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In this episode, Alex and Calvin return to a favorite hobby horse: the University of Austin (UATX). First discussed back in episode 62, this ultra-conservative "university concept" is still not accredited and has no undergraduate degrees planned until at least 2028-2031. In that previous episode, we described UATX variously as right-wing academia's answer to the Fyre Festival and a pitch deck/PowerPoint scam masquerading as an education; this time, we call it a fast-casual university concept (Chipotle for higher ed). We catch up with the myriad ways that UATX continues to struggle under the weight of its own internal contradictions, while occasionally benefitting from being confused for UT Austin (home of some of our favorite previous guests, like Scott Graham and Karma Chávez).After taking stock of US free speech generally in the age of seemingly intractable US-led conflicts in the Middle East and the criminalization of student peace activism, we examine a Quillette article from Ellie Avishai asking if UATX is betraying its founding principles. As Avishai explains, her UATX research center was terminated in response to her posting a rather benign (and ideologically nuanced) LinkedIn post about DEI. We discuss how UATX's claims of championing academic freedom and viewpoint diversity necessarily conflict with its increasingly extreme anti-woke conservative agenda. Given that it is bankrolled by dark money funders and figures connected to corporate interests and political power like Harlan Crow and Joe Lonsdale, the institution appears more dedicated to fortifying right-wing ideas and providing a filter bubble than fostering genuine free inquiry. This makes it particularly ironic that its corporate doublespeak response to Avishai's termination was to use language like "wind up Mill" and "restructure." In these ways, UATX seems to combine the worst of mainstream academia (neoliberal austerity measures justified through corporate doublespeak) with new heights of conservative radicalism. Drawing on Noah Rawlings' piece in The New Inquiry, we peek into the "Forbidden Courses" summer program held at Harlan Crow's Old Parkland office complex in Dallas, where figures like Peter Boghossian and Katie Roiphe hold court. What does it mean for a university to exist primarily as a "safe space" isolating students from opposition, or worse, a "money and influence laundering operation for some of the most abhorrent ideas" (as Alex calls it)? We conclude that despite the real structural flaws in mainstream academia, the pursuit of knowledge and evidence-based argumentation is still vital in higher ed, but it's something that UATX seems fundamentally opposed to.Articles Analyzed in this Episode“Is the University Of Austin Betraying Its Founding Principles?” by Ellie Avishai (in Quillette)“An American Education: Notes from UATX” - Noah Rawlings (in The New Inquiry)Previous Episodes ReferencedE62: re:joinder - The University of the CancelledWorks and Concepts CitedVan Dijk, T. A. (1993). Principles of critical discourse analysis. Discourse & society, 4(2), 249-283.

On today's show, Rafael A. Martinez joins host Karma Chávez to discuss his new book Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States.  The post Everyone Should Be Involved with Social Movement Organizing with Rafae... appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.

On today's show, host Karma Chávez returns to chat with education scholar Rachelle Winkle-Wagner about her new book, The Chosen We: Black Women's Empowerment in Higher Education. They talk about […] The post How Black Women in Higher Ed Support Each Other with Rachelle Winkle-W... appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs in Texas colleges came under fire in the last legislative session. The passage of SB17 has been controversial with many students and faculty over the elimination of these programs. This week we are joined by Dr. Karma Chávez, the Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies and Chair of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Chávez will talk to us about what is driving this movement, why it matters and how you can help. 

In this episode, Karma Chávez talks with UT Professors Adela Pineda-Franco and Sarah Brayne about their new Mellon-funded project, Pido la Palabra: A Texas Prison Literature Project for Social Justice and the Literary Imagination. Professors Pineda-Franco and Brayne discuss the importance of prison education, and the value of creating Spanish and bilingual courses for incarcerated people. Resources / Related Links: Texas Prison Education Initiative: https://sites.utexas.edu/texasprisoneducation/

I originally released my conversation with Lama Karma Chotso in June of 2022. I happily share it again to entice us all to reconnect with timeless spiritual wisdom as we launch into a new year.Since Lama Karma Chotso and I spoke last year, she has decided to let go of her beautiful Buddhist Center in the El Portal section of Miami where she has lived and taught for over 20 years. With the re-release of ths MY FOURTH ACT podcast episode, I invite all of us to embrace the gift of impermanence and have the courage to let go of something we love.Lama Karma Chötso is a fully ordained Tibetan Buddhist lama. She began to study the Kagyu Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism in 1982 after meeting Dorje Chang Kalu Rinpoche in New York City. Lama took refuge with him there, and 4 years later he ordained her as a novice nun. Lama Karma Chötso entered a three-year, three-months meditation retreat held in strict seclusion in 1986 and completed the retreat in 1990.Lama Karma Chötso has practiced buddhadharma for 35 years. She is also a musician and trained in thangka painting. Her community work includes serving as volunteer service chaplain for Hospice Care in Broward County and teaching meditation and tai qi to inmates at Broward Correctional facility. Her sangha, the Open Awareness Buddhist Center, gathered for over 20 years in a beautiful sanctuary in the El Portal section of Miami before closing its doors.Since Lama Karma Chotso and I spoke last year, she has decided to let go of her beautiful Buddhist Center where she has lived and taught for over 20 years. With the re-release of ths MY FOURTH ACT podcast episode, I invite all of us to embrace the gift of impermanence as we enter 2023 and have the courage to let go of something we love.https://lamakayc.com/

