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Ofrenda: Traditional Healing Song with Adilia Torres

Adilia Torres, shares with permission a sacred song that came to a fellow healer through prayer. Listen, sign it as a healing balm for yourself and sign it in community for others to receive its powerful nourishment. This medicine song is a healing balm shared to you with love and for the healing of our communities. 
Adilia Torres is a queer Chicana-Indigena from Sinaloa and Nayarit, Mexico. Her practice as a community mental health clinician is centered in cultural and spiritual attunement and indigenous medicine. Adilia is the founder of La Botanica Azul--a sustainable space for ancestral practices and exchanges of knowledge rooted in increasing access to healing and liberation. You can find her on IG @la_botanica_azul. Check out La Botanica Azule on Facebook!
Please share this practice with others!  This offering is part of La Cura’s Community Care Series which features community organizers, artists, healers and leaders sharing their grounding practices and rituals with us as a way of building resilience together in this moment of pandemic and uprising!
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National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network

Erica Woodland talks to us about his pioneering and breakthrough Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network committed to transforming mental health for queer and trans people of color. Erica's work specifically acknowledges the harm and violence perpetuated by the medical-industrial complex and actively works to both intervene directly on this system as well as create new systems of care for our communities. We discuss reclaiming resilience as a practice that involves fighting for justice and the practice of healing justice as part of a long ancestral legacy that can guide us in our work and healing. 
You can find out more about NQTTCN at https://www.nqttcn.com/. Follow it on IG at @nqttcn.  You can reach and learn more about Erica Woodland at https://www.ericawoodland.com/.  You can follow him on IG at @ebmore1. 
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Decolonizing Mutual Aid

Veralucia Mendoza, Mijente member, Queer Afro-Indigenous migrant from the deserts of Peru and one of the main organizers and founders of the amazing Mutual Aid efforts in Toledo, Ohio. She joins us to talk about the history of mutual aid, its current invaluable practice during Covid times and centers a decolonizing frame and practice of it. 
Veralucia is committed to practicing Ancestral Futurism-imagining and creating better futures based on ancestral power, including our ancestors in the movement. This practice calls her to community organizing and disrupting culture.  You can follow Veralucia Mendoza on IG at @cala_verita, check out her TadX Toledo Toledo at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSmjxqRh0b8.  Follow and support Mutual Aid in Toledo on FB at Mutual Aid Toledo/Apoyo Mutuo Toledo. 
Please share this practice with others!  This episode is part of La Cura’s Community Care Series which will include community organizers, artists, healers and leaders sharing their grounding practices and rituals with us as a way of building resilience together in this challenging moment globally.
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Mothering and Being Mothered

BONUS Episode for Mother's Day.  Friends Carla Gonzales and Francisca Porchas Coronado engage in a funny, introspective and insightful conversation about being mothered by Latinx migrant mamas and how that translates into who they are today, especially as mamas themselves, the highs, the lows, and the funny moments. 
Happy Mother's Day 2020!
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Navigating Anxiety and Grief

Aida Manduley shares their wisdom as a therapist and educator on the nuances of anxiety, depression, and grief normalizing our feelings and encouraging our curiosity about them.  Listen for the simple and valuable tools that they share on how best to tend to ourselves now and beyond this pandemic moment.
Aida Manduley, Licensed Clinical Social Worker is an award-winning boriqueer activist, therapist, and educator known for big earrings and building bridges. At the core of Aida’s work is a strong set of anti-oppressive values, an insatiable curiosity for others’ perspectives, and a love of tackling taboos. 
Learn more about Aida at aidamanduley.com and follow them on IG @aidamanduley
 
 

Grounding Meditation

Luana Morales shares a grounding mediation and reflection practice with us this week! Luana is a Birth and Bereavement Doula, Death Midwife, Circle keeper, Officiant, Reiki Master Teacher, and Herbal Apprentice devoted to reclaiming our birth, death, and Afro-Indigenous healing practices.  She is one of the founders of Seeds of Our Ancestors, a mobile interdisciplinary, intergenerational, and multi lineage healing squad.
Please share this practice with others!  This offering is part of La Cura’s Community Care Series which will include community organizers, artists, healers and leaders sharing their grounding practices and rituals with us as a way of building resilience together in this challenging moment globally.
 
Learn more about Luana at https://www.handsofgaiareiki.com/

The Impact of Covid-19 On Latinos in the U.S.

Listen to this special episode on the Mijente and Labor Council for Latin American Advancement's new report "The Impact of Covid-19 On Latinos in the U.S.". We’re dying disproportionately and bearing the brunt of this crisis. It is critical we tell our stories! Listen to how we are organizing for the SOLUTIONS that we need.    Sign up here to see the report: mijente.net/covid19pc
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Courage Meditation with Dr. Monika L. Son

Dr. Monika L. Son gifts us a courage and compassion meditation for this week's Ofrenda. A native New York Afro-Dominicana born to immigrant parents, educator/scholar/healer/activist,  Monika actively integrates healing into teaching and learning spaces in higher education, particularly for BIPOC communities. Her passion lies in  building and growing transformative curriculum for students, faculty and educators through an embodied, anti-oppressive and inclusive, trauma informed, social justice lens.
Please share this practice with others!  This offering is part of La Cura’s Community Care Series which will include community organizers, artists, healers and leaders sharing their grounding practices and rituals with us as a way of building resilience together in this challenging moment globally.
Follow us at @lacurapodcast or email us at lacurapodcast@gmail.com, we want to hear from you!