"Our Job Is to Unlearn All That Shit": Actor Diane Guerrero Reckons With Whiteness in Hollywood and Beyond
The Mother Jones Podcast
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🗓️ 1 July 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
You might recognize Diane Guerrero for her roles in big TV shows like Orange is the New Black, Jane the Virgin, and Doom Patrol. Off-screen, Guerrero has used her very public platforms to engage in activism and political causes. On Instagram, on Twitter, and in two books, Guerrero brings her deep knowledge and adept campaigning skills to the fight for immigration, voting rights, and racial justice reform. Mother Jones immigration reporter Fernanda Echavarri recently interviewed Guerrero for a live conversation that was streamed across Mother Jones’ social media platforms. Today’s podcast is an edited version of that conversation. Echavarri and Guerrero dig into their personal experience with racism in the Latinx community, the horrors of ICE detention, the current Black Lives Matter movement, and why the whiteness of the entertainment industry, on-screen and off, is such an urgent problem.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Mother Jones Podcast. I'm Jamila King in Oakland. |
| 0:05.0 | On today's show, we have actor, activist, author, Diane Guerrero. |
| 0:19.8 | You might know her as Maritza from Orange is the New Black. |
| 0:22.8 | If you want more pizza, vote from Ariz. |
| 0:26.0 | As Crazy Jane from Doom Patrol. |
| 0:28.6 | I know who you are, your cyborg. |
| 0:30.5 | Or Lena from Jane the Virgin. |
| 0:32.4 | You little fire! |
| 0:33.0 | But you might not know that this TV star is also a long-time immigration activist, |
| 0:39.0 | whose own parents were detained and deported by U.S. immigration when she was just 14 years old. |
| 0:45.8 | Diane Guerrero, it's an uplifting, surprising conversation that left a smile on my face. |
| 0:51.0 | I have a feeling it'll do the same for you. Stick around. |
| 0:54.0 | Diane Guerrero has never been afraid to use her platform to have important |
| 1:05.1 | political conversations. For years she's used rallies, appearances, interviews, |
| 1:10.2 | protests, and her books to address immigrant rights, voting rights, and representation |
| 1:15.2 | on screen. |
| 1:16.6 | So we leapt at the chance to interview Diane for our series of live-streamed events at Mother |
| 1:22.2 | Jones. |
| 1:23.6 | And last week it all came together, broadcasts to our audiences on Facebook, Twitter, and |
| 1:29.2 | YouTube. |
| 1:30.2 | Hi everyone, welcome. |
| 1:31.2 | My name is Fernando Echabari |
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