In this episode, Karma Chávez talks with writer, Yasmín Ramírez about her new memoir, ¡Ándale, Prieta! A Love Letter to My Family, published by Lee and Low Books. Writer Yasmín Ramírez discusses why she published her memoir, the importance of the women in her life and telling their stories, and she offers advice for those who are thinking about writing their stories. Resources / Related Links: @YasminRamWrites www.yasminramirez.com www.leeandlow.com/books/andale-prieta

In this episode, Karma Chávez talks with photographer Roj Rodriguez about his new book of photography, Mi Sangre, which will be out later this year from Hatje Cantz.  Photographer Roj Rodriguez talks about how we came to do the type of work he does, the meaning of his work, and the importance of media representation for Latinx/a/o people. Rodriguez's website: https://www.rojrodriguez.com Mi Sangre's website: https://www.hatjecantz.de/roj-rodriguez-8183-1.html

In this episode of Audio QT, Karma Chávez talks with Professor Lisa Moore, who will be stepping down as the director of UT's LGBTQ Studies Program at the end of this semester. Lisa L. Moore is Archibald A. Hill Professor of English and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. She is the author or editor of five books, including Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes, which won the Lambda Literary Award. Karma R. Chávez is Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor and Chair in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Follow: Karma: @queermigrations Resources: College of Liberal Arts | The University of Texas at Austin Profile for Lisa L Moore at UT Austin

In this episode of our mini-series, we talk to Dr. Elif Sari about how the notion of “becoming sick” is related to people's migration experiences, especially those who are part of the 2S/LGBTQIA+ community. Dr. Sari discusses how this notion is rooted in the idea of harsh working environments and discriminatory practices of healthcare. She also addressed how both of these factors contribute to the emotional and physical wellbeing of these people. Guest bio:Dr. Elif Sari is a queer feminist anthropologist, a new faculty member in the UBC Department of Anthropology, and an uninvited immigrant settler on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) First Nation. She completed her Ph.D. (2021) in anthropology at Cornell University with a concentration in feminist, gender, and sexuality studies. After graduate school, Dr. Sari spent one year at the University of Toronto, where she had a chance to work in the Queer and Trans Research Lab as the Martha LA McCain postdoctoral fellow. Currently, she is working on her first book manuscript, which is an engaged ethnography of queer and trans asylum from the Middle East to North America. She is also excited to start two new research projects, one focusing on private refugee sponsorship in Canada and one exploring the connections between migration, sexuality, and art (particularly drag).Links to resources mentioned in this episode/further reading material:Additional resources on asylum in and through Turkey: Amnesty International. 2016. “No Safe Refuge: Asylum-Seekers and Refugees Denied Effective Protection in Turkey.” https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/EUR4438252016ENGLISH.pdfBiehl, Kristen. 2015. “Governing through Uncertainty: Experiences of Being a Refugee in Turkey as a Country for Temporary Asylum.” Social Analysis 59 (1): 55–75.On LGBTQ asylum in Turkey:Durmaz, Nursel, Hakan Topateş, and Aslıcan Kalfa Topateş. 2017. “Working Life Experiences of Iranian LGBTI Migrant Workers in Denizli Province in Terms of Occupational Health and Safety.” Mesleki Sağlık ve Güvenlik Dergisi (The Journal of Occupational Health and Safety) 17(64): 37-43. HYD and ORAM. 2009. “Unsafe Haven: The Security Challenges Facing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Turkey.”https://hyd.org.tr/attachments/article/166/unsafe_haven_2011.pdfKAOS GL. 2016. “Waiting to be ‘Safe and Sound': Turkey as LGBTI Refugees' Way Station.” https://kaosgldernegi.org/images/library/2016multeci-raporu2016.pdf.Sarı, Elif. 2020. “Unsafe Present, Uncertain Future: LGBTI Asylum in Turkey.” In Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation. Eithne Luibhéid and Karma Chávez, eds. Pp. 90-105. University of Illinois Press.Please rate, review, and subscribe to our podcast on all platforms. Check out other UBC Medicine Learning Network podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.(C) 2010-2022 UBC Medicine Learning Network

For the latest LGM podcast, I had the honor of speaking to Karma Chávez, department chair of the Department of Mexican American and Latino/a Studies at the University of Texas-Austin and long time alternative radio host in Madison, about her new book The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance, published last year by the […]

For the latest LGM podcast, I had the honor of speaking to Karma Chávez, department chair of the Department of Mexican American and Latino/a Studies at the University of Texas-Austin and long time alternative radio host in Madison, about her new book The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance, published last year by the […]

In this episode of Audio QT, Karma Chávez talks with allgo co-founder and activist María Limón about her work supporting people living with HIV and AIDS in the early days of the pandemic, and the program called Informe Sida. This interview was recorded on December 1, 2021 and originally aired on KOOP Radio's People United program on Dec. 10. Thanks to Allan Campbell and KOOP for permission to reuse. María Limón, nacida y criada a la orilla del río que antes era grande, she finished raising herself among a circle of activists tending to issues as diverse as the gentrification of the East Side, getting the Texas national guard out of Honduras, and ensuring that Cuba stayed libre. Her fifteen minutes of fame involved the Austin police department flexing their authoritarian muscle at an anti-KKK rally and helping establish one of the longest-running queer POC organizations in the country while learning how to help close friends die. Having learned that changing the conditions that create injustice and inequality happens one meaningful connection at a time, she coaches people on uprooting the beliefs about ourselves and others an oppressive society shoves down our throats. UC Denver's Center on Domestic Violence provides the salary that brings home the fakin' bacon. Karma Chávez is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at UT. Follow: Karma: @queermigrations Resources: https://allgo.org https://www.worldaidsday.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Limón

