused because they're like, wait, was it Latino,
1:30.0	Latina, we're not sure?
1:32.0	So Latin X is a term adopted really, you know, fairly recently in the United States and the reason that that word was created was because people wanted to ensure that we are recognizing and showing that
1:47.0	we're in community with and solidarity with non-binary and LGBT QI people and the Spanish language is a very gendered language so
1:55.9	Latino Latina that doesn't include everyone and Latine was actually the term
2:01.5	that was created in Latin America because X isn't was actually
2:05.0	used in Latin America because X isn't actually usually used in Spanish regularly
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