Kind World Presents: Anything For Selena

Kind World

WBUR

Kindness, Society & Culture, Profound, Personal Journals, Uplifting, Stories

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 5 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.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey y'all it's Andrea Aswahay. Thank you so much for listening to our show.
0:05.0	Even though Kind World's chapter has ended for now,
0:07.7	W-B-U-R's podcasters are still working on exciting projects, which is why I'm jumping in the feed to share
0:15.0	something very special with you. It's the trailer for a new show called
0:19.7	Anything for Selina. We're really excited about it, so we're playing it here for anything for
0:25.0	you.
0:28.0	Selena. We're playing it here for you.
0:26.0	Take a listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
0:31.0	Produced by the I-L-L-E-R- W-B-U-R, Boston. Futuro.
0:58.0	This journey begins at the border, a place in the in-between where for a long time I felt divided in two.
1:01.0	Then I discovered her.
1:05.0	Red lips, brown skin, big hoops.
1:09.0	She was magnetic, no matter what side of the border she was on.
1:14.0	Salina
1:15.0	the Losinos.
1:18.0	I was a young kid, but I remember what it felt like seeing that one of us had made it and she brought us with her. I'm so
1:35.0	a mad way.
1:39.0	This way God Gee Gee Gee Gee Gee!
1:41.0	Yeah!
1:42.0	Oh, I'm sorry. Is the star faded star faded
1:48.0	a star faded away today.
1:50.0	Tohano Music Queen Selina has been gunned down in Corpus Christi.
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