Lama Karma Chötso is a fully ordained Tibetan Buddhist lama. She began to study and practice the Kagyu Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism in 1982 after meeting Dorje Chang Kalu Rinpoche in New York City. She took refuge with him there, and 4 years later he ordained her as a novice nun. In 1986, Lama Karma Chötso entered a three-year, three-month meditation retreat held in strict seclusion. Lama Karma Chötso's sangha, the Open Awareness Buddhist Center, convenes at a beautiful sanctuary in the El Portal section of Miami which it calls home. Her extensive community work includes having served as professional volunteer Service Chaplain for Hospice Care in Broward County and teaching meditation and tai qi to inmates at Broward Correctional facility. The beauty of the Buddhadharma practices. What happens when attachment begins to melt away. The gifts of changing our view. How I continue to learn new things after 40 years of serving as a lama. http://miamibuddhism.org/ (http://miamibuddhism.org/)

Sandeep Bakshi (@sandeepbak on Twitter) talks to Saronik about understanding queerness and its emancipatory politics through transnational solidarity building, the persistent inclusion of trans and queer epistemological frames in social justice movements, especially in the work done by the Decolonizing Sexualities Network. Sandeep explains this concept and the DSN's objective by referring to the works of Maria Lugones, Sylvia Tamale and the Fallist movement, and Karma Chávez and Against Equality. Sandeep Bakshi researches on transnational queer and decolonial enunciation of knowledges. He received his PhD from the School of English, University of Leicester, UK, and is currently employed as an Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Queer Literatures at the University of Paris. He heads the “Gender and Sexuality Studies” research group and coordinates two research seminars, “Peripheral Knowledges” and “Empires, Souths, Sexualities,”. Co-editor of Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions (Oxford: Counterpress, 2016) and Decolonial Trajectories, special issue of Interventions (2020), he has published on queer and race problematics in postcolonial literatures and cultures. He is the founder and serves on the board of the Decolonizing Sexualities Network. Image: Cover of the book Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions Music used in promotional material: “Hear Me Out” by Ketsa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Sandeep Bakshi (@sandeepbak on Twitter) talks to Saronik about understanding queerness and its emancipatory politics through transnational solidarity building, the persistent inclusion of trans and queer epistemological frames in social justice movements, especially in the work done by the Decolonizing Sexualities Network. Sandeep explains this concept and the DSN's objective by referring to the works of Maria Lugones, Sylvia Tamale and the Fallist movement, and Karma Chávez and Against Equality. Sandeep Bakshi researches on transnational queer and decolonial enunciation of knowledges. He received his PhD from the School of English, University of Leicester, UK, and is currently employed as an Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Queer Literatures at the University of Paris. He heads the “Gender and Sexuality Studies” research group and coordinates two research seminars, “Peripheral Knowledges” and “Empires, Souths, Sexualities,”. Co-editor of Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions (Oxford: Counterpress, 2016) and Decolonial Trajectories, special issue of Interventions (2020), he has published on queer and race problematics in postcolonial literatures and cultures. He is the founder and serves on the board of the Decolonizing Sexualities Network. Image: Cover of the book Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions Music used in promotional material: “Hear Me Out” by Ketsa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sandeep Bakshi (@sandeepbak on Twitter) talks to Saronik about understanding queerness and its emancipatory politics through transnational solidarity building, the persistent inclusion of trans and queer epistemological frames in social justice movements, especially in the work done by the Decolonizing Sexualities Network. Sandeep explains this concept and the DSN's objective by referring to the works of Maria Lugones, Sylvia Tamale and the Fallist movement, and Karma Chávez and Against Equality. Sandeep Bakshi researches on transnational queer and decolonial enunciation of knowledges. He received his PhD from the School of English, University of Leicester, UK, and is currently employed as an Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Queer Literatures at the University of Paris. He heads the “Gender and Sexuality Studies” research group and coordinates two research seminars, “Peripheral Knowledges” and “Empires, Souths, Sexualities,”. Co-editor of Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions (Oxford: Counterpress, 2016) and Decolonial Trajectories, special issue of Interventions (2020), he has published on queer and race problematics in postcolonial literatures and cultures. He is the founder and serves on the board of the Decolonizing Sexualities Network. Image: Cover of the book Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions Music used in promotional material: “Hear Me Out” by Ketsa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

Sandeep Bakshi (@sandeepbak on Twitter) talks to Saronik about understanding queerness and its emancipatory politics through transnational solidarity building, the persistent inclusion of trans and queer epistemological frames in social justice movements, especially in the work done by the Decolonizing Sexualities Network. Sandeep explains this concept and the DSN's objective by referring to the works of Maria Lugones, Sylvia Tamale and the Fallist movement, and Karma Chávez and Against Equality. Sandeep Bakshi researches on transnational queer and decolonial enunciation of knowledges. He received his PhD from the School of English, University of Leicester, UK, and is currently employed as an Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Queer Literatures at the University of Paris. He heads the “Gender and Sexuality Studies” research group and coordinates two research seminars, “Peripheral Knowledges” and “Empires, Souths, Sexualities,”. Co-editor of Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions (Oxford: Counterpress, 2016) and Decolonial Trajectories, special issue of Interventions (2020), he has published on queer and race problematics in postcolonial literatures and cultures. He is the founder and serves on the board of the Decolonizing Sexualities Network. Image: Cover of the book Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions Music used in promotional material: “Hear Me Out” by Ketsa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/lgbtq-studies

In this episode, Karma Chávez talks with Dr. Lydia Contreras about being a Latina immigrant in chemical engineering and the importance of working to make campus a more inclusive and equitable place.  Dr. Lydia Contreras, associate professor, holder of the Jim and Barbara Miller Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Chemical Engineering, and Managing Director of Diversity […]

In this episode, Karma Chávez talks with Dr. Lilia Rosas of Casa de Resistencia Books and Gianna LaMorte of UT Press about how supply chain issues are impacting academic book publishing and sales.  Dr. Lilia Rosas, director of Red Salmon Arts, which houses Casa de Resistencia Books, and Gianna LaMorte, Assistant Director of Sales and […]

In this episode, Karma Chávez talks with Dr. Maria Cotera about her Chicana Por Mi Raza Digital collection.  Dr. Maria Cotera, co-founder of the Chicana Por Mi Raza Digital collection discusses why she created it and the kinds of materials it houses. She discusses the importance of recording a history of Chicana feminist praxis and […]

December's ep features a conversation with Karma Chávez about her new book The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance out now from University of Washington Press. The book tracks how the early years of the AIDS pandemic in the United States saw the development of rhetorical strategies built on alienizing logics that redefined understandings of citizenry, migration, belonging, and quarantine. In this conversation, Chávez also questions the rehabilitation of Anthony Fauci's image, discusses the methodological challenges of recovering archival materials of detained migrants, and considers the coalitional potential to organize against alienization. Check out The Borders of AIDS from the University of Washington Press, Austin's BookWoman, or your local book store. This episode was produced by Tamir Williams. Original music by David Chavannes: www.dchavannes.com For more information about the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies visit www.gsws.sas.upenn.edu

Season 2, Episode 2, PART 2: “I'm Bulletproof, and I Don't Give a F_ck": Queer Women of Color Scholar, Dr. Karma Chávez Talks, Mentorship, Tokenism, and Intersectionally Queering Our Workspaces. The podcast will be delivered this month as a PART 1, and a PART 2. Always released 1st and 3rd Friday of each month: PART 1 premieres Friday, November 5, 2021 at 4PM PST and includes the following topics covered: --Tokenism & Adrian Piper's "Cornered" (1988) --QWoC Swagger & Desire of Speech --Some QPoC and PoC mentorship advice PART 2 premieres Friday November 19, 2021 at 4PM PST and includes the following topics covered: --Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance --QWoC and PoC Mentorship SUMMARY: Part 2: In the second installment of this podcast, Karma and I discuss QWoC and PoC mentorship and her new book just released earlier this year: The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance. In this podcast, we discuss some of what we have been through as lighter-skinned QWoC and what others like us, and different from us have experienced. We also talk about migration in the US and how more marginalized migrants, such as Black, queer, and trans migrants have been unfairly treated in the US. Her most recent book, The Border of Aids: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance (published by University of Washington Press) tells the story of how disease becomes an opportunity for the nation state or the tells the story of how disease becomes an opportunity for the nation state or US violation of human rights. Such as using prisons or concentration camps or internment camps or hospitals or deportation or bans that we're seeing right now with Haitians and COVID-19 bans. Dr. Karma Chávez is University of Texas-Austin, Department Chair and Associate Professor of Department of Mexican American & Latino Studies. See Dr. Karma's full biography here: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/mals/faculty/kc32638 Dr. Shannon Wong Lerner is the host of The Intersection: Diverse Folx Converse, programming made by and for QPoC and GNC people. She is also a Communication Coach & Consultant, Thought Leader, Keynote Speaker, DEI & Communication Skills Trainer. See Dr. Shannon's website here: https://drshannonwl.com

This episode of Audio QT is a replay of an interview that Karma Chávez conducted with Sarah Schulman on 89.9 FM WORT Madison’s program “A Public Affair.” In it, Chávez and Schulman discuss Schulman’s recent book, Let The Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 published in May by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. […]

In this episode, Karma Chávez interviews Dr. Miguel Pinedo about his research into how the deportation of others influences the substance use of US citizen Latinos. Dr. Miguel Pinedo discusses a recent research paper published in the International Journal of Drug Policy, in which Dr. Pinedo investigates how the deportation of others influences the substance […]

Season 2, Episode 2, PART 1: “I'm Bulletproof, and I Don't Give a F_ck": Queer Women of Color Scholar, Dr. Karma Chávez Talks, Mentorship, Tokenism, and Intersectionally Queering Our Workspaces. When I first saw her publication list and the lengths to which she went to tell marginalized people's stories globally, I realized that Dr. Karma Chávez is a force to be reckoned with! I was so pleased when she said YES to The Intersection: Diverse Folx Converse. I knew it would be such an important resource for other QWoC and PoC in academia as well as the workplace. With QWoC swagger, Karma spoke the first part of her podcast title “I'm Bulletproof, and I Don't Give a F_ck" when I asked her, "How are you writing about these topics?" Karma is a leading voice and liberatory voice in migration studies focusing many times on the story that hasn't been told of Black migrants, queer migrants, and trans migrants. The podcast will be delivered this month as a PART 1, and a PART 2. Always released 1st and 3rd Friday of each month: PART 1 premieres Friday, November 5, 2021 at 4PM PST and includes the following topics covered: --Tokenism & Adrian Piper's "Cornered" (1988) --QWoC Swagger & Desire of Speech PART 2 premieres Friday November 11, 2021 at 4PM PST and includes the following topics covered: --Alienating Logics–The Border of Aids: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance --QWoC and PoC Mentorship Podcast episode summaries: PART 1: We begin this story from a personal angle to talk about identity and what it was like for both of us to navigate academic and professional work spaces as lighter-skinned queer women of color. We talk about tokenism and the institutions of anti-Black white supremacy, and the particular form of racism we have endured and the ones we have been spared from. We also feature Adrian Piper's art installation "Cornered" (1988) that addresses miscegenation and racism beyond otherness. And brings white viewers into accountability of the possibility of their own Blackness. We end this episode talking about our own desire of speech as bi-racial and mixed-race queer women of color, and discuss QWoC swagger a bit. Part 2: In the second installment of this podcast, Karma and I discuss QWoC and PoC mentorship and her new book just released earlier this year: The Border of Aids: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance. In this podcast, we discuss some of what we have been through as lighter-skinned QWoC and what others like us, and different from us have experienced. We also talk about migration in the US and how more marginalized migrants, such as Black, queer, and trans migrants have been unfairly treated in the US. Her most recent book, The Border of Aids: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance (published by University of Washington Press) tells the story of how disease becomes an opportunity for the nation state or the tells the story of how disease becomes an opportunity for the nation state or US violation of human rights. Such as using prisons or concentration camps or internment camps or hospitals or deportation or bans that we're seeing right now with Haitians and COVID-19 bans. Dr. Karma Chávez is University of Texas-Austin, Department Chair and Associate Professor of Department of Mexican American & Latino Studies.

In this episode, Karma Chávez interviews Dr. Carmen R. Valdez about her longitudinal research on mixed-status families. Dr. Carmen R. Valdez discusses an article she published in the journal, Family Process, which looked at how Mexican immigrant adults and their children reacted emotionally to the events leading to the 2016 election. She explains why studying […]

In this episode, Karma Chávez interviews Professor Sandy Magaña about her research related to health disparities, health equity, and Latino children who have been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Professor Magaña shares her research about some of the disparities Latino children and families face vis-a-vis white families both in obtaining a diagnosis and when a […]

In this episode, Karma Chávez interviews Dr. Rubén Parra-Cardona about his recent co-authored study about the importance of faith-based organizations in taking leadership roles in implementing physical and mental health care initiatives. Dr. Parra-Cardona discusses his recent work that advocates for the importance of faith-based organizations in taking leadership roles in implementing physical and mental […]

In this episode, Karma Chávez interviews Professor Nelly Salgado de Snyder about her recent study of stress among healthcare providers. Professor Salgado de Snyder shares her recent research that explores stress, anxiety, depressive symptomatology, and coping behaviors among healthcare workers and providers who serve underprivileged groups such as immigrants, refugees, people living in poverty, homeless, […]

In this episode, Dr. Karma Chávez interviews Professor Rogelio Saenz about his research documenting the impact of COVID-19 on Latinx communities in the US. Dr. Karma Chávez and Professor Rogelio Saenz discuss the reasons why COVID-19 has hit Latinx communities so hard and why that impact has been disproportionate. They also consider what can be […]

As soon as US media and politicians became aware of AIDS in the early 1980s, fingers were pointed not only at the gay community but also at other countries and migrant communities, particularly Haitians, as responsible for spreading the virus. Evangelical leaders, public health officials, and the Reagan administration quickly capitalized on widespread fear of the new disease to call for quarantines, immigration bans, and deportations, scapegoating and blaming HIV-positive migrants--even as the rest of the world regarded the US as the primary exporter of the virus. In The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance (U Washington Press, 2021), Karma Chávez demonstrates how such calls proliferated and how failure to impose a quarantine for HIV-positive citizens morphed into the successful enactment of a complete ban on the regularization of HIV-positive migrants--which lasted more than twenty years. News reports, congressional records, and AIDS activist archives reveal how queer groups and migrant communities built fragile coalitions to fight against the alienation of themselves and others, asserting their capacity for resistance and resiliency. Building on existing histories of HIV/AIDS, public health, citizenship, and immigration, Chávez establishes how politicians and public health officials treated different communities with HIV/AIDS and highlights the work these communities did to resist alienation. You can get 30% off the cost of the book using the code WST30 when you are purchasing from the publishers University of Washington Press. Rachel Stuart is a sex work researcher whose primary interest is the lived experiences of sex workers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As soon as US media and politicians became aware of AIDS in the early 1980s, fingers were pointed not only at the gay community but also at other countries and migrant communities, particularly Haitians, as responsible for spreading the virus. Evangelical leaders, public health officials, and the Reagan administration quickly capitalized on widespread fear of the new disease to call for quarantines, immigration bans, and deportations, scapegoating and blaming HIV-positive migrants--even as the rest of the world regarded the US as the primary exporter of the virus. In The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance (U Washington Press, 2021), Karma Chávez demonstrates how such calls proliferated and how failure to impose a quarantine for HIV-positive citizens morphed into the successful enactment of a complete ban on the regularization of HIV-positive migrants--which lasted more than twenty years. News reports, congressional records, and AIDS activist archives reveal how queer groups and migrant communities built fragile coalitions to fight against the alienation of themselves and others, asserting their capacity for resistance and resiliency. Building on existing histories of HIV/AIDS, public health, citizenship, and immigration, Chávez establishes how politicians and public health officials treated different communities with HIV/AIDS and highlights the work these communities did to resist alienation. You can get 30% off the cost of the book using the code WST30 when you are purchasing from the publishers University of Washington Press. Rachel Stuart is a sex work researcher whose primary interest is the lived experiences of sex workers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law

As soon as US media and politicians became aware of AIDS in the early 1980s, fingers were pointed not only at the gay community but also at other countries and migrant communities, particularly Haitians, as responsible for spreading the virus. Evangelical leaders, public health officials, and the Reagan administration quickly capitalized on widespread fear of the new disease to call for quarantines, immigration bans, and deportations, scapegoating and blaming HIV-positive migrants--even as the rest of the world regarded the US as the primary exporter of the virus. In The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance (U Washington Press, 2021), Karma Chávez demonstrates how such calls proliferated and how failure to impose a quarantine for HIV-positive citizens morphed into the successful enactment of a complete ban on the regularization of HIV-positive migrants--which lasted more than twenty years. News reports, congressional records, and AIDS activist archives reveal how queer groups and migrant communities built fragile coalitions to fight against the alienation of themselves and others, asserting their capacity for resistance and resiliency. Building on existing histories of HIV/AIDS, public health, citizenship, and immigration, Chávez establishes how politicians and public health officials treated different communities with HIV/AIDS and highlights the work these communities did to resist alienation. You can get 30% off the cost of the book using the code WST30 when you are purchasing from the publishers University of Washington Press. Rachel Stuart is a sex work researcher whose primary interest is the lived experiences of sex workers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/public-policy

As soon as US media and politicians became aware of AIDS in the early 1980s, fingers were pointed not only at the gay community but also at other countries and migrant communities, particularly Haitians, as responsible for spreading the virus. Evangelical leaders, public health officials, and the Reagan administration quickly capitalized on widespread fear of the new disease to call for quarantines, immigration bans, and deportations, scapegoating and blaming HIV-positive migrants--even as the rest of the world regarded the US as the primary exporter of the virus. In The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance (U Washington Press, 2021), Karma Chávez demonstrates how such calls proliferated and how failure to impose a quarantine for HIV-positive citizens morphed into the successful enactment of a complete ban on the regularization of HIV-positive migrants--which lasted more than twenty years. News reports, congressional records, and AIDS activist archives reveal how queer groups and migrant communities built fragile coalitions to fight against the alienation of themselves and others, asserting their capacity for resistance and resiliency. Building on existing histories of HIV/AIDS, public health, citizenship, and immigration, Chávez establishes how politicians and public health officials treated different communities with HIV/AIDS and highlights the work these communities did to resist alienation. You can get 30% off the cost of the book using the code WST30 when you are purchasing from the publishers University of Washington Press. Rachel Stuart is a sex work researcher whose primary interest is the lived experiences of sex workers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/national-security

As soon as US media and politicians became aware of AIDS in the early 1980s, fingers were pointed not only at the gay community but also at other countries and migrant communities, particularly Haitians, as responsible for spreading the virus. Evangelical leaders, public health officials, and the Reagan administration quickly capitalized on widespread fear of the new disease to call for quarantines, immigration bans, and deportations, scapegoating and blaming HIV-positive migrants--even as the rest of the world regarded the US as the primary exporter of the virus. In The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance (U Washington Press, 2021), Karma Chávez demonstrates how such calls proliferated and how failure to impose a quarantine for HIV-positive citizens morphed into the successful enactment of a complete ban on the regularization of HIV-positive migrants--which lasted more than twenty years. News reports, congressional records, and AIDS activist archives reveal how queer groups and migrant communities built fragile coalitions to fight against the alienation of themselves and others, asserting their capacity for resistance and resiliency. Building on existing histories of HIV/AIDS, public health, citizenship, and immigration, Chávez establishes how politicians and public health officials treated different communities with HIV/AIDS and highlights the work these communities did to resist alienation. You can get 30% off the cost of the book using the code WST30 when you are purchasing from the publishers University of Washington Press. Rachel Stuart is a sex work researcher whose primary interest is the lived experiences of sex workers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

As soon as US media and politicians became aware of AIDS in the early 1980s, fingers were pointed not only at the gay community but also at other countries and migrant communities, particularly Haitians, as responsible for spreading the virus. Evangelical leaders, public health officials, and the Reagan administration quickly capitalized on widespread fear of the new disease to call for quarantines, immigration bans, and deportations, scapegoating and blaming HIV-positive migrants--even as the rest of the world regarded the US as the primary exporter of the virus. In The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance (U Washington Press, 2021), Karma Chávez demonstrates how such calls proliferated and how failure to impose a quarantine for HIV-positive citizens morphed into the successful enactment of a complete ban on the regularization of HIV-positive migrants--which lasted more than twenty years. News reports, congressional records, and AIDS activist archives reveal how queer groups and migrant communities built fragile coalitions to fight against the alienation of themselves and others, asserting their capacity for resistance and resiliency. Building on existing histories of HIV/AIDS, public health, citizenship, and immigration, Chávez establishes how politicians and public health officials treated different communities with HIV/AIDS and highlights the work these communities did to resist alienation. You can get 30% off the cost of the book using the code WST30 when you are purchasing from the publishers University of Washington Press. Rachel Stuart is a sex work researcher whose primary interest is the lived experiences of sex workers.

As soon as US media and politicians became aware of AIDS in the early 1980s, fingers were pointed not only at the gay community but also at other countries and migrant communities, particularly Haitians, as responsible for spreading the virus. Evangelical leaders, public health officials, and the Reagan administration quickly capitalized on widespread fear of the new disease to call for quarantines, immigration bans, and deportations, scapegoating and blaming HIV-positive migrants--even as the rest of the world regarded the US as the primary exporter of the virus. In The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance (U Washington Press, 2021), Karma Chávez demonstrates how such calls proliferated and how failure to impose a quarantine for HIV-positive citizens morphed into the successful enactment of a complete ban on the regularization of HIV-positive migrants--which lasted more than twenty years. News reports, congressional records, and AIDS activist archives reveal how queer groups and migrant communities built fragile coalitions to fight against the alienation of themselves and others, asserting their capacity for resistance and resiliency. Building on existing histories of HIV/AIDS, public health, citizenship, and immigration, Chávez establishes how politicians and public health officials treated different communities with HIV/AIDS and highlights the work these communities did to resist alienation. You can get 30% off the cost of the book using the code WST30 when you are purchasing from the publishers University of Washington Press. Rachel Stuart is a sex work researcher whose primary interest is the lived experiences of sex workers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/medicine

As soon as US media and politicians became aware of AIDS in the early 1980s, fingers were pointed not only at the gay community but also at other countries and migrant communities, particularly Haitians, as responsible for spreading the virus. Evangelical leaders, public health officials, and the Reagan administration quickly capitalized on widespread fear of the new disease to call for quarantines, immigration bans, and deportations, scapegoating and blaming HIV-positive migrants--even as the rest of the world regarded the US as the primary exporter of the virus. In The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance (U Washington Press, 2021), Karma Chávez demonstrates how such calls proliferated and how failure to impose a quarantine for HIV-positive citizens morphed into the successful enactment of a complete ban on the regularization of HIV-positive migrants--which lasted more than twenty years. News reports, congressional records, and AIDS activist archives reveal how queer groups and migrant communities built fragile coalitions to fight against the alienation of themselves and others, asserting their capacity for resistance and resiliency. Building on existing histories of HIV/AIDS, public health, citizenship, and immigration, Chávez establishes how politicians and public health officials treated different communities with HIV/AIDS and highlights the work these communities did to resist alienation. You can get 30% off the cost of the book using the code WST30 when you are purchasing from the publishers University of Washington Press. Rachel Stuart is a sex work researcher whose primary interest is the lived experiences of sex workers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In this episode of Audio QT, Karma Chávez talks with undocuqueer artivist Julio Salgado about how his work has grown over the last decade, its significance to the immigrant justice movement, and his hopes for life and organizing. Julio Salgado is the co-founder of Dreamers Adrift and the Senior Program Manager for The Center for Cultural Power. His status as an […]

We learn about the "Earth School" in this chapter! We learn why we go through pain and what is the reason some might have a life filled with struggles. We learn about the importance of accepting our situations and the importance of detachment! I hope you have fun listening to this, enjoy this and learn a lot! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-happy-spread/message

Do you smell something burning? It must be all these Election 2020 ~Hot Texts~! Here at re:verb we try to practice "addition, not subtraction" (to quote former President Obama), so we don't engage with "takes" anymore. As true postmodernist podcasters, we analyze texts. On this two-part show, Sophie, Ben, Calvin, and Alex analyze a collection of Hot Texts responding to the 2020 presidential election results. In part one, Calvin shares how presidential candidates have used the word "rhetoric" on Twitter recently, usages which we analyze as attempting to tacitly circumscribe US political ideology and stigmatize dissent. Then, Alex brings in former President Obama's critiques of the slogan "defund the police", as well as Obama's own preferred wording: "reform the police department so that everybody's being treated fairly, divert young people from getting into crime, and if there's a homeless guy, can we maybe send a mental health worker there instead of an armed unit that could end up resulting in a tragedy?" We discuss how, just like the candidates' ideological usages of "rhetoric", Obama's hamfisted rhetorical criticism here serves a disciplinary function, both erasing the history of past failed police "reform" efforts and denouncing abolitionist organizing. If you liked this re:joinder, tune into next episode, when we'll engage with more Hot Texts: on gender representation in the incoming Biden Administration vs. the outgoing Trump Administration, and purported Liberal Media "rigging" of the 2020 contest. Hot Texts corpusJoe Biden on “rhetoric”Donald Trump on “rhetoric”Bernie Sanders on “rhetoric”Barack Obama critiques “defund the police” sloganReferencesPrevious re:verb episodes:Interview with Dr. Cameron MozafariInterview with Dr. Karma Chávezre:blurb on ideographsre:blurb on dialogicality Episode of our sibling podcast, The Blurst of Times, on “defund the police”Kuhn, T. S. (2012). The structure of scientific revolutions. University of Chicago press. [Canonical study of the rhetoric of science.]McGee, M. C. (1980). The “ideograph”: A link between rhetoric and ideology. Quarterly journal of speech, 66(1), 1-16.Perelman, C., Olbrechts-Tyteca, L., Wilkinson, J., & Weaver, P. (1969). The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation. University of Notre Dame Press.

General Summary: Professor Karma Chávez speaks on her research regarding rhetorical and sociopolitical challenges related to queer migration and feminism during the Obama administration. Students Gricelda Torres and Peyton Liang discuss the historical context, present takeaways, and future implications of Chávez's studies on American society. Detailed Summary: Introduction of Karma Chávez (00.00-01.00); Historical and personal background regarding Chávez‘s decision to study immigration-related rhetoric and activist rhetoric (01.01-06.22); Discussion of how modern perceptions of American values affect minority groups and the immigrant community (06.23-9.10); The implications of current immigration rhetoric and legislation for all migrant populations (9.11-14.55); How race, gender, and sexuality factor into immigration politics and related academia (14.56-21.12); The ways in which current legislation marginalizes different populations (21.13-23.57); Chávez's solutions to avoid discriminatory practices (23.58-28.15); Concluding statements by the speakers(28.16-29.42). Scholarly Article:​​ Chávez, Karma R. and Hana Masri. “​The Rhetoric of Family in the U.S. Immigration Movement: A Queer Migration Analysis of the 2014 Central American Child Migrant 'Crisis'”. _Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation_, pp. 209-225. Credits​: This podcast was produced by Masha Larina, with resources and assistance provided by the Digital Writing and Research Lab at the University of Texas at Austin. It features the voices of Karma ​Chávez​, Gricelda Torres and Peyton Liang. Music featured in this podcast, titled “commonGround,” was created by airtone and has been repurposed here under CreativeCommons Attribution Noncommercial license 3.0. Additionally, conversation.wav was adapted and incorporated under Creative Commons 1.0 license.

Neutralizing Karma - Chapter 5 In the episode, I read chapter 5 from Secrets of Karma. We learn important lessons like : Service and Sharing Working on karma Name and Fame Balancing through blessing How to forgive How to cancel wrong thoughts How to accelerate karma by karmic cleaning Hope these lessons help you grow and improve the quality of your life! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-happy-spread/message

On today's show, Alex and Calvin have the distinct privilege of speaking with Dr. Karma R. Chávez, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Mexican American & Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Karma is a scholar whose work runs the gamut from border rhetorics and pandemic discourses, to coalition-building and intersectionality. We begin by discussing Karma's 2013 book Queer Migration Politics, considering how the issues of immigration and queer liberation have intersected rhetorically, in particular as a coalitional response to the HIV/AIDS crisis. Then, Karma explains her critical views on how scholars engage with embodiment, and we brainstorm new possibilities for studying the nuances and particularities of hegemonic bodies. Finally, Karma shares her experiences visiting the West Bank of Palestine, as well as her time recording interviews about the Palestine/Israel conflict for her public radio show in Madison, Wisconsin, all of which is documented in her 2019 book Palestine on the Air. We unpack how academic freedom functions as a problematic ideograph in conversations about this issue, and close by considering intersections between struggles for Palestinians' and immigrants' rights.Karma Chávez publications referenced in this episode:Chávez, K. R. (2013). Queer migration politics: Activist rhetoric and coalitional possibilities. University of Illinois Press.Chávez, K. R. (2018). The Body: An Abstract and Actual Rhetorical Concept. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 48(3), 242-250.Chavez, K. R., & Ezra, M. (2019). Palestine on the Air. University of Illinois Press.Luibheid, E., Chavez, K.R., Brown, A.J., Capo, J., Carastathis, A., & Caraves, J. (2020). Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation. (1 ed.). Champaign: University of Illinois Press.Additional references:American Studies Association Resolution Endorsing BDSAnderson, B. (2006). Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. Verso books.Brooks, M. P., & Houck, D. W. (Eds.). (2011). The speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To tell it like it is. Univ. Press of Mississippi.Chávez, K. R. (2015). The precariousness of homonationalism: The queer agency of terrorism in post-9/11 rhetoric. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 2(3), 32-58. [Discusses “Barney Frank's role as congressman, his position as only the second openly gay person to serve in the U.S. Congress, and I offer some history of the 1990 Immigration Act and Frank's role in both its construction and in its passing,” p. 35.]Edelman, L. (2004). No future: Queer theory and the death drive. Duke University Press.Habermas, J.. (1991). The structural transformation of the public sphere: An inquiry into a category of bourgeois society. MIT press. [Canonical work of public sphere theory.]Kaplan, S. (2015). “University of Illinois censured after professor loses job over tweets critical of Israel.” Washington Post. [Discusses the academic freedom case of Steven Salaita.]King, T. L. (2019). The Black shoals: Offshore formations of Black and Native studies. Duke University Press.Luibhéid, E. (2002). Entry denied: Controlling sexuality at the border. U of Minnesota Press.Muñoz, J. E. (1999). Disidentifications: Queers of color and the performance of politics (Vol. 2). U of Minnesota Press.Palestinian American Research CenterYoung, I. M. (1996). Communication and the other: beyond deliberative democracy. In Benhabib, S. (Ed.). Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political, 125–143. Princeton University Press.

In this episode, I recap the first 3 chapters and read the 4th chapter bout the Karmic Obligations we have. Karmic obligations towards oneself Karmic obligations towards spiritual teachers Karmic obligations towards parents Karmic obligations towards family Karmic obligations towards peer group Karmic obligations towards oneself. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-happy-spread/message